According to a recent announcement by the Maine Dept. of Education, Kristen Allen, Mountain Valley High School Health Education Teacher and University of Maine at Farmington alumna, has been selected as the Eastern District Health Teacher of the Year by the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America).

Kristen Allen
Allen has taught health education at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford for more than 18 years. She also teaches School Health methods courses and School Health Education in the Physical Education program at UMF. Allen graduated in 2006 from the UMF Community Health Education program and has taught at UMF since 2020.
Allen’s Eastern District Health Teacher of the Year journey began when she was named the 2022 High School Health Education Teacher of the Year by the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AHPERD).
All of the Maine AHPERD Teacher of the Year awardees are eligible to submit application materials for Eastern District Teacher of the Year. The Eastern District, one of SHAPE America’s five districts, includes all New England states, plus Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.