Good evening everyone. >> Good to see you all. Uh for those who I haven't had a chance to meet, uh I'm Rob Anderson, proud superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District. Uh and this is one of my three favorite evenings of the year. And all three are
times where I get to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students, of our staff, our community at the superintendence honor roll. How about a big round of applause for everybody who we are here to honor this evening.
So, just want to thank everybody who's been able to join us. I know how uh busy the holiday season can get and so thank you all so much for being here. Um, before I get going, there's a few folks that I would love to recognize, and that
is our BBSD Board of Education. So, um, yep, round of applause. Absolutely. Uh, excited. We have a couple new board members here that we get to introduce to you tonight. So, our board president, Nicole Rajpal, is here.
In the back, our our newly elected board vice president, Alex Medler, is here. Alex, good to see you. our newly elected treasurer, Jason. Jason, where you at? In the back. Thank you. Um, our two new board members, Deianne Booker. Deianne,
where are you? And we have Anna Timuading, who's helping us out here in the front. Anna, thank you. So good to see you. Um, and Jorge Chavez, where you at? Jorge in the back. And Lenia Quinn Lenoa is in the back as well. So, thank you all so much
for being here. Thank you board members for your service and uh appreciate all that you do. Who's ready? Everybody have enough to eat. Here's what you can count on um at a superintendent's honor roll. Really good food and some lousy dad jokes. So I
apologize in advance. Um try to keep it light. Uh but certainly the the spotlight is on those that we'll be recognizing and honoring today. So now I will tell you that a superintendent's honor role is not complete without this group. So tonight
we're proud to once again honor the student journalist from Monarch High School, Monarch the Mix. Come on in. Come on down. Come on over. Come on up. >> That's right. You can't cheer for them
enough. You can tell they know what they're doing. They've been here before. So for two out of the last three years, The Mix, which is Monarch's News magazine, has won the National Scholastic Press Association's Pacemaker
Award. It's a huge honor. Pacemaker Award, which has been given annually since about 1927, is considered the highest honor for student journalists. In fact, some have even called it the
Pulitzer Prize of Student Journalism. To win it twice is outstanding and a true indication of the skill of these journalists and the support of their incredible advisor, Ben Reed. Ben, don't stand in the back here. Come on. Shout out to Ben. Um,
so so winning the the the Pacemaker Award is is an incredible achievement, but that's not all. At NSPA's national convention, Monarch earned triple the number of individual awards compared to all other participating Colorado school
districts combined. >> Yeah. Whoop it up. Let's go. Um, a number of the individual winners are here tonight. So, when I call your name, please step up to be recognized by this amazing crowd that I know is going to cheer incredibly loud for each and every one of you. Does that make you
uncomfortable? >> Just slightly. >> Just slightly. Well, that well sorry. Connor Lrim Connor was a national finalist for the broadcast news story. Fox theund was a national finalist for comic strip.
Rachel Lararscen and Lydia Greavves national finalist in news magazine spread design and Julia Abear. Ben Layman, Abby Avalou, Khloe Blair, and Evan Schmidt were national finalists for Multidia Story.
Now, some of you thought I was done, but I am not done. There's a couple more things to recognize. For the eighth year in a row, The Mix Magazine and Yearbook each won an all Colorado award from the Colorado Student Media Association and KYO Monarchs TV Newcast won all
Colorado for the fifth year in a row. Congratulations. Let's give everyone a huge round of applause. Okay, Connor, I'm going to ask you a question. Okay. >> Is that okay? You ready? >> Okay. So putting out the news is a tough challenge. We know that. Can you give us an insight on what it takes to keep your
stories and up and publications at this high standard? >> Um well I think it starts with like the community that Mr. Reid has built for us. Um we play games every week to keep everyone in touch, everyone interested and having fun. We have snacks. Um like
all the people on the staff just want to make something that is good because it goes out to the entire school. They don't want something that's good. That we actually want something that's great. And I think that starts with everyone. >> Not something good, something that's great. I love that. And I love the culture, the winning culture you all
have obviously built. Ben, come on up here. I know that you're so proud of these students. And our goal, of course, is not to win awards, but to prepare students to go out into the real world. Do you ever hear back from students from this program and what they've had to say about this experience, how it shaped
them, and are any of them famous? Not yet. I got to say, you know, we've met with this many, many years now, but it can't be underestimated about how hard these students work, how smart they work, and that this doesn't happen by accident. State championships and
national championships don't happen randomly. These are the smartest, best kids in the entire school. I'll tell you that much. Um, when it comes to the future, yeah, I have uh we have students right now at Northwestern. have a couple that are writing for the Boulder uh
Daily Camera. We have a couple of students, this guy who's going to be going to perhaps Arizona State, one of the best broadcast schools in the nation. Couple of girls down there going to Missou, one of the best journalism schools in the nation. But beyond journalism, it's also the skills that
they get. Whether it's going to be going into architecture or international development or psycho criminology, they know how to do it because of the work they do here. Another round of applause for the Mohigh
mix. Thank you all so much. And we have certificates to hand out and we're going to take a picture. So, if we want to hand out the certificates, >> we're gonna have to scooch this way. Thanks. Did you know I was Did I talk to you? >> Yeah, I did. >> Oh, you had
or I just thought you wanted to stand by >> a lot of pressure. Is it a lot of pressure because you all want so much? >> I mean, we just think That's awesome. >> What do you think, Jade?
