Kris is a first-and second-grade teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Kris is the 2018 BP Teacher of the Year. Kris served on the National Commission for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development as a member of the Council of Distinguished Educators and published a national report called “A Nation of Hope." He has served other teachers by offering classes on how to teach SEL for the last 7 years. He took his expertise on social-emotional learning to the National ESSA Conference as a presenter in 2019. In 2019, his ideas were published in a book he contributed to called Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments. He is a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of Early Childhood Education.