At the FUSD Board of Education meeting on September 2, 2009, Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks announced that Tracy Hofmann, FUSD's 2008-09 Teacher of the Year, has been selected as one of the San Bernardino County Teachers of the Year.  Mrs. Olsen-Binks, along with Pat Mazzuli - President of Fontana Teachers Association and Cynthia Baca - California Teachers Uniserve Representative, presented Ms. Hofmann with a bouquet of flowers to congratulate her on this outstanding achievement.  "This is very exciting for Fontana and has only happened for us once before," said Mrs. Olsen-Binks.  "Tracy is an excellent representative for our District.  We are very proud." 

San Bernardino County Schools is able to nominate one applicant for every 5,000 teachers in the county, which means they were able to nominate three teachers.  The three teachers were nominated by their individual districts and then reviewed by a panel of county administrators who made the final selection.  Representing more than 19,000 teachers in San Bernardino County, Ms. Hofmann, along with Valesca Lopez of Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District and Angie Bubb of Victor Elementary School District, will go on to compete for the 2010 California Teacher of the Year.

Ms. Hofmann told the Board that she was shocked and humbled by the news.  "I am grateful and honored to have been chosen by the San Bernardino Superintendent of Schools to represent Primrose Elementary and Fontana School District at the state level for Teacher of the Year," she said.  "Although I was shocked it is definitely the highlight of my teaching career.   I owe a huge amount of thanks to my family, friends, and coworkers for helping me to achieve this goal." 

Currently in her twelfth year with the Fontana Unified School District, Ms. Hofman is a fifth grade teacher at Virginia Primrose Elementary School.  Her Principal, Darlene Duquette, shares in Ms. Hofmann's excitement and is proud to have one of Primrose's teachers represent the district.  "Tracy is outgoing, student-focused and very bubbly when she's teaching," she enthused.  "She brings concepts to life and gets children excited about learning.  Ms. Hofmann is a leader within her grade level and her school site.  She is knowledgeable about the essential standards, for instance when the district Math Pacing Guides came out, she took a lead in revising the Pacing Guide to be aligned to the report card and the essential standards for math.  She is presently on the math leadership team at the district level and led her school's science fair and math competitions.  Ms. Hofmann takes time to listen to parents so that their children can be successful in the classroom.  Last year, the California State Standards Test results for her class were:  Language Arts - 78% were proficient and advanced; Math - 82% were proficient and advanced; and Science - 79% were proficient and advanced.

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