Tristyn Eldredge in her classroom at Columbia Ridge Elementary. Eldredge has come full circle, starting at the campus as a student, then serving as a student teacher, as a paraprofessional and now as a fourth-grade teacher there.
September 6, 2023
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Student to teacher
Columbia Ridge alum comes back to school to teach
EPHRATA — Tristyn Eldredge has come full circle in her journeys around Columbia Ridge Elementary School in Ephrata. She started there as a student, then came back as a paraprofessional and this year, she’s at the head of a fourth-grade classroom as a teacher. “One of the biggest things that I’m looking forward to is just giving back to the school that, you know, that shaped me into who I am,” Eldredge said. The path to becoming a teacher was a bit of a winding road, Eldredge said, with her initial goal being to study criminal justice and become a juvenile probation officer.