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WOODRING COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 

W E S T E R N W A S H I N G T O N U N I V E R S I T Y 

$1.45 Million CIRCLE Grant Excites 

Districts and ESL/ELL Programs 

Woodring College of Education has 

been awarded $1.45 million in a fiveyear 

grant from the U.S. Department of 

Education to prepare educators to work 

effectively with students with limited 

English skills, an increasingly urgent 

need among teachers in this state and 

nationally. 

The federal grant will involve a partnership 

between Western and the Ferndale, 

Nooksack Valley, Lynden and Mount 

Baker school districts. 

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen announced the 

award in July. “It’s great news that 

Western Washington University’s 

Woodring College of Education will 

have more resources to educate teachers 

in Whatcom County and across the 

state so they can do their jobs more 

effectively. Their work makes our communities 

stronger,” he said. 

An ultimate goal of the Curriculum 

Integration for Responsive, Crosscultural, 

Language-based Education (CIRCLE) program 

is that all graduates of Woodring 

College of Education are prepared to 

work effectively with students with limited 

English skills. 

Training to work effectively with students 

with limited English will be 

incorporated into relevant Woodring 

curriculum and course work. 

“Through this grant, we will strengthen 

our ability to prepare teachers who support 

the learning of all students. With 

the changing demographics in our state 

and nation, it is critical that all teachers 

have the ability to help English language 

learners succeed academically,” said 

Stephanie Salzman, Dean of Woodring 

College of Education. 

CIRCLE instruction will be provided to 

Woodring teachers in training and via 

in-service training to a number of teachers 

and administrators in the school districts 

that are partners with Woodring in 

the program. The training will include 

Teaching English to Speakers of Other 

Languages (TESOL) certification for some 

participants, and many of the education 

professionals involved with the program 

will receive quality training in how to 

Students in an Intensive English Program class at Western share a chuckle. Courtesy photo 

provide instruction that accelerates limited 

English proficient (LEP) and English 

language learners’ (ELL) acquisition of 

language, including the acquisition of 

academic language skills, literacy, and 

content knowledge. 

“In recent years, the school districts in 

Whatcom County have seen an expanding 

number of limited English proficient 

students and have been experiencing a 

strain on filling all their program needs. 

The CIRCLE partnership will meet both 

their needs for TESOL qualified teachers 

as well as Woodring’s commitment 

to graduate teachers able to work effectively 

with all diverse learners,” said 

Catherine Collier, project director and 

faculty member in the TESOL program 

at Woodring College of Education. 

Trish Skillman, Director of the TESOL 

program at Woodring, added that this 

is exactly the help that school districts 

have been asking for since she arrived at 

Western. She is excited to finally get a 

chance to work with them. 

The 2007-09 state operating budget 

includes a number of notable 

Western funding requests including 

new funding for expanded enrollments 

for a number of high-demand 

areas, including three in Woodring 

– Early Childhood Education; Human 

Services; and Teaching English to 

Speakers of Other Languages. 

This is a way for the legislature to 

direct a higher level of enrollment 

funding to specific programs – Early 

Childhood Education (20 full-time 

CIRCLE includes a partnership with 

school districts that need to fill critical 

teacher and administrator positions with 

personnel trained to work with diverse 

LEP and linguistically impacted students 

from homes where a language other 

than English is spoken. The districts also 

will serve as practicum and interaction 

sites for student teachers. The participating 

school districts serve populations 

of Russian, Spanish, Nooksack and 

Lushootseed speakers. 

Pat Bieber Holmes, Special Programs 

Director, Mount Baker School District 

said, “Mount Baker is excited about 

being part of this collaborative learning 

opportunity and grateful for the staff 

development support it provides our 

staff. We already have a list of 19 people 

– teachers, para-professionals and 

administrators – interested in participation! 

We very much appreciate working 

with WWU – as we do with our summer 

school program, science project, etc. 

– as we believe it is essential for higher 

education and public education to work 

closely together for the benefit of the 

profession, and ultimately, children.” 

Woodring Programs Gain State Support 

students), TESOL (45) – and for conversion 

of the Human Services program 

to state support and to increase 

enrollments in the program (125). 

Approximately 130 of these students 

are already present and attending 

classes on campus in Human Services 

and TESOL. The additional funding 

targeted to these programs will fund 

related faculty positions and programmatic 

and student support. 

Source: WWU President’s Report 

www.wce.wwu.edu 

Seattle P-I columnist Joel Connelly with WWU President 

Karen W. Morse. Connelly served as emcee for 

the 2007 Campus School Reunion (page 11). 

Contents 

Fall 2007 

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Note from Dean Salzman; 

School & Community Assets Inquiry 

Project 

Burnt Roses: A Woodring 

Professor in Post-War Bosnia 

New Faculty; Faculty Notes 

Life Books for Foster Children; 

Disablilty Business Technical 

Assistance Center; E-ATRC 

Fellowships 

Study in Mexico; Asian American 

Curriculum; Holocaust Studies 

Woodring College of Education 

Annual Report of Donors & 

Awards 

Campus School Reunion; 

National Board Certified 

Teachers; Student Pride 

Special Education: New Early 

Childhood Education Program 

Instructional Strategies; Global 

Society Conference; Online 

Journal and more 

Alumni Awards, Profiles, Notes 

Philanthropy - Ted Mork; Michael 

Reinke; Distinguished Alumni - 

Steve Clarke and John Fotheringham 

1st Western Region Research 

Conference on the Education of 

Adults (WRRCEA) 

WWU is an AA/EO Institution. 

To request the publication in an alternate 

format, call (360) 650-7410.

