Tag: Faculty Friday

  • #FacultyFriday: Pam Murphy

    This week we are spotlighting Pam Murphy, a chorus and music teacher at C.J. Hooker Middle School who has been with the district for seven years. The musician earned a bachelor’s degree in Voice and Instrumental Music Education and a master’s degree in Music Education before first joining the faculty at Valley Central Middle and […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Carmina Villegas

    This week’s spotlight is on Goshen High School History Teacher Carmina Villegas, an educator who has been with the district for 16 years. Villegas earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and Education, and her master’s degree in Special Education, before jumping into her teaching career right out of college in 2005. First, the history […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Barbara Fixsen

    This week’s spotlight is on Goshen Intermediate School Classroom Aide Barbara Fixsen, who has been with the district for seven years. Before her journey into education, Fixsen was a surgeon’s assistant in a medical office. Once she earned her Teaching Assistant Certificate, she joined the Goshen Central School District in 2016. The classroom aide has […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Shalanda Harrison-Marquez

    This Friday we are celebrating Special Education Teacher Shalanda Harrison-Marquez, who is spending her eighth year with the district. Harrison-Marquez started her career teaching at a District 75/NYC Department of Education high school for five years before she became a Founding Learning Specialist at KIPP Charter School. It was when she decided to move to […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Adam Yaun

    This week’s #FacultyFriday spotlight is on Adam Yaun, a new AP Biology and Oceanography teacher at Goshen High School who just started with the district this year. Before coming to Goshen, Yaun spent 16 years teaching Biology, Living Environment, Anatomy and Physiology, and General Chemistry at Albertus Magnus High School in Rockland County. He earned […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Lisa Schwartz

    This Friday we are celebrating Lisa Schwartz, a Goshen High School Spanish teacher who has been with the district for 17 years! After serving as an early intervention special education teacher around the county and Spanish teacher at Washingtonville High School, Schwartz joined the Goshen Central School District in 2007. “I had been offered jobs […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Char O’Connor

    Today’s #FacultyFriday spotlights Goshen Intermediate School Nurse Char O’Connor, who has been with the district since 2004! In addition to school nursing, O’Connor has worked as a critical care nurse and taught CPR and IV therapy. She has also taught yoga and is a life coach. This year, O’Connor is working on a worthwhile goal […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Teresa Batista

    This week’s #FacultyFriday is dedicated to one of Goshen Intermediate School’s newest team members, Teresa Batista — an AIS Reading and Math teacher who started with us in September of this year. After working in education for the past 17 years and graduating from WGU with her master’s degree in Childhood Education, Batista is excited […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Margaret Storms

    This week we want to use our #FacultyFriday to shout out Family & Consumer Science Teacher Margaret Storms. Storms joined the Goshen CSD in September 2007 after an 18-year career as a lead negotiator and trainer for Prudential Financial. Although she enjoyed the job, she said, it just wasn’t her calling. “I always wanted to […]

  • #FacultyFriday: Nancy Clark

    This #FacultyFriday we are celebrating Nancy Clark, a Goshen native and 6th grade teacher at C.J. Hooker Middle School who has been teaching with us since September 2003! “I was born and raised in Goshen,” she said. “My parents, my three daughters, most of my family, and I are all alumni of this great district.” […]