they're not forgotten throughout all of this and to relate to them considering he lost his senior year due to Katrina. The letter was viewed over a million times and reached countries across the world. It was featured in outlets across the country, including in Education Week, the Washington Post, the American Heart Association News, and Chicago Tribune. Dier was featured on local news outlets WGNO News with a Twist, and WWLTV. He was also featured on NPR Weekend Edition, and The Today Show. Dier taught for ten years in St. Bernard Parish. Currently, he teaches social studies at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans. Awards and honors Dier was voted the St. Bernard Parish District-Wide Teacher of the Year twice, named the 2020 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year, and selected as a finalist for National Teacher of the Year. Dier was the first educator from Louisiana to be selected as a finalist since 1989. Dier was also named a 2020 Louisianian of the Year by Louisiana Life Magazine. In 2021, Dier was awarded the H. Councill Trenholm Memorial Award by the National Education Association. That same year, he was selected as the 2021 Louisiana History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. References External links Official website for Chris Dier 1988 births Living people University of New Orleans alumni East Texas Baptist University alumni Schoolteachers from Louisiana 21st-century American educators People from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers