We all have first impressions towards everything, whether it is good, bad or maybe even ugly. However, in this case, we’re going to talk about the new teachers that taught and coached this school year at SLHS.

“I try not to have expectations before, I coached sports before at three other schools, I think kind of going there with any expectations is probably the wrong thing, it’s better just to kind of see what the programs are offering and see how you can make it better,” says Mr. Chinchilla.

Chinchilla reflected back during the interview about how much progress the players have done based off the sports he coached.

“Between football, basketball and baseball was a different experience at each level. The baseball team really came together as for football as well. Girls’ basketball was a little bit tougher trying to build the community of the sport,” says Chinchilla.

Mr. Palange was a new history teacher welcomed to the Bulldog family who traveled all the way from Ohio to teach at Sierra Linda.

“I thought my first year here went really well; really busy, but it was a lot of fun. I got to know a lot of new people and had really good experiences,” says Palange.

Ms. Erickson is another new teacher is from Wisconsin to teach at SLHS.

“I was expecting less help actually. My department has been amazing with helping, figuring out what we’re going to do and it has been collaborated, we really like coming up with fun, new things for kids to do. I wasn’t expecting that,” says Erickson.

Each of these teachers were experiencing something new, it was either teaching or coaching a sport for the first time at SLHS.