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2023-2024 CAC Award Winners!

Santa Cruz Gardens Student Services Team

The Student Services Team at Santa Cruz Gardens is small but mighty! Though the team had many new members this year, they have worked diligently to become a cohesive unit and seeks always to serve students first and keep them at the center. The team at SCG is collaborative and creative, often finding unique ways to meet needs. SCG is truly a haven where students strengths are celebrated and needs are seen as assets in the making.

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Judi DeSantis

San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District

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Judi DeSantis

Judi is our Special Education Department Secretary and she also serves as the Ludlow Preschool secretary and registrar. In her job, she wears many, many hats. She works with parents, teachers, administrators, etc. She keeps our wonderful SPED director organized. She oversees our SEIS files and keeps us on track. She keeps track of all the legal paperwork. She places orders for all our supplies and all the SPED supplies. She is a terrific person and she does such a fantastic job juggling all of her responsibilities. I feel like she doesn't know how much we appreciate all that she does!

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Kristy Jolly & Jessica Pizzica

Santa Cruz City Schools

Kristy Jolly

Kristy Jolly is the Compliance Coach in Santa Cruz City Schools, and she is exceptional in her role. Kristy has a breadth of experience, knowledge, and passion for supporting students with special needs and the educators who teach them. Kristy consistently displays professionalism, integrity and dedication in everything she does. I am so grateful to have her on our team! . Kristy is an exceptionally helpful person. She is professional and has wonderful energy that is infectious to others. She is an amazing mentor, and teacher.

Jessica Pizzica

Jessica Pizzica works tirelessly as a BCBA across our district to support students and special education teams. Her depth of knowledge and commitment to the belief that all students have the capacity to acquire skills, grow, and learn is an inspiration. She brings innovative and evidence based practices to her work with teams and a tireless work ethic to all things she does. She is a true asset to our community.

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Sasha Talavera

Soquel Union Elementary School District

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Sasha Talavera

Sasha is such a kind and caring support for students and staff alike! Everyone knows that she makes an effort to check in as often as she can. Folks know that Sasha genuinely cares about our community and wants us all to suceed and grow together.

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Alyson Paolini

Alyson is our amazing Speech/Language Pathologist for our preschool and preschool aged children in our district. She is exceptional at her job and the students love when they get to go to her office. She also joins my class for a bi-weekly circle time that the students really enjoy. She sings beautifully and makes everything exciting! She truly cares about each of her students and the staff around her. She is an all around terrific person!

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Alyson Paolini

San Lorenzo Valley USD

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Allie Lovell

ALLISON Lovell is exceptional because she’s: Accepting of all students/their abilities; Advocate, Leader; gives time to community by coaching girls’ swimming/golf teams, Listener; builds connections with students, Integrity; Models professionalism, Smart, Strong communication, Organized, optimistic, assists/boosts students’ learning when they don’t learn the traditional ways, Nonjudgmental, Nice

Allie Lovell

Soquel Union Elementary School District

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Main Street SPED Student Services Team

The Student Services Team at Main Street Elementary has been BUSY this year. Through it all they have kept students and serving them and serving them well at the center. This team carries a heavy load and they do it well. They are caring, patient, compassionate, empathetic, and true believes in the potential and inherent goodness in ALL students. They are collaborative and always willing to lend each other a hand in order to contribute to the success of the team on the whole.

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Main Street SPED Student Services Team

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Kayla Brown

San Lorenzo Valley USD

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Kayla Brown

Ms. Brown has worked tirelessly and selflessly over the past three years to maintain a sense of community connection and spirit of play and participation in the BCE K-2 SDC class, particularly during COVID. She has an excellent attendance record, teaches in the afterschool program, supports students with transportation, and is an excellent role model.

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Carissa Lemos

SPED Director, SUESD

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Carissa Lemos

Carissa is the most caring, understanding, accepting, and inspiring boss I have ever had the pleasure to work for. Carissa has helped guide me in the beginning years of my career as a School Psychologist.

