Four St. Vrain Valley staff were awarded the Colorado’s Department of Education’s Highley Effective Schools Through Libraries, or HESTL, designation this week. The award was granted to Lesha Baker, Coal Ridge Middle School librarian, Kristin Holtz, librarian at Silver Creek High School. Holtz and Baker are among only 20 librarians in the state of Colorado to earn this distinction. They join Helen Robbins, Julie Singh, Jamie Nesbitt and LeAnne Kelly at SVVSD to earn the distinction.