CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections announced that Kim Piper, an English teacher at Granite State High School, located inside the prison walls, has been selected as a finalist for the Department of Education's Teacher of the Year 2020.

The NHDOE’s voting committee is made up of the State Board of Education Chair, N.H. Association of School Principals Director, N.H. School Administrators Association Director, former Teachers of the Year, Deputy Commissioner of Education, and N.H. Teacher of the Year Coordinator. The committee visited Piper to observe her teaching a class at the N.H. Correctional Facility for Women. The committee also interviewed Piper’s students, the education department’s teachers and administrators, the commissioner’s office, and Piper.

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