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now all right so I'm going to go ahead and disable the waiting room so they can people in and feel free to start whenever ready I'm still on the phone sync Sony smiling face it is as I'm scrolling what a beautiful audience when should you some screenshots with everyone welcome everybody to our gradual celebration all right but she'll just give me the red green light thumbs up when you're ready ready good evening everyone I'm so glad you're here my name is and I have the privilege of serving as accept region 16 president and what an incredible and Unforgettable school year this has been would seem like a daunting task to transition to distance we have now made it because we had each other and we supported one another in our professional Learning and Development we worked as a team together Educators achieve more and tonight we have the privilege of recognizing and honoring 22 outstanding educational leaders from our district along with a student thank you for joining us tonight I wish I could deliver a bottle of wine and a glass of wine to each and everyone of you with the exception of the student and ice cream Spumoni to everyone as we would have normally had at cost and Italiana with that said I'm going to hand it over to dr. Lisa decks our membership chair box that has provided me the opportunity to participate in amazing leadership Workshop network with like-minded administrators through our social dance and most importantly it has recently provided me the most current information from District leadership in regards to our current condition with virtual teaching and learning accept currently has 1157 members and for just $1 you can be a member to please reach out to me should you have any questions I will put my information in the check box and I look forward to hearing from you mean while enjoy today's event thank you next Friday please Louise and again next one the next time next song okay Deborah I am the actor regions are the Manchurian I'm so glad you're able to join us tonight we do have some Norms or the hundred that are an hour call so winners are announced they'll be a 2 minute time limit because we want to give everyone an opportunity Michael team training award ceremony and I think that our people on you unless they are called feel free to screenshot your pictures EXO music awards when he's mindful of your background in audio and and if we have any that is it is not acting in accordance then then we will remove them hours to celebrate all of our award winners thank you so much for agreeing for following and respecting these doors XY please just want to say welcome again again we're going to recognize 22-oz standing leaders and we look forward celebrating them tonight next line next light good evening and welcome I know that this is not our usual name of coming together but I've had a very unusual years but somehow it is fitting I also want to say how proud I am of everybody and how much I want to thank you because working together as a team is how we made it through this year you may not realize this but next year Applebee's celebrating 50 years of supporting administrator and 50 years of being the first in the state to recognize outstanding administrative tonight we are proud to recognize some of our finest special guest star on behalf of senior staff I would like to introduce Pedro saucedo how do I mute myself good evening everyone and thank you thank you for first of all I just want to thank you for extending the invitation and allowing me to join you all and celebrating another great leadership and service you're providing our schools truly a pleasure to join in and honoring the 22 axial region 16 members who have gone above and beyond the call of service and on behalf of superintendent Junior I just want to take the opportunity to thank everyone here today for your outstanding leadership in service with AXA being a critical part in a critical voice administrators educators I'm at the pleasure to work with the leadership team to truly represent La unified from an administrator's lands from folks who care about the students we serve everyday and sell to those who are being honored you and body very much the work and the outcomes that we see in our students every day we find ourselves in the most unique of situations and yet everyone has risen to the challenge and remain committed to the mission of your profession as administrators and Educators and we know that that doesn't come at a cost and so to the family members that have also joined us thank you for sacrificing your loved one time and now again when we're asking folks to the rise up and and support our students in these tough times and sell very grateful for your willingness to share your loved one and we just want to make sure that you know as we move forward as a dip these times that we continue to honor that leadership and so thank you for the tremendous difference that all of you do to serve our students and providing their continuous support for our families and communities that you serve so thank you for the job well done this year as we wrap up the year on a you know we're heading into this summer and many of you are also stepping up to to to the challenge for summer school in Rising for that occasion as well for that I thank you thank you thank you I appreciate you joining us tonight to bring us readings advantages to tonight the fact that you all got here and not one of you is stressed by traffic hey you don't have to worry about valet parking you get to have exactly what you want to eat and drink tonight and you're surrounded by your friends and love sign up to for recording this we plan to post it on our website so you can have a recording but all that leads me to also note that I believe this is the first time in history we have been able to actually invite all of our board members to give their greetings salutations normally because of the brown act we can't have them all together but in this matter they're able to pop in and share because nobody knows better than our board members how important administrators are to the backbone in the foundation of ever I think that is unique this year and keeping things steady and continuing speed Improvement but this time I would like to introduce one of our probably representing for District 1 George McKenna next slide Lewis and maybe mr. McKenna has not been able to pop in yet so we will continue to monitor the spring if I can have you moved ahead another one Louise also we want to welcome at this time Monica Garcia from Board District 2 is someone monitoring the participants so we can actually unmute them Monica may not be in the audience and we are going to recognize Dutch merl7 a former after region 6 president from Board District 3 thank you I mute myself one second okay so number three is your lucky number thank you so much I wanted to give a shout out to a couple of people before I talk about our student and that would be Andre straight and he is local district North superintendent and man oh man what a time to be a local district superintendent for a fantastic job and also to Margaret olivarez Gilly Gilly assassin guilt Gibson gilkyson is now the proud principal of a Carlson Home Hospital School I don't know if you know much about Carlson Home Hospital School but that that is the most fascinating organization