Outstanding Volunteer Evelyn Rosado
Community Involvement Coordinator Wyndham Lakes Elementary Southeast Learning Community
Evelyn Rosado is a pillar of Wyndham Lakes Elementary and its community. She makes sure events are well-executed, the school has enough volunteers and that everything is flawless. Beyond overseeing a group of volunteers and completing a list of tasks, a great volunteer coordinator helps each member of the school and community to be more efficient while also using their skills to fulfill the long-term goals of the organization. Evelyn actively maintains the volunteer data using the eCoordinator site. She never stops recruiting community members to be ADDitions School Volunteers and Partners in Education. She strives to make Wyndham Lakes Elementary better every day! Karl Moore, former Oxford professor and leadership researcher, states that “a good team leader is able to convince others to act upon a mission, helps resolve a crisis, addresses team concerns and ideas and knows when to push and when to allow people to relax.” Evelyn utilizes these qualities in her role as the community involvement coordinator and ESOL specialist every day. She has the best personality for recruiting school volunteers and having Wyndham Lakes Elementary staff donate their time for activities. Evelyn also actively recruits mentors for the different student-academic
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programs. It is because of Evelyn’s kindness and work ethic that people gravitate to her and support her ideas and school events! As Partners in Education (PIE) Coordinator, Ms. Rosado organizes and places volunteers from PIE in as many school-volunteer opportunities as possible. She also coordinates the amazing Veterans Day breakfast, which includes food donations, decorating invitations, follow-up phone calls, greeting families, etc. She also had to reschedule the breakfast because of Tropical Storm Nicole, and could execute the event in an extraordinary way, which motivated everyone to attend! As the volunteer coordinator, Evelyn shares the overall vision, acts with empathy and has initiative. Organizations can be certain that the volunteer team’s work will reflect its values, be effective, and make a bigger impact in the long run. “The students, parents, volunteers and Partners in Education love Ms. Rosado, and are always willing to volunteer again and again because she makes them feel right at home!”
Iris Roldan
ADDitions School Volunteer Coordinator Dommerich Elementary East Learning Community
Iris Roldan, affectionately known as Ms. Iris, is a beloved staff member at Dommerich Elementary. In her role as the ADDitions program co-coordinator for the past 15 years, Ms. Iris has demonstrated
outstanding interpersonal skills with the students and their families and staff members. She has created efficient and structured customer-service systems for organizing hundreds of volunteers during Dommerich Elementary’s many large events, including grade-level field trips, fifth-grade, winter- and end-of-the-year class parties, the kindergarten costume parade, Teach-In, Read2Succeed and concerts. During all the events and celebrations, Ms. Iris ensures that the ADDitions School Volunteers are approved and prints their nametags. She singlehandedly manages the crowd as they arrive at the front office. Through Dommerich Elementary’s partnership with UCF, 70 aspiring education students visit our classrooms each year. Ms. Roldan works with the school’s CRT and UCF professors and college students to ensure that all the ADDitions School Volunteers meet the eligibility requirements. In conjunction with the other cocoordinator, Ms. Iris has provided new staff and volunteers with an orientation session. She also acknowledges Dommerich Elementary’s school volunteers for their time and efforts by planning their annual volunteer breakfast. Ms. Iris has worked at Dommerich Elementary for the past 22 years and is committed to creating an environment of care and respect for all of our volunteers. “Ms. Iris is an amazingly impactful employee at Dommerich Elementary School who knows generations of families by