![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
Meet the Teacher: Michelle Ross
Pictured above is a new Special Education Liaison, Michelle Ross. She is the third teacher featured in WSPN’s series Meet the Teacher. “I am really looking forward to getting to know my students,” Ross said.
September 27, 2017
Michelle Ross, Special Education Liaison.
What did you do before you taught at WHS?
I was a high school English teacher in an alternative education program that supported social and emotional needs of students. It was located off-site in Newton Public Schools and we served Newton South and Newton North high school students. I did that for ten years. There I was a general education teacher in an alternative program and I realized as I was teaching how much I liked helping the kids and got really interested in special education.
What sparked your interest in teaching?
Originally, I was a local newspaper reporter for a few years and was in communications. I always wanted to be an English teacher and I got a great teaching job in Newton. That was my first teaching post after graduate school. I never anticipated being in an alternative therapeutic program and it just snowballed from there. I got into teaching because initially I really wanted to help kids write. I have a strong interest in education because I feel like it’s the only piece in life where if you are in a certain socioeconomic space your education can really push you somewhere else. I truly, passionately believe that education betters people’s lives.
How has your adjustment to WHS gone so far?
This school system is amazing. The kids and staff are amazing. I am very enthusiastic to be here.
What are you looking forward to this year?
So many things. I keep asking everybody where I can buy a Wayland High School sweatshirt. I would like to go to at least one football game. I really want to do those types of things that allow me to feel like part of a community. I am looking forward to seeing the musical. I am also really looking forward to getting to know my students. I am amazed by the students here — they all seem to have athletic and musical capabilities and are very well-rounded. What I see from the students is a direct impact of the school’s mission statement. There seems to be this push for students to be thoughtful and active citizens, and I can see this transfer to the kids that arrive here in my classroom.
Bird Eye News • Oct 3, 2017 at 5:54 PM
Nice Article! We also have articles on our new teachers, and on local and national news at our high school paper… you can find it by just searching “Bird Eye News” on Google or Youtube. Feel free to visit us as well!