Marilyn was the only Kindergarten Aid for an entire week and balances class, lunch and extra duties successfully! She has a great attitude with scholars and great rapport with her peers.
Sarah McIlroy
September 2011
Sarah McIlroy is always timely in her lesson plans and has lessons full of rigor and engagin activities. She is an example of truly effective co teaching- they make it seamless!
Wendee Killmon
September 2011
Wendee Killmon is always timely in her lesson plans and has lessons full of rigor and engaging activities. In addition, she is an example of truly effective co teaching- they make it seamless!
Katie Mork
October 2011
Katie was helpful in working with 2 new teachers on her team and answering all questions thrown her way.
Lydia Apolinar
October 2011
Lydia Apolinar was instrumental in ensuring Staff Development and Eat & Meet sessions are set up well. She ensures all staff have what they need to grow as educators.
Dario Ganic
October 2011
Dario Ganic is effective in the classroom and works to ensure scholars achieve high results. He also goes above and beyond to help others.
Natalie Smith
November 2011
Natalie Smith is constantly open to helping out. She is a true team player, a talented artist, and a great teacher.
Lisa Vasquez
December 2011 Lisa Vasquez strives to provide the best education possible to her scholars by focusing on individual student needs and celebrating successes.
Abla Sogah
December 2011 Abla Sogah goes above and beyond in addition to her regular duties, always striving for excellence.
Lori Crouch
December 2011 Lori Crouch works extremely hard to embrace IB and utilize it in the classroom.
Meagan Foley
January 2012 Meagan Foley has a positive attitude and excels in implementing feedback. She has high expectations of scholars academically and behaviorally.
Garrett Dyer
January 2012
Garrett Dyer ensured the Peak Science Fair was a success. Participation by scholars was much larger than expected.
Ryan Faller
January 2012
Ryan Faller is a pleasure to work with because of his flexibility, willingness to learn and desire to collaborate.
Elizabeth Gillis
February 2012
Liz Gillis is such a great leader at Peak. Her hard work has pushed her students to earn some of the highest CFA scores in all of Uplift and her students have grown tremendously emotionally throughout the year. Liz is wonderful to work with because even though she is an amazing teacher she is so humble and always looking for ways to get even better.
Jay Schaertl
February 2012
Jay Schaertl has stepped in where needed in numerous areas- he helped take excellent photos for the Seniors. He goes above and beyond to ensure our scholars and school in general has what it needs. He has communicated to all stakeholders when needed and necessary.
Andres Estrada
February 2012 Andy has does a fabulous job of ensuring our advisory classes have effective and engaging lessons. In addition, he is always helpful and does whatever it takes to ensure culture is supported in school. He has written great IB lessons for our scholars through Advisory.
Rodney Frazier
March 2012
Mr. Frazier has consistently gone above and beyond in all that he does. He often works without taking breaks unless made to do so and is a vital part in many of the classrooms because he works with our struggling scholars until he knows they have reached excellence. In addition, he builds relationships with scholars and works with other teachers to help them with their scholars in academic and social areas.
Adisa Ganic
March 2012
Adisa has been able to rally scholars together for great purposes on numerous occasions. For example, she was able to get scholars to participate in the Mayor’s intern program among several other programs. Most recently when told at the last minute, she pulled together scholars for a Teen Summit at City Council over the weekend.
Wendy Chen
April 2012
Wendy continues to work hard every day to ensure that her kinder friends are ready for first grade. She is always asking for help on how to reach scholars and coninuously ramping her classroom to find out what works best. On top of all of that she is always a great support and friend to her coworkers when they need it. Her willingness to go above and beyond is truly recognizable. We can't imagine a Peak without Wendy!
Sara Ortega
April 2012
Sara teaches more classes than most. In addition to a heavy load, she took initiative in implementing Revolution Prep for 8th grade scholars. She is currently collaborating with Rachel Sharpe to layout 8th grade EAL curriculum for Uplift next year.
Dionne Johnson
April 2012
Dionne has worked really hard to ensure scholar success. Along with classroom duties, Dionne was places in charge of the Junior/Senior Prom as well as coordinating the senior trip with other senior teachers. She gives much of her personal time to making sure our scholars have a great high school experience, and has a great attitude.