Nominated Value: Accountability
Allena put in countless to assist a family who was served in another system to access vital Nursing services to address child’s medical needs. This involved hours of contacting, collaborating with others, gathering documentation and working with Alicia Hoefer to help family advocate within outside system for services to begin. This process took months but due to their diligence she has the needed services today.
Nominated Value: Collaboration
Angie is new to her role as positive support specialist this year and has worked hard to make it an effective and meaningful role. Angie and her teammate signed up to read with one of our students who uses AAC during the DD reading awareness program. She and her teammate collaborated with the classroom staff and all of our therapists to make this a positive and impactful experience for the FRS student and the students she read to on that day. She collaborated to work out any bugs that might pop up and planned practice experiences within our classrooms. She created visual supports and talked with our student about what she might see and experience so that she could feel prepared and comfortable. Angie does many other things as well. She participates in all classroom team meetings to collaborate. She also is very in tune with the needs of the staff and offers encouragement to others through kind words and little gifts. She organized a collection of encouraging items for a staff member who has been ill for a while and took it to her to make sure she knew how much she was missed and appreciated. I am so glad I get to work with Angie each day.
Nominated Value: Accountability
Alicia put in countless to assist a family who was served in another system to access vital Nursing services to address child’s medical needs. This involved hours of contacting, collaborating with others, gathering documentation and working with Allena to help family advocate within outside system for services to begin. This process took months but due to their diligence she has the needed services today.
Nominated Value: Collaboration
Julia is new to her role as positive supports specialist and she and her fellow positive supports specialist have worked very hard to make the position as effective and helpful as it can be for our staff and students. For the DD awareness reading program, Julia and Angie signed up to read with one of our students who uses a communication device to speak. Throughout this process, they collaborated with the classroom staff, the parent and our therapists to make sure they had all of the needed equipment and accommodations that would make this a positive experience for both the student reading, but also for the students’ listening. She planned and her teammate planned practice sessions with classrooms within our building. They made visuals that would help the student know what to expect during the experience. The student was beyond excited and so proud of herself. Thanks to the team for making this possible for her. Julia has done many other things this school year as well. She attends classroom team meetings and comes up with great ideas to enhance the learning experience. She works in all of the classrooms to offer support in any way needed. It is obvious to all how dedicated she is to what she does. I am very thankful to get to work with her on a daily basis.