NCESD Excellence in Education Awards

Adam Sawyer

Adam is respectful, funny, hard working, encouraging, innovating, supporting, understanding, flexible, and always available for his staff.

Amy Duvall

Amy is a dedicated, compassionate, and empowering teacher who creates and environment of inclusivity and belonging in her classroom.

Amy Martinez

Amy isn't just the brain of North, she is a huge chunk of our heart.

Annie Hindman

Annie has taken her responsibilities seriously and with so much care.

Brenda Welch Mathis

Brenda focuses on educating the whole student to prepare them to be a positive part of our community.

Chris Kalmbach

Chris is a hard working, human oriented, caring human being that absolutely puts the needs of his building first and is doing an amazing job!

Christina White

Christina is the Wonder Woman of special education.

Cindy Cardenas

Cindy Cardenas going above and beyond with enthusiasm, integrity and fun.

Cindy Elder

Cindy works hard, brings joy, has compassion, patience, and is dedicated to the students she serves and the staff that she works with.

Cindy Welsh

One person can make a huge difference to removing barriers to children learning, Cindy is one of North’s best examples.

Clint Scriven

Clint continuously chooses to 'Dominate The Day!'

Connie Juhl

Connie is professional, a problem solver and service oriented!

Diana McFaul

Diana is truly the glue holding our building together through this pandemic.

Doug Boole

Working with Doug for the past five years has been a joy and a great learning experience.

Ekko Nash

Ekko Nash is a top notch teacher who cares about the well being and learning of her students.

Emily Johnson

Emily is a very warm-hearted, passionate, smart teacher that helps Support Groff, we would be lost without her!!

Guinevere Joyce

Guin accepted her reality and diligently stayed the course of her purpose.

Heather Langendorff

Heather is a loving, caring, thought person and someone I look up to daily.

Jackie Wells

Smart, attention to detail and simply AMAZING!!!

James Yonko

Yonko goes above and beyond for his students, duties and fellow employees.

Best Administrator of the Year ALWAYS!

Jamie Carlson

Jamie is effective, seeks to grow, and is receptive to changing with the challenges that come her way.

Jamie Humphrey

Jamie is dedicated to helping students, staff, and anyone in need of a helping hand.

Jamie Olson

Jamie is truly a human being who takes care of all the students and staff that she is charged with.

Jamie is awesome! She is a great mentor and friend. Jamie is always going the extra mile to support every person she has contact with.

Jannette Serrano-Vasquez

Jannette works tirelessly to ensure the best environment for our students and for her colleagues.

Jasmyne Debeaumont

Jasmyne is always willing to look on the bright side of the mountain which always helps during such a complicated time of social distancing.

Jen Ruiz

Everyone needs a Jen in their life! :-)

Jennifer Carpenter

Jen inspires me to be better, to work harder for all my students, and give the support that is needed.

Jennifer Kostelnik

She is very welcoming and the students enjoy her classes.

Jim Dodge

Jim continuously find fix and make things looks good. Thank you, Jim for everything you do helping us anything we need help for our schools/building.

Jodi Fletcher

She is the best and most motivated teacher I have ever seen.

Jodi Truman

To say that Jodi goes above and beyond for each of her students is an understatement of the person Jodi is.

John Farley

John is a true leader that is inspiring our kids to be better citizens and empowering a staff that needed a positive change in the school culture.

John is a true leader, life-long learner, and educator extraordinaire: one who is willing to step outside of his comfort zone for the good of the students and the organization.

Juan Aguilar

Thank you for everything you do making our schools/buildings nice and safe.

Julissa Pruneda

Julissa is a stellar example of an employee.

Karina Chavez Sanchez

Karina is a very kind, capable, loving and gentle force in our preschool program.

Kathy Chavez

If there is a student being bullied, a family in need, or a staff member who needs supported . . . Kathy Chavez is always the one who will find a way to take care of them, and that's why everyone at FMS loves her and will miss her dearly!! : )

Kelly Frederick

Kelly is a service leader, compassionate.

She is kind, dedicated, hardworking, has an excellent sense of humor and optimism and an inspiration and light to me and a big reason why I like and even love our school.

