90 : Enseignante de l'année, Lily Bueno

mai 23rd, 2025 /
Spencer Tuinei /

Sup avec le Sup

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Wendy Dau: Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s up with the Sup podcast. I am superintendent Wendy Dau. This week, I’m sitting down with Provo High’s Lily Bueno, who was recently named the Provo City School District Teacher of the Year. We’ll talk about her journey as an educator, what inspires her in the classroom, and the impact she’s making on her students and our entire school community.

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Et maintenant, notre épisode.

I am here with Lily Bueno. She is a Portuguese teacher at Provo High School. Welcome to this podcast, and you are our teacher of the year. Woohoo!

Lily Bueno: Oh, thank you so much. Thank you– my gosh– for having me.

Wendy Dau: Oh gosh. So well deserved. So well deserved. So we want to know all about our Teacher of the year. So tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up at Provo High. And how you ended up in this great space.

Lily Bueno: Oh yes, it is a great space. Because Provo is actually my second home, if not my first home now, because in two years gonna be half of my life in Brazil and half here– I love Provo City School District. I feel right at home here. I have a family here, besides my family. I have other families here.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: Well, I come from a family which is actually three generations and three different places or continents like you guys say. So my mom’s from Italy and my dad’s from Brazil, and she went to Brazil and come with a family with strong, beautiful minds. My grandmother going to the university back in the thirties in Italy, if you think about it.

And then they go to Brazil, and then my mom grows up in there. She meets my dad and they have eight kids.

Wendy Dau : Wow.

Lily Bueno: And they’re for Brazil, it’s very unusual. Okay. It was not like, alright, so eight kids is not as, it’s unusual in Brazil too. Yes. Okay. Yes. Not for Utah, but for Brazil and for other places. Yeah.

For the place where I came from. Which, Sao Paulo. Yes. So now we have a whole generation from Italy and my dad’s side from Spain, okay? And in Brazil. And then we all grew up in there and my dad sent his eight kids to come to this beautiful place to go to school and to get our education. Okay? So all of us, and now the third generation, most of my nieces and nephews, they’re all Americans here. So three generations, three different places.

So I have always heard about BYU, and my dad has always talked about BYU, and how it’s going to come here and study BY– I don’t understand why I didn’t learn English before. I don’t know why. I never know, but it’s okay. So I came to the US after serving on LDS Mission, so I had friends and I had family living here already.

Okay? I had five siblings living here in the US, and I came here without speaking more than two or three words in English.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: I knew hot dog, which I used to say hot doggy. And I knew McDonalds. I didn’t know much. So I had to go through the whole experience of learning English and getting into college.

And then, so I did LDS Business college, then I did BYU and I stood taught here in private city school district.

Wendy Dau: Aw.

Lily Bueno: And then there’s more story to how I end up teaching Provo City School District. But it has been such an amazing journey and I love it. I love the opportunity and I, I love this place so much, and I’m so grateful to be here.

Wendy Dau: Oh, oh my goodness. That just makes me so happy. So tell us a little bit about how you decided to become a teacher. Like what made you want to do that? And to work in our dual immersion programs and all of those good things?

Lily Bueno: Well, so I come from a grandmother who was a teacher and my uncle also a professor, cousins who are professors in my family.

Three of us, the girls, we are teachers. Even my sister-in-law who teach in Alpine City School District, she teaches fifth grade over there too.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: For the immersion program.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: She’s also a teacher, so it’s like, gosh. A family full of educators. Yes. So, but I wasn’t thinking about it. I was actually gonna do nutrition.

Okay? And I was taking a US government class at LDS business college and I had to go and do volunteer work, which is something I love about this place. I cannot stress how much I love these communities since and doing community service. This is so amazing to me. It’s not the same where I come from.

Yeah. So that’s something I have come to love here.

Wendy Dau : Oh, c'est génial.

I think we take that for granted here, by the way.

Lily Bueno: Yeah. I actually think you guys do. Yeah. I’m not saying we do volunteer service. Of course we do in Brazil. Of course we help each other. But the way it’s done in here, it’s such a beautiful thing.

I dunno if it’s a Utah thing, because that’s the only place I have lived.

Wendy Dau: Yeah. But the community. It’s just a different field.

Lily Bueno: Yes, the parents, the teachers. It’s so beautiful. So anyway, it’s my first time walking into an American school. I had never been to an American school besides college and English schools where I was learning the language.

