environment. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to our 2018 mayor's teacher paraeducator and principal of the yearrds.wa this is o1th year of honoring our public schoolteacher and ninth year of honoring our principals and first year of honoring our paraeducator. [applause] this honor awards five of our city's most accomplished

teachers, principals and a paraeducator. all candidates ned baty members of their community throughout the year and the finalists selec b mayor in april. they received awards on behalf of the their tireless work and i wanted to just highlight a couple of things you all will be gettg so it teases you a little bit. [applause] >> we already had the teachers on norred a honored at the giane on monday y will get a beautiful tiffany apple. t 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 more ut our san francisco 49ers. you will also get amazing tickets to outside land, beach blanket and elle k elcatraz ande final arts museum. so al we are super excited. gift certificates for dirty water, the mall, and his tor hic john's grill. we had personal gift bags, messenger bags made by rickshaw

which is a local company and mark has been incredibly wonderful donating every year and he puts the logo on the bag and it's an incredibly high quality bag and for when you goy n the long weekend we have a great tumi bag donated by 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,o you will see a quad and octopus and 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 been able to do this without many of our partners and i wanted to call out the ceo, to thank the teacher for teacher appreciation month. recognizing our educators for their work promotes prestige within the profession andem states appreciation for those dedicating themselves to providing our students with an excellent education. i want to highlight once again the public school paraeducator that we are honoring tonight and 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 h to beble to do that. [applause] some of this would not happen if we did not have leader in our city that continues to appreciate all of our educators and i am really happy totandxto. please join me in welcomes mayor mark 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 ist's $35,000 worth of goodies that we are going to be giving out today so that o 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 incipals of the year award. this is an incredible time her

in san francisco. you are the glue that makes our families work so thank you for all that you do. hydra mentioned mayor lee, i know this is one of his favorite things to do every 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 honoreehonhohonorees. i have want to thank sch district, dr. matthew isere and hydra, please a round of applause for her.

[applause] i say this veryincely as parent of three young children, teachers and principals you are the glue that makes everything work foramilies in our city and i mentioned that. you are providing the foundation and you are reallydinghe path for the next generation of san franciscohildn. i know many in the room are bor daisesan francisco people and to be setting foundio our city is powerful and you are here and awarded tonight because you have been nominated by s people for all your hard work, but let's never forget what we are doing and the power behind t i incredible. i would like to recognize supervisorandy fewer who is here. [applause] i want to thank the ribbon panel for helping select these

nominees and obviously a difficult decision-making process for doing that. you know theur principal winners were selected because of their dedicate and ldership just like the teachers and our paraeducator. congratulations to you all. this is a fun thing to be here and a fun thing to go to the giant's games and beon the weon't goet do that every single day, but thank you for all that you do for our children on behalf of san francisco. we can't d it without you. please know how important y is to a us. i know it's one of the most challenging jobs in the world, but i want to say thank you on behalf of arate city. [applause] >> thank you mr. maryou.

maryour. r 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 persons goe into the fielf education 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 thank y to thentinue what yound

community because a good teacher or educator can only thrive when supportey their community. you all are receiving educator of the year awards but you deserve much more. i remember my first year as reading recovery teacher i had a student who was a cutele 6-year-old but he was clinically depressed. he came from a traumatized ound 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-esteemfte it and 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. use] eventlanner of the year. at vadvocate of the year and the list goes o becse any educator knows you are wearing some oho hats ahe time and many o those hats all the time. appreciation comes in many form. today it is expressed in kind words and many generous gift. i want to thank the donor to made that possible. there are gif bags and there is beautiful posters and you will see what's in there, some surprise. we also give, ha millions of dolt weo have thousands ofber mem who 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 share with you. it also means in this world of 81 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 natioatio e mate assessment, so brought we forward and that means less teaching and more learning. that is a gift to you of time. , bu had to put it in.stretching [laughter] one last form of appreciation which you are all aware, appreciation can and should mean