>> Yeah, we can have maybe some folks come up in the front. How we doing J? You okay? Thanks everybody. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. We'll see you again next year. >> Yeah. >> Thanks. Make sure you all get plenty of
food. Okay. Take a cookie for the road. I'm proud of you, man. Seriously, what an accomplishment program. culture. >> Appreciate you, Patty. Thank you for all you do. >> How fun was that? Off to a strong start here at the superintendent's honor roll.
Now, I'm really, really excited for this next group of individuals that we get to uh celebrate. So, we all know that the Broomfield Eagles fly high, but that most certainly is the case when it comes to the
Broomfield High School gymnastics team. Come on up. Last month, they won the 5A state championship. Incredible accomplishment. During the competition at Thornton High School, the Eagles earned a score of
182.275 to claim the team title, beating Chatfield, who came in second place and the defending champions Mountain Range, who came in third place. This is Broomfield's fifth title in gymnastics with the last one in 2022.
And with this year's win, they are now tied as the sixth winningest team. Congratulations, ladies. Now, Coach Anderson, I need you to come over here to ask I got to ask the um I'm not the Mohigh mix, right? But I can I'll ask you a few questions. Um team
overcame some challenges mid-season, but really pulled together in the postseason from what I understand. Um talk to me a little bit about this and and just some of the some of the highlights of the season and what makes you so proud of this team. Yes. So, for those of you who don't
know, we are a district team. Although we wear broomfield on our back every single meet, all of these ladies are from almost every single high school in Boulder Valley. And so coming together as a team was quite challenging,
especially because we had 10 newbies of our 20 gymnasts. And so the super exciting thing was my juniors and seniors this year, you know who you are, they really stepped up and they took it upon themselves to show leadership and to make sure that the newbies knew
exactly how our team ran and they dedicated this season to not only being wonderful gymnasts and athletes, but to making sure that they created the culture and the team that they wanted to create and that was all them. I am not
taking credit for that because they did that all on their own. And so I can't thank my juniors and seniors enough for that. And then my freshman and sophomore really stepped up because they came into an unknown world. Gymnastics is very much individualized until you get into
high school. And so they stepped up and they said that nope, this is not about me this year. This is about Broomfield and this is about the team that we want to be and the team that we wanted to create. And that led us to a state championship. So, I couldn't be prouder of them.
>> So, good. All right. So, Lily, where's Lily at? Hey, Lily. How you doing? So, um you led the team. You came in third in the all-around competition. Congratulations. That's amazing. Woo. Um but I know that um that you've you've really had have had a chance to speak
about the team element of this win. You all really were supporting each other. Talk to me about the the the teamwork that went into this state championship. Well, our whole season our motto was to walk as one and that not do it for yourself, but you're for your teammates around you and for Broomfield. And so
that really gave us confidence that we had it in ourselves and that we not only could like do it individually, but if you messed up, that's okay because someone's got your back around
you. And that really helped us at the state individuals because we knew that as long as we were doing what we could do to help it, the outcome was no, it didn't matter because we would be proud of ourselves. >> Said like a true champion. Great job. And I will tell you, I did have a chance
to go to the Broomfield High pep rally where the entire school um was just so proud of this entire team and celebrated them. Let's give them all a round of hand. Let's round of applause. Let's take a picture. Squeeze a little bit, guys.