you could ever see Mark is going to have like on her staff like 200 teachers and that includes payroll and monitoring a things and it's a great service that is done for our kids the home hospital I've been there several times it's in My Board District and just a heartwarming wonderful wonderful institution so at this time Angel am I going to be speaking about our student or am I going to speak later so I'm at this point I was just looking desperately at Leonard and and moon hate cuz I believe this is just greetings and the student will be coming up as soon as we are finished giving my greetings except thank you everyone for doing a fantastic job your hours are incalculable I'm telling you 12-hour days is a short one for you guys I understand and I appreciate everything that you've done for the kids and for the district thank you Angel thank you and that it is now my pleasure to meet movie slideshow Advanced please all right this is one of the first people that I saw sign in tonight and he waiting patiently so I would like to thank Nick Mullen for being with us tonight and I know he brings the screen from Gorgeous before welcome find a way patiently cuz it's been so great to see all of you and see the messages of congratulations come to the chat so thank you the opportunity and thanks to Leonard as well I'm still still sad to miss you at Fairfax but I know that you're succeeding in your wall and pink and hello and greetings District 4 to everyone know congratulations on making it through this year and it only gets crazier we thought last year and the strike was going to be an interesting one now we got to go. I'm not eager to see what but I know that we're all in good hands they must be resilient this year to Josh Hildreth do I get the pleasure to work with and Local District we just all owe you some gratitude the responsibilities you all took on an addition to your normal jobs a coordinating online learning handing out devices supporting teachers and families many of you at school we're supporting our grab-and-go centers there was not served over 33 million meals the largest food bank in the country and you know it's just I've been so impressed and really try to model your leadership I just said yes after we helped him in funny ways to say are schools at communities in to help Foster the spirit of resilience please also I always say that our role as board members is to make your jobs easier in to make it easier for you to run the schools and support our students and there's a lot on the board agenda, budget in these crazy times are about carryover there's of course conversations around a firm in our words in our actions that black lives matter and questions about school police I always so appreciate hearing from principles administrators because I'm really just trying to respect your voice on The Voice so thank you all so much and congratulations again for inviting us to join thank you for joining us tonight and we appreciate that you have been working with us and through our administrators to keep us informed in this difficult time somebody said and I don't remember that we finished we're in an emergency situation but we're starting off a much better plan for next year and part of it is our Smart Start summer school so yes looking forward to next year. But we're going to help for 8 transition smell it because I have not seen on this Goldberg in the participants room and I did not see Miss Gomez can somebody let me know if wrong as a video okay perfect so then if we could move the slide we want to thank Goldberg from 5 because I know that she's a strong supporter of us and that at this time we will have a video from Kelly gonez who is our representative from we sits on the next flight good evening this is board member change recognize. Lyrics Strader's in is a truly inspiring leader at the high school high quality construction set the great culture of collaboration that it true that all students in every grade level expectations about claim to feeders how far am I from the local stick that I work with Antonio the privilege of working clothes. Allison and Richmond Road administrator of operations you can tell them dedicated all the community continue to have a person in our district is reliant on leaders like the ones were celebrating tonight and we simply couldn't any of our work without you also thank you so much where we at we appreciate the hearts that clearly we know that she's very proud of everybody and extensive congratulations her thank you as we seeing the chat box is also not able to be with us this morning so at this point I would just if I say thank you to everyone he's been able to join us and how proud We Are of you and wait we enjoy the celebration together with you tonight do we have the next slide up please okay well next time you again wonderful student good evening my name is music executive director of region 16 and I'm going to ask are Boardman Scott since this young man is in his district so Scott would you like to say a few words about our every child succeeding for region 16 Jehoshaphat smart Louis could we amuse, please alright okay you're not so smart while I'm going to say more than a few words if you don't mind if you don't mind so this man entered the North Hollywood highly gifted magnet as a junior with a course in IQ of 145 145 wow requirements for admittance to this program I need to end super super did well in all AP courses and all core subjects he's not only a successful academically but he joined the baseball team moving quickly up to Varsity and he was the junior varsity offensive player of the year his first year on the team so brains and Brawn his ex curricular activities include working for Angel and he spends his time with special education students sitting with them at lunch socializing and playing sports with them after school now. Really is it my fault because no child should ever eat alone and you're such a great I'm so happy so is inspired by music lyrics and the spoken word of poetry he writes performance wraps with friends and his rap group and making friends and wanting to make positive changes in the world is Josh's gold however for now he looks forward to continuing to broadening is education in college his parents and Josh are very appreciative of the recognition and scholarship of $1,000 he will also be recognized in November at the state AXA conference and he will receive $1,000 from the state you're going to be a very wealthy young man Joshua congratulations to you so proud of you an athlete and a scholar and you big heart for my special ed kids a what what else can I say thank you so much thank you guys are thank you it means a lot really I'm glad thank you thank you thank you to my counselor when I set this reward I do it I accept it on behalf of everybody to help me get here thank you it means a lot to me Josh you have an option to how about you know to speak to thank you like I said Thank you a CSA and thank you for everybody that supported honestly means a lot that my resilience went notice in my hard work with notice but like I said I don't just do it for myself I do it for everybody to help him get to this position thank you very much we are very very everybody else in the room right now okay and I'm sure your mom and you had her hollering in the in another room somewhere where we go we can hear them so is anything else you