About National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS)

NSHSS is the premier international honors and scholarship program co-founded by Claes Nobel, the senior member of the Nobel Prize family, and James Lewis. NSHSS offers a lifetime of benefits, pairing the highest performing students worldwide with high school and college scholarships, events, connections, internships, and career opportunities that begin in high school and carry on through college and careers. For more information, visit https://www.nshss.org/.

These awards are presented to exemplary educators who have demonstrated an outstanding and noteworthy commitment to preparing their students for success inside and outside of the classroom. They are role models who consistently demonstrate stellar leadership in spite of unprecedented and unrelenting challenges. The program is named for Claes Nobel, grand-nephew of Alfred Nobel, who co-founded NSHSS with James Lewis. It embodies the Nobel family’s tradition of celebrating and sustaining world class minds, especially among educators and young people.

“Each educator demonstrated enormous passion, commitment, and resiliency to bring out the best in their students. They were powerful role models who met students wherever they were and helped them overcome what often seemed like insurmountable barriers. But, with their guidance, they were not,” said NSHSS Co-founder James Lewis.

To be eligible for Educators of the Year, candidates must currently be working within a public or private high school in the United States or abroad. In writing, applicants describe their teaching philosophy, their passion for education, and the impact teaching has on them and their students. NSHSS selects one $5,000 award winner and nine $1,000 finalists. The recipients of the 2021 Educators of the Year Award are: