EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Longtime educator steps into
IMESD districts, law
enforcement agencies focus on leadership for Ukiah School
Laura Orr appointed Superintendent
school security
InterMountain ESD
has collaborated with lo-
cal law enforcement and
regional school districts to
host an event focusing on
school security. IMESD
serves districts in the four
counties of Baker, Morrow,
Umatilla and Union. The
agency has partnered with
law enforcement officials in
those counties to present a
School Security Summit on
August 8, 2022, 9 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. at the Pendleton
Convention Center.
The summit was creat-
ed partly in response to the
mass shootings recently in
the country, including the
Uvalde, Texas, tragedy.
However, Dr. Mark Mul-
vihill, IMESD Superin-
tendent, said anytime is a
good time to review safety
protocols for schools and
to strengthen collaboration
between districts and the
law enforcement agencies
that serve them. “Over the
past several decades, school
district and law enforce-
ment officials spent exten-
sive time developing school
safety plans. However, they
can always be updated and
improved to ensure safe
learning environments.”
“We’ve focused heavi-
ly on pandemic safety over
the past two years. It is
clear we need to focus once
again on our active-shooter
protocols after Uvalde,”
Mulvihill said.
Chuck Byram, chief
of the Pendleton Police
Department, reiterated
the importance of law en-
forcement agencies and
school districts continuing
to work together on security
in schools. “The importance
of collaboration between
law enforcement, school
districts and many oth-
er stakeholders cannot be
overstated. The safety of
our children, in our schools
and in our communities, is
our top priority. It takes all
of us working and training
together to ensure we have
effective response plans, as
well as effective measures
in place to prevent incidents
before they occur,” Byram
said.
In 2016, IMESD led
a region-wide effort to en-
courage all school districts
in the area to adopt the
same security terminology
(from the i love u guys
foundation) so that in the
event of an emergency,
school administrators and
law enforcement officers
could better communicate.
At that time, security audits
were completed at many of
the region’s schools by the
Pendleton Police Depart-
ment. “In addition to im-
proving physical security at
schools, at that time we also
really focused on build-
ing relationships between
schools and the officers who
would be responding to
situations at those schools,”
Mulvihill said.
For more information
about the summit, please
email IMESD Superinten-
dent Mulvihill at mark.mul-
vihill@imesd.k12.or.us.
For more information on
terminology, visit https://
iloveuguys.org/.
Ukiah School District
welcomed longtime sci-
ence teacher Laura Orr to
her new appointment as
District Superintendent on
July 1, 2022. Over the past
18 years, Orr has taught sci-
ence classes for grades 5-12
in Ukiah. Orr was raised in
Ukiah and her commitment
to her home community
was a key consideration for
the Ukiah School Board’s
appointment for this po-
sition.
Chair of the Ukiah
School Board Wendy Eddy
explained, “As a board, we
had discussed the options
at our disposal which were
to fly the job externally
or internally. After much
deliberation, we decided
that filling internally would
be in the district’s best
interest.” Orr’s years of
service as a teacher were
among several important
factors the board consid-
ered, Eddy explained, con-
tinuing, “Laura will be a
great fit for the position
as she possesses the drive,
ambition and adaptability
that Ukiah School District
needs to be successful into
the future.”
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Orr said she is look-
ing forward to starting her
new role as superintendent.
“I am looking forward to
supporting the unique chal-
lenges of modern education
in rural areas as well as
helping our great school
and community continue to
thrive,” Orr said.
During her tenure as
a teacher, Orr has brought
her passion for science
to her classes in person
as well as in the Virtual
Learning Academy (VLA)
program. Astronomy, local
environmental science and
computer science and tech-
nology are her focus areas.
Her teaching and mentor-
ship have regularly brought
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Laura Orr
exciting new projects to
her students, providing
opportunities to participate
in national-level astronomy
research.
Orr is a local and re-
gional leader promoting sci-
ence education as a member
of several boards and public
outreach programs. She
is an active participant in
major research endeav-
ors, including NITARP,
the Teacher Archive Re-
search Program organized
by NASA and Caltech’s
Infrared Processing and
Analysis Center, which
connects astronomers with
high school students. Out-
side of the classroom, she
is active in the Ukiah com-
munity as a director of the
Ukiah Rodeo, leader for the
Ukiah 4-H clubs and a coor-
dinator of the local NITARP
astronomy research.
Orr holds a Bachelor
of Physics from Eastern
Oregon University and a
master’s degree in Science
Education from Western
Governors University. She
is currently completing an
administrative licensing
program and internship in
the Ukiah School District.
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