EDUCATION
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
herMIsTOnheraLd.cOM • A9
Umatilla High School
gets Amazon grant
years.
“This
opportunity
strengthens current offer-
ings and provides a direct
pathway to employment,”
she said. “Amazon is play-
ing a large role in eco-
nomic development for our
region, and we are excited
to see how these opportu-
nities will assist us in bet-
ter preparing students for
workforce needs.”
According to a press
release from Umatilla
High School, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics proj-
ects that by 2020, com-
puter science-related jobs
will outpace computer sci-
ence graduates by about a
million jobs, and that com-
puter science is the fastest
growing STEM profession.
Amazon Future Engi-
neer was launched in
November 2018, and is a
four-part program, working
with students from child-
hood to career. It plans to
award 100 $10,000 schol-
arships per year, provide
computer science classes
to 100,000 students, and
offer paid internships with
Amazon.
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
Umatilla High School
is one of more than a thou-
sand schools across the
United States to receive
funding from Amazon, and
will use the money to start
offering computer science
classes in the fall.
The funding will allow
Umatilla High School to
offer full-year courses in
Intro to Computer Sci-
ence and Advanced Place-
ment Computer Science
classes, including prepara-
tory lessons, tutorials, and
professional development
for teachers. Students who
participate in the program
will also receive a free
membership to AWS Edu-
cate, which gives them free
access to computing power
in the AWS cloud for cod-
ing projects, and allows
them access to learn about
cloud computing.
Superintendent Heidi
Sipe said the grant builds
on the science, technol-
ogy, engineering and math
(STEM) programs that
Umatilla has had for many
staff photo by Jayati ramakrishnan
Brittany Mustoe discusses a math problem with a student during a lesson on Tuesday morning.
Highland Hills teacher of the
year talks student success
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
In Tuesday morning
math class, Brittany Mus-
toe moves around the room,
checking in with students
as they work, and high-fiv-
ing them when they get an
answer right.
Mustoe, Highland Hills
Elementary’s teacher of the
year, is working with her
fifth-grade students to teach
them order of operations,
or which tasks to do first in
a seemingly complicated
math equation.
“Remember to break the
story problem down into
simpler parts,” she said.
“You’re smarter than the
whole problem.”
A teacher at Highland
Hills for the past four years,
Mustoe was selected by the
entire staff as the teacher
staff photo by Jayati ramakrishnan
Brittany Mustoe high-fives a student after she answers a math
question correctly.
of the year, and honored
recently at the Distinguished
Citizens Awards banquet,
along with several other
teachers in the district.
She said she had always
enjoyed working with kids,
and that a teacher of her own
After 39 years, Echo city
administrator to retire
important to focus on the
academics, she tries to make
relationships the foundation
of her teaching.
“I don’t believe you
can teach academics with-
out building relationships,
building trust, and hav-
ing them want to work with
you,” she said.
Teaching fifth grade,
Mustoe said it can be chal-
lenging to get that age level
motivated.
“I think I do well with
that,” she said. “I can see
that ripple effect as the year
goes on, in how they talk
to one another, in how they
carry themselves. I’m proud
of my class.
Mustoe said her favorite
subjects to teach are math
and science.
Highland Hills Princi-
pal Jake Bacon also noted
Mustoe’s connection with
students.
“She’s committed to
doing a job well, she’s pre-
pared,” Bacon said. “But
the center of all her plans is
what’s going to help her kids
learn best.”
Brittany Mustoe focuses
on building relationships
with students, making
class like a family
inspired her to get into the
field.
“I had a teacher I really
respected and looked up to,
and I thought her job was
really cool,” she said. “That
put me on that path.”
Though Mustoe said it’s
Bloom competition.
The new city adminis-
trator will inherit several
projects currently in the
works, including a major
upgrade to the wastewa-
ter treatment system the
city is under pressure
from the Department of
Environmental Quality to
complete.
Echo operates on a sys-
tem of a paid city admin-
istrator, overseen by an
elected mayor and six
at-large city councilors.
The city has opened the
search for a new adminis-
trator and will take appli-
cations until March 25.
The starting salary listed
is $40,000 to $65,000 plus
PERS, paid vacation and
other benefits. For more
information see http://
echo-oregon.com/pub/fly-
er-administrator.pdf.
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
Diane Berry is retiring
as Echo city administrator.
Berry has run day-to-
day operations in the city,
population 710, for 39
years. During that time
Echo has seen the renova-
tion of historic buildings,
new businesses, new park
amenities and the growth
of annual events such as
the Red 2 Red cross coun-
try mountain bike race.
As city administrator,
Berry has led consistent
efforts to maintain Echo’s
appearance, with public
art initiatives, a Tree City
USA designation and an
abundance of floral dis-
plays that led to the city
being a three-time winner
of the small cities category
of the national America in
Hermiston will add to end of year for snow day make-ups
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
Hermiston students will
end school three days later
than planned and teachers
will see a couple of sched-
ule adjustments to make up
for February snow days and
delays.
At the recommenda-
tion of Superintendent Tri-
cia Mooney, the school
board voted to move stu-
dents’ last day (except high
school seniors) to Thursday,
June 13, adding three days
on after the original release
day of Monday, June 11.
The final day for staff will
now be Friday, June 14, but
the board also voted to add
time to staff’s Professional
Learning
Communities,
small professional develop-
ment groups that meet each
week.
Graduation is still June
instructional hours. But she
said there are exceptions,
including using teacher pro-
fessional development time
to make up for those hours.
Mooney said she worked
with Hermiston Associa-
tion of Teachers representa-
tive Delfino Osorio Garcia
to come up with a plan that
would work for the staff, and
that they went through sev-
eral ideas.
They looked at having
6 at the Toyota Center in
Kennewick.
The board extended
the school year so the dis-
trict would meet the state-
wide minimum for annual
instructional time, which
Mooney said is about 990
hours — although there is
a tiered system. Mooney
said the proposed changes
would put high school fresh-
men through juniors about
six hours under the required
MEDICAL DIRECTORY
students end on June 14 and
teachers end the following
Tuesday, but that would run
into the beginning of sum-
mer school, which would be
a problem for some families.
Mooney said they also
looked at having stu-
dents attend school on par-
ent-teacher conference days,
which will happen later this
month. But that would have
had teachers working long
hours on those days, and
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