Thank you. >> They also get the award for the biggest trophy. That is an enormous trophy. Now, I shared with you all um you know the opportunity that I had to go to the uh to the Broomfield High School pep rally where they recognized our our
state championship uh gymnastics team. But that was not the only team that we were celebrating that day. We had another group of Eagles win their first ever state championship this fall. Let's have the Broomfield High School softball team come on up along with their coaches
and another big trophy. They're tied at first for the biggest trophy because I think it's the same trophy, but >> see coach, how are you? So, this team has some amazing stats. Um, over the past three years, this team
went 53 and three. Can you believe that? When so they went into the state 5A champ state 5A championship tournament. Eagles were undefeated and the topseated team which is a pretty pretty impressive feat in in and of itself. Neither of
their competitors, Eagle Crest in the semi-finals and Legend in the final were going to go down easy. They made it really challenging for our Eagles both games. Of course, Broomfield won. That's right.
They were down by a couple runs in the middle of the championship game, but the by the bottom of the fifth, they exploded, scoring 11 runs, bringing the game to a quick end, which is that a 10 you 10 run ruled them. Is that you did that? Y'all know what that that's a thing? Yeah. If you're winning by 10 runs, they just call it I think that's
the way you probably want to win a state championship. Um, so let's join me in congratulating this year's 5A state champions of softball. Okay, so I have some questions. Um, you know, this is just, you know, this the 53 and three. Look at the picture there.
I mean, what a what a just a dream season. Um, and when the game ended in the fifth with the team coming together, somebody tell me what that was like. Coach, you tell me and then maybe have let's have one of your captains tell me. >> Yeah, sure. First of all, this was an
incredible team. We had 12 seniors this year. Um they have simply dominated the competition over the last two years. Um didn't lose a game in state at all um this year and lost one last year. And so to find ourselves behind in the both the
semifinal game and the championship game uh and have them explode the way they did to to find a way to win those games. These seniors just were not going to let their team or their school down this year. And so Broomfield High School is full of championships and we were very,
very proud to bring the first softball championship banner to Broomfield High School. >> I'm looking down the line to see which leader is going to step up and talk. >> Okay. What was the question again? >> Just tell me tell me about the season.
Tell me how it felt and tell me about the relationship that you all have and just you know the amazing experience. >> So, Whoa, that's loud. Okay, so we all decided that our motto was going to be all for one because it wasn't just because of one of us. It was for all of
us and we were going to do it for each other because last year we fell short and I know that really hurt all of us and really had a strong impact on how that made us feel. So we decided that that was not going to happen this year and it was our most of our last years,
not all of us, but most of ours. And that would have just been devastating and like horrible way to go out. So we decided that that was the best way for us to celebrate each and every one of our successes and not just ourselves.
>> Yeah. And and if I recall at the pep rally, um I think it was one of your captains said, "We we decided we weren't playing for the name on the back. We were going to play for the name on the front, which is Broomfield High School." How awesome
is that? Another round of applause for our state championship girls softball team, >> coach. All right, let's take a I was about to say that's this isn't their first picture I'm gather.
Hey, appreciate you. Great job, ladies. >> Great job. Congrats. >> Anybody in the mood for another state champion? >> Miles Cool, come on up. and Coach Serwin, any Fairview administrators that are here, please
come on up. And school administrators, please, I hope that you're coming up with your teams to to be able to get in these photos, so I apologize. Um, I'm looking at yeah, a few principles, but uh please feel free to come on up. Uh so in in October, Miles won the individual
state title in the 5A state tournament in Grand Junction, clinching the win with a birdie on his final hole. In this photo from the awards ceremony, you could see him alongside his teammate and good friend Ash Edwards, who came in second place, finishing one shot back.
How great is that? So, Miles, I I've got all kind of questions here. Come on over here. First of all, did the birdie on the final hole, is that what won it for you? >> Uh, yeah. Yeah, >> that's clutch. >> Did they call you that at school clutch? >> No.
>> They should. Let's Let's get Let's make that a thing. Let's get that going. So, um I understand that uh that you you came in second as a sophomore, third as a junior, but how did it feel to finally take home the title on the last hole with a birdie? >> Uh it felt great. I feel like I just had
to had to do it. It was like just runner up and then third and I was I had to get it done. Couldn't let my teammate beat me this time. So, >> yeah. Otherwise, they wouldn't call you clutch, right? There you go. So, while state championships a big deal, you've got your eye on something bigger. Might
we see you in a green jacket someday? You've committed to San Diego State University where they've got great weather and coaches. Um are you excited to head to San Diego State and uh tell us about your future? >> Uh yeah, I'm really excited. I'm just trying to get out of the cold. It's hard to golf and snow. So yeah, I'm excited
for the future. We'll have four years there and then hopefully get a green jacket. >> You see you've seen him here. You can say you met him. Clutch. Clutch. Cool. All right, let's take a picture. Thank you.