a living wage, so i'm sle [applause] 'mhameless and determined that educators in the city will have a living wage from here on in and on june 5 san francisco haas the opporityo vote yes prop g. thank you very much and enjoy the rest of theecepon. [applause] >> thank you is there anything else you would like to share with us?[lau lita is leaving and retiring after 33 amazingha u sohank 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 and i know carolyn fought hard for this award. carroll, why don't you come on up. [applause] thank you and good afternoon everybody. this is really exciting for me because i have been pushing for about nine years to get a paraeducator of the year. i have talked to the mst mayors and hydra so it's really aye maizing. amazing. i want to give a shout-out to our first paraeducator to receive achievement. [applause] she is an incredible para and

i'm so honored she t ishe first one to get it. mary knows i don't like to speak in front of a mic., but i said i will do this just for you. stewart an katie wa a paraeducator and jolene, so a lot are now admiistrors the and teacher. it's hard for me what happened last year in mayor lee and we had the paraeducator housing st june and we were talking hydra and -- a me. i said this is great, but are we going to do a paraeducator of the year, and he said carolyn, yes, we are this year. i know 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 how important they are. thi is very special and so glad it's mary avalade that's getting it. congratulations toveryon and thank you. >>nk youarol cn. i did want to highlight the housing that carolyn was eluding to because of 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 our principals are well supported and getting what it is they need in order to be amazing principal, so join me in compels jolenehiton. >> good afternoon everyone. caro line was spoked to be here this afternoon but was able to come so at our last meeting she asked who was interested in speaking and so i did not rae my [laughr] i said who is going to be receiving awards. she said l, i i love lina, and then she said sam, 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 tobe here. i just want to say that again my james jol washington and i am here on behalf of united administrators of san francisco and thank you for allowing us to eak a tsortant event. it gives us thetunory to brag about our amazing, hardworking administrators like sam, lina, emmanuel, and eli. they are courageous leaders and inrests first.needs and

we are proud to honor them today and recognize them for everything they do every day every month every year to benefit their students, families, staff, and school community. on a personal note, i remember the experience 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 recnize debrat with the ones you love. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you so much jolin. awa winners, let me tell your

about how this isgoing toork. were going to call out the award recipient's name and i will have maker yo ferrell, supervisor matthews and supervisor fewer and we willtake leadership take a picture of all the recipients with all of our sponsor. that is h will work. i want to give a shout-out and recognize our ribbon panel becausere the folks that made the difficult decision. if you are part of the blue ribbon panel, if you would please stand up so we can recognize you. camille, owen hit. hoyt, and simone who is working u 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 f awrd recipient is kitty lock, a teacher at comm stockton elemeny school. she joined 31 years ago as a paraeducator and has been at comma dore stockton for the last 31 year. 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 school. 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 y jack. la because we have so many

elementary sools 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 arts and mathematic. she recently led the argon robotics take t a victory at the lego robotics competition. excellent. your middle grades teacher of the year is erin wise, 6th grade teacher at middleton middle school.

aaron is spending his 11th ea he teaches sixth grade math and science. he runs parent groups, sits on committee, and most importantly he is the dj for middle school dance. [applause] thank you aaron. our high school teacherf the year is christian castillo, a 10th and 11th grade teacher albalboa high school. she has worked within the school district for 11 years now in different capacities. , pulse pathway and a special shout-out

to my fellow philippinea. all right, give it up for our teachers of ther. [applause] our next award is this very specialay lee's award for our paraeducator of the year and it goes to mary lavale. since 1970, 10, i was five, mary has worked in ear childhood development at several different 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]

ourextw recipients are our principal. please join me in welcoming our principal for early education because that is education b 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 administrator. al, thank you. elementary school principal of the year is one of mayor ferrell's favorites because they have a blooming, 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 entar emmanuel stewart, george washington carveer.

