 Education Foundation Director, and you're in the audience. Please make your way up to the stage so you can cheer on nominees from the stage. Thank you. Welcome. My name is Alicia Jimenez. I am a Public Information Officer of Pajaro Valley Unified School District, and it is a privilege to be here with you, with representatives from each one of our schools and departments. Incredible, with the work that you are all doing. Thank you for being here. The Pajaro Valley Education Foundation is honored to sponsor the annual Innovator of the Year Awards of Knowledge in the Creative and Innovative Accomplishments of our staff. Let me see if this works. Andrea, is this working? Where do I go? And this is Andy. She takes care of our mental center. All of Andy. I cannot believe it. How do you see it? It is true. It is true. Each secondary school and department selected one classified and one certificated individual. And each elementary school selected one classified and one certificated TK through second and one in third or sixth grade, who is making a significant contribution to PVUSD's vision through innovative and creative strategies to receive that site, Department Innovator of the Year Award. From the group of site and department awardees, PVEF board of directors selected 11 individuals who will receive the District Innovator of the Award at the end of this event. And is this a problem? I'm so excited. So this is what you can expect to happen. Before we hear from Dr. Rodriguez, please not for nominees. I'm going to be calling you up in numbers from 1 to 15. And I'm going to ask you guys to go through the back exit. And you're going to line up in that on this side by number. Imagine you're in Southwest Airlines. Line up number 1 through 15, please. So when you line up, we're going to be cheering for you like this so that we don't waste a lot of time. So can we practice this? We'll share so you can hear as they're coming up. And then nominees, as you walk across, there is an X on the third step. You're going to stand there, so Lindsay from Human Resources can take your photograph. And we're going to make sure we create an album and share it with everyone. So now I would like to invite Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, our superintendent of skills. Inspired, committed, innovative, creative, transformational. Those are all words that were used about you as innovators of the year for the year 2021 to 2022. Want you to look around and give each other a round of applause. It's an understatement. We've been through thick and thin. And our district needed a set of strong, innovative staff to keep the smile on our face and keep the smile on the faces of our children and our community. And so there are 104 of you here today that are representing exactly what we know that PBUSC is all about. And it takes you to make a great district. And it takes you to make a great team. So each of you, each day, took calculated creative risk to positively impact the lives of our students, their families, and staff. You saw areas to improve and said, I'm going to change that. I'm going to make PBUSC a little bit better than it was the day before. You tried to enhance our system to improve the benefit that our colleagues, our administrators, and our staff fill every day. And so I want you to know we see you. We see you for the good work that you are doing. And we are here to celebrate you today because you are what's great. And so as you pass along, you're going to receive your award. They're spectacular because they actually have blue at the bottom. So it looks like it's illuminated. And so we hope that you put this someplace where on those hard days, on those challenging days, you can look at it and say, I make an impact. And I know people appreciate me. So thank you so much for being here. Ask numbers. Before I ask my next two speakers to come up, if numbers 1 through 15 can begin to minor, please. Thank you. Now I'm going to call Maria Orozco, PVF president and PBUSD vice president to come and say a few words. Thank you. Welcome, Maria. Good evening. I am pleased to welcome all of you to our annual Innovator of the Year Awards. In addition to graduations and student of the year celebrations, this is also one of my favorite events as we get to highlight our employees. I am proud of all we have accomplished this year, in large part because of the contributions and hard work of our certificated and classified employees alike. Today we get to recognize over 100 of our employees who, through their innovation and dedication, they have contributed to the success of our students and their well-being, whether it was to expand the school's library to include great level reading books that are culturally and linguistically relevant to creating a hope club for students to experience a profound sense of belonging, to increasing parents' support