would like to say before we move on with the program no ma'am I'm just happy to be here I'm blessed to be in this position thank you to North Hollywood thank you very much thank you so you guys so much it means alot we are honest thank you I appreciate it please okay so it is now Mayana on Michael was my friend who actually going to introduce the awardees but this year we're going to go by the order of the program and all first person we're going to honest today is actually dr. Patricia pregnant for the Marcus Foster Memorial award please share with us thank you Michelle and everyone and thank you 16 I'm deeply honored to be awarded this Market supposed Foster Memorial award during this most unusual. Of time I'm reminded how important are LAUSD Community is the importance of community reflecting all the collective work we did even in the war the Future Ready program when I begin our journey on March 16th I knew that my program team would be up to the challenge and they were they did not miss a beat classes continued teachers have been finishing a programs in the stage for a new group Educators to begin their Journey this summer was set this is what La unified is all about building teams and collaboration I want to thank my eyes have staff for ensuring that over 9 features for either finishing their programs or what continue on their Journey so I share this award with my whole I kept him I would never have been able to grow as an administrator unless I had support from people throughout my career I want to see a board member Scott schmorl's for his support now and when he was principal Johnnie Cochran middle school work program now resides thank you principal Sam well as well for your continued support of the icap allowing us to increase our capacity from 128 participants 11 years ago 2 / 1500 participants fishy especially principal Samuel for those long discussions about District policy and for helping me through this whole entire process thank you doctor can't you for your support last year for a new bilingual authorization and the reading and literacy added authorization course there's so many people I could name for their support and sewed some of these people that I would like to say who helps me with my growth as an administrator include Miss Linda Del Cueto Miss Ileana Davila Miss Piggy Presley and our beloved document and of course my family who still are wondering what am I doing right now and this thing called credentialing as you can see my journey throughout these years was not alone the LAUSD community of support and guidance played an integral part in the development ministrator I hope that I have been able to give back and support aspiring teachers and administrators and I hope that that will show quickly thank you again for this honor it is it's real sweet you know and thank you so much thank you Michael Jai White introduced on extra 40 yes thank you thank you for the next War T is actually our dr. Cheryl Hildreth the superintendent from Local District West congratulations doctor Hildreth and we'd love to hear from you now so hello everyone thank you so much for this honor it is Elise speechless I just want to say thank you to ask the region 16 for looking at the work that I have done throughout these eight years and Local District West I have such a wonderful team of directors my administrator of instruction administrative operations all of the directors principles instructional coordinator operations it really is a team effort my principles lead this work and our Focus really has been on leading with equity and if we think about the times that were in now Equity is something that we have to continue to focus on and really be willing to have those courageous conversations and so to receive an honor that's so pissed on the work that I have done I just giving much much thanks I know that we don't know what the future holds in terms of what will school look like but I have true faith and not only all of the team members in Local District West but across RUSD that we never lose focus on the right thing and that is our students so thank you again for this wonderful award and it's my pleasure to be a part of this distinguished group thank you so much and keep up to hip joint next slide please reply please our next awardee is Yolanda got there who's actually celebrating her as high school principal of the Year Yolanda opportunity to share with us is that working a perfect beautiful voice will thank you everyone and thank you for it is truly a team that makes the school work as dr. Hildreth said I have amazing assistant principals teachers and a wonderful essay and a plant manager and we all work together everyday for the benefit of our students and we work to make that nice High School the best will it can be for every student that attends there from students who are new to the country students with special needs all the way to are highly gifted students it is a pleasure and an honor for Van Nuys high school's name to be up and I'm really privileged that Local District Northeast is someone who supports us along with the school board member I want to also think my fan who are tuned in here today they were looking forward to this event my sister's my nieces and nephews my partner my 96 year-old mother who just celebrated her birthday on Saturday so I want to just share this with everyone who knows me and works with me all the directors that I've had during my time and operations all the wonderful people at Los Angeles Unified School District I'm so proud of the work that we've done through this difficult time and I know that we will come to get do what's best for our students and once again thank you so much for this honor and thank you to all those who work with me to help make this happen thank you Yolanda and now I would like to introduce our next Award winner if we can get the next slide up please Deborah McIntyre sterino who is currently the principal at Christopher Columbus Middle School and soon to be the new director or the new community of schools administrator for the Cleveland Community of schools in the Local District Northwest Deborah take it away thank you Michael thank you very much axial region region 16 for this amazing honor middle grade years are magical the students come to us as children and in three short years they leave us as confident students prepare to enter High School grades are some of the most patient and playful Educators in our schools these dedicated adults nurture are still students as they experienced profound physical and emotional changes this award really belongs to all Educators who support our middle schoolers and therefore I dedicate honor to the families and schools members of the CCMS Community together we have changed the culture and climate of our school and thereby improving outcomes for our students I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank Kris Jenner's who guided and mustard me at every step of my career I've had a strong educational leader who has managed guided supported and cheered me on for sharing your learning and for your face confidence in me if I may I must acknowledge my loving family my husband Terry Sereno and my children Jennifer and Matthew Terry thank you for being a wonderful thinking partner I'm done and Matt thank you for putting up with hearing not all of my other kids every day that we are together I