October 10, 2022 Board of Education Recognition: Niklas Schintgen and Sara Mulford
Lansing USD469 would like to congratulate Lansing High School student Niklas Schintgen for being our October Board of Education Student of the Month and Sara Mulford for being our Staff Member of the Month!
Nik was nominated for his leadership at Lansing High School:
"Please help us in congratulating Niklas Schintgen from LHS Kansas Association for Youth Club. Team members at the KAY Leadership Camp select Nick as a Team Captain for the KLC Closing Session. This honor is because of his outstanding leadership and teamwork displayed during the Leadership Camp. KAY organizations focus on character building, leadership, and community service."
Mrs. Mulford was nominated by her peers for her teamwork, knowledge, and always going above and beyond to help others:
"While most of us were enjoying traveling and relaxing this summer, Sara was creating a yearlong calendar for second grade. The calendar contains every subject matter WITH LINKS to the actual resource. Each member of the second grade team has access to the calendar and is using it to keep us all on the same pace. As events like assemblies come up, Sara adds to the calendar. Everything we could ever need is right at our fingertips! She has everything listed by the month, such as Latinx heritage month, and our PRIDE characteristics of the month. Then she goes down every date and lists the lessons we are working on in each subject with a link. She included extra resources for things such as our Monarch butterfly unit, and our PRIDE characteristics of the month. As if that weren't enough, Sara has gone above and beyond for our first field trip this year, Mahaffie Stage Coach Stop Farm. She set up a time this summer for a group of us to make a visit to the new location. Once we decided it would be a good fit, Sara went straight to the school to get it on the calendar. This was in JUNE! Since then, Sara has been in constant contact with the program director at Mahaffie, and includes the team in weekly updates to ensure every part of the field trip is well organized and runs smoothly. She has provided the team with a checklist for the day of the field trip, organized the permission slips, and reconfigured grouping when special education busses were not able to be used at a certain time. Sara is the literal brain of our second grade team, and we do not know what we would do without her. Not only does she do so much with behind the scenes organization, but she is so willing to jump to anyone's aide as needed. She has been providing us with fresh milkweed for our caterpillars, checked in on everyone's caterpillars when they had subs, and offers pictures and videos to teachers whose caterpillars didn't make it. Even today, I watched her in the hallway offer to help a third grade teacher move a table into her room. Sara is an amazing teacher and team member. It is our great honor to recommend her for the board of education outstanding staff member."
"Sara is a happy teacher! She speaks to and treats staff and students with respect. She is a phenomenal teacher. She really goes above and beyond in the classroom. She is here early and stays late each day! She is also the coordinator for the 2nd grade field trips. This is a huge job to coordinate! She is extremely organized."
Click here to nominate a staff member or student for recognition at the November BOE Meeting.