for each one of the programs under CDD, to coordinating with NASA so that students who communicate through Google made it with an astronaut, and so much more. That's innovation. You have all demonstrated resilience, creativity, and innovation. You have a lot to be proud of. So on behalf of PBUSD and the Paro Value Education Foundation, we thank you for supporting the children and families at PBUSD. Congratulations all. Buenas noches. Buenas tardes, buenas noches. Me complace dar la bienvenida a todos ustedes a nuestros premios anuales al innovador del año. Además de las graduaciones y la celebración de los estudiantes del año, este también es uno de mis eventos favoritos, ya que destacamos a nuestros empleados. Estoy orgullosa de todo lo que hemos logrado este año, en gran parte debido a las contribuciones y el arduo trabajo de nuestros empleados certificados y clasificados por igual. Hoy vamos a reconocer a más de 100 de nuestros empleados que a través de su innovación y dedicación han contribuido al éxito de nuestros estudiantes y a su bienestar. Ya sea mediante la ampliación de la biblioteca escolar para incluir libros de lectura de nivel grado, cultural, y linguisticamente relevante a la creación de un club de esperanza para que los estudiantes experimenten un profundo sentido de pertenencia. Al aumento del apoyo de los padres para que cada uno de los programas bajo CDV o la coordinación con NASA para que los estudiantes puedan comunicarse a través de Kugomi con una astronauta y mucho, mucho más. Todos están demostrando resiliencia, creatividad e innovación. Tiene mucho, tiene mucho de lo que están orgullosos. So, de parte del distrito escolar unificado del Valle de Pajaro y la Fundación de Educación de Paro Valley, les agradecemos por apoyar a los niños y a las familias del POS. Felicidades a todos. Gracias. Thank you, Maria. Gracias, Maria. Now I'd like to invite Ms. Catherine Bernudes, PVF Vice President, and a PVUSD teacher. Welcome, Ms. Bernudes. Good evening and welcome. I am PVUSD Vice President and also a teacher at Mesty Elementary School. And I just want to start by saying I have felt this year with you, so thank you so much for your hard work. And more important than that, thank you for choosing to be here. It means a lot to choose to build community when we are so tired. And I know that innovation can happen into, to wait, innovation sometimes happens because we just have to. But innovation can also happen because there's something in you that makes you an innovative person and you chose to put in even more than was asked of you. And so thank you so much for that. It's absolutely my favorite part of serving on this board. I feel like I get a sneak peek of the incredible things that are happening. And I'm really grateful that you're here. So in closing, I just want to recognize that our innovative teachers are here and being with them is restorative and we should be really grateful for this time finally together. Thank you so much. Okay, enjoy your coffee because this is the last time. From now on, this is gonna be famous. Thank you so much. We're gonna start. Denise Nijaris, Extended Learning Classified Office Assistant. Denise has provided consistent leadership at several sites over the years. Her insights and feedback have been used as a foundation to build department protocols and procedures. Mary Sandman, Rio Del Mar Certificated Second Grade Teacher. Mary promotes inclusivity of all students through the ongoing facilitation of acceptance from one another, respecting differences and promoting positive interactions between students. Jaime Muñoz, Calabaza's Classified Lead Custodian. The biggest change was the sense of pride Jaime took and the importance of creating a physical environment. Any parent would be happy to send their kid to. Congratulations. Katherine Chin, Minty White, Certified, Certificated Art Teacher. Miss Chin thought about the impact the loss of a teacher would have on students and their access to VAPA. Motivated by her sense of equity and their work ethic rivaled by none, she single handedly addressed VAPA access for all of our learners. Paloma Luna, Watsonville Charter School of the Arts, Classified Yardary. Paloma is finding ways to make pieces more equitable and safer and has taken on many leadership roles including our new playworks rollout. Michelle Negro, Anso, Certificated K First Grade Teacher. Our veteran kindergarten teacher, Michelle Negro is an all-star innovator. She has a positive student center viewpoint which is contagious across the school. She has a big heart and does whatever it takes to make instruction accessible for students. Vicky Davis. She could agree with us later. Vicky Davis' finance requirement, Vicky created a chart of accounts, electronic procedures to load budgets and train staff to implement in a more efficient and effective manner. Maria Flemati, Alianza