Oh, I still am, by the way. Every day, I’m learning English. And I walked and it was, I cannot even explain how it was. I saw the walls, and all the kids work on the walls, and that really got me. And I was like, oh my goodness. And I saw those little kids and, and the teachers were so amazing. They were smiling, they were nice, and it was so engaging and I didn’t wanna leave.

I left that place and I was like, maybe I need to be a teacher. And my sister-in-law was already a teacher. And I come from family, as I said, right. And then when I transferred to BYU, I decided to go and do elementary ed and that’s what I was doing. It was a long journey. And I have one major and I have three minors.

Because when I was at BYU, I always say mentors are everything in our lives.

Wendy Dau: Ah, that’s true.

Lily Bueno: And they can change and help us to change the pathway that we’re gonna go through. And one of my mentors, she said, okay, Lily, they’re opening this minor which is Portuguese teaching, and they need licensed teachers for that, and I think you’re the best candidate for that.

She goes, you need to go and talk to Dr. Bateman. She gave me this piece of paper, she wrote it down, everything, and then she tells me how long more it’s gonna be. I’m almost graduating right now. My whole, whole heart’s gonna be graduating. And then I’m like driving back home and my heart’s just like, it’s beating.

Wendy Dau: It’s just beating. It’s going, yes–

Lily Bueno: it’s, and I’m like, oh, I really need to do that. And I remember like it was this day, my sister was actually visiting me from Brazil, and I look her and I said, I don’t know why, but i’m feeling this so strong that I really need to do this. And then how can we say no? Right? To our, our own souls.

Wendy Dau : C'est vrai.

Lily Bueno: And we really have to do it. It’s true. So I decided to do it, and I saw everybody graduating, and there I was again.

Wendy Dau : Oh, mon Dieu.

Lily Bueno: In school. So when I go and see Dr. Bateman, he actually was a missionary in Brazil in my house when I was like eight years old.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: I know. So he remembered my mom.

I did not remember him, of course. And I took all these classes, and then it took me a year and a half more to graduate in the Portuguese Immersion. I am Portuguese teaching as well. Yeah. And all of those are all my minors. And exactly when I was graduating– exactly right there, the Portuguese Immersion Program was starting in Utah.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: And Jamie Leite.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: As we all know. Yes. The Principal of Lakeview Elementary, she was the Portuguese DLI Director for the state. And she was looking for a teacher. And she calls us BYU. And Bateman says, oh, we have the perfect– the perfect person for you!

Wendy Dau: Her name’s Lily–

Lily Bueno: her name’s Lily Bueno, and then Jamie’s like, she’s looking for me over the place.

And we finally met and it was amazing. And I’ll say that if I did not choose to do the Portuguese minors plus all the immersion minor–

Wendy Dau : Mm-hmm.

Lily Bueno: I would never be here. Because when you come here and I student visa, when you graduate, you only have one year that they give you.

It’s a work permission. It’s called OPT. And I would have used that without the Portuguese program, and I would probably have left back to Brazil.

Wendy Dau : Oh, wow.

Lily Bueno: So it was like the timing was so perfect and there was teaching first grade.

Wendy Dau : Oh, mon Dieu.

Lily Bueno: Mm-hmm. Back in 2012. There were two schools and it was Rocky Mountain Elementary and Lakeview Elementary here.

It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life. To teach those kids, to meet those parents, to be able to teach in my first language, to teach the core curriculum, and to see these little souls should become amazing, beautiful minds.

Wendy Dau: Oh, yes. No question. So you started off in elementary?

Lily Bueno: Yes.

Wendy Dau: So tell us how you ended up at Provo High. Because it’s a little bit different teaching high school kids than teaching first graders.

Lily Bueno: Oh. It’s like, it’s a little bit– two different professions almost.

Wendy Dau: It’s, that’s a good way to describe that.

Lily Bueno: So I have taught college.

Wendy Dau: Oh, okay. Okay. Yep.

Lily Bueno: So, and I have taught elementary, so in between first grade and BYU was like BYU, first grade BYU again.

So I go back to BYU to pursue my masters. When I’m back to Provo City School District, the same group of kids that I taught in first grade are now in fourth grade.

Wendy Dau: Oh, geez.

