John Schram has been a member of the JPII team for more than 10 years. John has gone way beyond the normal requirements of a teacher. In addition to John’s regular duties, he helps create ways to improve how we evaluate our students’ performance, and in that process, John makes both our students and faculty better. John is always responsive to students, faculty, and our board alike. When courses/curriculum change, John takes on this behemoth of the task of immediately creating an entirely new curriculum and syllabus for the school year. An example was his willingness to make wholesale changes to an honors program to ensure it met curriculum requirements. The result? More than 20 students completed certificate requirements last year that would have not been achievable previously. John is an excellent Christian/Catholic role model for his family and our school, not only in the visible action of going to mass and participating in Catholic functions but in the less visible Christian qualities. John has provided personal assistance for faculty members in need, even teaching six additional classes for three months for an ailing colleague and personally entering the grades in addition to his own workload. This was done in addition to John’s extracurricular work for JPII, which is considerable. John is not simply a teacher who satisfies school and Diocese requirements. He is constantly looking for ways to improve how we serve our students. Our students recognize his considerable efforts. For the last five years, John has taught a required course in summer school online and the course is so popular that by April of each year the course enrollment is full and students go on a waitlist.