Several 4J schools and departments have new leadership for the coming school year:

K.C. Bodily, Assistant Principal, Kennedy Middle School and Hé Lín Chinese Immersion Elementary School

Bodily has moved to the co-located school after serving as assistant principal at Willagillespie Elementary School for the last two years. He worked as principal at Spring Creek Elementary School for two years before that. Bodily moved to Oregon from Alaska, where he was an experienced administrator who has served as an elementary principal and middle school assistant principal in Fairbanks since 2013. Before Fairbanks, Bodily worked in two remote Alaskan Native villages, as a K–12 principal for four years and before that as a teacher for four years.

Chemika Bolden, Assistant Principal, North Eugene High School

Bolden has joined the Higherlander administrative team after leading the district’s Grow Your Own program to diversify 4J’s educator workforce for the last three years. Previously, Bolden worked as a classroom teacher at Edison and Adams elementary schools before taking a job with the Lane Education Service District, working to help the 16 school districts in the county that it supports diversify its educator workforce.  Bolden was honored a year ago as the Oregon Alliance of Black School Educators’ 2025 Educator of the Year. 

Jen Hebard, Principal, Buena Vista Spanish Immersion Elementary School

Hebard has moved to Buena Vista from Hé Lín Chinese Immersion Elementary School, succeeding former Principal Mark Hinthorn who retired at the end of the prior school year. Hebard led Hé Lín for a nearly decade, after arriving from the Bethel School District where she taught for eight years. Initially named principal of Family School in 2016, she took over leadership of both the alternative elementary school and Hé Lín, then called Chinese Immersion School, when it was established at the Crest Dirive site the following year. She moved with Hé Lín in the fall of 2021, when it co-located at Kennedy Middle School, and was named principal of both schools in the fall of 2022. She returned to solely leading Hé Lin when Travis Sheaffer was named Kennedy’s principal two years ago.

Justin Huntley, Assistant Principal, Churchill HIgh School

Huntley has returned to Churchill to serve as assistant principal, succeeding former Assistant Principal Mike Hillman, who left 4J to become superintendent of the Joseph School District in eastern Oregon. Huntley will join assistant principals Eric Hoberg, also the school’s athletic director, and Beth Kruziki on Churchill’s administrative team.  Huntley served as interim principal at Churchill during the 2024-25 school year. He previously worked as a curriculum administrator for the district’s Instruction and Technology departments, a role he had filled since 2018. Before coming to 4J, Huntley was a high school principal in Sutherlin, Oregon, and spent years as an administrator, principal and teacher in districts around the state.

Teresa Myers, Alternative Education Administrator

Myers will lead 4J’s three alternative high school programs—ECCO, Eugene Online Academy and GED— in her new role, after supporting them as assistant principal for the last two years. Prior to moving to those programs, Myers was a math teacher for more than a decade, both at North Eugene High School and Spencer Butte Middle School. Before arriving at 4J in 2013, she worked as a math teacher and district math coach at South Lane School District. For a year between her tenures at North Eugene and Spencer Butte, she worked as the equlity and essential skills specialist for the South Eugene region. Myers was named the winner of the Golden Apple Award in the administrative category for her work at the three alternative education programs last spring. 

Carlos Sequeira, Principal, Camas Ridge and Family elementary schools

As previously announced, Sequeira will lead the co-located programs at the school building along 30^th Avenue due to Family School’s move from its Crest Drive location. Sequeira has been Spencer Butte Middle School’s assistant principal for the last three years. He came to 4J from Lane Education Service District, where he worked as the assistant superintendent for the past seven years. Previously, he served as director of district collaboration at the Bethel School District and principal at Sherwood High School in Tualatin.

Steven Tygart, Assistant Principal, Spencer Butte Middle School

Steven Tygart is splitting his time as assistant principal between Spencer Butte and Arts & Technology Academy, where he began working as an administrator during the prior school year. Tygart previously worked as student success coordinator at South Eugene High School and has previously taught at North Eugene and Churchill high schools. 

Dr. Dan Farley, Technology Director

Farley has led the district’s technology department since March. Farley previously served as assistant superintendent in the Oregon Department of Education’s Office of Research, Assessment, Data, Accountability, and Reporting (RADAR), where he led and supported major statewide initiatives spanning assessment and accountability, data and research infrastructure, and technology-enabled systems improvement. Farley, the son of two public school educators, began his career as a public school teacher in Colorado and New Mexico from 1994-2004, teaching primarily mathematics and English language arts. He then moved to the New Mexico Public Education Department to work as a special education assessment specialist and then shifted to the New Mexico School for the Deaf. He subsequently performed education-related consulting work after moving to Oregon in 2009. He earned his doctorate degree in educational leadership from the University of Oregon in 2017. 

Dr. Brooke Wagner, Assistant Superintendent for System Integration and Continuous Improvement

As previously announced, Wagner has been named the assistant  superintendent for system integration and continuous improvement. Wagner, who has more than 25 years experience as a classified employee, teacher, principal and district administrator in Eugene and Springfield, most recently was the assistant superintendent for administrative services. In her role, Wagner will oversee Instruction and Access (which includes all schools, curriculum, instruction, testing and related services), Human Resources, special education, and the career and technical education programs. Wagner, who holds a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Oregon, previously served as 4J’s human resources director and assistant superintendent for instruction. Prior to those appointments, she served for several years as 4J’s director of elementary education and pre-K–8 education. She got her start as an educational assistant before becoming a teacher and later a middle and elementary school principal in Eugene and Springfield. She was named both Oregon’s Assistant Principal of the Year in 2006 and Springfield Public Schools’ Administrator of the Year in 2015.