SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Teachers
from 1A
Jocelyn Cain has been standing
up in front of the classroom for 13
years. Teaching runs in her family;
her dad was a high school math
teacher. Her whole family is from
Mapleton.
Cain will be teaching Special
Education for the entire elementary
7 A
school, along with second-grade
core reading and math.
“In Special Education, you get
to see students’ individual growth
throughout the years,” she said.
“You get to build a relationship
with them.”
Jessica Nelson will be teaching a
slew of subjects for the district,
including art for every grade, mid-
dle school drama, high school com-
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Jocelyn Cain
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Molly Dooley
Mapleton
Jessica Nelson
Mapleton
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Siuslaw High School
From left: Bruce Morganti, Melanie Goeddel,
Tom Shinn and Ryan Roach
position, world cultures for high
school and a “partridge in a pear
tree,” she said.
“Art is a human endeavor, like
language,” Nelson explained. “It’s
a wonderful way to express your-
self, and we live in a world that
uses visual communication a lot.”
Molly Dooley teaches Social
Studies. A first year teacher who
used to live in Drain, Ore., she said
that starting her career is “exciting,
a little nerve-wracking and I’m
ready to go.”
“Social studies shows up in
everyday life,” Dooley said.
“Especially with history. It’s not
just in the past. It connects with
today. History is happening now,
and it’s important to understand
that so we know what’s going on in
the world.”
Juline Walker is teaching middle
school and high school Spanish,
seventh-grade math, ninth- and
tenth-grade language arts and
careers. She’s a local, and acted as
a substitute teacher at Mapleton
and a Spanish teacher at Siuslaw
High School for the past four years.
Walker said, “I think that being
able to communicate with someone
in their first language is a really
amazing way to honor that person
and to respect their background and
upbringing.”
Heading over to Florence, six
new teachers are joining the
Siuslaw School District faculty
ranks this year, as well as a new
assistant principal.
Garth Gerot has been education
students for 14 years before coming
to Siuslaw High School as the
assistant principal.
This isn’t his first go-around in
the position, having been principal
at Willamette Leadership Academy
in Springfield. He has teaching
experience as well, passing on lan-
guage arts to students and career
and college readiness for six
through 12th grades.
“I really want to make the stu-
dents’ current learning relevant to
their long-term goals and prepare
them to take that next step to what-
ever it may be,” Gerot said. “I want
to help set them up so they can real-
ly follow their passion and put that
positive energy into what they are
doing.”
Bruce Morganti will be teaching
music, drama and everything in
between. He has an extremely long
career in teaching, having taught in
Arizona and Hawaii.
“It’s the communication and
imaginative skills that drama gives
students that makes them more pre-
pared for work and living,” he said.
“These skills translate into real
life.”
Tom Shinn is a graduate of
Roseburg High School and went to
Western Oregon University. He’ll
be teaching Social Studies along
with teaching kids how to properly
throw a proper curveball as the
baseball coach.
English and Language Arts
teacher Melanie Goeddel is joining
the ranks after graduating from the
University of Montana, Missoula,
with an emphasis in English. Her
honors thesis project was on
improving classroom literacy
instruction, taking English beyond
just rote by incorporating speaking,
listening and computer literacies.
“I want to make students excited
about language,” she said.
Ryan Roach is taking his first
crack at the head of the class after
being an educational assistant for
three years with the Siuslaw
District. He’ll be a Special
Education Resource Teacher focus-
ing on Social Studies and English
Language Arts.
What’s important to Roach?
“Building a respectful and inclu-
sive relationship with parents and
students, and a classroom commu-
nity for my students so they have a
place to learn in a well-curated
environment,” he said.
Chelsey Stemberg is jumping
into the teaching waters for the first
time, looking to shape the minds of
fourth-graders
at
Siuslaw
Elementary School.
She’s not new the community,
having grown up in Florence and
graduated from Siuslaw High
School.
“I want to give back to the com-
munity that gave back to me,” she
said.
Wendy Moore has been working
with students for 17 years. She’ll be
working with the Title 1 children in
fourth-and fifth-grades.
“I hope to improve my students’
reading scores and therefore instill
confidence in them,” Moore said.
Finally, Christi Riggs, a 20 -year
veteran of the teaching world, got
right to the point.
“I’m just going to say, the reason
I’m a teacher is because I want to
make sure they love to learn and
can become lifelong learners,” she
said.
Riggs will be teaching fifth-
grade.
Departments from 1A
additional volunteers, so they are
going to strengthen their fire
departments’ budget, their person-
nel and their firefighters, who will
now have insurance coverage
when they respond to a call,”
Langborg said.
Another important element of
this
increased
cooperation
between departments will be in the
training offered to the Upriver fire
fighters, secured through a new
grant obtained by Siuslaw Valley.
Lyndsey said, “Jim (Langborg)
got the grant going and then added
us. We will get ongoing training
for six years and we also get five
‘turnouts’ a year for three years,
which is very significant because
new turnouts cost about $3,500.
“The support that Siuslaw
Valley has been giving us is a big
change from what it was in the
past. We will be much better pre-
pared to respond to emergencies
here and to assist on calls in other
areas.”
Danny Morgan, assistant chief
of the Deadwood District, empha-
sized the importance of this train-
ing to the citizens he protects
every day.
“With this help from Siuslaw
Valley, we were able to take
Emergency Responder Classes
(EMR), which are not quite train-
ing for EMTs but better than just a
first aid class,” Morgan said.
“There were four of us from my
station that took the class, so now
we have licensed EMRs. So we
are branching out from fire calls,
and we can do more for our com-
munity than before.”
Morgan also points out the time
factor involved in responding to
medical emergencies.
“Previously, we would show up
and tell people that the ambulance
was on the way and you are look-
ing at a half hour drive, or longer,
depending on how busy they
were,” he said. “Now, we can
administer oxygen, take vitals and
update the EMTs with accurate
information and let them know
what to expect.”
Langborg said, “We want to do
everything we can to help them
with training or equipment or noz-
zles. Whatever we can do to help
them protect their community.
Also, we may need them some
day, and we want to make sure that
what we got coming is solid.”
When asked to summarize the
changes on the horizon for the
upriver fire departments, Lyndsey
said, “This connects us all now.
We were never really connected to
Siuslaw Valley a whole lot
because our previous administra-
tion didn’t want their help. They
thought Siuslaw was trying to take
us over. Now, we are working
closely with Siuslaw, and Jim’s
been really helpful in getting this
all going.”
Lyndsey said he believes the
new mutual support model envi-
sioned by Langborg is one that
will benefit not just the first
responders who are risking their
lives to protect the public, but also
provide an improved service to
their respective communities.
“Being connected to Siuslaw
Valley has been big. They are our
support group. They have more
knowledge about fire than we do
and I can call them for advice
about different things,” he said.
“It’s much more of a team now,
not just us, but the whole valley.”
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From left: Wendy Moore, Christi
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