would not be able to do this work without your love and your support thank you thank you to everybody thank you extra thank you Deborah honor to introduce a collie kind of friend Veronica out of jeans who has been awarded central office illustrator of the Year Veronica thank you thank you I didn't know my mother was an extra member and so I thank you for the nomination for the support. I like to thank my colleagues and accept for this recognition my team that supports me on a daily basis Last of Us thought about classical guitarist George Artisan the Innocence dr. Keith Abrams dr. Molly redneck dr. Williams Johnson's Milton Mill Casino and most importantly dr. Derek child administrator for 22 years leading schools for 17 of a 22 years and I still feel that I have much story so I accept this award on behalf of central office books I've come to learn that there is an amazing group of Administrators that work from that building and other buildings across the district to support the work that local districts to and support the work that schools are doing to ensure our students in town I also would like to share this with my parents who came to this country out of necessity looking for a better life and fine and found the American dream they told me to be proud of necessity and it's my culture they told me how to maintain one's dignity when others try to take it away you see my parents showed me people have a capacity no matter their age or religious beliefs I'm so excited for my family also like to acknowledge my spouse has supported me over the last 10 years and would not be able to do the work that I do if it wasn't for her support that I receive every day also this award I like to share acknowledge Unified School Unified School teachers so many amazing teachers that I had a student in this District I learned that there was no other profession more powerful how many how much an educator influence child community I want to share one of my favorite quotes for my favorite author Maya Angelou I've learned that people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel so now more than ever we need our teachers to teach would love our administrators to lead with courage to ensure his school is a place where Archie Grace where they feel safe where we see our assets where they see their and celebrate diversity because sitting in the classroom maybe a student like me looking for a teacher to see them and the fullest potential so in closing thank you once again I'm humbled has been so many years of leaving the school built as a PA teacher Ministry and serving Local District and now central office but I've never forgotten what it is to serve our students and our families on a daily basis so I actually recognize all of our site administrators do the work and miss incredible time I don't know how to spell it myself and I thank you thank you for taking care of our family thank you Veronica thank you mr. now we'd like to introduce dr. Jill Barnes who is the award winner for the classified administrators congratulations Doctor Barnes if you'd like to say a few words thank you I sincerely say access Purvis honor I can't quite believe that I'm among these incredible people so far off the leaders and my fellow honorees and as others have noted it's been an unbelievable year back-to-back-to-back wildfires let's not forget that was October the judge spell and then the coronavirus that need to find so much of what we do I keep telling my unit that it's not usually like this but I don't think they believe me anymore if you know me then you may know that I'm a Michigan football fan and I'm not above quoting to Legendary potion the team the team the team this has been quite a year to experience the collective success that working together bring the weather at the school site a local District Partnerships among divisions and for me within Emergency Services as part of division of District Operations and school culture find it and safety this year he was always in forward to change what we do how we do it and who does it being honored as a leader is Ashley this year exemplifies how in French resilient we are as an organization as administrators and Educators and as individuals thank you for these experiences and thank you all for the honor of working alongside you truly appreciated our next Award winner is ernestina, Elementary principal of the year ernestina otherwise known as Tina Yes Energy thank you very much I'm actually region 16 I'm really honored to be included with everyone here today on Thank you Lisa for the nomination and most of all thank you to Dyer Street Elementary I am so incredibly proud to be the Principal of this amazing School in Sylmar shopping list English to time when one of the top schools in LA county two years in a row we've been out two years and we got it both ears yelling at me that I'm just so proud of our school so proud of all the way stop thank you all for being here I'm overwhelmed that so many of you I see you here I'm thank you so very much into our amazing students and their parents just everyone that died in there and all of my Mountain View friends I'm Rose principal at before he came to die or just thank you all very much for being here thank you Alexa and thank you everyone very much I'm really on it thank you principal Gandara we appreciate your remarks and now I would like to introduce Andres Chase who is the award winner for operations administrator and now he has a new position and have had this new position for the last several months as the local district superintendent for local disk Northeast superintendent thank you Michael I want to begin of course by saying thank you so much to ask a region 16 for this honor I'm truly humbled by it I'm further humbled by being part of a v very well represented Local District tonight starting of course with Josh from North Hollywood Yoli Tina Maria Margaret and yes Vero one cell DNA always ldne so congratulations to all of you I'm proud to be in your ebony Inn in reflecting on what I wanted to share tonight I really just want to say thank you thank you to the entire Local District team that I am so happy and proud to work with our directors are fearless operations coordinators are mental health all of our instructional folks every one of them is a champion they're the kinds of folks that when everyone else is running away from the emergency or crisis they're running into it to help solve it I want to say thank you to all the great principles that I get to work with on a daily basis I am certain that I learned more from you than you learn from me but I do hope that I'm able to be of some service to you so thank you to all of you on a couple of occasions when I spoke in before I've I've used a quote always resonates with me and in my off steam I can I can feel them saying Oh geez here it comes on but it's a line from Rudyard Kipling and the line is you know the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack and we are stronger together especially now these uncertain times so thank you to all of you for your help and support and I look forward to continuing to work with you thank you super attendant Shay and let most of it has been an honor for me to work with local district North I truly appreciate your kindness in leadership in these times I really do on our next party is Sunday I know very well is dr. Jose Rodriguez from