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Katie Tidaback

Bonny Doon

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Katie Tidaback

Students love working with Katie. Katie is fun, approachable and professional. Families appreciate Katie's communication and care. Staff respect Katie's ideas and efforts to address student needs. Katie Tidaback is a star.

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Soquel Elementary Student Services Team

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Soquel Elementary Student Services Team

The Student Services Team at Soquel Elementary is a force! They are thorough, thoughtful, organized, and deeply rooted in pursuing the best possible outcomes for students. They are creative problem solvers and exceptional practitioners. They have rolled with the ups and downs of the year in a way that is telling of their character and their commitment to serving students and supporting families.

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Katie Payne

Katie does an amazing job teaching all subjects to her students while taking care of the many SPED tasks while remaining positive and fun to work with.

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Katie Payne

Scotts Vallye district teacher

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Amy Cunningham

San Lorenzo Valley, Ludlow Preschool Instructional Aide

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Amhy Cunningham

Amy goes above and beyond with her work at the preschool. She is gifted in meeting our preschoolers as their individual level socially, emotionally and behaviorally. She is my right and left hand. The students adore her and the staff rely heavily on her. She is one in a million and I could not do my job without her!

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SPED Support Staff, New Brighton Middle School

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SPED Support Staff, New Brighton Middle School

The student team at New Brighton Middle School is a well oiled machine. They are above all student centered. They are thoughtful, collaborative, and an all around joy to work with! The share the load and often collaborate on who's doing what to make sure that everyone is taken care of. Every member of this team is exceptional and we are so fortunate to have them!

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Crystal Perez

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Crystal Perez

Crystal’s dedication and boundless passion as our Family and Community Engagement Manager has united special education families, creating more togetherness and belonging within our district like never before. Through her outreach efforts, she has achieved continued success, creating a sense of community that transcends all barriers. Crystal's impact on the lives of those she serves is nothing short of extraordinary.

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Shar Ames

Dr. Ames, our Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, has done a wonderful job in supporting our Special Education Department in the absence of a seasoned Director of Special Education. She took over mid-year and has worked tirelessly to ensure that our staff and sped department are set up for success.

Shar Ames, Live Oak Administrator

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Theresa Novak

Theresa will do anything to help any student. She is kind and respectful and sees the worth in each person she works with. She understands how to support all students by providing various types of scaffolding and diverse strategies, and she makes students feel valued and appreciated. She is absolutely appreciated by all the special education staff she works with also.

Theresa Novak

Santa Cruz City Schools SpED Support Staff

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Laura Brown

Soquel HS Instructional Aide

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Laura Brown

Laura is a SCIA for one of our special education students. She is extremely patient and caring. She is knowledgeable, proactive and an advocate for her student. I would like to nominate Laura for the dedication to her student and the progress the student has made of the course of the year.

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Soquel Union Annex Student Services Team

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Soquel Union Annex Student Services Team

The team in the annex is like Santa's Elves; often tinkering in the background in order to make things happen! There's nothing Sama can't do (or won't do) to support the student services team in being able to get the job done and done well! She is a wiz with data and makes SEIS and CALPADS play nice on the daily. Lily keeps our files in check and more importantly reaches our families in ways that the rest of the team sometimes can't! She is an exceptional asset to our team. Sasha couldn't be better at what she does. She is profoundly knowledgeable and keeps our sights rooted in inclusion and holistic social-emotional/behavior inclusive support. Liz is a program specialist extraordinaire. She is humble and service oriented, doing whatever is needed to support the success of our teams. Caitlyn is like a unicorn of a BCBA. She is collaborative, generous with her time, energy and expertise, and keeps our aides staffed and trained. Vicky keeps our students healthy, but she keeps the grownups healthy too! She cares for us all, body and soul, so that our entire student services team can be in tip top shape to serve students.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

2023-2024 CAC Award Winners!

2022-2023 CAC Award Winners!

2021-2022 CAC Award Winners!