Edina Teacher Tops SLP's Goddard for Teacher of the Year

Jackie Roehl, a 10th-grade English teacher at Edina High School, topped Greg Goddard and eight other finalists for the Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award on Sunday.

There were 111 candidates overall in this the 48th year of the award program, which is sponsored by the state teachers union, Education Minnesota.

Goddard, an AP psychology and social studies teacher, was nominated by LeeAnn Stephens, who currently works with Goddard at the high school but won the Teacher of the Year award in 2006 while working at .

You can read more about Goddard in this from February.