Teachers
Kelly Mikula
About Me Hello! I’m back! I retired from teaching and have been living in the U.P. on the Keweenaw Peninsula for four years with my family. I wanted to finish out my last two years of teaching with my Buckley family. I’m really excited to see some familiar faces and many new ones! Education Grand …
Frank Chaprnka
Welcome to… BAND! Buckley Beginning Band Syllabus Chaprnka
Renee Osgood
I have worked in various teaching capacities at Buckley Community Schools for the past five years; she currently is teaching ELA for 8th, 9th, 11th, and 12th grades. I was happy to come out of retirement to work at Buckley Community Schools. I love the environment at Buckley–the students, staff, administration are a very supportive …
Robert Welch
About Me: I am entering my 5th year at Buckley School as a Social Studies teacher and I couldn’t be happier than I am now. I grew up in Traverse City, but always considered Buckley my second home as my great-grandfather and great-grandmother settled in this area in the early 1900’s. My grandfather, my mom, …
Ron Spitzer
Mr. Spitzer has taught at Buckley Community Schools since the fall of 1987. For most of those years, he has been the only Social Studies Teacher for Junior High and High School. He is looking forward to serving at Buckley for a few more years. Mr. Spitzer earned his BA from the University of Arizona …
Sara Papineau
Ms. Papineau is proud to be a Buckley Bear and has been teaching with Buckley Community Schools since 2012. She began working within education in 2004 and has experience teaching English, psychology, and computers at the secondary level for both general and honors courses. Ms. Papineau is currently teaching English and computers classes at B.C.S.. …