{"id":1331,"date":"2025-04-03T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/2025\/04\/03\/staff-spotlight-marj-hendricks-still-encouraging-learning-after-30-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:25:32","slug":"staff-spotlight-marj-hendricks-still-encouraging-learning-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/2025\/04\/03\/staff-spotlight-marj-hendricks-still-encouraging-learning-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight: Marj Hendricks Still Encouraging Learning After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marj Hendricks has proven a stalwart teacher in Lynden Schools with over 30 years of service in the district. But she\u2019s also ready for new challenges and fresh opportunities to encourage and support learning across the community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hendricks may be most well-known for teaching Lynden fifth graders for 25 years. Nowadays, though, she serves as a student learning plan coordinator with the Home Connect program at Lynden Academy, working weekly with about 50 K-12 students and their families to hear about and document \u201call the great things they are learning.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne reason that I love my work is because of the connections that I get to make with students and families,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter three years of doing this job, I\u2019m so thankful for the relationships that have formed with Home Connect families enrolled in Lynden Academy, our district\u2019s parent partnership program. Each week I\u2019m hearing about all the great learning that is taking place, and I love the opportunity to encourage and offer ideas to families as they teach their children. I feel very supported by Lynden Academy as we partner to support our families.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hendricks remains connected with the staff throughout the district as she leads professional development opportunities, work that brings her \u201cgreat joy\u201d and allows her to explore her passion for math and science instruction. It all adds up to keep her \u201cfired up and youthful.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two main roles of Hendricks\u2019 professional career have also intertwined into her personal life. \u201cAfter all these years of teaching, I am so humbled when I encounter former students and hear of their fond memories of fifth and sixth grades in my classroom,\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Getting to Know Marj<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of education, Hendricks is found in her garden. \u201cI absolutely love growing vegetables, fruit and flowers,\u201d she says, \u201cand it is such fun to share the bounty with others. I am continually learning new and better ways to garden and be a good steward of our resources.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series Marj Hendricks has proven a stalwart teacher in Lynden Schools with over 30 years of service in the district.&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/2025\/04\/03\/staff-spotlight-marj-hendricks-still-encouraging-learning-after-30-years\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Fisher Elementary","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/fisher-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}