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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Former dairy princess-ambassador moves in
Breazile works as the
science and ag teacher at
Dayville School
Grant School District
welcomes new board member
Lieuallen excited
to learn
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
Dayville School gained royalty this
year: 2018 Oregon Dairy Princess-Am-
bassador Stephanie Breazile moved to
Grant County to begin her new job as a
teacher.
Breazile moved from Hillsboro to
John Day Aug. 16 for her new job as the
science and ag science teacher and FFA
advisor for Dayville School.
Breazile said living in Grant County
has been great so far, and she has been
able to explore attractions such as the
Fossil Beds and Magone Lake.
“One of my favorite things about the
area is that almost everybody waves at
me when I’m driving on the road,” Brea-
zile said. “Where I’m from, that doesn’t
happen, and we do our own thing
so it’s nice being in a small friendly
community.”
Breazile said the start of the school
year and in-person classes provided a
highlight for her. Breazile said she has
many friends who are ag teachers across
the state, and they are teaching virtually.
Science and agriculture requires
many hands-on activities, which can be
difficult to portray online, but Breazile
said she is excited to do the hands-on
work in person and help students make
the connection between what is taught in
the classroom and life after class.
Students applying what they learned
in class and using that knowledge in their
personal lives is one of Breazile’s favor-
ite aspects of teaching.
“I’m teaching them the topics that
they want to learn so they want to be in
class and are receiving information that’s
relevant to them,” Breazile said. “See-
ing those connections students make
between classroom lessons and their
daily lives at home is great.”
She said being in an agriculturural
community has also been great since
many students have some experience
with agriculture and she can build on
what they already know. Breazile’s time
as the Dairy Princess-Ambassador also
gave her great experiences on preparing
her being a teacher.
As princess-ambassador, she traveled
throughout Oregon educating students
and adults on the importance of having
dairy every day and how dairy farms
operate. She was able to talk to over
7,000 students, K-12, in classrooms, and
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By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo
Stephanie Breazile, front, center, has a passion for agriculture.
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Stephanie Breazile moved to Grant
County for her new job as a teacher in
Dayville.
Stephanie Breazile was able to talk to
over 7,000 students, K-12, in classrooms
as 2018 Oregon Dairy Princess-Ambas-
sador and said it helped her become the
teacher she is today.
it helped her in becoming the teacher she
is today, she said.
“Because of those experiences of
being in different classroom settings, I
was able to get the classroom manage-
ment strategies and practice them as the
dairy ambassador,” Breazile said. “It was
one of my best experiences that I could
have done.”
Breazile said she is here to help the
students learn as much as they can.
“I am super excited to be here and
learn more about the community and
make those connections for those stu-
dents to make the lessons relevant for
them,” Breazile said.
The Grant School Dis-
trict 3 school board wel-
comed a new board member
who is excited at the oppor-
tunity to serve the students
and staff at school and the
community members.
Aaron Lieullan of John
Day was sworn in as a mem-
ber during a board meeting
in September. He said he is
honored and excited for the
opportunity and this is an
important position that he
does not take lightly.
“I feel it’s going to be
hard, especially early on
because there is a lot of
information to catch up
on, and board decisions
have an impact on the stu-
dents and community, but
I am excited to be a part of
the board, and I hope my
attributes can help achieve
goals,” Lieullan said.
Lieullan has kids in the
district with one child in
kindergarten and the other
in second grade at Hum-
bolt Elementary. He said,
because education is import-
ant for his family, he felt it
was time to gauge ways to
participate. Then Dr. David
Hall’s spot became vacated
after he left.
He said it was a great
time to submit his applica-
tion even with challenging
times caused by COVID-19
and an unorthodox year.
Lieullan’s first goal as a
new board member is to get
up to speed with the board
as he reads to learn about
the policies, long-range
planning goals and budget
plans. This will give him
an idea of where the board
stands and their plans for
the future.
Communication
is
another big goal. He said
it will help him understand
the different needs and con-
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Aaron Lieullan of John Day is
the new board member for
Grant School District 3.
cerns at each school in the
district.
“I live in John Day, and
my kids are in Humbolt, so
I’m going to have to learn
and listen a lot to under-
stand the needs of the dis-
trict as a whole and not just
where my kids are,” Lieul-
lan said. “It’s not just com-
municating between the
superintendent and the pub-
lic that shows up at a school
board meeting. You are
communicating with the
community as a whole, and
I enjoy that.”
Lieullan said his expe-
rience as a detail-oriented
person and his critical think-
ing skills will help contrib-
ute to an already strong
school board. His ability to
ask many questions could
also help, he said.
“Don’t call it criticiz-
ing. Sometimes people joke
with me and say, ‘You ask a
lot of questions,’ but that’s a
good thing,” Lieullan said.
As a new board member
he wants the community to
know that he wants to lis-
ten and he wants to learn as
he brings an unbiased clean
slate to the table.
“I want what’s best for
the students of School Dis-
trict 3 because a lot of the
work is for them,” Lieullan
said.
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