Complex sentence: Brett Bigham is an American educator and the 2014 Oregon Teacher of the Year and was one of 39 people in the United States given a 2015 National Education Association Award for Teaching Excellence.
Split into simpler sentences: Brett Bigham is an American educator and the 2014 Oregon Teacher of the Year. He was also one of 39 people in the United States given a 2015 National Education Association Award for Teaching Excellence.