Lily Bueno: I know. So I’m like, okay, maybe I didn’t do it really well the first time. Right? So I need to do it the second time. No, maybe I’m having a– and it was such a blessing. It was so amazing to have this opportunity. It really warms my heart and my soul, because the opportunity to see these kids growing up and to see them really learning and how much, yeah, it’s so, it blew my mind. It’s incredible. Like back down in fourth grade.

And there I was at Lakeview for five years. Okay? Teaching fourth grade, the best team on earth. I love them. All of them. I have a family there at Lakeview.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: And then for many reasons, in numerous reasons, visas blah, blah, let’s not go there right now– I had to leave Provo City School District. And Jason Cox was amazing. The district was amazing, really trying to help me.

It had nothing to do with the district, but laws, immigration laws, and blah, blah, blah. So I had to leave our district and I went to Tooele County School District. And I stayed there for two years. It was also an amazing experience. I could teach in a Title I school, and there was an amazing experience for me to meet those kids.

Wendy Dau: Yeah, that’s a different world.

Lily Bueno: Yes, yes. And there I am back to first grade with masks. Can you imagine?

Wendy Dau: Oh. That’s fun. Oh, that’s fun.

Lily Bueno: Yes. So there I was. And then my principal comes to me and says, we really need you in fifth grade. And I’ll never say no to my principals if they need the help, I may not like it right? Right there– which, if it wasn’t for the change that I had to do, I would be probably in first grade until now. But it was the best thing that happened to me. So I said yes, and I taught fifth grade. And when I was in Tooele and all the Covid and everything, that’s when I lost my mom. That was very hard for our family.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: And we were only here and Covid, and I couldn’t leave the country, and so many different things. And I was inside my classroom when I heard the news about my mom. So it was a very hard place to be. And I was having many different thoughts and I was thinking maybe, maybe I just need to take one year.

Maybe I just need to take care of soul and take care of myself right now. And it was a hard thing to go through. And then Jamie Leite again.

Wendy Dau: Not Jamie.

Lily Bueno: Yeah. It’s always Jamie! I know. And then she goes, okay, there’s gonna be a opening, at Provo High. And I’m like. At Provo High? No, why– I don’t wanna teach the big kids, I teach the little kids.

Wendy Dau: I teach little kids. I don’t teach the big ones.

Lily Bueno: And then I go, oh, I don’t know. Because she was like, oh, well if you’re thinking about living, so I don’t want them to feel like I’m stealing you from them, but you are saying that you wanna leave.

Wendy Dau : C'est exact.

Lily Bueno: And then she’s very smart because she started sending me pictures of the kids when they were little.

Wendy Dau: Oh, that is smart. She’s a smart woman though.

Lily Bueno: She’s a very smart woman.

Wendy Dau: She knew what she was doing. Oh yeah.

Lily Bueno: Oh yeah. She totally knew. And then she started sending me the ,pictures and I looked at those kids, and she was telling me about them and she even, she used it a sentence that really got me.

And she said, you started with them. You need to finish with them.

Wendy Dau : Oh oui.

Lily Bueno: And I was like, okay. And I was thinking about– and the last day I applied for that job. The very last day. And I always say the community actually helped me to get there because you can ask Jarod Sites, poor Jarod, there’s so many parents.

There I am now, and it has been three years and it has been such an, an adventure and what a change and to see these kids and their language proficiency and how amazing they are–

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: And how their Portuguese is a hundred times better than my English and where they got, and these college classes and how much it has been amazing. Actually fulfills my heart. Yeah. Because life did not gimme a chance to have my own kids. But seeing these kids to grow up has totally healed that in my life.

Yeah. And I love those kids so much.

Wendy Dau: Oh, that makes me so happy. I don’t even know how we ask another question now. I think you’re speaking to so many different things, like just the fact that when you’re a teacher, it’s like your school becomes your family in a lot of ways. The kids you teach are your kids.

Like you worry about them and care about them as much as your own. Like I don’t know that people really understand all of that happens. So it sounds like that’s been a little bit of your journey as well. Tell me a little bit about what differences you see between students that are in the Portuguese immersion, and students that are multilingual, and what would be your dream for all of our students that– this awesome skill where they know two languages, their understanding and operating in two completely different cultures, and they bring so much to our community. Talk a little bit about how you get to– because I feel like it’s really stressful for you, but it’s also really awesome. So I just, I want our community to hear about that.

