Mr. Trail

Mr. Trail attended Moscow High School in Idaho and received his Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Idaho in 1989.  He earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in 1996, and a Masters degree in Spanish Literature in 2002. In May of 2005, Mr. Trail obtained his administrative credentials through the University of Oregon IAL program.

Mr. Trail joined the Marshfield High School staff in 1996 as a Spanish teacher and also taught  English as a Second Language during the summers at Southwestern Oregon Community College. During his first two years teaching at Marshfield, Mr. Trail also taught Spanish at Southwestern Oregon Community College.  Mr. Trail honed his Spanish speaking skills from 1991 to 1995 when he lived in Caracas, Venezuela. While in Caracas, he designed and implemented English as a Second Language training programs for major businesses.

Mr. Trail became Foreign Language Department Chair at Marshfield in 2001 and Dean of Students in 2004.  He has been involved in a wide variety of activities beyond his official duties while at Marshfield.  He was the Forensics coach, sophomore class advisor, started the Outdoor Club, led Spanish club on trips abroad, was the boys’ varsity Basketball announcer and a member of the PBS team.  One of Mr. Trail's motos that he keeps using today is

“Education for all – Whatever it Takes!”

Now Mr. Trail is in his first year as Clarkston High School's Principal. He has started up many programs for students and even teachers with whom he works with. One of the most known programs he has set it is Bantam PRIDE. Bantam PRIDE is a slogan which means Personal Responsibility in Daily Effort. Also we have a new portfolio in which students need to complete.This is called Bantam Trax. Bantam Trax is a notebook in which students will go over their grades, how many credits they have and how many they need to have, career plans, career goals, and excellent pieces of work from different classes. In April, the students then will show the progress from bantam trax to their parents in which the parents will go over with the student of what needs to be done and just to go over everything that is going on in school. It seems like Mr. Trail is really enjoying it here at Clarkston and, we all hope that he will continue to lead us through many successful years as our principal.

 

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