Meet the new teachers

Mr. Alexander Hubbs is the new Pattonville High School athletic trainer and has gone through a lot to be there. He became an athletic trainer because he said they have the "rare ability" to see a patient's entire injury process. "From the initial evaluation to return to play, athletic trainers get to be there every step of the way," he said. Hubbs received his bachelors degree in exercise...

Ms. Claudia Miller has been working in the Pattonville School District for 24 years but has only worked at Heights and Holman middle schools until this year. She joins the Modern Language Department at the high school as a new teacher. She now teaches German at all three schools. She starts at the high school teaching German 1 during first and second hour. "I then teach during 4th hour at...

Like a freshman, Ms. Robyn West moved up to the high school after being in a different building last year. "This is my 6th year and I just transferred from a middle school." West went to high school at Washington Community High and stayed close to home and spent her first 6 years teaching in Illinois. "I wanted to be a special education teacher because I like helping struggling learners,"...

Ms. Lisa Craig, a new SSD teacher at Pattonville High School, grew up with a bunch of friends and was an athlete, so she had to be good at relationships. She carries that mindset into her new role in the classroom. "Building a positive relationship or rather just a meaningful relationship with the kids is very important," she said. "It is the key." Craig originally wanted to be an athletic trainer...

As well as being a Spanish teacher at Pattonville High School for 10 years, Ms. Shelley Christian has decided to become the new Modern Language Department Leader. For Christian, teaching is nothing new, but being a Department Leader is. The thing she is looking forward to most "is to interact more with other departments" as well as getting "involved more with the school community." After past...

Some unexpected changes can lead to amazing circumstances. Ms. Mary Cradick graduated from Pattonville in 2011 and absolutely loved it. She loves the sense of community and family that Pattonville has to offer to students and teachers alike. When she attended school at Pattonville, Cradick loved her history teacher, Mr. Ryan Brueckmann, because she enjoyed his class and always had fun. Cradick...

Students sitting in Ms. Brooke Callan's class might be inspired to do something in addition to their math homework like Callan was when she was in school. "I had a teacher in high school that inspired me to want to impact students in their future and to decrease the students' math anxiety." Callan knew from high school that she wanted to be a math high school teacher. "You guys might think I'...