guzman a high school senior at balboa high school attending uc davis next year so thank you. (clapping.) i see a lot of familiar a faces in the crowd my teacher my environmental science teacher and my al gastrobra teacher and history teacher those are very good people, you know. my teacher i had her for two years and i am in this program to go camping with my class and basically, i - yes walk so, yes. she shows a lot of empathy towards her students she's wonderful in many ways and mr. go on do he's a very cool math teacher. he takes time out of his life to, you know, play this game called legal legions on the computer it's online you fight other people with swords and stuff. so anyways they're good people and teachers are good and all right. okay. now we have the latin-american teachers association (clapping) and please also tell us about your organization >> good evening board members and everyone i'm a fifth grade teacher at the bryant elementary we had kick ball so i apologize for my clothes i'm the latin-american teacher association not this year that touches my heart abo

anyone oh, there's my son he made it (clapping) i would recognize the 23 from balboa high school and ask the others to help me from balboa high school and marvin and claire and

part of the dual language program (clapping) last but not least our high school teacher of the year michael (clapping) so mike is at balboa high school and after studying with mit he took a year off to teach math at the balboa high school and has not left he coaches the schools restraining order bovkz team and kevin also from the school he said mike follows the students around and makes sure he completes the tasks he's one of the nagging teachers we love so mike congratulations (clapping) please give it up for our teachers of the year (clapping) (yelling) (clapping) okay. so i want you to stand up to tell you what you got that in your envelopes. okay. i got two tenacity to beach blanket babylonian and a $25 gift card (clapping) i got hilton 2026 hotel one night stay (clapping) >> i got two tickets to the beach and a $25 gift card. >> i got a one night stay at the hilton (clapping) i got a one night weekend at the san francisco hotel (clapping) okay principle you get the leftovers. all equally fabulous. sorry. please join me in welcoming our first principle of the ward mr. mayor stop that to our site administer (clapping)

galileo high school going to uc san diego (clapping) then we have vanessa lee is who at the marshall high school going to uc berkley (clapping) next, we have chloe you can't know two attends balboa high school going to ucla. then ms. woe who is going to westerly college (clapping) and then last we have you didn't know she lange who attends mission how to mulling bush college (clapping) she's not here excuse me. >> there were a few that couldn't come james woung who will be attending uc santa cruz next year and lisa from geola low to cul-de-sack ton college and art and design student going to uc santa cruz and michelle from galileo to trinity university (clapping) i'm going to recognize the two recipients who couldn't be here tonight first is susan lee i don't know from lincoln high school going to uc davis in the fall and the last one is sue lincoln going to uc berkley in the fall (clapping) actually there's one more evan lou from washington high school is he here. >> did he make it, all right. . he will be attending uc irvine next year (clapping) congratulations. come on in front even though our hiding (laughter) >> she's got it down. >> on the end. >> come over here right ther

milk academy; and michael feraro, a tenth grade geometry and ap computer science teacher at balboa high school. may i ask for a round of applause for our teachers of the year. [applause] >> mayor lee also honored or principals of the year, who like wise have very illustrious careers in san francisco unified school district. ivy ing, at stockton early education schools; rosina tong; michael rimer, and erik, principal of mission high school. how about a round of applause for our principals of the year. [applause] >> again, i'd like to draw your attention to our website where we will have pictures of our educators, as well as a short bio so you can read all about them. we also have a number of community organizations whose staff and volunteers make our schools that much more vibrant and nurturing and they help us recruit, train and support school volunteers in our school system. they celebrated a few standout volunteers and i'd like to thank them as well. if you'd like to read about them go to www.sf examiner.com where you can see my may 6 column where i spoke about these wonderful volunteers. i'

john has served as a role model at his alma mater, balboa high school where he has played -- played right end and won [speaker not understood] honors in 1934. in 1 79 he was inducted into the balboa hall of fame in recognition of his accomplishments. john was a proud member of other organizations in the city including the balboa tennis club, madrids, italian cattionv lick federation, italian american social club, holy name society, [speaker not understood] institute, and men's club at corpus christi. for 44 years john was also an iron worker with j.p. murphy, bethlehem steel, and belonged to the local steel workers union 337. he worked at a number of hospitals, churches, skyscrapers and municipal projects to the bay area including the bart tube under the bay and he would often take people all over the city to show the work he had done and point to a building or sculpture and say, that's my baby. john had a number of stories to always talk about living both in sicily and the united states as a young person. he was also stationed in beliz [speaker not understood]. he gave a lot of spirit to

high schools. >> we do have wellness centers in all of the high schools. what these represent is that there is an add balboa is the only comprehensive care clinic and maybe what i should say is that what is important to me with working with. and what they offer, is pretty much, mental health issues, and other services and there are no other primary care reproductive services, it started in 1986 and burton three years ago, and we added services there two days a week and so that we are trying to get more and more health services out. >> and we used to have the health, and a comprehensive health service, clinic in the mission high school,; is that correct?? >> that is correct. we used to. >> and is there any plans of doing anything new to get more health clinic services in the high schools? >> i would say, at this present time, the director of the public health is very interested in the school based healthcare and i have been working with her to look to expand the services in high schools. >> because the initial high school one was quite examplery. >> yes it was sad to see it go and there is hope that it could