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

leading middle school unified and her 5th year aspirins pal.sy alongside passionate teaches and leaderso turn around everett middle schoo 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 ard in 2016. he is driven to provide as many opportunities and possibilities to traditionally under served students in san francisco as possible. we will have to give you guys a little basket next time to put all your goodies. congratulations sam. give it up for our principal of the year awards recipient. [cheers and applause] congratulations to our teachers, our paraeducator and our principal. 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 mingle and mayor ferrell thank you for your

support and leadership and ensuring that our teachers, principals and paraedge kay kays continue to get recognized in san francisco. congratulations!

>> good afternoon, everyone. how you feeling? this is a really special day for us. it's our opportuy acknowledge many of the amazing young people that we have here in san francisco, and we have been doing this now for eight years, and it was something that mayor lee started. [applause] >> and he appropriately calls it the "i am the future

scholarship award" because he always thought a lot about our students and thoughthat they were our future and wanted to get you all off to a great start to make sure you get where you're headed. and our incredible mayor, mayor farrell has been helping to lead this work alongside us to ensure that you get to where you're headed. so we're really happy to have you here and your families. families are such a critical piece in making sure our young people get to where they need to go, and it's through our families that many of our young people have had the courage and th the encouragement to go onto college and university. so we're glad you're here, as well. my name is hydro-mendoza. i'm the president of the board of education here in san

francisco, and so i'm really delighted to be emceeing. for me personally, this is something because of the both sides of the street that i work on, really special, because you are all sfusd graduates or are in college and graduated from sfusd. so this is our eighth year, a in particular, we just want to thank all of our partners vehaeen involved with us. we draw from schol orships you've alreadyeive and through organizations that you work closely with, and so we want to thank our schol orship partners, many of who are here with us, the black college track, filipino graduates of san francisco, first track, teachers of san francisco, masonic foundation of san francisco, mission economic development agency, mission promise neighborhood, mission

graduates, san francisco achievers, san francisco alliance and black school educators, san francisco foster youth fund, san francisco university state project rebounhessociation of chinese teachers, and a26 valencia. thrganese oations reflect the love san francisco has for our youth, so we want to thank you for being a part of that. i also want to acknowledge gina frommer who is our sponsor from the san francisco education fund. she has always supported the work that we do with our young people and with principles, last, i want to thank pg&e for their generous support. andrea, you did this donation on behalf of mayor lee, and so it's really important for us to do this in partnership with you, so thank you, and thank pg&e for all you do for our city.

we expect you to be the next ,.

doctors and lawyers, the next rs, t next supervisors, and people that will lead our city going forward, so we're oud 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

referred you to us we work with closely, and many are funded by our department of children, youth and family, and i just wanted to acknowledge maria fu, o's the director of the c.y.f.nd lives, breathes, and ettas everythi eats erything that hao do ng wiople. we have a supervisor in our districts that does 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 a little welcome. [applause] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, hydra, and welcome, everyone, and congratulations. as hydra mention, i did grow up going to our public schools here in san francisco and proud graduate of sfusd, and so i

definitely know how much it means to be able to support these schools in any way i can. like many of you, i grew up with an immigrant family and was the first 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 how it is that we're going to pay for college. my parents had to work overtime so much that i barely saw my 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 we 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 and earn some money at it, but i'm excited

for all of you and the journey you have ahead, and of course all the support that you hav from your parents and family and friends. just enjoy it. it's a wonderful time to do self-exploration and learn how to live on your own. so thankful for this honor today, and thank you to mayor farrell for continuing this tradition. so 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 nsp have a great relatio with san francisco state unersity and our president of san francisco state is here to welcome -- i know that the are six of you, maybe. how many of you are going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah. so if you'd please join us in welcoming your new students. >> so the six of you, raise

