Congratulations to Lyons High School Family and Consumer Science Teacher and Career and Technical Education Coordinator Julie Tommer who was selected as the March recipient for the El Potrillo Above & Beyond award. Each month, the Above & Beyond recipient receives a $25 gift certificate, courtesy of El Potrillo Restaurant.
One of Julie's nominations stated, "Julie has gone above and beyond her normal duties to organize, schedule, and oversee the senior exit interviews. These are a practice in real life for our graduating seniors and she saw the value in these a couple of years before the state added them as a part of the new statewide value-added graduation requirements."
Another nomination said, "Today we have adulting day whichJulie Tommer almost single handedly put together and facilitated. She also champions our senior exit portfolio and interview process which every year leads to some job offers for our kids and positive feedback from all of the seniors. Julie gives so much more time and energy to our students than her job reasonably requires. She is always trying to help get any person connected to resources in the community and provides our students with any item they need to be successful at school. If I kid comes to me in need of something that I don’t have, I send them to Julie and more times than not, she’s got the needed item at the ready. I’m not sure where these items come from but I would greatly suspect it’s from her own pocket."
Congratulations to Mrs. Tommer and to this month's other nominees: Kami Oelke and Rocky Summers!