DID YOU KNOW?
Tacoma’s story spans more than two centuries from the time Captain George Vancouver anchored off Tacoma’s north shore in 1792.
In 1870, Tacoma’s natural deep-water port became an attraction that the Northern Pacific Railroad couldn’t pass up, when it made Tacoma a stop on its transcontinental line.
Old Tacoma and New Tacoma merged in 1884 and incorporated as Tacoma. By 1890, the population reached 36,000 people.
Tacoma is home to the Port of Tacoma, the seventh-largest container port in the United States, and it is within 20 miles of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and 36 miles of the city of Seattle.
Deanna Trummert,
3rd Grade
Deanne Trummert teaches third grade. “I hope to convince kids that they can learn independently,” she explains. “Kids can learn to use their strengths to solve new problems.”
“These students adopt the problem-solving-and-repair model to conflict very early. They take care of so many problems without intervention.” Deanne remembers after recess one day a student reported to her: ‘I hurt so-and-so’s feelings by laughing when he got out at four-square. I said I was sorry. Next recess he and I are going to practice four-square together.’
Trummert particularly enjoys teaching math and science. “I love the light bulb effect that we often see in math,” she says. “The science concepts we work on connect many topics and that connection is invigorating.” She finds that the flexibility afforded to teachers at this school allows her to change curriculum and materials to fit the needs of particular students.
Trummert holds a bachelors degree from Central Washington University and masters in education from the University of Washington. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1999 after teaching at another school. In addition to teaching, she has coached soccer for the Upper School and the Math Olympiad team at Charles Wright. Trummert enjoys sailing, soccer and quilt making. She has been racing sailboats since she was nine years old and still races the same type of boat as she did when she was a child. She also races larger keelboats, including participating in a race from British Columbia to Hawaii.
“These students adopt the problem-solving-and-repair model to conflict very early. They take care of so many problems without intervention.” Deanne remembers after recess one day a student reported to her: ‘I hurt so-and-so’s feelings by laughing when he got out at four-square. I said I was sorry. Next recess he and I are going to practice four-square together.’
Trummert particularly enjoys teaching math and science. “I love the light bulb effect that we often see in math,” she says. “The science concepts we work on connect many topics and that connection is invigorating.” She finds that the flexibility afforded to teachers at this school allows her to change curriculum and materials to fit the needs of particular students.
Trummert holds a bachelors degree from Central Washington University and masters in education from the University of Washington. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1999 after teaching at another school. In addition to teaching, she has coached soccer for the Upper School and the Math Olympiad team at Charles Wright. Trummert enjoys sailing, soccer and quilt making. She has been racing sailboats since she was nine years old and still races the same type of boat as she did when she was a child. She also races larger keelboats, including participating in a race from British Columbia to Hawaii.
