Ephrata School District greets new staff for 2025-26 year
Ephrata School Board directors welcomed a dozen new certificated staff to the district during an introduction gathering last week. In attendance were:
Top row (l-r): Josh Sainsbury (board director), Kim Gilreath (Parkway Intermediate principal), Laura Davis (speech language pathologist for Grant Elementary and Parkway Intermediate), Chris Massimini (Parkway Intermediate counselor), Mike Fleurkens (board director), Kayla Tucker (Ephrata Middle School ELS teacher), Glenna Eilers (districtwide long-term special education substitute instructor), Matthew Truscott (board director), Casey Devine (board director).
Top step (l-r): Eddie Martinez (Ephrata High School vice principal), Adilene Chavez Mendoza (extended resource teacher for Columbia Ridge Elementary and Parkway Intermediate).
Middle step (l-r): Brianne Griffith (Grant Elementary counselor), Dinora Gomez (EMS ELA teacher -- she's peeking out), Cassandra Schutt (EMS science, technology, engineering, the arts & math/STEAM teacher).
Front row (l-r): Meagan Haight (EHS agriculture teacher), Sydney Anderson (Grant Elementary first-grade teacher).
Not pictured: Kelly Warga (EHS special education/transition teacher) and Rosa Wafula (EHS bilingual multicultural and ELL teacher).
Anderson, Mendoza, Tucker, and Wafula are all Ephrata High graduates who have returned to teach in the district.
