For the City Times

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Dian Schlichtmann was selected to receive Lutheran Education Association (LEA)’s 2020 Distinguished Lutheran Early Childhood Teacher Award.

Schlichtmann

The award recognizes teachers who are “equipped and willing to profess and teach Christian faith from a Lutheran perspective, demonstrate effective teaching skills, and demonstrate a commitment to excellence and meeting the social, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive needs of children and families.”

Schlichtmann is a teacher at Immanuel Lutheran School in Wisconsin Rapids.

Dian earned an early childhood certificate from Pacific Lutheran University and a bachelor of science in elementary education from Concordia University in Nebraska.

She has also served in Wausau and Leavenworth, KS, during her 29-year ministry.