Laura Tessmer
Eastern Carver County Schools
4th Grade Teacher
tessmerl@isd112.org
Laura Tessmer is in her 16th year as an elementary teacher in the Eastern Carver County School District. She is currently teaching 4th-grade at Clover Ridge Elementary and has also been blessed to have worked in the roles of Instructional Coach and 5th-grade teacher. She earned her undergraduate degree from North Dakota State University, a Master’s of Education and Learning from Saint Mary’s University, and a Master’s of Arts in American History and Government through Ashland University. Laura is a member of the Women in Social Studies Education organization and serves on the Executive Board for the Minnesota Council for History Education and has been named the 2013 Minnesota History of the Year by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the 2015 Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies