To celebrate the start of the school year, the Gladstone School District honored a total of six staff members who won Thank a Teacher or Making a Difference awards at our staff's Welcome Back event on Aug. 26. To recognize their outstanding contributions to our community, each of these staff members received $250 from a Gladstone Education Foundation endowment.
Gladstone School District Technology Assistant Buck Afalava is always on the move. A recent Making a Difference Award recognized how his work touches every school building in Gladstone. His helpful and humble spirit epitomizes a sense of customer spirit. Most of our systems, and just about everything that plugs into a wall, are vulnerable to failure every now and again. When colleagues enter a help ticket, they smile when he walks in the door to help, because they know he will stick with them until he finds a solution.