The Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Club recently announced the 13 winners of its 2014 Good Idea Awards. Educators in the Tustin Unified School District were honored at the Rotary Club’s annual awards program. Their projects were chosen among proposals submitted by teachers and staff in the school district.
The club awarded $3,000 in grants to individuals for the development of quality educational programs in the classroom or school. Winners will use the money to purchase supplies.
A committee of school district representatives and members of the Rotary Club reviewed proposals and selected the winners. Individual awards varied according to requirements of the proposed projects.
The program is meant to encourage teachers’ ideas and methodology, to enhance instruction in the district, and to recognize exemplary efforts of those in the TUSD school system.
The winners and their projects are as follows:
• Katie Bernal, speech and language pathologist, and Ashley Moore, English teacher at Foothill High School, for “Agroecology: ‘Lettuce’ Celebrate an Edible Campus.”
• Tiffany Cook, speech and language pathologist, and Anna Zavala, Resource Specialist Program teacher at Peters Canyon Elementary School, for “F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Club (Facilitating Relationships and Interactions in Everyday Naturally Developing Situations).”
• Kelly Fresch, principal of Guin Foss Elementary School, for “Let Me Hear You Read.”
• Whitney Krick, Special Day Class teacher at Currie Middle School, for “Independence and Functional Activities for Middle School Students with Severe Disabilities.”
• Janis Leach, third-grade teacher at Arroyo Elementary School, for “Local History Comes to Life!”
• Jennifer Morrow, first- and second-grade teacher at Hicks Canyon Elementary School, for “All Ears.”
• Chris Perdue, media arts teacher at Beckman High School, for “Apogee Duet.”
• Dana Quebbemann, kindergarten teacher at Peters Canyon School, for “Friends, Rotary, Countrymen…Lend Me Your Earbuds!”
• Brandee Ramirez, Tustin Unified School District’s digital learning coach, for “Style Me TUSD.”
• Courtney Smith, kindergarten and first-grade teacher at Tustin Memorial Academy, for “21st Century Readers.”
• Annette Stankovich, Cotsen mentor at Robert Heideman Elementary School, for “Science Day.”
– Submitted by Tustin Unified School District