Lily Bueno: Well, so I am not the one who teach our ML students. We have amazing teachers at Provo High. They are teaching our ML students right now, and they really put their heart and soul–

Wendy Dau: Yes they do.

Lily Bueno: Into those students. I organize the beast that’s called WIDA testing.

Wendy Dau: Yes. The testing, yes.

Lily Bueno: So we do a WIDA screener all year long for every student that come– that’s either new to the country or comes to our state from another state, so they can have a proficiency level and they can be in power school.

And now teachers can see what they’re able to do and they can actually try to help those students. Differentiating instruction so the students can perform better. Right? And during the WIDA access, which is when everybody’s testing around the school. And in high school it’s very different.

Wendy Dau: It’s developed– it is a little different. High school, there is a have a lot of kids who are like, no, I’m not doing that test. Yeah.

Lily Bueno: It’s a very long test. And it has four domains. And they have A and B days, eight different classes, and they need to be pulled sometimes four times from their classes.

Wendy Dau : Oui, c'est vrai.

Lily Bueno: So there’s a lot of logistics. There is a lot of time. And also for me, it’s not only about the test and Patricia. Which I love that woman so much.

Wendy Dau: She’s assistant principal. Yeah.

Lily Bueno: The two of us, you know, we have cried and laughed and have done everything together, but it’s also about making the kids to feel good, to feel respect, and not to feel like, okay, this is not just another test.

And every time they come to my classroom with my broken Spanish, which I say, okay, I speak Portuguese, I don’t speak it Espanol which is like they do, and I talk to them when they’re coming, and I try to talk to them and say, okay, this is just so we can measure and see where you’re at.

Wendy Dau : C'est exact.

Lily Bueno: And now we are gonna try to successfully help you to grow and get where you need to be.

And that has been the mindset at Provo High is like, let’s make goals. And let’s help those students. Let’s see where we can go. And the district, wow, Michelle. And Eri, they’re amazing. They have a heart in the right place for these kids and these students, and it has been such a journey. It’s a lot of work.

Yes. Many, many hours. I’m not the same nice teacher one those months.

Wendy Dau: Yeah, no. Especially at a school like Provo High, where we have a lot of multilingual students. That is a ton of logistics that you are working out that people don’t realize.

Lily Bueno: I have heard, I have not seen the sources, but I have heard that Provo High is, one of the most, if not the most diverse school in Utah County.

Wendy Dau: Yeah. And so, yes, and we have–

Lily Bueno: we have this amazing students. We have students that speak Spanish. We have students who are from the islands. So we have all these students from Asia, from Europe, from Brazil, from like we have all everywhere. These amazing– I know we have. And I also– I cannot really stress how much teachers they come to me because they truly, genuinely worry about a kid.

And sometimes they just say, so how can I help this kid? So can you explain to me a little bit more, or really, how do you do this? My entire career, I taught in the language that’s most of the time the second language for my students. That’s right. That’s right. So I don’t even know how to do otherwise, right?

And I love it. I love doing it. That’s how I have learned how to do it. And I believe that my experience as a English Learner myself has really helped me to get where I am at right now and to –to help my students, but it has been a blessing ,because I get to meet out most of them. I get to talk to them, I get to meet with the teachers, and we do some PDs, at Provo high.

They have asked me, okay, Lily, how can we do that? How can we help them, and can we talk to me and Patricia? And we had our teachers in there and I was doing a lesson to them all in Portuguese so they could see–

Wendy Dau: that’s good.

Lily Bueno: They could see what it feels like. Yes. So I did the same lesson twice, once with no comprehensible input, with no modeling cycle, with none of these strategies.

And that’s actually just really good strategies for everyone. It’s not just for a language learner. No. And I’ll tell you that SPED teachers are amazing at those strategies.

Wendy Dau: Yeah. That’s true–

Lily Bueno: they really know really, really well, and it was such an amazing experience for all of us.

The teachers were like, oh my gosh, I had no idea. And it has been such an amazing thing to do. I feel like I can use my expertise, which is teaching in a second language. I feel like our teacher community, our admin, all of them, everyone wants to help our students.

Wendy Dau: They genuinely do. Sometimes we don’t really know the best way, and we always try just trying to figure it out.

Lily Bueno: Yes, so I love seeing those kids in the hallways. They come to my room when we do the Seal of Bilteracy or when we do the academic letters, I need to sign for them. Yes. So I’m congratulating them. Patricia’s all about, okay, left. Let’s have a party for them. So it has been an amazing, I love meeting these kids.

