Roseville Schools' Radke, Wolfe In Running For Minnesota Teacher of The Year

Two educators with the Roseville School District 623 are among 111 nominees from across the state for 2012 Minnesota Teacher of The Year. 

The two are Cameron Radke, a fifth and sixth-grade teacher at Emmet D. Williams Elementary School in Shoreview, and and Sarah Wolfe, an art teacher also at Williams elementary.

The announcement came Thursday in a news release from Education Minnesota, a state-wide teachers organization that sponors the competition. The program, now its 48th year, recognizes excellence in teaching with competition open to private or public educators in 

Teacher of the Year candidates include pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade educators, from public or private schools.

Radke's school web page says she is in her seventh year as a teacher. The mother of three children, Radke has a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from California State University at San Jose, Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education with preprimary focus from The College of St. Catherine's and a Master's of Education with a focus on Gifted and Talented Education from St. Mary's University. 

Meanwhile, Wolfe's school web page says she has been teaching art in the Roseville Schools since 2001. She started at Roseville Area High School and then made the move to teaching at both Little Canada Elementary and Emmet D. Williams Elementary. 

Education Minnesota said will announce the 2012 Minnesota Teacher of the Year on Sunday, May 6, at the Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park. It said during the coming weeks, a 22-member panel of community leaders will name a group of semifinalists, and then finalists.