CEA Committees & Chairs

Matt Salisbury has been employed with Canby schools since '95 when he started working with the Community School Program before becoming a substitute teacher.  Soon after he was hired full time with his own classroom at Carus where he continues to teach today.  For about ten of those years he has been a building rep and more recently has also worked as the elementary grievance rep. 

JD Bellum is your High School & Middle School grievance chair.  He is the Activities Director and Leadership teacher at Canby High School.

Troy has taught English literature and composition at Canby High School since 2002.  He coached football at all three high school levels for 21 years and pole vault with the track & field team for 10 years.  Since 2025, he has also taught Career & Technical Education Agricultural Science.

A union member throughout his career, Troy has actively served the union since the fall of 2005.  His previous CEA roles include CEA president (2 years), CEA VP (7 years), CEA HS grievance chair (10 years), CEA negotiations chair and/or member (21 years), CHS building rep. (20 years), Extra-duty committee member (21 years), NEA representative assembly delegate (1 year), OEA representative assembly delegate (multiple years), and PAC convention delegate (multiple years). 

Jim teaches science at BPMS.  He started teaching after having careers in customer service, and technology.  He got his teaching degree from Concordia University in 2013 and was a substitute for 2 years.   

Jim is the most recent CEA President (4 years) and has also been MS VP (2 years), building rep (3 years), MS/HS Grievance Chair (2 years), and bargaining chair and/or member (3 years); and he has attended 2 OEA-RAs, 2 OEA-PAC conventions, and  1 Summer Conference.  He continues to serve on the CEA Bargaining Team.

Gaby has been teaching in the DLI program at Trost Elementary since 2010. She has taught 3rd grade, 2nd grade, and is currently a Reading Specialist. Growing up, she herself, was in a transitional bilingual program in elementary school, learning English.  She also serves on the CEA Bargaining Team.

Kristen is starting her 28th year as a music teacher in Canby, currently at Eccles and Knight.  She has taught in every building in the school district except for 91 School.  She has been on the CEA Executive Board as Treasurer since 2000, currently acting Rep at Eccles, part of the insurance committee as well as the Negotiations Team. She has also been to an NEA Rep Assembly and many OEA Rep Assemblies as well.

Chris is a CHS social studies teacher and department leader. Chris started teaching in Canby in 2000-01.  He also serves on the CEA Bargaining Team. His previous CEA roles include CEA president, CEA vice president, CEA negotiations chair and member, CHS grievance chair, and CHS building rep. He also served as the Willamette Falls Uniserv Council secretary.

Alex is is a reading specialist, working mostly with upper grades. This will be his 20th year of teaching.  Alex has been a union building rep and insurance rep for 3 years. You can find him in Rm. 20 at Trost Elementary.  Alex also serves on the CEA bargaining team.

Andie Cunningham loves creating community. Seeing and hearing each student within the multitude of content areas elementary teachers teach offers endless opportunities to witness and reflect back the wisdom, knowledge, and resilience each child brings to the academic world, an action that fuels her. A teacher for more than forty years, her career includes teaching physical education, being a reading specialist, teaching teachers, and a variety of elementary grades. Andie currently teaches fourth grade at Carus. She serves as a co-leader of the CEA Equity Committee. Away from school, Andie can be found working the 40-acre Colton farm she and her partner just inherited, mountain biking on some sweet singletrack, or reading amazing kid lit.

Emanuel has worked as an educator for 11 years, and this is his seventh year in the Canby School District as the Dual Language Immersion Science Teacher at Baker Prairie Middle School.  His teaching career began in 2012 when he moved with his family to Monteverde, Costa Rica, where he taught both math and science to 1st - 8th graders while living in a cloud forest and learning to be a teacher.  Upon returning to the U.S. in 2016 he completed my MAT at Pacific University (Woodburn Campus).  

Peter is the CEA Insurance Chair and has been a Math teacher at CHS since the 2011-2012 school year.

Tamara has worked as an elementary educator for 15 years. This is her sixth year in the Canby School District as the Head ELD teacher at Lee Elementary. She completed her MAT at Lewis and Clark College before beginning a seven year international teaching adventure at the American Nicaraguan School in Managua, Nicaragua. In addition to serving as a building rep, Tamara is also the Willamette Falls Uniserv Council political chair and the CEA communications chair.  She has also served as CEA secretary.

She works at Canby High School as a TOSA for Attendance & Student Success Advocate.

Troy has taught English literature and composition at Canby High School since 2002.  He coached football at all three high school levels for 21 years and pole vault with the track & field team for 10 years.  Since 2025, he has also taught Career & Technical Education Agricultural Science.

A union member throughout his career, Troy has actively served the union since the fall of 2005.  His previous CEA roles include CEA president (2 years), CEA VP (7 years), CEA HS grievance chair (10 years), CEA negotiations chair and/or member (21 years), CHS building rep. (20 years), Extra-duty committee member (21 years), NEA representative assembly delegate (1 year), OEA representative assembly delegate (multiple years), and PAC convention delegate (multiple years). 

Jim teaches science at BPMS.  He started teaching after having careers in customer service, and technology.  He got his teaching degree from Concordia University in 2013 and was a substitute for 2 years.   

Jim is the most recent CEA President (4 years) and has also been MS VP (2 years), building rep (3 years), MS/HS Grievance Chair (2 years), and bargaining chair and/or member (3 years); and he has attended 2 OEA-RAs, 2 OEA-PAC conventions, and  1 Summer Conference.  He continues to serve on the CEA Bargaining Team.

JD Bellum is your High School & Middle School grievance chair.  He is the Activities Director and Leadership teacher at Canby High School.