{"id":923,"date":"2025-10-21T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/2025\/10\/21\/staff-spotlight-ben-segura-supporting-students-and-teachers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:21:13","slug":"staff-spotlight-ben-segura-supporting-students-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/2025\/10\/21\/staff-spotlight-ben-segura-supporting-students-and-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight: Ben Segura Supporting Students and Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his sixth year as a MLL specialist paraeducator in Lynden Schools, Ben Segura enjoys supporting a range of students and staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Segura is ready to help multi-language learners and the teachers looking to connect with the students at Lynden Middle School.&nbsp;Paraeducators play a critical role in student learning by working alongside teachers to pre- and re-teach classroom instruction and build strong relationships that help students thrive.&nbsp;A bilingual paraeducator, such as Segura, is especially crucial in helping students develop English language proficiency and access academic content ensuring all students can fully participate and succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s available to support teachers and students across all classes, especially with testing. \u201cI like being able to help students understand class work and lessons better,\u201d he says. \u201cI especially enjoy seeing the students grow in their abilities and gain confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connecting students and teachers is also about families. \u201cI believe regular outreach and maintaining good relationships with our students\u2019 families,\u201d Segura says, \u201cis key to strengthening our Lynden Middle School community.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Getting to Know Ben<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of the schools, Segura can be seen on a mountain, whether snowboarding, mountain biking or hiking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series In his sixth year as a MLL specialist paraeducator in Lynden Schools, Ben Segura enjoys supporting a range of&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/2025\/10\/21\/staff-spotlight-ben-segura-supporting-students-and-teachers\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","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":"Lynden Academy","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}