I love to see so many new kids. They’re coming new, and then we talk, and then I see them again like a year. And now they’re communicating with me in English, and it’s so beautiful to watch.

Wendy Dau: And it’s just something where you have a lot of empathy for what they’re going through. You can really relate and really help teachers figure out, okay, when you do it like that, that’s not gonna help them understand it. But if you do it this way, it will really make a huge difference in how you do things. That’s huge.

What do you love most about being a teacher?

Lily Bueno: I think that’s a hard one. That is a hard, because there are many things, but watching minds grow and become beautiful and critical minds.

Watching students learning, because learning is a gift. It’s a gift, and learning something that you need to seek. It’s intrinsic motivation. And it, it’s a gift. So I have the opportunity now to teach from 9th to 12th grade. In ninth grade, they are studying for the new exam, which is the equivalent to the AP exam.

So that’s a heavy class. You help them to pass. It’s all like proficiency based and helping them with the four domains and to be successful. And when they go to the bridge classes, which are the The college level courses. Courses, right. College courses. I have sophomore. Juniors and I have seniors, I okay.

And I can see where the seniors are at and where my sophomores are at, and it’s so beautiful to see the growth. It’s so beautiful. I think I love so much that our classrooms can be a little piece of the real world. And you can see they’re gonna be citizens of the world, and they’re gonna go out there and they’re gonna do beautiful things.

Yeah. I love watching them grow. I love seeing them learning. I love during a final project and I watched them and I’m thinking, you’re gonna be the next president and you are gonna be so– and you are gonna do this. And I look at ’em and say, okay, you’re gonna be famous, and you better not forget about your teacher, and what your teacher told you and all the things you learned.

Yes. So it’s a fulfillment that’s hard to explain. Yeah. And I believe most teachers are in this profession because that’s where our hearts are at. It’s completely fulfilling. There’s so much love. There’s some tears sometimes. Yeah, sometimes, It’s a lot of work, but it’s so fulfilling.

Wendy Dau: That’s awesome. Wow. Tell us a little bit about what you wish people would know. Maybe it’s about public education in general, or maybe it’s even just about students or about teachers. Maybe it’s just something you’re like, you have no idea– I would love for you to know this about this group.

Lily Bueno: I believe that before I was teaching high school, I had maybe lost faith in our youth.

And I’m being completely honest right now.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: Because we are different generations, right?

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: And things that are happening and, and all– and ever since teaching high school, now I have so much faith for the future.

Wendy Dau: Yeah, me too.

Lily Bueno: It’s so beautiful to watch them. They’re so creative. Yes, they’re so amazing.

They’re critical thinkers, and they know how to do debates and they know how to respect each other and they, wow. I wish everybody could see how amazing students are. They really are. You know, I cannot speak for everyone. I know that I teach the best students, I’m so sorry, around the entire district, and I really do, and they can do beautiful things.

I wish that many of us educators would believe more in our students. We can really raise the bar, but we also have to be there for them. They need to know that we are there to help them to get where they need. So it’s ZPD, right? Yes. I’m wanna help you to get there.

Yeah. So I wish all of us– parents, educators, community, we would have more faith in our youth and we would really look at them and really help them to get where we know they can go. Because they have a full potential to do it.

Wendy Dau: They really do. We can push them harder than we sometimes think or sometimes believe that we can for sure. What do you wish that people knew about like the typical day of a teacher that no one would think of that that’s something that you experience as a teacher?

Lily Bueno: Okay, that’s gonna sound silly, but I wish people could see how many steps–

Wendy Dau: it’s so true. Steps in a day. It’s so true. Like the difference in my Apple watch since I’ve come to the district office and you sit in meetings versus when I was a teacher.

Oh yes. A night and day difference. Oh yes. Three floors in a high school. Like, oh yeah, you’re trekking.

Lily Bueno: Like on B days? It’s like, don’t even try to to find me. And if you text me, I’m never gonna get back to you. No, no. When you’re not the end of the day when you– my students have left my classroom because, lemme tell you, even today, so many of my students like Pro, Pro– they call me Pro, It’s short for Professora or Profesor in Portuguese, and then it was Profee, and now it’s Pro. And I told them by the time they graduate, I’m gonna be P. So, but I love, they call me Pro, like, oh, I’m a pro.

