Report Card

For 27 years Wendy Wolff has worked as a middle school teacher in the

Huntington Beach City School District. She has spent the last 16 years at

Sowers Middle School where she has lent her talent to many of the

school’s programs.

The motto at Sowers is, “If you can conceive it and believe it, you

can achieve it.”

“That [motto] best describes Wendy and her attitude toward everything

associated with our school,” said Paul Morrow, Sowers principal.

Wolff was recently presented with an Educator of the Year Award and

joined nine other educators from Orange County and Los Angeles in

receiving this honor through the California Middle Grades Partnership

Network.

“Needless to say, I am extremely excited to receive such an honor,”

Wolff said. “When you teach day-to-day, you don’t expect something like

this. I’m just doing a job I love.”

Wolff has been active in Sowers’ California Middle Grades Partnership

Network, has served as the lead writer for the school’s application to

become a California Distinguished School and this year assisted the

school in completing its second application to become a National Blue

Ribbon School.

“She is a teacher who makes a difference in the lives of her

students,” Morrow said.

Wolff is a teacher for the Gifted and Talented Education program at

Sowers and offers her students an enriching environment through

stimulating conversation, hands-on experiences, simulations of historical

events and through debate and the discussion of difference of opinion.

Wolff previously taught at Gisler Middle School before it closed its

doors in 1985.

“What I love about teaching is that it is never the same,” she

explained. “I also am working with fabulous teachers and a great student

body, and I’m at a wonderful school.”

Wolff also heads up the Sowers student senate and for the past nine

years has led Sowers students in its community service program.

She spearheads fund-raisers and community service events such as a 5k

run for the American Heart Assn., and programs for Ronald McDonald House,

Batter Women Shelter of Huntington Beach and the March of Dimes.

“Sowers is the American Heart Assn.’s largest middle school

fund-raiser in the nation, due to Wendy’s enthusiastic leadership,”

Morrow said.

Recently, Wolff organized a fund-raiser for disaster victims of the

Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and in three days raised more than $10,000.

The money was donated to the New York 911 Fund.

She has touched more than 1,856 students assigned to her classrooms

and has led the way in raising more than $200,000 through various

fund-raising events.