As a child, Jacqueline Reasor grew up in the inner-city school districts and attended the Cleveland Public Schools. She has never forgotten her favorite teacher from the fourth grade, who had a great impact on the rest of Reasor’s life. Taking the class on a field trip to the teacher’s home in Richfield, the teacher gave the kids a new experience by giving them the opportunity to take in the rural surroundings. Reasor immediately fell in love with Richfield, an infatuation that would lead her back to the village later for a job as a school psychologist at Revere High School.

Reasor is one of the multiple new faculty members to join the RHS staff for the 2014-2015 school year. Other new members of the RHS staff include intervention specialist Kyle Haglock, long-term substitute teacher Jennifer Palmieri and Athletic Department secretary Jennifer Greulich. Each started work in the four days prior to the first day of school.

Reasor’s job as the school psychologist is her first official position in the education field, even though she has worked as a school psychologist intern or assistant at her previous jobs at Cleveland City Schools, Lakewood City Schools and the Pep Positive Education program. Reasor’s main task as school psychologist is to run tests and assessments to determine a student’s eligibility for special education; however, she also works with behavior and crisis interventions as well as counseling. Reasor uses her assessments to assist Revere High School’s intervention specialists that provide the most detail of a student and plan out a course of action.

Reasor has also held jobs working with children, childhood crises, developmental diseases in adults, and the teaching of yoga. She chooses to incorporate the stress relief of yoga into the everyday aspects of her career. She explained how yoga alters her approach to tackling her job.

“Mindfulness-based practices are really beneficial in managing stress, and with the demands of school, it is hard for students to stay focused and not have test anxiety. I really try to incorporate [the ideals of yoga] as much as I can into my work,” Reasor said.

Haglock is the intervention specialist for the RHS science department, and has taught since he graduated from Muskingum University with a master’s degree in Intervention. Previous to his master’s degree, Haglock was originally a Dover resident who attended the West Liberty University in West Virginia, earning an undergraduate in Art Education and History. He has worked at other schools in Ohio such as New Philadelphia High School in New Philadelphia, Ohio, as well as Believe to Achieve Academy, a charter school in Canton, Ohio. According to Haglock, his favorite part about the Revere School District is its sense of community.

“I love how much the community is involved in the school. In this school, you have parents that are willing to go the extra mile so that students have what they need and so the teachers can support them,” Haglock said.

The science department has also found a new addition in long-term substitute teacher Jennifer Palmieri. Taking maternity leave for the first two trimesters of the school year, RHS science teacher Jennifer Exten-Kennedy has passed her duties onto Palmieri, a mother and teacher with a master’s degree in both geology and chemistry. Although Palmieri has substituted occasionally in the Revere school district, her current position is her first long-term position in the school district. She noted the difficulties of adjusting to a new job and how the staff has mentored her and helped her settle in.

“When you are the new person in the building, and you do not know where anything is, there is a lot to process for a new job from the location of the bathrooms to photocopying, and whether one has to go to the building secretary or the district secretary for certain matters. The thing I have appreciated most is that it seems like everyone genuinely wants to help me and is happy that I am here. No question is a stupid question, and that is such a comforting feeling to have,” Palmieri said.

Palmieri added that she appreciates the camaraderie of the science department and other fellow faculty members. Whether she needs equipment, knowledge of how to work the copying machine, sending paper to print and then tracking down the printer, or to ask what she considers a “stupid question,” her fellow staff members come to her aid.

Palmieri has found other new staff members such as Athletic Department Secretary Jennifer Greulich to create friendships with. The two often bond over Greulich’s hole-puncher, which Palmieri takes to because of its sheer efficiency.

Greulich has previously worked as a secretarial substitute at the high school, but stumbled upon a new job opportunity in the Athletic office.

“I knew it would be a perfect fit for me. My family is very sports-oriented and I really enjoyed subbing and could not wait to apply. I enjoy helping others and I get the opportunity to do that every day by helping [Revere Athletic Director William] Conley and all of the amazing coaches at Revere,” Greulich said.

New staff members at RHS are welcomed by students who, according to Palmieri, are eager to learn and happy to attend the school. The current faculty members at the school create a community for the new staff and adopt them as another member of the family. The new additions hope to stay in the Revere district for years to come.