{"id":976,"date":"2024-11-20T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/2024\/11\/20\/staff-spotlight-life-isnt-all-drama-for-tina-miller\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:29:05","slug":"staff-spotlight-life-isnt-all-drama-for-tina-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/2024\/11\/20\/staff-spotlight-life-isnt-all-drama-for-tina-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight: Life Isn\u2019t All Drama for Tina Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, there\u2019s plenty of drama in Tina Miller\u2019s life serving in Lynden Schools, but it is part of her job description. As the drama director for both Lynden High School and Lynden Middle School, Miller works with dozens of students after school, but she\u2019s also heavily involved in the lives of students during the school day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a para educator at Lynden Academy for the past six years, Miller\u2019s role ranges from working with kindergarten students twice a week to high schoolers twice a week to a mix of elementary grades one day a week. She\u2019s also part of the testing team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love working at Lynden Academy, the staff is like a family,\u201d she says. \u201cI also enjoy the variety of students I get to work with from kindergarten through high school, and all the flexibility and new challenges it provides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller\u2019s passion, though, has always been music and drama. She selects shows, prepares scripts and schedules and runs rehearsals while working with a team of volunteers and students to produce one high school play, one high school musical and one middle school show each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI appreciate the friendships that are developed, the safe space we provide, the creative outlets and the drama family that we have created over the last 15 years,\u201d Miller says. \u201cDoing shows with these kids is the true joy of my life and I wouldn\u2019t give it up for anything.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting to Know Tina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When not working on scripts and rehearsals, Miller is working on scripts and rehearsals. But in those rare moments she\u2019s not, she enjoys crocheting, crafting, \u201ccurling up with a good book,\u201d watching football, attending the theater, snuggling with her cats and dogs and cruising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her personal passion for theater has led to community theater as well, both on and off the stage. But she\u2019s never far from a high school sporting event or a service at Cornwall Church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her husband has experienced recent health struggles, and it has limited Miller\u2019s community activities, but she\u2019s previously been active on the Whatcom County Umpire Association\u2014at one time scheduling all the middle school, high school and adult softball umpiring rotations for all of Whatcom County\u2014and serving on the board of two community theaters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am also still in touch with several of my \u2018drama babies\u2019 from the past, and even have drama grandbabies now,\u201d she jokes. \u201cEven though we live in Ferndale, we call ourselves Lyndenites by proxy as we feel that our lives, home and heart really are here in Lynden.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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