Christine Downs

“Christine consistently embodies May Institute's core values. However, within the past year, she has gone above and beyond in several realms, including: demonstrating excellence and service delivery, as evidenced by her highly engaging presentations and trainings for which she consistently receives positive feedback; producing high-quality work under a tight deadlines as evidenced by her completion of an RFP proposal within a week while preparing her presentations for a national conference; and keeping operations running smoothly during a time of transition, as evidenced by her taking on the primary coordination of a DESE Academy this academic year. It is truly an honor to work with Christine.”

 

“Christine has been an unsung hero for our team. She serves as our PBIS Director and organizes and runs our regular team meetings, helping us with all things, contract-related and central reach related. She is constantly getting us new contracts and bringing in new schools/clients for us. In fact, during the pandemic, she was essential in continuing with our work by reaching out to schools to provide virtual training and workshops for educators and paraprofessionals. Because of this, we were able to continue work and bring in clients for May. But this year, she has gone above and beyond.  First, she was tasked with taking over the DESE-run PBIS Academy, and had to create all new content and organize all the trainers and training sessions (73 schools, nine trainers, 78 training sessions). Her content is beautiful and well put together, and the Academy has succeeded because of her. Not only does Christine keep our team running smoothly, but she also is constantly making us better and giving us more opportunities.  She works tirelessly… I also appreciate that even though she does all the behind-the-scenes work, she also gets out there and works with schools and does training. Christina is so valuable to our team and to May Institute and deserves the highest honors.”