Kent Hall

Kent, is one of those People that we need more in the work place to get the job done and right :) Thank You Kent for doing awesome job always.

Kimmy Palmer

I highly recommend Kimmy Palmer for an Excellent Award for being a great employee and role model in the office.

Kimmy Palmer's friendly and helpful nature continually shines as she assumes the best of all situations and continues to learn new skills and problem solve situations to ensure that success is met in the details of the daily operations at Moses Lake High School while at the same time balancing long-term projects.

Larry Howell

Employee is a hard worker with a fantastic and fun attitude.

Laura Cromer

Laura sets her expectations high while also showing empathy to each individual student.

Lily Duran

Lily Duran is a very understated, kind, super human being who makes the school run like a well oiled machine.

Lindsay Erickson

Lindsay is a kind, compassionate leader in the MLSD preschool environment who works each day to promote an inclusive, and loving place for students and staff alike.

Lindy Tracey

Lindy is hands down an amazing person and the Moses Lake School District and swimming community are extremely luck to have her!!

Loren Sandhop

Loren is the GOAT in our world of athletics and activities.

Mary Anne Higbee

MaryAnne loves the students of Endeavor middle school unconditionally and pours her heart and soul daily into making their experience remarkable in and out of school.

Meghan Lamb

Even though she would rather see others get all the recognition, Meghan Lamb should get so much positive recognition for her excellence.

Melode Palmer

Melode is a beacon of hope, humility, hard work and sunshine!

Melodee Evenson

Melodee was my first year mentor and has shared her wisdom with me. She has an incredible impact on student learning that goes beyond elementary and follows the students as they continue to grow. She is an inspiration and deserves to be recognized. :)

Naomi Castillo

Naomi is an excellent member of MLSD and a team player.

Paula Turner

Thanks to Paula's continuous support and passion for her field in our school district; students, staff, and families are given opportunities for success.

Paula is the SLP everyone would like to be, have on their MDT/IEP teams and have serve their own children!

RaeAnn Fleming

RaeAnn has gone above and beyond to help these students with their education and helping me how to be a better teacher for them.

Ricardo Santillan

Our surroundings area here is been looking good and safe leaves, tumbleweeds, ice and snow is been taking care of always of our hard worker maintenance crew. Thank You guys!

Samantha Reyling-Frohning

Samantha is driven to meet the needs of all MLSD students. She ensures students feels safe and ready to learn.

Sandra Hernandez

Sandra is a hard working individual that is a valuable asset to the staff at Park Orchard Elementary that will do whatever role she is given and do it well.

Sarah Kelly

Sarah is a sweet, caring and important person in our school.

Shawn Christman

As he would say when complimented: ‚I'm just another cog in this well oiled machine. That's the humility Shawn displays.

Shawn Richter

Shawn is AWESOME!!!!!

Sheila Kries

Sheila is amazing; reliable and honest, she helps us when she can and supports us as much as possible.

Sheila aspires for greatness, believing in students and staff to reach goals for student success.

Sheila is loyal to admin, supportive of staff, and fair to students.

When I grow up, I want to be like Sheila.

Sheila Kries' thorough, direct, knowledgeable approach to the great challenges that 9th graders bring to her life does not go unnoticed by others as she attends to the needs of not only her 9th grade students of whom she truly cares for, but for staff as well.

Stephanie Chaffin

Stephanie is an educator full of knowledge and always willing to support all involved.

Stephanie is a hard-working, dedicated, caring person that supports students, parents, and co-workers in a way unlike any other educator.

Stephanie Lopez

She is the type of math teach I would have wanted when I was in school and the type of teacher I want for my children.

Suzanna Duvall

Suzanna is dedicated, SWEET and loves our children so much. We see it everyday working along side her. She is someone you want on your TEAM.

Mrs. Duvall goes above and beyond her job description in working to ensure students in the Resource room receive quality lessons in the event of the supervising teacher's absence.

Zackery Nygren

Mr. Z is a exemplary example of a team player. He adapts to change and focuses on what's best for students all with a smile on his face.