Charter, Classified Health Care Assistant. Maria has helped create a safe, positive and caring environment for all our staff, students and families during these such unprecedented times. Kelly Bermudez, Special Services Certificate in Life Skills Teacher. Kelly learned that she had students who were not able to read as high schoolers in a life skills program. She reached out and obtained the curriculum and began utilizing the instructional programs and saw amazing results. Risa Schwartz. Marvista, Second Grade Teacher. Risa is an innovative and finding solutions to the problems, listening from each student's perspective and giving guidance when needed. Her classroom is a safe space for everyone. She's strict, but fun. Nominalist number 16 through 30, please begin to line up. Jennifer Torres. Radcliffe, Classified Kinder Instruction Assistant. Jenny has been using new strategies with the students such as visual cards for routine classroom directions. She's always produces creative ways to help her students reach their highest potential. Maria Savala. Starlight, Special Services Instructional Assistant. Maria Nadia. Beyond academics, Maria is a source of comfort and support for students and staff. Her peaceful demeanor complements the social emotional learning and mindfulness curriculum implemented. Brittany Luther. Starlight Certificate in Special Services. She's like you, too. Either, I'm sorry. Ms. Luther has helped our school develop a multi-tier system to better serve all students regardless of special education status. More students receive high quality interventions because of her services. Maricela Cardenas. Early childhood education, Classified Administrative, Secretary of the Week. With Maricela's experience, she has been able to tie in regulations from all the different programs to one comprehensive enrollment packet. Don Sterner. Galencia. Classified Instructional Assistant. Due to Don's focus sessions, kids who were unable to read and write independently are underway and believing in themselves as learners. She has nurtured their confidence along with their basic skills. Francisco Ramirez. New School. Classified Custodian. Francisco has created a safe and clean space that promotes a positive school, learning environment by taking care of our school. Francisco's important, obvious impact is obvious each morning. I open our school to welcome students. Veronica Fernandez, Cesar Chavez. Certificated Counselor. Veronica helps create a safe space for students at CCMS. The CCMS Counseling Center is a place where students can find counseling at a place to study in a place where my parents can meet with the counselor to discuss their concerns they have. And my son is a bar all the time. Yeah. Tamela Camille Harkins is now here to be with us today. Barbara O'Valley High Certificate and English Teacher. Ms. Harkins' teaching style is restorative. She gives students an opportunity to grow and change to engage her students. She has made sure that her classes included more project-based learning opportunities this year. Mary Lou Masters, Human Resources Classified Analyst. And she's now interviewing us here. Mary Lou put into play systems which have increased cross-departmental efficiencies in being able to respond to random drug tests time here. Responding more quickly means our students are getting to school safely. Luz Rodriguez, Hall District Certificate. Kindergarten Teacher. Ms. Rodriguez is Nana Hall as the Kinder Whisperer. She creates a solid classroom community with high expectations for students' behavior and learning. Teresa Covarrubia's transportation. Working in a positive way with our drivers to ensure that they start their morning in a positive way is important for Teresa because she knows that it will mean that the drivers will pass on a positive start to the morning for the students. Gustavo Carrera, EA Hall, Classified Instructional Assistant. Gaste is the effectiveness of our life skills program through his teamwork with the entire school community. He transcends his job description by always lending a helping hand to anyone at the school, including students, parents, and staff. Juan Carlos Mendoza, Virtual Academy Classified Science Admission. Juan Carlos has made communication methods which greatly increase the effectiveness of providing information to the entire school community in a virtual learning environment. Angelica Flores, Cesar Chavez Cancer. Angelica helps create CCMS Counseling Center at a place students seek out at break time and lunch time. It offers weekly meetings for our LGBTQ students and works with the CCMS Access Club to recognize students who are exceedingly excelling academically. Alejandra Maciel and Soto, Healthcare Assistant. Our wonderful Alejandra reinvented herself this year as our main bulwark against the storm of COVID. She created many successful systems for