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STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Mrs. Pat Hines
Our Staff Spotlight for the month of October is an educational technician in the district’s Special Education Department, Mrs. Pat Hines. We’d love to tell you why she was chosen!
Mrs. Hines has had a long career in RSU #74. She started in 1999 as a substitute teacher at our elementary schools and then joined the district staff as an ed tech in the fall of 2003. After working at Garret Schenck Elementary School for three years, she moved to Solon Elementary School in the fall of 2006 and made that her home for the next eighteen years until a recent transfer to Carrabec Community School at the beginning of the 2025-26 school year.
“Team player” is a term that describes Mrs. Hines to a tee. We can always depend on her to help out anywhere she’s needed and to do what’s best for students. She has always gone the extra mile. During the COVID pandemic, she made lunches for students. For a couple of years she rode the school bus in both the morning and the afternoon as a monitor to support a student. Recently she left her home school of Solon to move to CCS with minimal notice because she was suddenly needed to work with Special Education students there. Mrs. Hines accepted these extra duties and changes with a positive attitude because that’s the kind of person she is – she always does what is in the best interest of students.
Ms. Pat (as the students call her) is loved by the students with whom she works as well as other students in the school because she is friendly, helpful, supportive, patient, and kind to all. She forms relationships and connections with students, which helps her to be effective in supporting their academic work and social interactions.
We can always count on Mrs. Hines to take an active role in the life of her school. She has outfits for every season and holiday throughout the year as well as for Dress-Up Theme Days. She pitches in to help with all school activities and hands-on projects without having to be asked. While at the Solon School, she drove on her own time to Tissues Country Estates in Athens to deliver gifts made by the Solon kindergartners for the residents there. She is a wonderful seamstress and has used that skill whenever needed to help with class projects and activities. She really enjoys getting involved in her school.
Mrs. Hines takes good care of her colleagues, mainly by using her cooking talents to bake brownies, fudge, apple bars, whoopie pies, no bake cookies, and other treats for the staff members at the schools where she works. A connoisseur of all things sugary and sweet, Mr. Dave Ela is of the opinion that this alone should qualify her to be this month’s Staff Spotlight!
We thank Mrs. Pat Hines for her years of dedicated service to the students of RSU #74. We hope she continues to be a member of the district staff for many years to come.
