Lexcee Oddo, a teacher at Turner Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas, is announced as recipient of a $25,000 Milken Educator Award during a surprise assembly. The Milken Foundation is honoring 30 U.S. educators in the 2025-2026 academic year. (Submitted)
TOPEKA — Turner Elementary School teacher Lexcee Oddo is recognized as a highly skilled, family-focused and whole-brain educator who taught second-graders before focusing on students learning English as a second language.
Those traits of educational devotion made her Kansas’ latest recipient of a $25,000 Milken Educator Award, which was presented Thursday during a surprise schoolwide assembly in Kansas City, Kansas…