2022 RAVE Nominees

Denise Orduna-Martinez, Teacher, Cleveland Elementary School

"Ms. Denise creates a safe learning environment for her students.  She always provides them with academic enrichment, and daily social emotional learning lessons and has strong structures in her classroom. She genuinely cares for her students and their well-being. She reaches out to other departments to ensure her students' academic as well as basic needs are met.  She is very proactive and parents love and appreciate her communication. She walks the extra mile to make sure her students' needs are met so that they can learn. "-Nominated 2/2022

Monica Frangoul, Teacher, Monroe Elementary School

"She is such an amazing educator. So sweet and kind to her students. She helps and genuinely cares for students. She teaches SEL lessons that really emphasize empathy, caring for one another, and helping each other in the class. This is super important and should be prioritized more in our district.  She is caring, empathetic, walks the extra mile, and genuinely cares. Ms. Frangoul stays during her free time to calm and support students when they are having meltdowns.  She also created a safe and caring space for her kinders. I am so happy and thankful my kinder student's first experience at school is filled with so much love, but at the same time with such high academic expectations and activities that he enjoys while learning. "-Nominated 2/2022

Denise Orduna-Martinez, Teacher, Cleveland Elementary School

"Ms. Denise creates a safe learning environment for her students, she always provides them with academic enrichment, daily social-emotional learning lessons, and has strong structures in her classroom. She genuinely cares for her students and their well-being.  She reaches out to school staff to ensure her students' academic as well as basic needs are met.  She is very proactive and parens love and appreciate her communication. Ms. Orduna-Martinez walks the extra mile to make sure her students' needs are met so that they can learn."-Nominated 2/2022

Matthew Hernandez, Teacher, Monroe Elementary School

"He is an amazing teacher. Mr. Hernandez has influenced my daughter to love school.  She looks forward to going to his class everyday and learning. My daughter had difficulties learning math and Mr. Hernandez has taught her to understand and love math now.  He has a style of teaching that makes my daughter enjoy and understand each subject including Mathe and Writing.  He is an excellent teacher and truly cares about his students.  He is a gem to our students and my daughter is very lucky to have him as a teacher."-Nominated 2/2022

Kimberly Wong, Teacher, Glen Park Elementary School

"Ms. Wong is an excellent kindergarten teacher. She has been going above and beyond this year, which is difficult due to COVID. Not only has she made the kids feel safe, but she has also made them excited to go to school and learn. My son was working hard to learn to read at home because of the qualities that Ms. Wong has instilled. Currently, my two kids are out for COVID and Ms. Wong voluntarily dropped off a packet for my son twice and picked up a packet and book for my daughter from her teacher. This sort of behavior is what makes Glen Park special and what makes us thankful to have stayed in the school district to get Ms. Wong for both our kids. The love of learning that Ms. Wong teaches the kids is something they carry throughout their lives. My daughter still lists Ms. Wong as her favorite teacher even though she hasn’t been in her class for 3 years."-Nominated 2/2022

Catalina Pajar, Senior Management Assistant

"Catalina always goes above and beyond her work to help the LEAD and Superintendent's Office to accomplish any goal that is asked of her. She is the backbone of both departments. At any time, she is assisting with HR, Payroll, Budget, and a host of other duties that are outside her role or realm of expertise. She never complains and is always open to new challenges and responsibilities, because her end goal is to support students and families, the focus of our school district. She has dedicated her professional career to SFUSD. She is supportive, knowledgeable, hard-working, generous, and dedicated.  She fields questions and solves problems regarding from both school sites  and central office staff.  She is THAT supportive!"-Nominated 1/2022