San Dieguito names CCA’s Timothy Stiven Teacher of the Year
The San Dieguito Union Large University District has declared Timothy Stiven as its 2022 Trainer of the Year and Cathy Shroyer as its 2022 Labeled Staff of the Year.
Stiven is in his 16th calendar year educating social science and humanities at Canyon Crest Academy and his 36th 12 months in general as a teacher. He has been the coordinator for the Imagine Conservatory in the Humanities at CCA for nine decades and at this time teaches AP European Historical past, AP Environment Record and Non-Western Planet Background for students amongst the ninth and 12th grades.
“Mr. Stiven is so deserving of this honor,” stated CCA Principal Brett Killeen in a information release. “Not only does he nurture and aid ideas produced by our personal learners in our district, he connects them to young persons throughout the world to collaborate and empower them to actually make a variation in our planet.”
A fourth-generation educator from each sides of his loved ones tree, Stiven’s love for historical past started when his fantastic-grandfather gave him a “History of the U.S. Civil War” book for Christmas when he was 10 decades outdated. The curiosity that adopted led Stiven to the route of becoming an educator.
At CCA, Stiven’s learners have earned a lot of recognitions in San Diego and in the region, most recently when his Conservatory students introduced their graphic novel “Jasper and the Spirit Skies” at Comedian-Con 2021 and this tutorial calendar year when his college students began educating science labs more than Zoom to ladies in Kabul, Afghanistan, next the Taliban takeover of the country.
“Mr. Stiven is an superb educator whose ‘real life’ training type permits his college students to develop their important pondering competencies in a in depth and really participating method,” SDUHSD Trustee Julie Bronstein stated in the information release. “He teaches his pupils how to develop into citizens of the entire world by consistently exposing them to their friends in other nations these as Afghanistan, Africa and China. Mr. Stiven’s enthusiasm for teaching inspires learners and other educators to strive for excellence. I am so amazed with his skill to create connections with college students on an worldwide foundation which has led to enhanced educational outcomes for learners not only in San Diego but throughout the entire world.”
“(When I arrived to CCA immediately after 17 many years at an elite university prep college in Los Angeles), my objective was to convey to a community school what is performed at prep educational facilities all the time – continual innovation,” Stiven said in the news release. “The Envision Conservatory for the Humanities at CCA is proof that general public schools have the methods to exceed in parts non-public universities claim is their purview only: a well-rounded schooling to matriculate to the elite universities.”
As the district winner, Stiven will now advance to the San Diego County Personnel of the Year Application administered by the San Diego County Business of Training and contend with other school district winners for the title of San Diego County Trainer of the Year.
Cathy Shroyer, administrative assistant in the administrative services office at the district business, has been with the district for 20 yrs.
As an administrative assistant in assist of pupil products and services, Shroyer performs a broad array of duties such as: working carefully with people through the Scholar Attendance Critique Board doing the job with pupil assist professionals at school websites to get supplies for learners in foster care and those experiencing homelessness offering leadership to office environment substitutes and helping with the various pupil company places which include university student information and university choice.
Prior to her assignment at the district office environment, Shroyer initial worked as an tutorial assistant in the particular education and learning software supporting pupils with serious disabilities at Torrey Pines Higher College starting in 2002 prior to turning out to be an office environment assistant at Carmel Valley Middle College.
District staff famous that Shroyer’s helpfulness, friendliness and caring individuality are highlights that make her an great employee with one particular commenting that “Cathy’s commitment to the District is unfaltering. It is largely owing to her efforts that the do the job of the administrative companies division fulfills all prerequisites and runs as easily as achievable every single calendar year.”
As the district recipient of this honor, Shroyer will progress to the County Classified Worker of the Calendar year application administered by the San Diego County Place of work of Instruction.
