The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women named Jennifer Wheeler Teacher of the Year for 2010-11.

She completed a second year on the faculty of the Baltimore public charter school onFranklin Street.

She is the social studies/language arts team leader and a sixth-grade teacher.

A 2001 alumna of Catonsville High School, Wheeler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Virginia.

After participating in the Baltimore City Teaching Residency program, she received a master's degree in teaching fromJohns Hopkins University.

Catonsville residents Tim and Cindy Wheeler are her parents.