Madeson Walgenbach ’16 earns state teaching award

WAUPUN — Madeson Walgenbach ’16 of Ripon, Wisconsin, received a 2016 Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT) Future Language Teacher Award, awarded to students in teacher-training programs who have shown exceptional promise and potential to become outstanding world language educators, the WAFLT says.

Walgenbach received degrees in educational studies middle childhood/early adolescence and Spanish from Ripon College in 2016. She currently teaches Spanish at Waupun Junior/Senior High School.


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