English teacher Hannah Clement worked as a manger at Best Buy last year. She says that she runs on coffee.

As a child, Clement wanted to be a storm chaser. Her example was her 7th-8th grade teacher Dr. Dunken.

“I owe everything to her,” Clement said. “She showed me the school can be fun.” she said.

Her taste in music is mixed. She have everything from Green Day to Frank Sinatra on her iPod.

When it comes to smartphones she sticks to the basics, she doesn’t need any of the new apps.

“I don’t think there’s an app that I can’t live without,” Clement said.

Basketball/Volleyball Coach and English teacher Kristy Ciuba has been teaching for the past five years and was a student teacher at Old High. Since the third grade she’s always want to be a teacher. Ciuba feels that it hard being both a teacher and a coach but it’s quite rewarding.

“It’s hard to say what’s my favorite kind of music, but I do love Josh Abbott,” Ciuba said. “The apps I use are Facebook and Pinterest. Sadly I don’t have enough to use them.”

Science teacher Jade Horn is from Petrolia. She really loves her family.

When she was a kid, she didn’t really have a idol, but her mother was, and still is, her example.

“Most kids looked up to rock stars for inspiration, but I felt that they couldn’t compare to my mother,” Horn said.

Since she was a child, Horn always wanted to be a teacher.

“Wanting to teach is isn’t the only reason someone would want to be a teacher,” Horn said. “They want to changes lives.”

If she wasn’t teaching, she’d be working for or with her family.

Horn loves her oldies music, but she also listens to bands like Tool and Chevelle. She says the only reason she needs a smartphone is to check her e-mails, but she loves Draw Something.

Science teacher Autumn Weber is originally a horse rider from southern Californian who taught in California for a while.

Weber was nervous her first day at Rider, but it went a lot better than she expected.

“The Texas students are much different from California,” Weber said. “Everyone is so nice compared to my students from California.”

Weber loves Pop music, especially Shakira and Britney Spears. When it comes to smartphones she jokingly said that following smartphones is like a cult.

She loves Rider and feels its the best high school in Wichita Falls. “‘One Family One Team’ to me is helping someone with a smile,” Weber said. “It’s what separates us from any of the other high schools.”

English teacher and former surfer Jennifer Downing, was a student teacher last year for the second semester at Rider.

“I don’t really use my phone for anything other then Facebook and to check my e-mails,” Downing said. “On my iPod, I have everything from Blue October to the Beastie Boys.”

The people who inspired her to become a teacher are her father and former Rider teacher Linda Mirral.

Downing always wanted to be teacher or a writer. She loves Rider and One Family One Team. “‘One Family One Team’ is not just a saying or a bundle of words,” Downing said. “It’s a life style and an attitude that flows through the students at Rider.”

Staff new to Rider this year:
English Department: Kristy Ciuba, Jennifer Downing, Garnet Gilbreath, Cooper McClung, and Hanna Clement
Math Department: Cody Blair and Kyndra Golden.
Science Department: Jade Horn, Joshua Nielsen, and Autumn Weber.
Social Department: Lynn Donart and Alysha Humpert
ASP: Carlos Rios
Diagnostician: Rana Brown