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Jamie O'Neil
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Shari Pate
Email: spate@psusd.us
Ms. O'Neil has done many jobs, including bartending, floral design, commercial cleaning, secretarial, and journalism. She began her college career late, and it took her 7 years to get a Bachelor's Degree while raising 3 children. After receiving her degree, she worked for 7 years in the exciting world of Journalism, doing every aspect of print media - graphic design, reporter/writer, layout and design, until working her way to editor.
She began film editing in 1999 as a hobby, but loved it so much, she began to work for a production company, and take outside jobs as a film editor. She owns a wedding video company and has written and produced four short films.
She says it was the lack of integrity in mainstream media that drove her to change careers. She is now in her seventh year of teaching and is currently working on a Masters in Instructional Technology. She has a passion for the media and for helping make our world more media literate.
She has three grown children and two grandchildren.
She loves teaching high school because she like teenagers; she likes living on the edge, and working with teens provides that opportunity!
Ms. Pate graduated from California State University Fresno in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Technology with an Electricity/Electronics Digital Systems Emphasis. After graduation, Ms. Pate moved to Dallas, Texas and went to work at Texas Instruments as a Manufacturing Engineer - Systems and Procedures Analyst. After a year and a half of missing California, Ms. Pate returned to California and settled in the Santa Cruz mountains. She went to work for Westinghouse as a Production Planning Engineer where she worked for several years. Ms. Pate relocated to Carson City, Nevada to work for a company named Hytek as a Production Manager. When the company closed, Ms. Pate returned to the mountains of Santa Cruz. Eventually, in order to be closer to her parents, Ms. Pate moved to the Coachella Valley. In 1999, after having taken time off, Ms. Pate went back to work and to school and received her Teaching Credential from California State University San Barnardino, all the while teaching first Integrated Science and then computers at Cathedral City High School (1999 - 2004). Knowing that learning is a lifelong process, Ms. Pate continued her education and received her Master's of Education in Instructional Technology in March of 2004. This school year Ms. Pate transferred to Desert Hot Springs High School. She is extremely happy to be a part of the Golden Eagle staff and community. Ms. Pate says, "I have a passion for teaching and it never ceases to amaze me when I see the 'light bulb' go on in students' minds."