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During fourth period, junior Melina Garcia (left) asks new English teacher Hannah Batchelor a question on Thursday, Sept. 5, in Room 33 about her Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” reading assignment in her textbook. Batchelor, who has been using Room 11 second period and Room 33 during zero, third and fourth periods since the start of the fall semester, is scheduled to move into her own classroom in Room 154 on Thursday, Oct. 17, or Friday, Oct. 18.

NEWFOUND PASSION: Environmental scientist makes the switch to help youth as an English teacher, cross country head coach

Elise Pak, Staff Reporter • October 16, 2024

For new English teacher and cross country head coach Hannah Batchelor, her path toward joining the education profession took longer than usual – four years, in fact. Even though she grew up with family...

English teacher Jill Lomheim explains a creative writing assignment to her fourth period English 1 class Friday, April 21, in Room 48 while handing out papers to the students sitting in the front row.

WELCOME BACK: Alumna finds way to alma mater as new English teacher

Aiden Park, Opinion Editor • May 10, 2023

Jill Lomheim was on the path toward law school upon her final year as an undergrad at California State University, Fullerton [CSUF], in 2000. The Class of 1997 graduate would have never made an impact...

New English teacher Thomas Butler goes over his goals for the beginning of the school year with his sixth period sophomore honors English class.

Self-published author joins the English teaching ranks at Sunny Hills

Yeihn Lee, Staff Reporter • September 22, 2021

Sunny Hills now has a resident author among its teaching staff. New English teacher Thomas Butler has two paperback novels available on Amazon – Some Experience Preferred for $14.99 and originally...

New assistant principal John Oldenburg holds a sign as part of a video clip for students at La Vista and La Sierra continuation schools to encourage them after the coronavirus pandemic closed down classrooms in March. Oldenburg previously worked at La Vista and La Sierra in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District before he was transferred to Sunny Hills this school year.

With more than 30 years of administrative experience, new assistant principal says ‘aloha’ to Sunny Hills

Kristima Aryal, Web Editor-in-Chief • September 16, 2020

This is the second of a series of feature profiles of new, full-time teachers or administrators at Sunny Hills High School for 2020-2021. Having grown up on the island of white sand beaches and palm...

Using the Google Meet platform during distance learning, new math teacher Dorothy Cheng reviews on Aug. 19 from her classroom parabolic equations (left) with her third period Algebra 2 class.

New math teacher brings the right formula of experiences into her instruction

Audrey Seo, Photo Editor • September 5, 2020

This is the first of a series of upcoming, weekly feature profiles of new, full-time teachers and administrators at Sunny Hills High School for 2020-2021. Dorothy Cheng knew she wanted to become a math...

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