tracking, testing, and re-entry, and follow-up. If I can have numbers 31 to 45, please. Lina, now. Mary-Louis Mediel. Marvista, Certificate, since grade teacher. Mary-Louis is creative and innovative in how she connects with her students. She's patient and approaches her pedagogical thinking from the perspective of a 6th grade. This makes her curriculum fun. Silvia Piña, Pajaro Middle, Classified Instructional Assistant. Silvia's strategy to engage with all stakeholders has been evident throughout her distinguished 37 years of service to the students and families of Pajaro Valley Unified School District. Tara Makulo, Starlight Certificate for the 6th grade teacher, Tara's incredible science teacher. Students learn through hands-on doing, creating science each week. Science comes to life every day in her classroom, and the students love it. Matsuo Alwar, Lead View, Classified Lead Custodian. Miss Matsuo Alwar is not only an exceptional lead custodian, but she's also an educator who takes great interest in our Lead View students' sense of connectedness and increases engagement. Congratulations. Nancy Broxton, Student Services, Classified Mental Health Clinician. Mrs. Broxton has designed her therapeutic model to include students' interests, pro-social activities, and always connecting families. All of these innovative ways to connect have contributed to students' and families' healing. Rebeca Vizcalino, Landmark Healthcare Assistant. Miss Vizcalino's effort to support our students, families, and staff by creating a safe, positive, and healthy office environment is amazing. Her quick follow-up calls and attention to detail give our community reassurance that all will be well. Barbara Welty, Rio Del Mar, and K.A. Technician. Barbara uses evidence-based practices that we can apply to all students while tailoring them to individual needs. Our students feel her warmth and a sense of safety. She embraces all our Rio Del Mar values. Jeanette Jeffries, freedom, to fifth grade teacher. Mrs. Jeffries is an amazing teacher who intentionally empowers students to help one another. Students who are strong in math help other students who need more support. Students who are better writers of others to enhance their writing. Melissa Shaw, Landmark, third grade teacher. Ms. Shaw has increased parent and family engagement in her, in their children's education, using both digital communication apps and clear use of resources that are presented in new and fun-engaging ways that reach our students. Maria Vega Perez, Minty White, classified as a specialist. Ms. Vega uses her skills and understanding of kicking off the year and assures that all the required work and communication was completed and that it was in position to open schools successfully. I should find those mistakes. Mercedes Varrios, migrant education certificate. Mercedes uses several assessments to provide the best possible instruction to students. She's more than willing to accommodate the families we serve by making herself available to do home visits to make sure students and families receive the services they deserve. Megan Jacobs-Meyer, Marvista Libera. Ms. Jay's laptop books and reading is pervasive. She provides a social emotional sanctuary for students who need a place to explore and socialize with each other with constructive activities. We are so lucky to have such an inspiring librarian. Mabel Marquez, Atlas High, classified as assistant. She is well known for her compassionate and thorough care. She seamlessly transferred her impeccable skills from meeting students' needs in the health office to meeting students' needs in COVID testing. She is a remarkable, quiet leader. Donna Costa, CTE, business information analyst. Don Leverchick, an existing system, added relevant functionality and trained staff to use with fidelity. She's always available to support an improving system to best serve the district and our students. The amount of time she saved and accuracy gained with the new system is a game changer. Melinda Luna, Alessa Charter, certificate and intervention teacher. Melinda's a Robin teacher, and yet, that did not stop her from finding a space to work, being effective, efficient, and creating a learning environment for students, regardless of where their lessons have taken place. Kerry Gill, Aptos Junior High, our teacher at the EISE. Kerry has made it all new to studies. Messaging and strategies that help your students prefer communication methods to help them see and experience how to act responsibly, just be safe, have respect, and strive for success. Mal Oshner, EA Hall Certificate of Social Studies and Anthropology teacher. Ms. Oshner's teacher's methods contribute to a supportive school environment and increase students' sense of connectedness by providing culturally-responsive instruction. Jordan Rice, I'm sorry. Oh my, if I can have number 46 through 60 please