The 2024 Summies
Recognizing outstanding achievement in education and supporting Emergent Bilingual students across Texas.
Special Awards
Administrator of the Year Norma G. Garcia Award
Awarded to Dr. Carmen Pompa - Laredo ISD
Summit K12 Innovator Dr. Gina Saenz Award
Awarded to Breanne Bell - West Mesquite HS
Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded to Zonia Lopez - Corpus Christi ISD
Districts of the Year
Campuses of the Year
Educators of the Year
ELEMENTARY
MIDDLE SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL
Fourth Place Olga Valdez Velez
Del Valle High School,
Ysleta ISD
How to Prepare for Next Year
Next year's Summies will be presented at the 2025 TABE Conference and cover the 2024-25 school year.
Award winners are determined by several factors including:
- TELPAS growth
- Purchase and usage of all 3 components of Connect to Literacy
- Listening-Speaking
- Reading-Writing
- Language Foundation Skills
- Connect to Literacy Usage Rankings
- Overall usage
- Average minutes per week, per student
- Number of Listening quizzes per student
- Number of Speaking quizzes per student
- Number of Reading quizzes per student
- Number of Writing quizzes per student
- Nominee interview