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Out of 305 nominees from 38 states and 17 countries, Pueblo U.S. history teacher Mr. Cristobal Santa-Cruz was nominated and selected as one of this year’s winners of the prestigious Yale Educator Award, which recognizes high school educators who have motivated and supported students to go and be \u201cabove and beyond\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These educators are nominated by students, and these nominations are reviewed by admissions officers at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI felt privileged because I know that several teachers deserved this award,\u201d said Santa Cruz, who was nominated by Pueblo High School\u2019s Class of 2021 valedictorian Yakeleen Almaz\u00e1n, currently attending Yale University in New Haven, Conn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnce I read the Yale Educator Award prompt, I automatically thought of Mr. Santa Cruz.\u201d said Almaz\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almaz\u00e1n thanks Santa Cruz for all of the encouragement he gave her. She believes that because of his support, she was accepted to Yale and was selected for one of the most prestigious scholarships for high school students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot only did he touch my life, but he is legendary at Pueblo for his amazing lectures and the motivation he instills within his students,\u201d Almaz\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added that Santa Cruz\u2019 interactive style of teaching allows his students to be engaged in their classwork and deeply interested in the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can honestly say that I was never bored\u2014not even once\u2014while I was in his classroom,\u201d Almazan said. \u201cI was always fully attentive and fascinated during his lectures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Mary Wallace, an economics teacher at Pueblo, added that Santa Cruz has been an unconditional ally to his co-educators and staff throughout their years of teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe is the most amazing teacher I ever met,\u201d said Wallace. \u201cWhen I was a first-year teacher, he took me under his wing and helped me so much. If it weren\u2019t for him, I wouldn\u2019t have made it my first year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Santa Cruz, who has been teaching at Pueblo for 29 years, was publicly recognized for this award at Pueblo\u2019s Homecoming game on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen my students leave my class, my hope is that they have the skills that help them become literate members of our society and that they adhere to a tenacious spirit that helps them further their education in the field they choose to follow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Isaiah Sotelo Out of 305 nominees from 38 states and 17 countries, Pueblo U.S. history teacher Mr. Cristobal Santa-Cruz was nominated and selected as one of this year’s winners of the prestigious Yale Educator Award, which recognizes high school educators who have motivated and supported students to go and be \u201cabove and beyond\u201d. These … Continue reading Cristobal Santa Cruz Receives Collegiate Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,190,41,286],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-TJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}