we expect you to be the next doctors and lawyers, the next mayors, the next supervisors, and people that will lead our city going forward, so wre proud of you. you represent the future of san francisco, and congratulations to you all. thanks for coming out.

[applause] >> thank you so much, mr. mayor. so many organizations that we many are funded by we work with our department of children, youth and family, and i just wanted to ackwledge maria fu, who's the director oe c.y.f. and lives, breath, and ettas everythi eats everything that has to do with young people. we have a supervisor in our districts thatoes d so much with public schools. katey tang graduated from public schools. she invests in every single one of our schools in her district, so i'd like to have katey tang please join us for atle welcome. [applause] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, hy, and ercongratulations.

as hydra mention, i did grow up going to our public schools here in san francisco and proud radue of sfd, and so i definitely know how much it means to be able to support these schools in any way i can. like many o you, i g wasth an immigrantnd in my immediate family to attend college and graduate from college and then go onto receive a graduate degree, as well. when i first went to college, i really worried so much about ho it is that we're going to pay for college. my parents had to work overtime so much that i barely saw dad on the weekends, he was just working and working and working. then i had a brother that was right behind me, and we were supposed to overlap in college for three years, so i definitely freaked out how we were going to pay for college. so i pushed myself to graduate in three years so we -- i could afford to help pay for college.

some of my favorite experiences were the extracurricular stuff that we got to do andn money at excited for all of you and t journey you have ahead, and of course all the support that you have from your parents and family and friends. just e it's a wul time to do self-exploration and learn how to live on your own. ful f thisor today, and thank you to mayor farrell for th tradit. congratulations. >> thank you, supervisor tang. not often do you get to be in the room with the president of your college, and we are lucky to have a great relationship with san francisco state university and ourf presi san francisco state is here to welcome -- i know that there are six of you, e how many of you are going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah.

so if you'd please join us in welcoming your new students. o the six of you, raise your hands again. all right. we're going to have a photo. okay.agai i want to rte the comments the m etcesura, and thank ofl your sponsors and all of the families that are here. i'm really excited for you. there there's a special responsibility that comes not onlyith your scholarship but going to college, and at san thensibpoity of a b alk a educated person and that your education not onlys a great gaor you, but it's a going forward.for your familie we are actually conducting some research i wanted to share with you. 40% of our students are first in their family to go to college,e c

first-gen. we have about 50 -- about half of our students. about 40% of our studentsre pell student etcetera. and what's interesting is once u g yo to college and , it's very likely that another person in your family, includ your mother, fa, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, will go tlege. and the wave that gnif tracking now is really an i actua had ther at commme this year, a tear ago, to hand a diploma a grandma -- great grandma who was 84 years old who had put children, grandchildren, great grandchildren through college and who then finally said it's my turn, and she came to san francisco state, got a degree poetry, and it was lutely the high point of

commencement. and her whole thing was getting the first grandchild t go to school. and when i told her about, you know, our commitment to the responsibility of being an ve,ucated person, it means being invoed. as mayor says, we t be a good citizen, we want you to vote. we just want you to be productive in ways that you want to be, and that's when the world opens up to you so s. really pleased that ach of you are coming san francisco state. i'm on the 5 floor of the admin building. you are welcome. there are free food meeally terrific. we think of oselves as managing nt so one last bit o t hear from a university president, and that is in many

ways, yout nonly look like me, and i look like you, when i was in high school -- i'm from east oakland. i was one of the few chinese kids on the baseball team at rthat time, and a couns toon't go to college and waste your pare' money, okay? and the only reason i got to college was a, i could play baseball, and iuay wrote a paper thaas published when i was a junior in high school. and i couldn't understand why the counselor said to me not to waste my parents' mo. so you get toror got my- en i got my ph.d. i sent a copy t the counselor. [applause] >> and -- and then, i felt guilt, right? and so when i became a presideni was going to send hehim t announcement for that, but unfortunately, he passed

away, and i did -- i thought, i better not buck the odds, right, that kind of thing. but it's just you have to persist, you know? the world is complicated, it's challenging, but the is opportunity and the support, the scholarships, etcetera, is golden. it's like being drafted one, whether it's baseball or any sport. but it's an investment in your talents, and i believe that each of you will take advantage of that. and i look forwardin you, wherever you are, whether you're at state or any college or university because you're going to make a difference, and that's what we expect out of you. congratulations. [aus>o i hope the grandchildre paidor thegrandmother's education. yeah, that would be good. and katey, could you please talk t my son about finishing ears? awesome. all right. are you ready?

