From his nominator: "Ramon has demonstrated leadership by facilitating meetings with diverse groups of educators and stakeholders to address issues regarding chronic absenteeism. He has been able to bring to their attention how there has been a significant increase post COVID-19. He has helped implement change by giving tools and resources to superintendents, principals, and school improvement teams. He demonstrates how to reduce chronically absent students, take preventative measures, complete data analysis, and find ways to provide resources to students so they are able to consistently attend school and decrease chronic absenteeism. Furthermore, his facilitation and skills have led decision makers to look into school policy and consider changing the way absences are reported and calculated. An excellent example is in the documented results of his work with Bidwell Elementary. As a result of his work with this school, their reported numbers showed a chronic absenteeism decrease from 54.3% to 29.9%, a 24.4 percentage decrease after helping decision makers implement practices. Also, their CAASPP Scores (All Grades): Math increased 4.31 percentage points and English increased 9.66 percentage points. Ramon has created a Word Document titled, "Simple Way to Attack Chronic Absenteeism" that shows readers the steps and processes used in the Chronic Absenteeism coalition group. It is available to anyone that would want to use or view it."