Scott Kreher

“I think it’s really just sparking curiosity, because I feel like nothing that you leave, like no specific fact, is really important to being successful in life. But it’s all those skills like being curious, if you’re curious about something you’ll find a way to learn about it,” said new teacher Scott Kreher about an important aspect of teaching.

Kreher is taking over for Dr. Pieper as the yearbook teacher and is also teaching video production and photojournalism. Kreher grew up in St. Charles County and went to school in the St. Louis County area. He attended Truman State and the University of Missouri for undergraduate and graduate school, respectively. Afterwards, he was hired at Parkway North where he worked for 13 years.

Having grown up in a service family, Kreher always knew that he would work in the service industry.

“I always wanted to teach, I always wanted to do something to give back to others. My family has a lot of doctors and nurses. And so we’ve always been in the service field,” he said.

While Kreher initially went pre-law, he soon realized that it might not be the path that he wanted to take.

 “It didn’t feel like it was service-oriented enough. And I was like, I don’t really think so,” he said. “So very early in my college career, I was like, no, I’m gonna go back to what I wanted to do, because I was too fearful of not making money. I wasn’t choosing the profession for any deep love of justice. It was like, well, if you’re smart, you should consider doing this. And I was like, well, that’s not a good reason. Like, that’s a terrible reason.”

He remembered when he used to teach his sister when they were younger. “When my sister struggled with reading in the third grade and I was in seventh grade, I would sit down and try and help her read or solve math problems,” said Kreher. “I would have a can of Pringles, and if she got one right, I gave her one cheese pringle. And then she would get so excited, she would do another one. I was like, I could do this for a living. Like, if I could just give people Pringles, the world would be a better place.”

While he won’t be giving Pringles to all his students, Kreher does have very big plans for the future of yearbook. He hopes to expand the role of the yearbook at our school and make the yearbook an integral part of our school.

“I want to be able for journalism to give back to the school and create that sense of community,” he said. “And especially for yearbook, which sometimes has a rap like, hey, just buy your yearbook. And that’s the only time they talk to you until the end when they give you that thing. I think it should be more interactive throughout the year, so that the yearbook is more of a helpful tool.”

To Kreher, the yearbook is so much more than a picture book; it is the storyteller of our school. He explained that one of his goals is “getting [students] to see that it’s a weird mix between history, recording that history, telling the stories of everyone, and being an active role in the creation of the year but also the recording of that year. Because yearbook is a terrible self promoter, our job is to find everybody else’s story. But if you don’t tell your own story, nobody knows what you’re doing.” With his big plans for the future, Mr. Kreher is sure to be an integral part of the CTE community.