personality HR good good evening Michelle I'm against thank you ask the region 16 the executive or thank you for your countless hours that you volunteered to lead this organization it was a pleasure serving with all of you these last couple of years, so I think my color recipients especially our student amidst Mark congratulations and best wishes on your endeavors am I also want to think I might plld team I'm where we Empower encourage am all those folks to keep an access and Equity or we want to make sure they were courageous leaders and transformational ones where they continue to create the conditions were students Thrive within our team a doctor Marco Nava has been an amazing leader within our units are always pushing our thinking about how to best serve our students I'm also miss Linda de Puerto Rico brought me on board my last coaches I have a mora April Anna Heather Delia Maria that I work as a team and if I forgot someone I owe you a drink I do apologize my beautiful wife Elsie tostada who's my biggest Advocate she's an amazing partner who is here on a daily basis I'm continuing to support whatever Endeavor I take on my beautiful children at least Nevada Rodriguez and lastly I'm someone that I consider to be the epitome of what a mentor is someone that has been a great inspiration I looked up to her she's always fashionably tired and that is Miss Kiana. thank you for always believing in what I can do and again thank you to all of my fellow recipients congratulations thank you dr. Rodriguez thank you very much and now I would like to introduce our adult education administrator Award winner for this year Sonia and limited thank you I want to thank AXA region 16 this the true honor ironically enough doctor so that he gets with my coach and Mentor so as you can see Miss Davalos he's doing his job I do want to I'm very proud to receive this award and I want to thank my work family Harbor Occupational Center I have been and I have worked in adult education for over 30 years I am driven by her students or faculty and staff and I'm always looking forward to continue for these quality programs that we offer and this year we did our school did a really excellent job I'm very proud of them because we we we did this overcoming very frustrating challenges I also want to thank my family who have always been by my side and have supported the long hours and the time away from them thank you for this award thank you very much thank you Sonia my next award is Timothy Sweeney on Korea Tech and education administrator of the year okay I so move on to Anthony Aguilar special education administrator of the Year thank you Anthony first and foremost I just I definitely want to thank extra virgin 16 and appreciate all the work that you've done lately especially if he's gone through everything I definitely want to acknowledge and just say that I am humbled to be so many other esteemed colleagues especially two of my fellow instructional cheese Allison and Veronica and know that you know the instructional Chiefs one who has now left us to become a superintendent Barbara held a federal and dr. Baca who pushed Relentless me on each other as well to make sure that we're offering the right support for students are schools by San ministrator is in our local District though definitely humbled to be working with them many of you know the work of leadership can be done along and it's not done absolutely has to be done by a team in Reverse here with everyone in their speeches I am very fortunate to have a team and amazing team even if by Innovation office team which attempted you're the one that keeps me on those days when I when I come to work on probably more grumpy then I should be good morning partly the amazing team I also have with our special education staff with Doctor Who now dr. Jeffrey and Marco told you are also Relentless in supporting all the efforts first doing disability we all have worked tirelessly to make sure that we're supporting our School site administrators are students to make sure that we're providing the support for student really need during this distance learning time of that disruption that we really have had Lafayette you know you can't really do this without the support group you have at home you know with my family for my wife and laying to my son AJ my daughter, do not have had to endure with me being behind a screen majority of the time wondering if they could use the blender or if they could walk behind me if I was on a video they have they are the ones that actually keep it real as we like to say and keep me motivated to do the work we do without I just definitely want to say thank you again and thank you DC quickly if Tim Sweeney your present I'm looking through the participants list and if he is we can give him an opportunity to speak but I must seeing him he's here Tim Sweeney and if we can have go back one more Tim Sweeney okay sweetie. We are allowing him his opportunity to speak before us thank you and thank you for the Alaska members this is this is truly an honor true you know it's become more and more or it's been a bigger and bigger reminder that the the true joy for us and most rewarding these for us of our job is working with the students all these other challenges that make our job difficult and I want to thank all the other people in this room who make dealing with those challenges possible in particular I want thank the district and Division special education in particular for their unwavering support of both the scale and scope of the CTC programs over the last 15 years it's that kind of support to the people at the schools help us build a program that can be a model to all districts in Southern California so I want to say thank you to everyone who has helped us from Beaudry and from The Local District had to get to the spot where we are now the teachers and the staff that we have the cdc's are fantastic you know they spend all day dedicated to our students with moderate severe disabilities on the alternate curriculum you know 18 to 22 year old students who are just about to move out into the world and its support from you guys and makes that possible and its collaboration with other program for makes it possible that is White House Press behind me I was going to get on tonight so sorry about that one but thank you again and good night thank you very much the next Award winner that we'd like to introduce is Sophia Mendoza the technology administrator of the Year Sophia take it away you came highly highly recommended paint thank you so much access region 16 for this recognition at a time when technology has proven essential to our way of life during this worldwide crisis with this recognition please know that you can continue to count on me to Advocate at the intersection of instruction and advocacy around not only closing the digital divide but also something I really want you all to think about is the participatory divide I would also like to thank acts up for highlighting the instructional technology initiative efforts in April 27th which Haitian on transitioning are worth if you can see that well face-to-face professional development to remote professional learning I know several of you participated and thank you entire ITI team has worked tirelessly not only during these last three months behind the scenes to bring quality professional development but really focused