Okarche Superintendent JoshSumrallhasannounced the following additions and changes to the school district’s staff for 2022-23:

Elementary

Katie Schroder - Second grade Chelsea Hill - Fourth grade (Formerly Chelsea Suanny, but recently married, Hill taught the last two years at the junior high) Briley Peters - special education Heather Yost - Reading interventionist Jaci Geheb - Music (She has been a teacher’s aide in Okarche the last four years) Matt Yost - P.E., assistant junior high/high school baseball coach Megan Henderson - Counselor (She taught fourth grade at Okarche the last several years) Heather Schaefer - Special education paraprofessional Vickie Laub - Special education paraprofessional

Junior high/High school

G.W. Parham - Principal (Parham served as the HS/ JH Counselor for 17 years in Okarche) Brandi Krittenbrink - Counselor (She taught FACS at Okarche for several years.)

Kimberly Givens - Science Jenny Parham - Math (Parham was an elementary aide last year.)

Lynda Riedlinger - English Jacqueline Radford Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) Charlie O’Donnell - Agricultural education/FFA adviser Chasity Ladd - Special education paraprofessional Sharon Spitler - Special education paraprofessional

District

Cathy Best - Child Nutrition Patsy Melton - Child Nutrition Jerod Richardson - Maintenance/ Custodian