Nominees

MARTHA GARDNER

Martha Gardner

5th Grade, Belvedere Elementary

“If you are part of my life you are family... I get butterflies at the beginning of each school year in anticipation of the new class of learners about to join me on a yearlong adventure. I am excited to see their faces on the first day. These smiling uncertain people don't know it yet but they have just met the newest member of their family-me.”