PHOTO COURTESY OF HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP

Educational services professional receives award from governor, proclamation from township

Elizabeth Aleo, an educational services professional, is Sunnymead Elementary School’s Governor’s Educator of the Year for 2021.

Aleo has been a member of the Hillsborough School District faculty for 11 years and at Sunnymead Elementary School for one-and-a-half years. She worked as an instructional aid at Triangle Elementary School, Woods Road Elementary School and Auten Road Intermediate School before coming to Sunnymead.

Aleo developed a virtual first grade sight word database, organized and directed the Sunnymead Virtual Picture Day, and is currently working on a sensory path mural for the school, according to a proclamation presented by the Hillsborough Township Committee on May 25.