light up. Thank you. Is Jordan Rice here? Paharo Middle School, Certificated Maths Science Teacher. Jordan Rice consistently demonstrates accelerated achievement in mathematics and science. Using a variety of data sources, Mr. Rice designs and implements high-quality, tactile, or tech-based mathematical practices. Linda Macias, Freedom, Kindergarten Teacher. I'm sorry, I forgot to call that last one. Is she here? Ms. Macias is an amazing kindred teacher. Her classroom functions like a high-end corporate diamond. So much gets done in such a small space with little angels running around. Her class provides systems and routines that allow students to flourish. Laurie Estrada, Bradley, cafeteria assistant. Laurie has maintained adaptability as our school struggled with power outages and scheduling challenges with space. Ms. Laurie maintains professionalism, reliability, and dependability to ensure our students are fed and provided with a clean and welcoming environment. Rosalba Iniguez, Early Childhood Education Certificate Teacher. Ms. Iniguez has provided a safe place for students with exceptional needs to thrive next to their peers while working to provide an equal education for all the students. Her strategies and practices set up positive approaches to increasing inclusions in ECE preschool classroom. Karen Richmond, Richard, Valencia Kindergarten Teacher. Karen is the queen of designing, and creative, and innovative systems and structures. She has implemented routines for all parts of her kindergarten students' day, from the greeting meeting and clock talk to dynamite is missled and everything in between. Marisa Potsy Loyola, Waxa Kindergarten Teacher. Discosis Kindergarten students as consists constantly developing and engineering items according to their passions. She uses the design of inquiry to reach the needs of all her students. Deborah Leal, Roni Nils, Library New York Tech. Ms. Leal has been instrumental in transforming our library to a learning center. Each of the library's four stations, technology, collaboration, quiet greeting circle, and maker space has been closely designed by Ms. Leal to meet the needs and wants of all students. Matt Merrow, Rennison Fowler, Mental Health Clinicians. Matt has provided a safe, supportive environment for students to engage in mental health supports in all levels of need. Students feel comfortable with Matt and his demeanor also supports this. Rebeca Said, Bradley, for a great future. The impact of his Said has made on our campus that his work has been wonderful. The work she does to empower and encourage students to spread kindness, problems solve, respect, and honor each other, and make a decision which is far beyond that of her classroom. Teresita Marchicello, Adult Education, his ESL and software. Teresita's continuously adjusted her curriculum to be inclusive of all students and increase the percentage of English learners to demonstrate at least one year of progress toward English fluency. Kelsey Hanley, Cala Asas, Secretary of Teacher. Ms. Hanley legalizing students' interests and desires to motivate them to be successful. Ms. Hanley's students are in her classroom 100% of the time and they love being there so much if school was made voluntary, they would be there. Juan Rocha, Ernest Rice Program. By building strong relationships to want to impact students' student achievement and ensures students feel safe in their learning environment, he's vital part of our Rice Program and we are lucky you have him as part of our MST family. Bobby Grenier, PVUSD Virtual Academy, teacher. Bobby Swajic, our cross-curricular and Fuse Language, there she is. And Fuse Language are social science and technology. Her innovative technology talents and having increased students' creativity and family engagement in a virtual school. All the work she's doing in the digital space is improving our school culture. Now I'm going to ask number 61 through 75 to please line up. Alma Andiano, HA High, Second Grade Teacher. Ms. Andiano uses a combination of the knowledge, the hands-on activities and curriculum material to make learning interesting in her classroom. Students are excited to come to school and learn in their classroom. Ms. Tierney Long, Near School, Certificated. Ms. Long helps create a culture where she promotes a safe, supportive and positive school environment through. Her efforts encourage positive behavior and increases our students' sense of connectedness and improves engagement. Ms. Edith Ries, Landmark. Ms. Ries works tirelessly to provide high-quality instruction using a variety of different methods and makes herself available to parents whenever it is helpful to the parents. Ms. Ries has provided our families a feeling of connectedness. Ms. Doris Salazar Ries, HA High, Second Grade Teacher. Doris consists of intimate and innovative teaching strategies into her classroom, whether