we are going to announce our award recipient a can ve t ha mayor and supsor tang join us, we're going to have each one of you come up and get your certificate,and this is your opportunity, first award recipient is claudia lu from lowell high school, going to chapman university. [applause] >> great. ratu tions. erica carilla, mission high g sacramento. [applause]

>> great. gemma monaro john nn, going to san fransc state. [applause] >> yeah, then you can brag. great. very good. congrats. o katz, leadership state, humboldt university. [applse] >> jen qwan fom mission high hool school, headg to

cal state university. go ars! [applause] >> jose domingues espina, from abram lincoln hh school, san francisco state university. >> stay there. the next one is a san francisco ate student, as we. cassandra lowell m from john lowell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause] >> all right. stay there, less, because i'm going to skip katja, and i'm going to have enan larue come up, from mission high school,

heading to san francisco state. >> all right. our next recipient is katja suarez, from mission high school, heading to u.c. [applause] >> great. keyona reynolds from george washington high school, heading to the university of washington in seattle. [applause] >> kyle chan from lowell high school, going to the university of californiadavis.

[applause] >> congrats. laura gi fhigh l school, headingo the university of california diego. [applause] >> okay. leisha from galileo high school, heading to san jose stateversit [applaus >> nadra mohamed f mission high school heading to holy names university.

[applause] >> nacina chambers from raul wallen hschool, heading to u.c. berkeley. oh, you changed your mind? sorry, you're right. you're going again. >> double major. >> double major, yeah. pamela campos adrizan from john o'connell high school, u.c.an diego. [applause] >> randy casares from mission high school, san francisco state university.

[applause] >> just go stop by his office any time. risen aljas from mission h school, heading to dillard lause] sity.[a er verey from john o'connell high school, going to c.s.u. east bay. [applause] >> xiang huang from san francisco international high school, heading to u.c. berkeley.

[applause] >> and last, but not least, ling may liang from mission high school, san francisco state ersiiv. [appla >> let's give our 2018" i am theur award" recipients a great round of applause. >> so each one of our award recipients will be receiving $1,000 that go towards their about whether or not you were hat you got the t

funds that go directly to your tuition, so we're going to make sure that that gets taken care of. so that is the first step, is getting all your money together so that you can head off and come back and work in cand makd than we already are. events like these could not be put together or programs like these couldn't be run without the incredible support of two wonderful staff members, so marisa and erica, thank you for all that you do in reaching out to our young people and getting all of thecholarships to us. so we want togratonate you, we want to thank you. and again, to the families, congratulations. we look forward to hearing some amazing stories about what your graduates are doing going forward, and we want to just thank you again for joining us here with mayor rrel congratulations.

>> welcome toou mayor's teacher paraeducator and principal of the year awards. this is our 11th year of honoring our public schoolteacher and ninth year of honoring our principals and first year of ring our paraeducator. [applause] this honor awards five of our city's most accomplished

teachers, principals and a paraeducator. all candidates nominated by members of their community thh and t the finalists selected by the mayor in april. they received awards on behalf of the their tireless work and i wanted high couple of things you all will be getting so it teases you a little bit. [app >> wlready the teachers on norred a honored at the giane on monday and you will get a beautiful tiffany you will also get an award from the mayor and from the mason foundation for $1,000. [cheers and applause] we have some really great gifts from our championship basketball

team the golden state warriors and and we still love them, they are not here with us any moreut. you will also get amazing tickets to outside land, beach blanket and elle k elcatraz ande l arts museum. so al we are super eed. gift certificates for dirty water, the mall, and his tor hic john's grill. we also had personal gift bags, messenger bags made by rickshaw

which is a ll company and mark has been incredibly wonderful donating every year and he puts thego on the bag and it's an hig quality bag and for when you go away on the long weekend we have a great tumi bag donatedy alaska airlines one of our newest partner. thank you anna belle for all that. iqan is here and always gives you a bag of goodies, so you will see a quad and octopusnd a membership and he is rolling out his k-5 academy for all, so all of your students will be able to come to the academy throughout the year because of a generous endowment, so we are really, really happy about that.

