Knowing there's only one of
them who could get this award,
and this award is very rare.
Hardly anybody in the entire
country gets this award.
And so I am going to share.
The name of the person.
The teacher who gives this award,
a teacher who has shown excellence,
a teacher who's helped you all learn
more and done a great job here,
and this teacher's name,
who I want to come up here right now.
The name of this teacher is Jenna Dean.
So this is. This is obviously special
for this name, but also it's so
special for the state of Texas.
I brought a proclamation from
the state of Texas recognizing
the genuine and Helena Park Elementary
School for Excellence in Education.
We were here for a reason, very special
reasons and it's to celebrate
being the best that you can be.
And in Helena Park Elementary,
we have the best in Texas.
And I am honored to be in the
room with you and and want to
say thank you for all that you
do to help hold your young life.
Best versions of themselves, their work.
That the work that our teachers doing
this passion is the most important work
that anyone can do in this life. Why
he plans to see for a tree who shake.
Never see this, this team,
this group, this team.
It is an honor to be here today and
thank you on behalf of State Texas.
She's still shaking, so there's a
few weeks before the program started.
They're part of the All Star team.
They're called veteran Milken
educators and we're going to meet them.
Good morning. My name is Bill Sterett,
and I received no forward as an
elementary principle in Charlottesville,
VA and I now teach at Baylor University.
Congratulations, misty.
My name is Elena Siminski
and I won in 2012 in the state of
South Dakota. I now live in Texas,
so congratulations, Jenna.
Good morning. My name is Jennifer Fuller.
I won the award in 2017 in Arlington,
TX, which is way up by Dallas.
But what's super special to me is
I've actually from Belmont and
so I went to school at Belmont.
My mom was a teacher in Belmont.
And so, Miss Dean,
we are so excited to welcome
you to the Texas Milken family.
You are well deserving and we can't
wait to get to know you here in Texas.
Congratulations.
Award. I received an award in 1994.
When I was in elementary school
in Indiana, so you're hearing
from the network in Indiana.
We want to welcome
you to our national family of
excellence and thank you for choosing
education for your career. So
you didn't know that you
were going to be speaking in
front of the whole school?
Oh my God. Hear from you.
I'm speechless, which everyone
in this game is knows takes
a lot to make me speechless.
I am very honored at the words
displayed on the dial for this award.
It's undescribable.
I want to thank first for much less students.
Y'all are pathetic.
There are. I want to thank my
administrators for everything,
for supporting me through everything that
over the years I've come up with different
plans and they take it and they go with it.
They support me, you know,
if anything I have.
Proud of myself.
I'm growing my students over
the years and I firmly believe
that every student can grow and
that's that's my job is to grow
my students and we always proud
of what they have done in the
years past and currently to.
Thank you from the faculty
for supporting my coworkers.
We're all A-Team here and I'm just,
I'm feeling grateful and
God being the foundation,
they felt so much driving
around somewhere out there.
Thank you so much.
Today, by the way, did you see this?
Today we're honoring this team, but in doing
so, we aim to shine the
spotlight on everyone here,
all the students and all the staff.
Students, thank you.
And now I have favors to ask.
Tonight. Go home and talk about
what just happened in the Assembly,
especially the part about how great
educators help us over the next week.
Think about all the teachers that you
were pointing at, all the educators
that have helped you find them.
Go up to them.
Say thank you.
In fact, thank you
and **** you.
And doing that to the Assembly
too, and far to your future,
maybe some people in this room,
some of you will choose to be a teacher so
you can make a great influence
on all the young people around you. Thank
you to everyone and congratulations.