Lakota's Gem Awards have become a bright spot on every month. ✨️✨️ Most importantly, the new tradition has given students, staff, parents and even alumni a place to direct their words of adoration, respect and pure gratefulness for the educators who absolutely SHINE in their corner of Lakota! 🥰 We close out the school year with our final honorees in this inaugural class of Lakota Gems. Don't hold back your 👏👏👏👏👏👏: 🔹 Mandy Benjamin, Creekside ECS Teacher – Sapphire of Student Support Award 💎 Brianne Kopecky, Endeavor Elementary Nurse - A Cut Above the Rest Award 🔹✨Robyn Parrish, Hopewell Junior History Teacher - Sapphire of Student Support & Beacon of Positivity Awards (2️⃣ gems!) 💎 Matthew MacFarlane, Lakota East High School Principal - A Cut Above the Rest Award ✨🔴💎 Dr. Ashley Whitely, Superintendent - Brilliant Innovator, Beacon of Positivity & A Cut Above the Rest Awards (3️⃣ gems!) One highlight among all the surprises: Traditionally the presenter of Lakota's monthly gem awards, to say that Superintendent Ashley Whitely was surprised to be nominated herself and named a recipient is an understatement. 🤯 Read all about this final group of Gems: https://trst.in/vnvzc3. We'll wipe the slate clean and reopen the nomination form at the start of next school year. #WEareLakota #LakotaGemAward #StaffAppreciation (fb)

To kick off the LAST day of school, WE thought this moment captured just how deeply our staff cares about our kids - enough to let them tattoo them from head to toe 😂😂😂 We will miss these laughable moments over the summer. These Woodland leaders offered up this unique experience to their wolf pack members who led by example and helped make Woodland a better place this year. 🙂 What a fun and creative incentive for their Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) program. Now's your chance to share your own top moments from the past school year. Scroll through those camera rolls and share away! 📸 Enjoy this last day together before summer break, Lakota! 😎☀️ #WEareLakota #LastDayofSchool (fb)