it's the use of technology, software programs, alternative presentation methods or the furniture and tools in her classroom. She's always trying to improve and accentuate everything she does. Juan Gonzalez, Minty White. Mr. Gonzalez is using a new to grade math instructional program to improve students' participation in learning in math and English. The program intersects research-based practices for learning math with developing language practices in creative and innovative ways. Mayanine Martinez, Watanabahat, Administrative Secretary. Mayanine is never too busy to support any of our students walking into our office, no matter what their needs are. She is knowledgeable of our on-campus resources and she really connects students with the appropriate personnel and services. Judy Quezada, Duncan Barber. She's a dynamically favored technician. Her resourcefulness and outstanding is outstanding. Judy takes input and training from the speech pathologists and occupational therapists she works with, as well as her own skills and background to create the learning materials and interventions she uses with students. Teresa Gibney, Hall District Speech Pathologist. Ms. Gibney consults with her team and provides guidance and support to her colleagues to ensure the needs of her students are met. She's always positive, professional and solution oriented. Her positive approach to any situation is contagious. Rayan Ortiz, Aftasar Science Teacher. Ms. Ortiz uses inclusive practices to bring others in, including modeling strategies for staff, the faculty meetings, sale leadership teams, team meetings and in department collaboration. She is innovating in the ways she uses positive rewards to improve students' behaviors as well as their sense of belonging and kindness. Michelle Connery with one egg. Radcliffe, Early Years to Coach. Michelle's innovation has made it easy for teachers to track their data and offers innovative ideas for next steps to improve student performance. Her ideas and innovations are warmly received by the Radcliffe community. Desi Nunez, Sudeshah. Many students going through the pain and confusion accompanied by losing close family members and multiple members in the community. Melina Martinez, Special Services, Classified Legal Technicians. Melina jumps into our most challenging situations across numerous school sites. She implements strong behavior and analytic strategies to support students who have significantly struggled to access education. Esmeralda Flores, Radcliffe Portway Teacher. Esmeralda communities regularly with parents in person and electronically to ensure that students reach their fullest potential. She advocates for all her students and makes sure that no one sleeps through any crack. Vince Rodriguez, DTI, Instructional Assistant. Vince now supports students on his Facebook but takes the time to support other students. Vince goes above and beyond his assignments to make connections and support the whole time. Maria Alcanta, what's the heart of her counseling department? She helps her counseling department with spreadsheet power tools so that they can analyze data and make the best interventions. If numbers 76 through 90 can please begin to line up. Thank you. Katie Hutchings and Solgo Certificate lead leading intervention teacher. Our veteran all-star teacher, Miss Katie, has a brain for schedules, a heart dedicated to students and teachers and an awe-inspiring stamina to tackle every day with a yes-we-can attitude. Sandra Moore, PBI, Administrative Secretary. Mrs. Moore fights herself in making sure our office meets all the professional standards for good customer service. The true testament to the work she's seen, she's seen the administrative team rising to meet the same expectations she holds. She has created an environment where everyone is respected and cared for. Ms. Wernerby Bayekho, Food and Nutrition Services, Site Leader. Venma strives to provide healthy, fresh and nicely-presented meals adding to each student's sense of connectedness, engagement and hope. She has created a positive, safe, relaxing environment for students to enjoy meals and gather safely to socialize. Mr. Ángel Rodriguez, Adult Education, Administrative Secretary. Ángel is continuously evaluating the various systems we have in place. He has established social media processes and procedures. Ángel shares his knowledge with others and has greatly supported an office team effort. Jason Solis, Renaissance Eye. Jason has brought in real-world experiences based upon his own business model where students are given a client and work with that client on a branding for a website. Students engage in listening, questioning, interpreting and then creating that branding. We feedback from the client until a finished concept is completed. Great branding, Jason. Cristina Carillo, Payroll and Benefits Specialist. Cristina has worked