Ashland Middle School

Although this is Madison Huson’s first year as the Language Arts teacher on the Aspen team, it is not her first year here at Ashland Middle School. In the 2021-22 school year, she...

Daniel Tolliver is an Educational Assistant in Lucinda Miftahittin’s and Jennifer Campbell’s MAPS classrooms. New to Ashland Middle School this year, Daniel worked in a similar po...

Lucinda Miftahittin is the Multi-Age Positive Supports (MAPS) Teacher here at Ashland Middle School. After 16 years working similar positions in the Central Point School District,...

This is Jess Pinkerton’s first year at Ashland Middle School! Hired as the Educational Assistant for the Manzanita and Cascades teams, she and her family moved to Ashland two year...

Julie Inada has been a fixture at Ashland Middle School and the Ashland School District since 1996—that’s 27 years! Beloved language arts teacher on the Sequoia team, Julie contin...

This is Aaron Lockwood’s first year as an Educational Assistant at Ashland Middle School. He works with students in Lucinda Miftahittin’s and Jennifer Campbell’s self-contained cl...

William Beckett, or Beckett as he is known to most everyone here at AMS, is in his 1 st year as the Science teacher on the Manzanita team. Born in Ashland, Beckett lived here unt...

Kylie Patinio-Petermann is in her 2nd year as the math teacher on the Manzanita team, the same team she was on when she was a student at Ashland Middle School. ”It was both strang...

Ashland voters! On Sunday, April 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. the Ashland branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will host a Candidates’ Forum at the Ashland High S...

This is Damon Orrell’s first year at Ashland Middle School but he is already having a big impact for students as an Educational Assistant in Erika Williford’s Resource classroom. ...

Mindy Lindgren is in her 3 rd year as the Spanish teacher on the Aspen team here at AMS, and she brings a wealth of educational experience into the classroom (along with her mann...

Vickie Bates is in her 17 th year—you heard me correctly, her 17 th year —as an Educational Assistant in the Site-based Special Education classroom here at AMS. Starting as a v...

While in just her 2 nd year as the Special Education Resource Teacher for 6 th graders here at Ashland Middle School, this is Erika Williford’s 24 th year as a special educatio...

Since 2007, Suzy Hudson has worked in Greg Hanzel’s Resource Language Arts class as his go-to Educational Assistant here at Ashland Middle School. That’s a remarkably long partner...

We can all thank Mr. Foxbailey, Jacob Holderman’s English teacher at Snohomish High School in Washington, for planting the seed. “It was the first time I had read a book not just ...

Kathy Olson has been quietly making a difference for students as an Educational Assistant at AMS for 10 years now. “I remember middle school as kind of a rough time for me, and I ...

You might think with two parents for teachers that Martha Street, 6 th grade Language Arts teacher on the Cascades team, was destined to become one herself, but she insists other...

Jeff Multanen is the 6th grade math teacher on the Siskiyou team here at AMS. In his 12 th year, Jeff taught Health and PE when he was first hired in 2011 and has taught Math for...