[cheers and applause] all of these partnerships and gifts and prizes are aregarded and fully reflect the great love that san francisco holds for its educators and we wouldn't have beeble to do this without many of our partners and i wanted to call outhe ceo, to thank the teacher for teacher appreciation month. recognizing our educators for their work promotes prestige within the profession and dem states appreciation for those dedicating themselves to providing our students with an excellent education. public school paraeducatorn that we are honoring tonightnd for those of you who didn't know, our late mayor was a paraeducator and this award is to honor him and it's in his

name. we are really happy to be able to do that. [applause] some of this would not happen if d not have a leader in our city that continues to appreciate all of our educators and imeall r happy to stand o o tr mayor. please join me in welcomes mayor ferrell. [applause] >> thank you. i have to say after all those goodies that have been announced i don't know anyone that won't be striving for these awards. what i understand is it's $35,000 worth of goodies that we are going to be giving out today so that or the giant's game is a pretty cool few days. congratulations everybody. i want to welcome everybody to our award's ceremony as we honor our teachers, paraeducator and principals of the year award.

this is an incredible time here in san francisco. you are the glue tha mes our families work so thank you for all that you do. hydra mentioned mayor lee, i know this is one of his favorite gs too eery year and to stand as his successor for now is awesome and reminds me of him quite a bit. this is named after mayor lee, so you are the inaugural honoreehonhonnor i have want to thank the school district, dr. matthew is here and hydra, please a round of applause for her.

[applause] i say this very sincerely as a parent of three young children, teachers and principals you a the glue that makes everything work for families in our city and i mentioned that. you are providing the foundation and you are really leading the path for t next generation of san francisco children. i know many in the room are born and raised san francisco people and to be setting foundation for our city is powerful and you are here and awarded tonight because you have been nominated by so many peopler all your hard work, but let's never forget what we are doing and the power behind that is incredible. i would l to recognize supervisor sandy fewer who is here. [applause] i want to thank the blue ribbon panel for helping select these

nominees and obviously a difficult decision-making process for doing that. you know the four principal winners were selected because of their dedicate and leadership just like the teachers and our paraeducator. congratulations to you all. this is a funehere and a fun thing to go to the giant's games and beon the field. we don't get to do that every single day, but thank you for all that you do for our children on behalf of san francisco. do itithout you. please know how important you do is to all of us. i know it's one of the most challenging jobs in the world, but i want to say thank you on behalf of a grateful city. [applause] >> thank you mr. maryou.

maryour. mayor. a wonderful partner of you are ours the president of the leaders of san francisco, lit lita blonk. >> thank you for being chosen for this award. not a single person goes into e fiedf educati for honor or glory, but it is still extremely well appreciated to have one's commitment and hard work acknowledged. thank you mayor ferrell and hydra and thank you to your families without your support they would not have the fortitude to continue what you do and thank you to the

commy because a good teacher or educator can only thrive when supported by their community. you all are receiving educator of the year awards but you deserve much more. i remember my first year as a reading recovery teacheri had a c little 6-year-old but he was clinically depressed. he came from a traumatized background and i remember telling my supervisor i don't think i can teach this child to read she said you are a reading teacher, teach him to read and see what happen. i was able to teach him to read and write and he reached proficiency and somewhere his self-esteem shifted and it was part of him turning the corner. dition to receiving the award that you are receiving, i would like to nominate you all for