on bringing Equity Act what's an opportunity to expand Computer Science Education for all students of color African American Latinos and girls I share this award with the entire itic of course the team that I am most grateful for is for my home team my family my husband Jose my son Nicholas and daughter Gabriella my mother Mary for believing in me these last six years as I made the long commute to Downtown LA to pursue my passion of leading change thank you once again to access region 16 Sofia to Future Ready moderator so thanks for all the work this content to them so it gives me a great honest actually introduced profit samples who is all confidential employee of the administrator all right good evening and I want to say thank you very much to AXA region 16 for the credible honor it is as amazing to incredible honor to be working part of this relation that brings together such amazing people from all walks of life and so many different experiences all to support our students so many of you all of you really just really great examples of what it means to be a public servant of us signed up for that work we didn't know what we were signing up for but we're old with a lot of things with fire labor action civil Crest Equity issues and I really want to give a special shout-out to all of our site administrator so in spite of all that you have powered through all of those things and still given a caring support a safe environment for students how to say thank you ever so much and in whatever small way of that are labor team can support the work that you do in schools that you fight for our students in each and every day it is our absolute privilege so once again thank you so much for the phone thank you Rob and now for our next Award winner I would like to introduce you to Allison yoshimoto Towery who is the division of instruction sheet Guru Allison thank you so much so good evening everybody with such a wonderful honor to be with you tonight and I wanted to thank axial region 16 because we didn't have the ceremony in person this year they actually sent care packages to all of the awardees and I wanted to acknowledge that sentiments and I just as a reminder just so small carrying things that are actually that the things that people do remember I think is Veronica said in so just leading with the heart like that is so appreciated and I also wanted to just acknowledge the fact that we started with Josh as the student was a perfect example of what our district does is leading with our students in mind Josh exemplified to me we wanted it all over which is someone who doesn't who serves who serves others so thank you to miss Rosen for acknowledging him and particularly toni-ann branca alluded to I think central whether it's division of instruction hratv soon Health operations legal we all just hope to support everybody in the field for doing just an incredible job this year for all of our 5500000 students and their families because it really isn't Village this is my 26-year in the district and I started as a paraprofessional at a private school play but in a private school downtown and have always been proud and I have two boys Jacob and call and starting high school next year in La unified and I just can't a better place to be and it's really because of everybody here and everyone that we have it's the people we work with and I think the last thing I'd say is that my mom actually I kind of out of the blue reminded me yesterday she said you know after the war after World War II she said I was I was in a drawer they didn't have enough money to buy a crib so my grandparents but my mom in a drawer and then my dad actually was at the horse stables in Anita and I and I and I bring that up tonight because I think they're all of our administrators the way that that we see the invisible the invisible in children we see what they can't see of themselves yet and I always think that that's the power that we bring two to each of our students and even our families we help them see the invisible of what they can see possible especially in these times that we're facing right now I think that's even more important so again thank you for your knowledge minute and congratulations to everyone thank you Allison for your caring and nurturing leadership and Max to give me great honor to introduce Iran allies are often school principal except for providing a space for all our peers to get a chance to celebrate each other this allows us to uplift each other and celebrate major milestones in our career thank Michelle Barker and Beyond or for this nomination to lie and and other option school principals I am here representing the Innovative work we do at an alternative school setting collectively are redefining the perceptions of our @promise use for those of us who see option student not as an option but as an asset I am with you for those of us making systemic changes to reflect 21st country in which we live in I am working alongside you the work represented at Highland Park High School is not done by me alone major shifts are done with a collective support of people working intentionally it is imperative Times Like These that our work is intentional and purposeful I know what I need to do I along with those who support my work at Highland Park High School it is our moral obligation to break the school-to-prison pipeline furthermore ensure that are at promise you know that we can make a difference in this world each of you present today my daughter my mother my siblings my friends my stuff my students and form students my Community Partners and Mike and my colleagues take a piece of this recognition you complete me personally and professionally without your prince in my life showing your support or guiding me along the way this recognition would not be possible to my daughter Bella I love you and I'm sorry for the sacrifices you have to make because Mom is working thank you for your support and unconditional love thank you Irene and now I would like to introduce our elementary code ministrator of the Year Maria Arriaga thank you ask region 16 for honoring me today as co-administrator of the year what a year this has been as a teacher I was lucky enough to have an administrator as my mentor Miss Karis Schneider expressed interest in obtaining my admin credential she recommended UCLA's principal Leadership Institute I've always wanted to be a bruin leading with Justice has guided me to Foster relationship stakeholders to eliminate inequities and marginalization today my work I'll work fuels me the need to address microaggressions deficit thinkers and cultivate what's the message to see to support needs of all students is my why thankfully I've been told ministrator to dr. Angel Barrett mr. Jose Benitez and mr. Sasse Avery like-minded leader who value the social cultural and linguistic assets that every student bring I'm honored to continue meeting new challenges with Innovative technology lastly I would like sync my husband Abraham and my boys Isaiah and Noah for their sacrifices as their mom does this work I'm humbled by this honor thank you thank you and she Maria and it gives me great pleasure to introduce a second Rico administrative what happens now to be the principal and Margaret Olivares gilkyson play Gimme Some emu Marketplace okay thank you everyone I'd like to thank axial region 6 for this award and the many