with outside agencies to expand our financial options for all district employees. She's innovating new ways to educate employees about health benefits through educational videos and regular office hours. Erin Bilenberg, Virtual Academy Teacher. Erin is a jack-of-all-trades who goes above and beyond to help students in the virtual academy succeed. Erin has created multiple avenues of support systems for students, families and staff which are utilized school-wide. It's a messy, faith-ready teacher. Jillian's system promotes to promote a positive school environment is to implement community-building circles on a regular basis. Jillian's focus on creating a safe and supported classroom environment has created a space where all students can thrive. Jose Quintero, Thank you. He taught Quintero as an amazing job contributing to the transformation of the physical education department to becoming a more effective, efficient and undoubtedly innovative program. He is proactive and creative and is a exemplary physical education teacher. I'm Kelly Cabruno. Roni Mills is a broad knowledge of inter-relationships of concepts, academic content standards and academic language in ways that ensures connection and relevance to students. Her decision and actions are student-centered and author-resulting the improvement of the overall educational experience of our newcomer students. Mercedes Sigar, a messy, faith-ready teacher. Mercedes Sigar has focused on creating a safe learning environment for all while meeting their wide range of instructional needs. These approaches include the use of small groups to support students accessing the district curriculum. This access has supported all students to grow academically. Elizabeth Simmons, McQueen's certificate in reading intervention teacher. Ms. Simmons' data-driven decisions and constant strategic grouping, grouping of students, better develop and support students with foundational learning skills. Maggie LaGorvou, Calabasas 6th grade teacher. Ms. LaGorvou creates and utilizes strategies that put the ownership of students, allowing them to hold themselves accountable for their own learning and creating a safe environment where mistakes are not drawn upon, but looked at as valuable learning opportunities. Ms. Diane Mahira, after student-high, office manager. Diane has improved operational efficiency through several technological enhancements to her operations, including purchasing and implementing the use of an automated report car machine which has allowed us to communicate better with our families on grades. If I can have numbers 91 to 104. The last, please line up at this time. Thank you. Mr. Nathan Buoyang, technology tech support technician. Nathan has been actively involved in co-creative design process for the Salesforce project, demonstrating active listening, thoughtful reflection and collaborative engagement. Lupita Cernandes, mind and signal pet star, kind of our teacher. Lupita has created Google Sheets that are utilized by different district department to exchange information and be up to date on schedules, placement location, IEP meetings, communication with families, et cetera. Juana Tribaum, McQuitty, second grade teacher. Our team has to highlight Juana's innovation and inclusive practices. Juana welcomed several students from Mrs. Gladish and Mr. Love's classroom each day for targeted SIPs intervention instruction. Lorena Castillo, freedom healthcare assistant. Lorena's willingness to work hard and ensure that her office is a place where everyone is loved and cared for is so admirable. It is not a job for her, it is her passion. She really loves what she does. Erin Farrar, Valencia certificate. Erin's work has been critical to the continued growth of her students. Though already exceptionally talented and high-performing students, they have all continued to hone their skills and reach new heights with their learning. Jeanette Martinez, a lonely, secure and breast-straight teacher. Jeanette teaches K-1 combo. She has a wide variety of reading levels in her classroom, from Kindersteel learning to decode, to students learning proficiently at first grade level, which means that she has several SIPs levels to manage. Martin Sweet, the design Mr. Sweet uses is one of collaboration with teachers, parents inside and district administration. He is steadfast in his commitment to students and creates bonds with them that last a lifetime. Mr. Noah Bess, that come over to the nurse. Noah helps provide a supportive and positive school environment for students with special needs. He is a safe, positive, male role model for our students and has helped many of them overcome anxiety about healthcare during the pandemic. Vanessa Aromi, English writer program's data entry assistant. Vanessa has helped our department and sites by being innovative in how she collects data, organizes it and reports