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Maria Drennen

Position: School Counselor
School: Philomath High School
School District: Philomath School District
City, State: Philomath, OR

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Maria Drennen was nominated by one of her colleagues.

"Ms. Dennen is absolutely dedicated to serving students. She's routinely prioritizing her day around student supports, interventions, and systems to improve the environment for them.  I've never seen a more dedicated, smart, caring, and efficient professional. Despite a really challenging year, she's relentlessly there for her students. Their successes are partially due to her support for them," said her colleague.

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Shelly Matthews Posted over a year ago

Maria has been so helpful and encouraging to our son. He has a hybrid schedule as a Junior, attending mornings part time at the local community college in order to take the next math classes and other subjects that he needs (for classes not offered at the high school), and then afternoons at the high school for the remainder of his classes. She worked hard to accommodate his needs, make sure that he was able to get into the classes at the high school he needed in the time slots he had available, and enable him to still compete in afterschool sports by being on campus when school lets out. After a year of online learning with Covid restrictions, this seemed overwhelming to us. Her professionalism, her skill set, her willingness to work with us and let us know that she was on our side and working for us was so very impressive and encouraging. I would highly recommend her to anyone needing help with college prep, scheduling to get into advanced classes, and more challenging situations that need more than the typical scheduling skills to truly provide the best possible outcomes for her students. We couldn't be more pleased or thankful for Ms. Drennen!