your hands again. all right. we're going to have a photo. okay. again, i want to reiterate the comments the mayor and the isorv etcetera, and thank all of your sponsors and all of the families that are here. i'm really excited for you. there there's a sci responsibility that comes not only with your scholarship but going to college, and at san francisco state we talk about the responsibility of being an educated person and that your education not only is a great gateway for you, but it's a great gateway for your families going forward. we are actually conducting some research i wanted to share with you. 40% of our students are first in theiramilyo go t college, what we call first-gen. we have about 50 -- about half of our students. about 40% of our students are

pell students, etcetera. and what's interesting is once you go to college and graduate, it's very likely that another person in your family, including your mother, father, unandmother, grandfather, aunt, wil goo college. and the ripple, the wave that we're tracking nows really quite significant. i actually had the honor at commence notme, this year, a year ago, to hand a diploma to 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 in poetry, andt was a degree absolutely the hh point of commencement. and her whole thing was getting the first grandchild to go to

school. and when i told her about, yo know, our commitment to the respsibility of being an educated person, it means being active, being involved. as mayor says, we want you to 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 congratulations. i'm really pleased that a bunch of you are coming to san francisco state. i'm on the 5th floor of the admin building. you are welcome. ere are free food up there sometimes, but it's really terrific. we think of ourselves as managing talent. so one last bit of advice to hear from a university president, and that is in many ways, you not only look like me, and i 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 that time, and a counselor said to me, don't go to college and ste your parents' money, okay? and the only reason i got to lle was a, i could play baseball, and two, i actually wrote a paper that was published when i was a junior in high school. and i couldn't understand why the counselor said to meot t waste my parents' money. so you get the opportunity for revenge like me because when i got my -- when i got my ph.d. i sent a copy to the nsel. [applause] >> and -- and then, i felt guilt, right? and so when i became a president, i was going to send him the annncement 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 ha to persist, you know? the world is complicated, it's challenging, but the is opportunity and the support, the holarships, 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 one of you will take advantage of that. and i look forward to having 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. [applause] >> so i hope the grandchildren paid for their grandmother's ucatedon. yeah, that would be good. and katey, could you please talk to my son about finishing in three years? that would be awesome. all right. are you ready? we are going to announce our award recipients, and if i can have the mayor and supervisor

ng join us, we're going to have each one of you come up and get your certificate, and this is your opportunity, family, to take pictures. our first award recipient is claudia l from lowell high school, going to chapman university. [applause] >> great. congratulations. erica carilla, mission high school, going to c.s.u. sacramento. [applause] >> t. gemma moncana from john

o'connell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah, then you can brag. gr very good. congrats. emony katz, leadership state, humboldt university. [applause] >> jennie qwan ku, from mission high school school, headingo cal state university. go bears! [applause] >> jose domingues espina, from

abraham lincoln high school, going to san francisco state university. [applause] >> stay there. the next one is a san francisco state student, as well. cassandra lowell montez 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 keenan 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. berkeley. [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 california davis.

[applause] >> congrats. laura gian from lowell high school, heang to the university of california san diego. [applause] >> okay. leisha from galileo high school, heading to san jose state university. [applause] >> nadra mohamed from mission high school heading to holy names university. [applause] >> nacina chambers from raul

wallenberg high school, heading ou cnged 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. san diego. [applause] >> randy casares from mission high school, s francisco state university. [applause] >> just go stop by his office

any time. risen aljas from mission high school, heading to dillard university. [applause] >> robert verom john ellnn 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 university. [applause] >> let'siveur 2018" i am the future award" recipients a great round of applause. [applause] >> so each one of our award recipients will be receiving $1,000 that go towards their tuition, and we did not think about whether or not you were documented, we just wanted to make sure that you got the 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 our city and make us more and more proud than we already are. events like these could not be put together or programs like these couldn't be run without wonderful staff members, so wo marisa and erica, thank you for all that you do in reaching out to our young people and getting all of the scholarships to us. so we want to congratulate you, we want to thank you. an again, to the families, congratulations. we look forward to hearing some amazing stories about what your graduates areng going forward, and we want to j thank you again for joining us here with mayor farrell. congratulations.