Whether it's high school athletics or physical education class, we know that it's crucially important that our students have the opportunity to move during their day, not to mention all the skills like teamwork and communication that kids learn while they're participating in these activities. Our
physical education teachers do such a great job with our students and this year, not one but two of our physical educators were honored for their work by their peers this year. So, if we could have Tim Chavez from Emerald Elementary and Emily Hill from Southern Hills and
Melinda and Samra, any other administrators come on up. What's up, coach? Good to see you. Thank you. Hey, how you doing? Congratulations. So, last Friday, Tim was honored by Society of Health and Physical Educators of Colorado with his annual Colorado
Teacher Recognition Award, and Emily was named Shapes Middle School Teacher of the Year. Let's give them a big round of applause. All right, Tim and Emily, come on over here. this it wouldn't be a a superintendent honor roll complete
unless we ask some questions here. So getting up and moving we know is so important uh more now than ever possibly. Why don't we have both of you share a little something about what drives you to be a physical educator in BBSD. Um, okay. So, I've been in BBSD now,
back in BBSD for 10 years, and I love being in this district, first of all. Uh, keep it going. >> Um, yeah, at Southern Hills, we are blessed to be able to teach things. Uh, may my teaching partner, we get to do archery
and golf, skateboarding. Um, we do a lot of non-traditional units. We try to compete with the kids in bad mitten. Uh so a lot of non-traditional things. Uh we work out every Wednesday. Uh which to some people would be crazy,
but to our students, they hate it at first and then learn to love it and they actually look forward to working out every Wednesday. Um so lifelong fitness and just getting kids moving. I think one thing is it doesn't you don't have
to be an athlete to love PE. You can be the most smart, studious kid that goes to PE kind of just to move your body and you can still thrive. So, I love it. So, thank you.
>> Yeah, I'll just I'll piggyback off that. Um, we do skateboarding and bikes and and non-typical stuff as well. Um, I can't take all the credit, but one of my previous students was just up here with Broomfield softball. So,
uh, no, you're taking a little credit. >> Yeah, just just touch. Uh, no, we just like like to make it fun for all the kids to come in and enjoy. Um, I got a supportive staff, a great team, uh, awesome principal. We come up with ideas and and she's like, "Yeah, let's do it."
So, it's all for the community and stuff. >> Big round of applause. Let's take a picture. >> That's so great. Congrats. This way in the middle. So, this next individual we want to recognize, I'm not sure if she made it,
is Vanessa Marina Mesh here? >> She's not here. Do you want to know what she won? Got to have a little suspense here at the superintendent's honor roles. Uh we were we're excited to to celebrate Vanessa. Um in BBSD we like to say we're
bilingual and proud and that's certainly the case for Vanessa. Uh she works at Manhattan Middle School of Arts and Academics and her students uh were going to be up here but uh she wasn't able to be here. Secondary bilingual teacher of the year by the Colorado Association for
Bilingual Education. So, Vanessa, if you watch this later, we're proud of you. We can't wait to get our certificate to you and thank you for all you do for our kids over at Manhattan. Takes a team to support our gifted students here in BBSD. And tonight, we're excited to celebrate that work
through one of our educators, Jana Crutzinger from University Hill Elementary, Uni Hill. Jana, come on up. Jana recently received the 2025 special advocate of the year award from the Colorado Association for Gifted and
Talented. Organization developed the award to recognize professionals in gifted education who are exemplary in their support of teachers, administrators, resource staff and others in their work with gifted learners. Honores advocate for the needs of all
gifted learners beyond the classroom and provide contributions of time and effort in supporting gifted students. Let's give Janna a hand. And then I got to ask her a question. Jana, come on over. Talk. So it's so J is your work so
important in making sure that we support our gifted students. What does that look like um on a dayto-day for you in supporting your students at Uni Hill? >> That's a great question. Um, it really runs the gamut from making sure that
we're identifying students and that we are specifically my school making sure we are identifying students who are underrepresented which tends to be our Latino students. Um, and then just making sure that they are getting enrichment and extensions in the
classroom as well as getting emotional support. Another round of applause. The first big error of the superintendent's honor roll. There's bound to be a few. This is Jana, not Jana. So Jana, let's give every Jana a
round of applause. We can't all be the Broomfield girls softball team. Sorry, that was definitely Okay. All right, I think I'm gonna recover here. I think I got this one. All right, next. Uh, one of the biggest honors that a high school
science teacher can receive is being chosen for a presidential award for excellence in mathematic mathematics and science. Centaurus High School teacher Kim Becker was honored as one of Colorado's finals for the award, not once, but twice in three years. Kim,
