![Alexis Arias receives $25,000 ceremonial check for Milken Educator Award.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Alexis%20Arias%20Milken_dec2023_0.jpg.webp?itok=bcLD8CE5)
December 8, 2023
Alexis Arias was presented with a $25,000 check at a surprise event held at Amistad High School where she is a 12th grade English teacher.
![Julie Paegle](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_JuliePaegle_memorial_17Sept2021.jpg.webp?itok=5_udQv1U)
September 20, 2021
Along with teaching and mentoring, Julie Paegle, who joined CSUSB in 2006 and taught a wide array of courses for the English department, was an accomplished poet and Pulitzer Prize nominee.
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May 22, 2019
CSUSB alumna Robyn Echeverri, a math instructor at El Roble Intermediate School in Claremont, has been named the 2019 Claremont Unified School District Teacher of the Year.