psychologist of the year, social worker of the year. [laughter] life coach of the year. [applause] event planner of the year. at vadvocate of the year and the list goes on becaue any ed knows you are wearing some of those hats all the time and many of those hats all the time. appreciation comes in many form. today it is essed in kind words and many generous gift. i want to thank the donor to made that possible. there are gift bags and there is beautiful posters and you will see what's in there, some surprise. we also give, we don't have millions of dollars but we do have thousands of members who stand together for your every day of the year and we are proud of that. appreciation can also come through the gift of making sure

that you have time to do your job properly and each of you knowst tt means in your own job. i have a particular angle i want to s with you. lso a means in this world of 2018 making sure that educators are not spending time giving assessment that is are not useful for their teaching and sharing with you the information that the board of education received recommendations from a joint district family union assessment community which includes i limb natio eliminatie assessment, so brought we forward and that means less teaching and more learning. that is a gift to you of time. i know that is really stretching it, but i had to put it in. [laughter] one last form of appreciation which you are all aware, appreciation can and should mean

a living wage, so i'm shameless. [applause] i'm shameless and determined that educators in the city will have a living wage from here on in and so on june 5 san francisco haas oppority vote yes on prop g. thank you very much and enjoy the rest of the reception. [applause] >> thank you is there anything else you would like to share with us? [laughter] lita is leaving and retiring after 33 amazing years with us, so thank you for your service. as we shared earlier, this next speaker is recognized for the work that she does to represent our peer educator. she is the vice president of our

paraeducators with u esf i know carolyn fought hard for this award. carroll, why don't you come onp. pp thank you and good afternoon everybody. this is really exciting for me because i have been pushing for abo nto get a paraeducator of the year. i have talked to the mast mayors and hydra so it's really aye maizing. amazing. i want to give a shout-out to our fi paraeducator to receive achievement. [applause] she is an incredible para and

honored shes tirst one to get it. mary knows i don't like to speak in front of a mic., but i said i will do thist for you. stewart and katie was a paraeducator and jolene, so a lot are now admi administratorse and teacher. it's hard for me what happened last year in mayor leed we had the paraeducator housing last june and we were talking hydra and -- and me. i said this is great, but are we going to doaraeducator of the year, and he said carolyn, yes, we are this yea kw you have been pushing for

it and then he proceeded to tell me i was a bilingual para and i went oh, wow, i never knew that. we talked about paris for ten minutes and how he had been and howyre. this is very special and so glad it's mary avalade that'set. congratulations to everyone and thank you. >> thank you carolyn. i did want to highlight the housing that carolyn was eluding to because o the partnership with the school district and educators we are breaking ground on 100 affordable units for our educators in the next couple years and we have just selected a developer through the mayor's

process and we are really excited to do that for our educator. [applause] so our last speaker is a representative of our united administrators, so these are the folks that make sure princiellps supported and getting what it is they need in order to be amazing principal, so join me in compels jolene washington. >> good afternoon everyone. caro line was spoked te b he this afternoon but was able to come so at our last meeting she asked who was interested in speaking and so i did not raise my hand. [laughter] i said who is going to be receiving awards. she said lina, i said i love lina, and then she said and i said i love sam and then she

said emmanuel and we have the same principals an and then he . eli horn. and with that i had to be here. i just want to say that again my james jolin washington and i am here on behalf of united administrators of san francisco and thank you for allowing us to speak at this important event. it gives us the opportunity to brag about our amazing, hardworking administrators like sam,in emmuel, and eli. they are courageous leaders and put student's needs and interests first.

