Posted
March 21, 2018,
3:05 PM.
Updated
January 28, 2020,
1:47 PM.
Pepsi and the APS Education Foundation recognize some of our outstanding teachers.
Terry Kominiak is the Pepsi/APS Education Foundation’s Teacher of the Month for March. Pepsi and the APS Education Foundation have partnered for the past eight years to recognize a few of the district’s outstanding teachers for their contributions to the classroom, school, and community. In their second year, Flying Star Café is recognizing our teachers by donating a gift card.
The Foundation randomly selects one APS school each month, and that school’s principal or staff chooses a teacher to be honored. The teacher receives a $100 check from Pepsi, a $50 gift card from Flying Star Café and acknowledgment on the APS website, Facebook page and electronic billboards.
They receive a small token of appreciation but represent the many outstanding teachers in Albuquerque Public Schools.
Meet Terry Kominiak:
Transcript
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Okay and so what is that first person
second person okay Terry builds
classroom culture better than anyone I
know she developed students in a way
that we talked about educating the whole
child so students learn a ton of content
in her class but more than anything they
learn to be great citizens they learn to
take care of each other and be kind and
compassionate and that's something that
Terry lives out every day she takes care
of her peers she takes care of me
she's someone that we all trust and go
to for advice and for care like what did
he do for us when we started reading
this story why did why was it important
for us to have that in third I wanted to
become a teacher because I wanted to do
the right thing for kids who struggled
and just kind of be there for them so
and I just wanted to make sure that they
knew that somebody cared about them when
they were in the classroom the power of
teaching kindness the power of teaching
students and people to be responsible
for one another and to take care of
things like they're supposed to do I
know that when we send kids out of
Terry's class they're ready to be young
adults in middle school I always told
them I want them to be good people that
you know and I guess it's even more
important today we talked a lot about
that in here how we're a community and
we need to take care of each other and I
also want kids to always know that they
always have somebody if they if they
needed me find me I'll be here for you
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Albuquerque Public Schools