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Christy Shafer and ESL teacher Yesenia Bencomo complete a lesson a couple of years ago with English language learners. The group is pictured clockwise, from front left, Emiliano Susano Trujano, Shafer, Bencomo, Jacqueline Garcia and Keylen Quezada. — Holyoke Enterprise file photo
“Always Be Kind” is the translation of the Spanish message that ESL paraprofessional Christy Shafer demonstrates daily.
Shafer leads with vision for success
“Leaders look ahead, and Christy Shafer is no different,” said English as a second language teacher Yesenia Bencomo.
One of Nicolas Balog’s favorite things about teaching in a district like Holyoke is the opportunity to serve in a varierty of roles. Beyond teaching social studies, world history and sociology, he’s coached a number of different teams over the past nine years. One of which was the 2019 high school football team, pictured practicing, which had an especially memorable season for athletes and coaches alike. — Holyoke Enterprise file photo
An endlessly good-natured guy, Nicolas Balog will do just about anything for the sake of school spirit and fostering relationships with his students. One day that may mean kissing a pig for FFA week. Another day it could be getting wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy for homecoming.
Mr. Balog: man of the people
Nicolas Balog has something of a reputation at Holyoke High School. It seems that regardless of a person’s unique interests, he can shoot the breeze with the best of them.
Lynn Schneider not only organizes the annual Dr. Seuss-themed Read Across America Week, she plays the part too! — Holyoke Enterprise file photo
Lynn Schneider’s reading intervention classroom at Holyoke Elementary School is warm and inviting, with plenty of books to read, encouraging messages, a variety of comfy and standard seating options, and colorful reading instruction posters on the wall. — Holyoke Enterprise file photo
Spread kindness like confetti
Lynn Schneider says it’s fun to go to work every day, and with her around the Holyoke Elementary School building, it’s fun for other staff and students to go to work and school too.
Logan Osborne, a 2017 graduate of HHS and a junior at CU Boulder, went from studying in Scotland one day to rushing home ahead of a coronavirus travel ban the next.
College in the time of coronavirus
Before the world outside of China had given much thought to the novel coronavirus — in fact, before it was even named — Holyoke’s Logan Osborne had cause to think about it.