so our january teacher of the month is julie from ruth asawa school of the arts, who is our humanities teacher. what inspires julie is when a student's sense for you to video or brings her a book and says, "this reminds me of what we were talking about in class." she considered declining the award as many of these amazing people did because it seem self- serving in light of the economic crisis but accepting it allows it to reflect on the reasons why she would not choose to spend her days in any other light. congratulations. >> i can top-of teenagers all day, but a roomful of grown-ups -- [laughter] they do wonderful work. they gave me a grab my second year teaching that helped me so much. thanks to my friend, my colleagues, my family, and my students who are here today, and those rooms overlap a lot -- marvels over about a lot. my husband is a colleague. my daughter and got that our students. they have been willing to have me several times. and thanks to the city of san francisco and the school board and realized that this will dedicated to creating artists and the patrons of the arts