[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IN RECOGNITION OF LI MOON

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                           HON. JACKIE SPEIER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 29, 2014

  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Li Moon, an outstanding 
educator with the Hillsborough City School District for 22 years, who 
has changed the lives of hundreds of children, including my own 
daughter. Mrs. Moon is being honored with the Community Care Award from 
the Associated Parents Group.
  Mrs. Moon is a Resource Specialist and the Data Advisor at North 
Elementary School. She served as Teacher-in-Charge for twelve years. I 
can say without fear of contradiction that she is one of the most 
effective, empathetic and innovative educators I have known. She 
believes that all children can succeed and will not stop until she 
finds what will make a student succeed. Her patience and compassion are 
inexhaustible.
  Li Moon, a native of New York City, was a University Scholar at New 
York University. She received her BA in English in 1971, graduating cum 
laude and earning a membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. While 
teaching at Rivendell School, a small alternative school in San 
Francisco, she attended San Francisco State University, graduating in 
1991 with her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, MA in Special 
Education and Educational Therapist Certificate. The following year she 
started her teaching career at North School as a Resource Specialist, 
simultaneously continuing her private practice as an Educational 
Therapist for several years. She has also taught several courses and 
led numerous workshops in the Special Education Department at San 
Francisco State University and has been a Guest Lecturer at UC Berkeley 
Extension.
  Mrs. Moon has a long and impressive list of training and credentials, 
including a Behavior Intervention Case Manager Certificate (BICM), 
Autism Authorization Training and English Language Development (ELD) 
and Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) 
Certification. Her professional development includes training through 
Intel Math, the Columbia Math Camp, summer institutes at the Harvard 
Graduate School of Education (including Data Wise), IEP Skills 
Facilitation, TEACCH, Schools Attuned Profile Advisor training, 
Lindamood-Bell Phonological Sequencing Training, Project Read Phonology 
and Junior Great Books Discussion Leader Training. She received her 
Board Certification in Educational Therapy in 2001, is a former editor 
of The Educational Therapist and is currently the Chair of the San 
Francisco Association of Educational Therapists Study Group.
  As you can surmise from this list, Mrs. Moon is always working on 
improving and expanding her skills so that she can use them to make her 
students thrive and succeed.
  Her talents have not gone unnoticed in our community. Mrs. Moon 
deservedly received the school district's TONY and Teacher Leadership 
awards in 2001.
  Mrs. Moon and her husband of 40 years, Jason Stillwater, live in San 
Francisco. They have four children--Zachary Howard, Randall Conner, 
Moonwater and Tai Stillwater--and six grandchildren. In her spare time, 
Mrs. Moon enjoys reading, yoga, traveling and playing the flute.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the House of Representatives to rise with me to 
honor Li Moon, who has dedicated her life and career to make 
Hillsborough's school the best they can be for our children. Plato once 
said, ``The direction in which education starts a man will determine 
his future life.'' Mrs. Moon has put hundreds of men and women on the 
path to success. My daughter today is a vibrant and successful 
sophomore, thanks in part to Mrs. Moon, an exceptional teacher and 
human being.

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