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Frontier teacher named best of year
"I'm very pleasantly shocked and surprised," said the Frontier High School English teacher. The Chamber chose the Camarillo resident and nine others for the 40th annual Top Ten Community Awards earlier this month. They'll be honored at a black-tie event March 23 at Spanish Hills Country Club. Every year, winners are nominated in 10 categories- including business, youth and man and woman of the year- by people in the community. A committee selects the winners. This year, the Chamber received more than 40 nominations for the awards. Tom Kelley, Chamber president, said Dallape was chosen because she's an outstanding, compassionate teacher who's very dedicated to the progress of her students. Wayne Lamas, Frontier High School principal, said Dallape often works with students on her personal time and recruits her own children, Jennifer, 17, and Michael, 15, to help with classroom projects. "There are so many things that make her a special teacher," Lamas said. "I think most of all is her caring attitude, and her desire to see her students succeed." Dallape is also a parttime counselor at the school. She and another Frontier employee lead weekly group discussions where the teens can air their problems and help each another. A teacher for two decades, Dallape began her career in the Los Angeles area. She moved to Camarillo in 1995, teaching over the next eight years at Los Colinas Middle School. In 2003, she went to Frontier, where she finds it rewarding to fill the void for teenagers who don't have a supportive home environment. "I'm so much happier here with kids who need somebody to reach out (to them)," Dallape said. |
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