we are proud to honor them today and recognize themor everything they do every day every month every year to benefit their y.milies, staff, and school on a personal note, i remember thxpernce of receiving the honor of principal of the year from mayor lee in 2011 and this honor allows you school community and your families to see that the enduring long days the sleepless nights, the ongoing dedication to teachers, families and students in your school communities is not done in vain, so lina, sam, emmanuel and eli, enjoy this recognize and celebrate with the ones you lationgra [applause] >> thank you so much jolin. before we bring up all of our award winners, let me tell you

about how this is going to work. we are going to call out the ard recipient's name and i will have maker yo ferrell, matthews and supervisor fewer and we will take a picture and then have leader t picture of all the recipients with all of our sponsor. that is how it will work. i want to give a shout-out and recognize our blue ribbon panel ou ar pf blue are the folks thmf ribbon panel, if you would please stand up so we can recognize you. camille, owen hit hoyt, and simone who is upstairs and we

had cara tweed and annie sang from pinterest, so we also had a community that read with us. thank you for being part of the blue ribbon panel. without further adieu our first award recipient is kitty lock, a teacher at comm stockton elemeny school. she joined 31 years ago as a paraeducator and has been at comma doreckto the last yea in addition to all of the goodies they are getting, they are getting certificates from mayor ferrell, u.s. representative nancy pelosi,

state senator wiener -- and there is lots of goodies over there. our next award recipient is jack lively. third grade teacher at star king elementary sl. thank you jack. he grew up speaking mandarin an canton knees in china. he wanted to be a high school teacher but when he got to job to teach he fell in love with the school, the staff and the kids, so he decided to stay. thank you jack. [applause] because we have so many

elementary schools we honor two elementary schoolteachers and our second is jennifer partika, 5th grade teacher at argone elementary school. she is dedicated to growing the number of females in science, technology, engineering, the artsnd a mathematic. she recently led the argon robotics take too a victory at the lego robotics competition. your middle grades teacher of the year is erin wise, 6th grade teacher at middleton middlechool.

aaron is spending his 11th year where h teaches sixth grade math and science. he rs parentup sits on committee, and most importantly he is the d for middle school dance. [applause] thank you aaron. our high school teacher ohe year is christian castillo, a 10th and 11th grade teacher albalboa high school. she has worked within the school district1ea now in different capacities. , pulse pathway and a special shout-out

to my fellow philippinea. all right, give it up for our teachers of the yea [applause] our next award is this very special mayor lee's award for our paraeducator of the year and it goes to mary lavalan. since 1970, 1970, i was five, mary has worked in ear ildhchod development at several erenff organization. in 1986 mary joined the sfusd as student advisor at fairmont elementary school and been at san francisco community for the last 18 year. thank you mary. [cheers and applause]

our next awardecipis are our principal. me in welcoming our principal for early education because that is education by the way. mr. eli horn. [applause] [cheering] and ally's fan club. i have known eli for about 20 year. before eli became an early education administrator he served as director for th thevis valley beacon where he worked to provide partnerships for the school. he joins the school district in

2011 as early education adminor.at ally, thank you. [cheers and applause] our elementary school principal of the year is one of mayor ferrell's favorites because have a bng, wonderful bromance because they did some amazing, amazing work through the shared schoolyards partnership and that take as lot of work to open a school to the city. principal of the year for elementary, emmanuel stewart, george washington carveer.

he has worked in public education for 27 year. he now leads the school where he taught for 14 years and committed to the bay view hunter's community and he do that with excitement, passion and dedication. super happy for him. >> go stewie! >> our middle school principal of the year is a dynamic leader, lina vaanheran and her daughter. oh, not anymore. lina is in her 8th year of

leading middle school unified and her 5th year aspirins pal. she has worked passionately alongside passionate teaches and leaders to turn around everett middle school from one of the lowest performs to a thriving place that now has a wait list of students wanting to go to everett middle school. [applause] congratulations. last but not least samuel bass our high school principal of the year. [applause] he is with burton high school. he received the axa middle

school of the year award in 2016. he is driven to provide as many opportunities and possibilit to tradially under served students in san francisco as possible. we will have to give you guys at all your goodies. ngs sam.givet u for principal of the year awards recipient. [cheers and applause] congratulations to our teachers, our paraeducator and our pr all of this is not possible without the incredible staff that put this together. a big shout-out to rebecca mcdowell. we have snacks in the back and we would love for you to stay and continue and mg a mayor ferrell thank you for your

support and leadership and ensuring that our teachers, principals and paraedge kay kayt continue togezed in san francisco. congratulations!