“I thought that [Dr. Barbara] gave me flowers for winning for the school. I had no idea, until third period, that I won districts. Even though everybody from the county was there. I didn’t know,” Murray says.
The first level of the program is a nomination process, where employees are voted in by their peers.
After that, the top 3 for a school are voted on once again, and the employee with the most votes becomes the school’s employee of the year and progresses to the district level. The county’s superintendent is in charge of the final nomination to the state level, with the decision split between 68 nominees in the Santa Rosa School District…