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Board approves hiring of Eric Smith as career and technical education teacher

Whitehall School District Board of Trustees · August 18, 2026
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Trustees approved hiring Eric Smith, a community applicant with military service and cabinet‑shop experience, to fill the district's career and technical education teacher position; the motion passed by voice vote.

Trustees approved the hiring of Eric Smith as the district’s career and technical education (CTE) teacher.

Jason introduced Smith as a community member with 12 years of military service and prior experience running a cabinet shop in Washington. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and will teach woodworking, business and marketing, and middle‑school technology classes, with a schedule designed to leverage his industrial‑trade background.

Jason said Smith will run two periods of woodworking and two periods of business and marketing in high school, plus tech classes oriented toward middle‑school students. "He has the maturity of a person with some experience in his belt and he'll be new to our staff so I definitely support the recommendation of Eric Smith as our 612 position in business industrial technology," Jason said.

A trustee moved to hire Eric Smith, a second was made, and the motion passed by voice vote; no roll call tally was provided in the transcript.