Ms. Tingley

Welcome

I'm Ms. Tingley, and I was born and raised in Southern California. I attended the University of California, Riverside where I earned my Bachelor's degree in English and my Master's degree in Education and Teaching Credential. I graduated in 2010 and promptly moved to Placentia where I was hired to work in PYLUSD at Valadez Middle School Academy. I taught Language Arts and AVID at the middle school for 6 years and loved it. Those awkward years of middle school (where students are somewhere between kids and teens) will always hold a special place in my heart. 

In 2016, I felt the tug of my heart to find a teaching position at the high school level, which led me to El Dorado. I have been a proud Hawk since! 

I love to travel and experience new places, people, and cultures. In March of 2020, my heart was stolen by four furry paws. You will see bits and pieces of my copilot, Cooper, all around my physical (and virtual) classroom. He is my not-so-little shadow and goes everywhere with me (usually knocking everything over in his path like the moose that he is). 

My overall objective for my classroom is to create an engaging space for students to explore human nature through novels and writing. I believe each of my scholars has valuable insight into what we read and encounter in Language Arts. I desire to create a respectful place where we can learn to share these insights, listen to a variety of opinions, and learn from each other. Through collaboration, I hope to ignite sparks of creative inquiry that we might never stop questioning and thinking critically. Novels and writing offer us a lens through which we might look at humanity from an outside perspective, and thereby examine ourselves and the world in which we live. What do these novels teach us about human psychology and behavior? What insight can we gain from these fictional characters who are often reflections of ourselves or people we know? How can we apply lessons from literature and history to our own lives? Answers to these questions (and many more) await this year in room 509. I cannot wait to see what we discover this year together! 

I am excited and honored to embark upon this journey with you!        

Ms. Candace Tingley

ctingley@pylusd.org