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Leah's Awards & Recognition 

2021 Thrivent Financial Hometown Hero: Fargo, North Dakota

2020 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize Top 10 Finalist

2020 YWCA CASS CLAY Woman of the Year in Education

2020 National Education Association Foundation Global Learning Fellow Award

  2019 National University Teacher Award

   2019 NASDTEC Forward Fund Award

2019 North Dakota State University Horizon Alumni Award     

2019 Horace Mann Award for Teaching Excellence (Finalist for NEA Benefits Award)

2019 National Education Association Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence California Casualty Award         

2018 Education First Global Teacher Fellowship: Berlin, Germany

2018 North Dakota Teacher of the Year

2017 Fargo Public Schools Teacher of the Year

2017 Comm. Speech & Theater Association of North Dakota Debate Coach of the Year        

2017 CSTAND Outstanding Teacher of the Year

2017 Green Card Voices Community Partnership Award

2016 Central Minnesota Credit Union & WDAY Educator of Excellence

Eleanor Laing Law Literacy Grantee 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

2015 National Fund for Teachers (Ramsden) Fellow Award (Train teachers in Africa)

2012 Shared Values Award - Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito Ecuador

2006 SNDEA Peggy Wittliff Association of Teacher Educators Outstanding Student in Education 

2006 North Dakota State University Distinguished Student Teacher of the Semester