Finalists named for Minnesota Teacher of the Year The winner will be named at a ceremony later this year. April 27, 2021 — 10:50am Text size Copy shortlink: The finalists, selected from a field of 75 nominees, were announced Tuesday. They are: Layne Bell, a language arts teacher at Hopkins High School's Hopkins Achievement Program alternative program; Natalia Benjamin, an English-language and ethnic studies teacher at Century High School in Rochester; Kim Marty-Goblirsch, a language arts teacher at Medford High School; Todd Hunter, a science teacher at Anoka High School; Eugenia Popa, an English-language teacher at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul; France Roberts, a first grade teacher at Meadow Ridge Elementary School in Plymouth; Sandra Stephens, a kindergarten teacher at Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion School in St. Paul Park; Jessica Stewart, a social studies teacher at Osseo Senior High School; and Lauren Wheeler, a health and fitness teacher at Thomas Edison High School in Minneapolis.