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.
Kelly Lyons,
Lower and Middle School Technology Coordinator
Kelly Lyons serves as the Lower and Middle School technology coordinator. In the Lower School, she teaches computer skills to first through fifth graders. In the Middle
School, she teaches a keyboarding unit to sixth graders. In both divisions, Lyons provides faculty tech support. “When a teacher has a question or an interest in learning a new way to use technology, I help them,” she explains.
Two of Lyons favorite projects are pod casting stories written by fourth graders at Charles Wright and read aloud by the authors, and assisting third graders in producing comic books and publishing them on the web. The “Spooky Stories” and “Legends” can be found online at: http://web.mac.com/charleswrightls.
“I like how the Lower School teaches kids to be independent and self-directed in their learning,” says Lyons. “It makes the students more likely to explore and try things on their own.”
Lyons has helped coach the chess club. She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2006. Math is one of her personal interests.
School, she teaches a keyboarding unit to sixth graders. In both divisions, Lyons provides faculty tech support. “When a teacher has a question or an interest in learning a new way to use technology, I help them,” she explains.
Two of Lyons favorite projects are pod casting stories written by fourth graders at Charles Wright and read aloud by the authors, and assisting third graders in producing comic books and publishing them on the web. The “Spooky Stories” and “Legends” can be found online at: http://web.mac.com/charleswrightls.
“I like how the Lower School teaches kids to be independent and self-directed in their learning,” says Lyons. “It makes the students more likely to explore and try things on their own.”
Lyons has helped coach the chess club. She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2006. Math is one of her personal interests.