administrators of Local District Northeast and options for all their support and also like to take this time to thank my wonderful daughter and husband my daughter who's here with Eagle Rock High School graduate very proud of her the committed and hard-working students at Carlson Home Hospital School come to us not by choice but by necessity with physical illnesses such as cancer broken bones traumatic brain injuries gastric illnesses such as PTSD depression and anxiety in spite of this our home and Hospital bound students and their families relentlessly pursue a quality education and it's their perseverance is my inspiration for 10 years I have worked alongside a most dedicated principal Joe salvemini who motivated me to work tirelessly on behalf of our students and I would like to to extend my deepest appreciation to him a patient leader kind mentor and valued friend it's been an honor to serve the students of LAUSD at Carlson at his coed ministrator thank you thank you very much Margaret and I just a note just for all of you Margaret and I were in a cohort at UCLA many years ago many years ago congratulations Margaret and now it gives me great pleasure to introduce our retired administrator for of the Year Doctor Michael O'Sullivan can we unmute dr. O'Sullivan please how about now can you hear me can you hear me now well thank you very much I don't know where to start except to tell you that finishing my 50th year with a school district starting 1965 as a teacher at Randall Middle School moved up the ranks slowly but surely and then ultimately became crab some of you may know this present in the Bay Area college teacher teaching classes helping many administrators to get their credentials I recognize a few of you from having been in my class it said it's Mike my wife Judy O'Sullivan some of you may know her particularly Scott has been the inspiration for everything was I do she helps with everything and keeps me grounded I'm going to be 77 and I'm not quitting okay I'm going on I'm going to continue to work on behalf of the union and hopefully we will have a successful reopening of school when the time comes I want to extend my appreciation to the members of group you may be familiar with which is the axle are retired group that that is not not really represented here in this in this in this collection of Administrators but many of them including in Barrett have been working very hard to keep her car programs alive work with Sacramento to bring to have the presentations by the health benefits committee and a lot of other things I think that are pretty valuable I just want to say once again for those of you that are still with the school district still doing everything you can do God bless you keep up the good work and it is all going to be okay thank you dr. Sullivan we appreciate your remarks and all of your efforts with the education over those many many years next it gives me great pleasure to introduce a very dear friend of mine Barbara Friedrich we're recognizing her St Robert E Kelly Award winner for this year Barbara wow I have been of access since 2002 and as I watch all of you accepting your Awards I think of all of the programs that I have helped create and make for Acts over the years the Robert Kelly award is given to someone who is tired and I guess that's what I do I do a lot for AXA I'm currently being after I work with new members who come in I am a second year Mentor for student teacher for new principals to access but the heart of what I do is what's for kids and that's work with no kid hungry when I was at Stanley Mosk Elementary I was in a bassador for no kid hungry they came to my school I spoke and a lot of their get-togethers and truly an honor to work with Sam and it has been a joy since I retired something else want on a regular basis to work with no kid hungry so my two passions in life now in addition to my beautiful three granddaughters are working with access and working with no kid hungry and I want to thank my crazy dear friend Angel Barrett for nominating thank you Angel I asked my kids said mom we thought when you retired you wouldn't be getting any more Awards oh well it happens and I am deeply deeply honored to be a member of XR and two have been with region 16 for all this time so thank you all very very much thank you for volunteering a lot I appreciate it to soak give me great joy to introduce our Early Education Center principal of the year scholarmade I muted hugging let me first start by saying I'm very humbled to receive this recognition and awards Especial the true product of LAUSD having attended pre-k through the 12th grade as a tow-away tiger at Luther Burbank there in a Franklin High School Panther when I sat in class as a student I never thought that I would one day be leading three early Ed centers infant Center I started my career 21 years ago as a teacher's assistant at with LAUSD and have been privileged with the opportunity to serve our students and families of the great city was born and raised in now the ministry has helped me to become a better leader I think my family my brothers and sisters all my nieces and nephews and my late husband who always supported me I also think my students at my schools my stuff my directors my colleagues especially Miss modest and Miss Torrance for nominating me and always supporting me a thank you I think my directors past and present Miss na Miss Kita and adopt a chihuahua always believing in me most importantly I think my parents are taught me that what a leader was when I was a child thank you God for instilling me what true professionalism is he retired after 42 years of service to SoCal Gas Company with perfect attendance show me a great example of work at 6 to serve the district for over 40 years and retired as a principal I actually give this recognition in order to my mom because she showed me what it meant to be a dedicated LAUSD employee a true professional and a person of compassion I think my mom for always telling me to always keep the students needs at the at the core of all I do she told me this when I was an assistant when I was a teacher and now the principal being my role model of how to be a good principal but also how to be a good person of the year and I think all of my axillary region 16 after colleagues stay humble and fire on thank you for those inspirational words my next person I'm going to introduce his doctor Tina Choice actually are winner of valuing diversity award thank you Tina Cobia mutina please needs to be a muted please hello can you hear me but thank you so much for selecting me for the act of valuing diversity award I'm truly honored to receive this award for my efforts and promoting diversity and support for all children parents staff at my school site and in the LAUSD Community I pride myself and making a positive difference in the lives of students while providing 30 years of service as an educator and LAUSD my goal has always been to work lab Italy with all stakeholders to ensure that all students are provided with a culturally relevant and responsive rigorous standards-based instruction focused on equity and access for diverse Learners I want to see the LAUSD Educators and school communities for motivating me to become a transformational leader I would like to give a special thank you to doctor McKenna who is currently the board member for my school site and was