October staff leader of the month Elia Martinez. Elia wears many hats. She is an employee, a mentor to other employees in the school system, a coworker, student, friend, mother, wife and daughter. She does things at RES that are beyond her job duties, helping both students and staff. Finance is a big job with a lot of responsibility. In addition to her job duties, she is also happy to help Jennifer Creed, the school nurse when she needs a translator. Elia and Jason share
"nurse duty" when Jennifer is away at her other school. Elia spent two days away from her job duties, sick, in pouring hurricane rain, in a boot/crutches/scooter for her broken foot, knowing that she would be behind with her own work when she returned to school and she never complained. We are so thankful for Elia. She takes care of everyone (family and work) all while keeping up with her own school work and managing her own life, and does it with a smile. She is a wonderful co-worker and most days, we could not do our job without her.