In the 2020-2021 school year, Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) Schools did not select one teacher of the year – the school district named all roughly 1,400 teachers as teachers of the year.  That was due to the extreme stress teachers, and many others, endured curing the COVID-19 challenges.

For the 2021-2022 school year, the district is back to naming one Teacher of the Year, and it is Kristen Distler, a teacher/librarian at Fall Creek Junior High School.

Here is my podcast conversation with Kristen Distler.