the district 7 superintendent while I served as principal of 118th Street Elementary School I learned so much from you and I appreciate your continued support through my career as an administrator I would also like to thank superintendent Hildreth for your local district West leadership and for your encouragement during our dissertation process and our journey at you do us see you inspired me to persevere and to achieve call Epic tanning a doctorate in addition I want to thank dr. Benson Miss Curie Dr Calhoun the heat Network administrators all of my colleagues and the Woodcrest student staff and school for your inspiration and motivation to always do my best to ensure that students receive a quality education last but not least I want to thank my family for supporting me and being soaked with the endless hours that I've devoted to promoting success for all students a special thank you to my mother and sisters Lisa and Gina for always believing in me and supporting all of my Endeavors to my wonderful husband white Choice. Understanding and patience to my awesome children Brianna Ashley Jasmine and Jonathan for your unconditional love and sacrifices that you have made I am so proud of each and every one and your many accomplishments again I am so grateful to the axial region 16 and I truly appreciate you for honoring me with the value of diversity and thank you thank you Doctor choice and now as seems typical for me I get to bring up the m and gives me great pleasure in presenting our partners in excellence award for this 20 award ceremony it is the UCLA health sound body sound mind hope you have some representative here to say a few words can you hear me Mike I can hear you doctor put up though are we going to introduce each of our officers for this coming year could we just go ahead and bring them all around a woman's I think we'll go right ahead and introduce all of them have a difficulty hearing and hearing in in the sound representatives from UCLA somebody Samsung who would like to say a few words if you could type in the chat we can I meet you yes Max lessac Louis can you unmute maps lessac please hello can you guys hear me yes we can hear you now wonderful hello also my name is Matt please talk I'm the executive director of UCLA health sound body sound mind and I just want to thank you guys for this distinct honor to be recognized for our work in this region special thanks to Barbara Friedrich for art program to a CSA region 16 attention what we do is we provide fitness centers in physical education programming for middle schools and high schools throughout the Los Angeles Long Beach Culver City Compton so we are spread far and wide I see familiar faces here some past administrators that we've worked with all the other Awards recipients congratulations what an amazing honor to be recognized by this group I know this is time to recognize us as an organization that partners with you but without the dedicated and loyal support of all administrators at every level programs like ours would fail what we are able to put in schools is on a possible because of the dedicated support of Administrators at all levels in so I share this award with each and every one of you I share this with my sound body sound mind team I have three wonderful employees that make my day so much easier I get to do the fun yes they do the hard work but without them I wouldn't be here and so to my team thank you to all the administrators here thank you we are so grateful for the partnership and work thank you so very much and now I think if I'm not mistaken we are ready to now introduce muje check who is the executive director and she will introduce each of the members of the board and with doctor if we can unmute doctor Chloe Disco dr. Chet so good evening and let me introduce the new 20 21 Executive Board our president for 2020-21 is Leonard our president elect this ernestina dondero our vice president of programming dr. Angel Barrett our vice president legislative action dr. Rafael Escobar Lassiter preaching 16 is Miss Barbara Friedrich are State Board member is Quan Fletcher Susana Cuevas is our secretary Michael pain is our treasure dr. Lisa. Pinellas is our membership chair Miss Sharon Kaiser is our ax2r which is the retired Charter is our president and our board of directors include Alfonso Jimenez Tina Barnett Helen Kim ernestina call Miguel Garza Brian C. Cynthia Bailey and director at large dr. Tracy Eagle Doctor Who disco would you like to play Executive Board in for 2020-2021 and I would just like to remind everyone we also have the yes we can hear you dr. Tedesco one moment please Debra Hurst says the parliamentarian and also dr. Derek Chao is an awesome doctor cliffco can you hear me and hear you my sound is giving me problems here okay could you swear in the board the executive board for this year please if you can hear me I'll go ahead with the installation yes we can lyrics Danny I'm getting up from state to access and nearly 20,000 educational leaders in California I'm pleased and proud of his empty region 16 officers for 2020 21 access mission is to ensure that every student will be prepared to successfully compete in an international society as Leaders of region 16 you are responsible for ensuring students success in Los Angeles you walking in that region and District demonstrates your Alicia professional Grill Improvement in education and access mission statement on behalf of our association I wish you success and congratulate you and your leg prison officer in region 16 I declare you Julie install is officers for 2000 and 2021 school year congratulations I hope that went through all right good job. Thank you very much thank you now I would like to turn it back to Leonard you're going to be taking over for the remainder thank you well wasn't that fun I just want to say thank you for being flexible as we navigate through technology right and I also want to thank one flesh of a ala for letting us use their Zoom account I also want to recognize Louis engelbach resume for his Zootastic skills thank you and most importantly for each and everyone of you tonight and for those that are here to celebrate R22 administrators honorees next school year just to let you know I asked her region 16 will be celebrating 50 years of extraordinary leadership this is going to be an incredible year to look forward to as we celebrate your leadership and your continual growth promise I promise you it's going to be one of our best years that we will know and before we can I also want to recognize one of our own will be retiring at the end of this month are very own Michelle Barker axial region 16 President elect she is the professional development developer and it has been such a incredible honor and a privilege to work with Michelle and to be honest I wish I had another year to learn from her and to grow with her as well and please follow the link I've given everyone a link if you guys use that link to leave a nice warm remark. It's a padlet link that I learned from Future Ready certification please leave a personal note from Michelle and once again I just want to say thank you leaders be well be safe and we hope to see you soon thank you everyone goodnight goodnight hey Ken. The extra leadership stay behind I know I think you can stop reporting now yes thank you Luis

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