Your Building Reps

Hannah is in her 6th year at Canby School District working as the district occupational therapist, serving all Canby schools. Her main role is to support kids in special education motor skills, thinking skills, life skills and sensory processing. Some examples include providing adaptive equipment for a student in order to participate alongside peers in an art project, flexible seating for a student to remain engaged in the classroom, or teaching life skills to students. She enjoys providing creative and practical support to kids and teachers in the classroom to increase engagement and remove barriers to their education. She is currently the building representative of District Office and Ackerman together with Piret Tammik. In her free time she spends as much time as she can outside with her husband and golden doodle. Some of her favorite summer activities include swimming in the river, kayaking, walking on the beach, walking her dog and playing in her garden.

Sam Whitehill is a building representative at Baker Prairie Middle School. This is his third year as a building rep and his 8th teaching in Canby School District. He is a social studies teacher who truly loves history. He started his career teaching English as a second language in South Korea and has been involved in education ever since. 

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

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

Alex Frixione has been teaching ELD and coaching soccer at CHS since 2004. Before that he taught alternative school in LAUSD for five years. He has years of experience as a CEA building rep. 

Dallas is currently in her sixth year as a high school teacher, with experience teaching Biology, Health, and Psychology. She has also spent the past nine years coaching at the high school level. This year marks her third year as part of the CEA as a building representative.

Kristen has been working as a music teacher in Canby since 1996 and is currently at 4 elementary schools: Carus, Knight, Eccles, and Trost.  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 (and helping, if needed, at Carus, Knight, and Trost), 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. 

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. 

Kristen has been working as a music teacher in Canby since 1996 and is currently at 4 elementary schools: Carus, Knight, Eccles, and Trost.  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 (and helping, if needed, at Carus, Knight, and Trost), 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. 

Joyce teaches a 4th/5th grade blend at Knight elementary school and has been teaching in Canby since 2009 as an ELD specialist and classroom teacher. She has been a Knight CEA building rep since 2014.

Tamara has worked as an elementary educator for 19 years. This is her tenth 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 PAC Chair, OEA-PAC Vice Chair, and the CEA Communications Chair. She previously served as CEA secretary for two years.

Nicki Salisbury has been teaching at 91 School since 1998, but also attended 91 as a student in the 1980s. Over the years she has served as a building rep at least 15 times.

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.