it out. She has helped us make great improvements to our systems for reclassification in the state CEO of my university. Andrea Halle, Cesar Chavez classified in structural medicine. Ms. Halle has provided a safe and secure environment for the students in her classroom and her social, emotional understanding and relationships with the students in the classroom. Many who have diverse needs have allowed our students to experience success through her engagement and motivation. Ms. Bonnie Gilley, H&I, library. Bonnie is always helping supplement our curriculum with culturally relevant books, books to widen student knowledge and making reading fun for the students. She has also brought in authors to present at our school. Courtney Rudd, virtual academy teacher. Courtney has excellent attention to detail in creating projects that are personalized to each student's individuals, interests and development level. Additionally, she takes on extra duties including serving as advisor for the leadership club and she is always willing to offer support to any teacher. Oh, Ms. Tess Byers. I'm not sure what happened. Tess and her teamwork with her each student to find some success which leads more success. Students feel loved and accepted and part of the classroom community for who they are. They are willing to show up and try even though things are hard because they know they are supported. Elizabeth Ortiz Ortiz. Excellent learning teacher. Ms. understands the challenges and the strengths of the students and community. She is passionate about giving students the quality education and programs they deserve. Hasmi Ansira. TVUS in virtual academy, administrative assistant. Jasmine wears many hats at virtual academy. She goes above and beyond and looks for methods to improve the efficiency of her job tasks. She has a background in marketing and has been an integral team member in helping to create brochures, videos, flyers, posters, et cetera, to promote the school online. Elizabeth Jarrett. Diamond Tech. Special case manager. Elizabeth has done an outstanding job creating new standard operating procedures in systems that better stream like our IEP student and student support process. Jamie Starr McCleary. And she is connecting with her students and building rapport. She is new and has made a great impact on her students and teacher. Toni Contreras. Hog District instructional assistant. Ms. Toni in as her students taught her demonstrates her innovation by using different strategies to support the individual learning needs of her students. Gabrielle Lundive, migrant educational instructional assistant. Gabrielle knows families learn about the new technology tools by creating Spanish language screen cast video that he could easily share with the families through texts and email. Georgina Muñoz. Oloni instructional assistant. Georgina is flexible about when and where she meets with students. Depending on student need, not teach your preference for a set space and time. Students get exactly what they need, when they need it, with a minimum cost to other learning. And that's all. I'm going to be district innovators of the year. And we will just leave it like that so that we don't give away the surprise. So this was a really challenging decision. So it took us about three hours for this group of people to decide out 104 who deserved. And we literally, we were virtual, but we literally almost went fist to fist for some of you. So it was a really hard decision on our part. We are fortunate that this year we are giving 11 people a $250 award. So when we call your name, this time we're going to do thunderous applause for each and every person. And we're going to let them come on that. No one knows, even the principals don't know who it is. And so the first one is Maria Flemante, a certificated teacher for CIFS today, but I want to. So Vicki Davis, sixth grade teacher and also does after school. She is a library media tech from Rolling Hills Middle School. Reset Swartz. Celebrate your achievements tonight. All of you are winners. Some of you know I work in a hospital. And in the hospital, all the patients that we see it's the worst day of their lives. Today, this is the best day of our lives when we get to celebrate our staff and our teachers in this district. This board cares very much about you. The superintendent cares so deeply about you, about the way that you educate and care for our children. This acknowledgement shows that somebody on your campus noticed your amazing work every day. So I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for caring about the kids in this district. And congratulations. That's our program for tonight. Thank you, everyone. There's probably still some food out there, so please enjoy some. Take a photo and send it to me if you'd like to publish that also on the album. And thank you. Congratulations to all of you.