Wendy Dau: Yeah. I love it.

Lily Bueno: I love it too.

My biggest goal is that every single one of my students are gonna feel that I’m gonna be there for them. I’m gonna help them. And so it is so heavy emotionally.

Wendy Dau : Oui, c'est vrai.

Lily Bueno: And also physically. And we are there many days, many times you’re planning and you’re thinking, how can I make this engaging? How can I make my students to really have the motivation to learn this? How can I make, so they’re gonna participate? There is so much thought, and there is so much that’s going on, and you’re really trying to reach out.

And the hardest thing it is, which is also an amazing thing– our students, they’re doing sports and music and fire and they’re doing so much. Sometimes they’re so tired and they cannot be in the classroom all the time. And then you’re teaching this amazing lesson and you have this amazing thing going on, and they’re gone. And now they’re back. And now you’re balancing this whole thing. You’re balancing it.

Yes. So yes, it is very demanding.

I respect teachers a lot. I see teachers around. Schools and I am there and I think I’m the last one there and lemme tell I’m not there. More teachers there, you’re like, oh, there’s somebody still here. Yes. So it is a job where you’re really thinking about all of your students and you’re not just teaching one way, because only a percentage of your students are gonna learn that way.

Wendy Dau : C'est exact.

Lily Bueno: And then you need to use another strategy right now and help them see in another way.

Wendy Dau: It’s not just time consuming, it’s thought consuming. Then you’re always thinking about, oh, this is how I could do this, or this is how I could do this.

Or, yes, I didn’t see that student today. I wonder if they’re okay. Like I’m worried about them , and it’s– people don’t realize how much that impacts you from minute to minute. Yes. And it is go, go, go, go, go. Yes. I remember I used to be like, I can’t sit down. ’cause as soon as I sit down, I’m gonna realize that I sat down and then I’m gonna fall asleep instantly.

Because you’re just so tired and so Yes. It’s just going, going, going all the time.

Lily Bueno: It’s, yeah, like when I taught first grade, I got, I need to make this statement right here, right now. First grade teachers should make more money than any other teachers.

Wendy Dau : Oui.

Lily Bueno: I– I remember going home and taking naps like, right away, because I could not do anything anymore.

Can you imagine having 32? 32–

Wendy Dau: no. No.

Lily Bueno: First graders, no. 32 6-year-old, no– that do not speak Portuguese hass their first language. And then you teaching all day and then– oh honey, it’s like you’re dancing all day long. You’re showing them exactly how to do, ’cause you’re doing everything you can. So they will understand, you understand.

Wendy Dau: So you’re using hand gestures and dancing and all the things, pictures and showing– showing them how to do–

Lily Bueno: And showing pictures and then–

Wendy Dau: Oh wow. Yes. Yeah, that’s a lot. Yes. That’s a lot. Yes. You consumed a lot of energy, that’s for sure. Well, it is easy to see why you are our Teacher of the year in Provo. We are very lucky to have you here, Lily.

It’s an honor to talk with you and just to see how dedicated you are to our students and just hope you feel all the love and appreciation that we have for you. Becahse I sure feel it from you for our students. So thank you. Thank you. And best of luck. I hope you’re our Utah Teacher of the Year. I’ll be–

Lily Bueno: My gosh.

Wendy Dau: So amazing.

Lily Bueno: Hold on. That’s much.

Wendy Dau: Okay. Might be too– that’s okay. I won’t jump the gun.

Lily Bueno: It was such a big surprise and I was like, my husband’s making fun of me right now. And actually I didn’t talk about my husband, so I have to, because he’ll never complain about the hours. He knows how I am with my students. Yeah, my sister’s the same. So they, they all know how my heart it is for my students and, so it was a big surprise yesterday. It was huge surprise.

It blew my mind.

Wendy Dau: I think it’s awesome. It’s just a huge tribute to all that you do every single day, so thank you.

Lily Bueno: Oh, thank you. I think for all the teachers, right? For all the teachers out there who are doing so much.

Wendy Dau: Yes and yes. They’re awesome. Thank you, Lily.

Thanks everyone for joining me for this week’s episode of What’s Up With the Sup. As always, all episodes will be posted on the district website, YouTube, and anywhere you get your podcast. If you have any topics or questions you would like us to discuss on the podcast, please email us at podcast@provo.edu.

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