Herbicide Notice

PSD Facilities anticipate putting down an herbicide treatment across the district grounds the week of March 24-28, 2025, weather dependent.

CTE PHS Adrie Fisher

CTE Spotlight – Adrie Fisher

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Pendleton High School
2025 CTE Month Spotlight

Meet Adrie Fisher, Senior at Pendleton High School
She takes classes in Advanced Metals and Vet Science.

What do you enjoy about your CTE classes at PHS?
I have been in welding classes since Freshman year and I have really enjoyed learning not only how to weld, but also how to wire multiple types of switches and learning lots of mechanical skills. A main part of my SAE (Supervised Agricultural Experience) is bumper making and other small welding projects. With the bumpers, the customer buys the kit and I weld it. I have enjoyed the creative aspect of that as well as the business aspect.

In Vet Science I have enjoyed learning about animals and how to care for them. I get to do hands-on activities such as pregnancy checking, giving vaccines and suturing. The class is very informative about what veterinarians do, and I am learning things I can take with me whether I become a vet or not.

How are CTE classes making a difference in your education?
In welding I am learning a handful of different things. Electricity will always be a part of my daily life and doing a unit on wiring has helped me to better understand how electricity works. Also in Vet Science, I am learning skills that I can take into the real world, like learning the behaviors of animals.

Would you like to share anything else about CTE at PHS?
My advisors are great! They are very intelligent about what they are teaching. They want to do hands-on activities with us and give us all the help we can get so we have a better understanding of what we are learning. They make it so fun and bring all students out of their comfort zones and get them involved. All the CTE classes at PHS are amazing and bring so many people in.

CTE PHS Adrie Fisher

Karen Demianew

CTE Spotlight – Karen Demianew

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Pendleton High School Spotlight
Meet Karen Demianew, Counselor at Pendleton High School

How does Karen support CTE at PHS?
Throughout her 27-year tenure at PHS, Karen has been a tireless champion of CTE, emphasizing the value of hands-on, practical education and its ability to provide students with real-world skills that enhance their readiness for the workforce. She has worked diligently to promote CTE as a viable and valuable option for all students, ensuring they can explore careers in fields such as healthcare, engineering, hospitality and tourism, multimedia arts, agriculture, and the trades.

How is her work making a difference for students?
Karen consistently demonstrates innovative approaches to career exploration and development. She has been instrumental in developing programs like Pendleton’s “School to Careers” that helps students explore a wide variety of careers through internships, apprenticeships, and partnerships with local businesses and industries.

Her ability to connect students with resources and opportunities outside the classroom has empowered them to make informed decisions about their futures.

Karen Demianew

Patrick Gregg

The Pendleton School District Board of Directors Announces Finalists for Superintendent Interviews

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February 25, 2025

Contact:  Douglas Nelson, Ed.D.
McPherson & Jacobson, L.L.C.
541-410-8292

The Pendleton School District Board of Directors Announces Finalists for Superintendent Interviews

 Pendleton, Oregon – The Pendleton School District Board of Directors is pleased to announce that they have selected two candidates to interview for their superintendent vacancy. The district had twelve applicants for the position, and candidates were vetted through a variety of reviews prior to consideration by the school board. The results of these activities were presented to the school board at an Executive Session on February 24, 2025.  The two finalists were selected based on their educational attainment, depth and breadth of experience, and alignment to the priorities of the Pendleton School District stakeholder input. The candidates selected for interviews are:

  • Kevin Dinning, Human Resources Director, Pendleton School District
  • Michelle Jensen, Principal, West Linn, Oregon

Interviews are scheduled to be conducted on March 10, 2025, with both candidates.  Several stakeholder groups will have the opportunity to meet the final candidates and submit input to the board about each of them. The board intends to make their selection by the week of March 17. 

The Pendleton School District retained the services of McPherson & Jacobson, L.L.C., to assist in conducting their search. The consultants reviewed, screened, and conducted extensive background checks on all applicants. On Monday, February 24, 2025, the consultants presented the applicants to the Board of Directors and provided them with detailed background information on each applicant.

Kevin Dinning  Michelle Jensen

CTE PHS Bailey Sitts

CTE Spotlight – Bailey Sitts

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Pendleton High School
2025 CTE Month Spotlight

Meet Bailey Sitts, Engineering Instructor at Pendleton High School

What do you teach? 
I teach the engineering pathway at PHS including Intro to Engineering Design, Digital Design and Production, Robotics and Aerospace.

In your classes, what is the CTE focus for the 24-25 school year? 
My focus is to work further within the Oregon Employability Skills curriculum and to further our Career Technical Student Organization connection through TSA by having more focus on my own involvement and student competition attendance.

How do you think CTE work in your school is making a difference for students? 
It is teaching students that all of the basics they have learned so far have a connection to real life. CTE is a wonderful bridge between basic education and technical skills that shows students how to apply what they’ve learned already to more specific and real circumstances while they explore their strengths and abilities before entering trade schools, the job market, military or college. CTE at PHS is making a difference by showing students they can do anything and that no job, school or skill is out of their reach.

What is something people may not know about CTE in schools? 
As a CTE teacher, I hear that our classes are “just electives” all too frequently; CTE is more than just an elective. CTE in schools is a necessary connection between professionals in the field, community, and students that is intended to build community connections and bring industry standard knowledge into the classroom for students.

Most CTE teachers are brought in from industry to teach what they know and bring a higher level work ethic and expectation into the classroom that more closely mirrors a workplace than a traditional classroom.

CTE PHS Bailey Sitts

 

Patrick Dutcher

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