come on up. Carlin, I saw that you're here. Come on down. Aaron Greenwood, you think you're going to take pictures, but you're coming on up, too. Uh, so Kim was named a Colorado finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in
2023. And again, this year in the science category. Historically, teachers that are chosen get to go to Washington DC, visit the White House, and receive $10,000 from the National Science Foundation. Unfortunately, everything is on hold indefinitely. Regardless, we
couldn't be more proud of Kim for being selected to represent Colorado twice and helping to make Centurus and BBSD a leader in science. Let's give Kim another round of applause. >> Kim, talk to us about how what it means to you to be selected twice for this
award. >> Um, well, it's uh it's really an honor, but I also think it's also about the students and what my students have been able to achieve. Um, I like to make my classroom so that students are able to act as scientists and engineers and
actually like are empowered to make their own difference in the world. Um, and so I think that's probably a big reason why I'm getting to do this. You can see some of those pictures are from um, some of the things that we've done with my students in the past. And um, we actually just got back from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday. Um I was there with my students. We went and visited Caltech and JPL and participated in an invention challenge there and uh they went to Griffith Observatory too. Um it was really great and I just um
love inspiring the next generation of uh scientists and engineers. Yeah. >> Big round of applause for Kim. We're talking about the $10,000 So, a number of BBSD schools participate in National History Day, a chance for
6th through 12th grade students to dive deep into a history topic of their choice. It's truly remarkable to see the projects these students create after gathering extensive research at libraries, archives, and museums. In fact, usually at the June honor roll, we
celebrate all of the BBSD students who've won awards at the state level of Natural History Day. National History Day, as you might imagine, takes a lot of support from our educators that guides them to that level of competition. And today we're excited to
to celebrate one of them. Anna Royal. Anna, where you at? Come on down. Formerly of Summit Middle, now at Manhattan Middle. Come on up, Anna. And is anybody from Manhattan who wants to come up and celebrate? Or Summit, who
wants to come up and celebrate? So recently, Anna was named the National History Day Colorado Teacher of the Year. That's a big deal. That's right. She she represented our state as a delegate at the National History Day Finals which were held at the University
of Maryland last summer. And um Anna, I've got uh well, let's give her another round of applause because she's awesome. Um how did you get involved in Natural History Day? >> Um I did National History Day at
Fairview and did very poorly and that's how I got involved. Um, but Summit has been an incredible place to hone and develop the advising tools. And I have to give a shout out to Ben and Susie and
Meg from Summit who are here and have been partners on the journey at Summit with NHD and are really equally responsible for this award. >> Another round of applause for Anna. Are you having fun? This is good. Good
time, right? There's cookies out there. You can, you know, get a bowl of shredded beef or something if you're hungry. Um, actually this is our last uh our last recognition, but this is a big deal. So don't no shred of beef right away. Just just hang in there with me because I really need everybody here to
celebrate this next honore. Um, tonight we honor a student who saw a classmate in trouble, took action, and saved their life. June Johnson from Metal Lark. Come on up. Along with Mr. Caldwell is is
here. Anybody from Metal Lark? Wait till you wait till you hear this story. Right. This is amazing. June was in the lunchroom at Metoark. She spotted another student choking. Staff member tried to give the student the Heimlick maneuver but couldn't dislodge the food.
So what did June do? She stepped up. She had just the right touch. And this time the student's area was cleared, saving their life. Give the biggest round of applause of the night to June Johnson. June, I got we got to talk to you here.
Uh, so I understand it was your grandma that taught you the Heimlick. >> Yeah. >> Is that right? So I bet you never thought you'd ever have to use it. What gave you the courage to step up and and do that in that moment? Uh, I mean, last summer, I guess it was the summer of
2024, she's a nurse and she had like dummies at her house and I was about I was about to start like babysitting and I asked her if I could like try and save a choking dummy and it worked. Um, yeah. What was the other question?
>> No, that was it. You and you nailed it. Congratulations. Another round of applause. Let's take a picture. Thank you all again so much. I know this is a busy time of year. Uh again, it's always so great to celebrate our our champions, our incredible students, our incredible staff, our community. Uh
thank you for your support of our school district, for all you do to support your students uh and your schools. Take care, everyone.