From The Dean 

Woodring Dean Stephanie Salzman, at right, shares a drawing of the waterfront area on 

Bellingham Bay and some of the ideas for Western Washington University’s participation 

in the redevelopment of the former Georgia-Pacific pulp mill site. Members of Woodring’s 

Community Leadership Advisory Council (CLAC) are seated at the left. The CLAC brings 

together members of the community and Woodring College of Education faculty, staff, 

and students to create partnerships that support the learning and well-being of children 

and families. Photo by Carole Morris 

Woodring College of Education faculty 

and staff members have long worked 

with our public school, human service, 

and university colleagues to support 

the learning and well-being of children 

and families in the state, region, nation, 

and world. These collaborations are an 

important part of our current business 

and our planning and future. 

No doubt many of you have read the 

book The World Is Flat. The author, 

Thomas L. Friedman, tells us that to 

“flourish in this flat world,” you need 

“the right imagination and the right 

motivation.” 

Certainly our partnerships with community 

groups, schools, human service 

agencies, and our university partners 

require the components of imagination 

and motivation. The “right imagination” 

involves exploring new ideas, embracing 

Student Scholarships 

new challenges, and creating new 

models. The “right motivation” 

comes from a belief in mutual benefit, 

an understanding of how being 

responsive and entrepreneurial can 

go hand-in-hand, and a common 

commitment to solving complex 

problems and creating solutions 

that otherwise could not occur. 

We hope you share our enthusiasm 

for the many programs and initiatives 

you will read about in this 

issue of the Woodring Educator. At 

the same time, we invite you to visit 

the College, attend one or more of 

our events, and explore news on 

our Web site. We appreciate your 

continued support and investment 

in our future. Through the combination 

of imagination and motivation, 

we continue our commitment 

to excellence. 

Editorial Board 

The Woodring Educator is compiled by 

the Educator Advisory Board. Members 

are: Kim Cunningham, Bonnie Drewes, 

Debbie Gramm, Sherry Haskins, Michael 

Henniger, Ellen Kreider, William Lay 

(Chair), Carole Morris, Stephanie 

Salzman, Linda Schleef, Jane Verner. 

School & Community Assets 

Inquiry Project Adds Depth 

to Year-Long Internship 

by David Carroll 

What would it take to enable teacher 

candidates to learn how to make strong 

local connections among children, 

their families, their communities, and 

classroom curriculum? How could 

community assets and family funds of 

knowledge be identified as resources for 

designing learning opportunities? 

Community asset mapping and family 

funds of knowledge each have extensive 

research and scholarship traditions 

associated with them. We have been 

inspired by the promise of these ideas 

to attempt to translate them into workable 

approaches to community-based 

inquiry suitable for pre-service teacher 

candidates. 

The School & Community Assets Inquiry 

Project is the first assignment in the new 

year-long internship of the elementary 

teacher education program, and it aims 

to address these questions. This extended 

internship connects teacher candidates 

with a particular school and community 

for a gradually intensifying internship 

experience spanning three quarters. 

Andrea Klemmt, Amelia DeKalb, Carly 

Jansen, Mike Martin, Ali Skjei, and 

Michelle Mobraten are the pilot group 

for this experiment, and David Carroll 

is their instructor for the new course, 

Developing Teaching, that features this 

assignment. 

This article offers a taste of what they 

discovered. Andrea, Amelia, Carly, and 

Mike were at Everson Elementary School 

in the Nooksack Valley School District, 

while Ali and Michelle were at West 

View Elementary in the Burlington 

Edison School District. 

by Andrea Klemmt, Amelia DeKalb, 

Carly Jansen, Mike Martin, Ali Skjei, and 

Michelle Mobraten write about their 

experiences: 

We were starting out on an extended 

stay in two school communities. We 

began by trying to learn about each 

school and its surrounding community. 

We investigated the nature of the physical 

community around the school, taking 

a field trip to drive around and locate 

significant features of the landscape, to 

notice housing patterns, to find out 

where people shop, go for recreation, 

work, etc. We also looked into the history 

of our schools, interviewing current 

and former staff and administrators and 

collecting current and historical demographic 

information to see how the 

schools have changed over time and to 

find out what they value and are working 

on currently. 

As we spent more time in classrooms, we 

began to hear the stories of children and 

their families, sometimes told at class- 

CoNtriBUtorS 

In addition to members of the Educator 

Advisory Board, this issue includes 

contributions from Woodring faculty, 

staff, and University Communications. 

Photos not credited were taken 

by Carole Morris. Submit items 

to William.Lay@wwu.edu. 

room sharing times, sometimes offered 

in individual conversations with a parent 

or child. We struggled with the tension 

between developing useful generalizations 

and the danger of stereotyping and 

relying upon second-hand information. 

How does a beginning intern find out 

about families and their funds of knowledge? 

We attempted to resolve this by 

keeping our ears open to stories about 

family life that emerged spontaneously 

in classrooms – killing a chicken for 

a celebration; having a father who is a 

tribal story teller; hearing about who has 

a farm or works on one. 

We thought about additional ways of 

investigating in non-intrusive ways, like 

inviting students to talk or write about 

a time when someone in their family 

taught them how to do something, but 

we didn’t have time to try that out this 

quarter. 

As our knowledge grew, we worked in 

school teams to connect these ideas 

about community assets and family 

knowledge and experience to potential 

curriculum and learning experiences for 

our classrooms. In both schools, there 

was a strong agricultural base in the 

communities. 

Mike imagined an interdisciplinary 

investigation of the life cycle of raspberries, 

connecting the experience of 

migrant worker families, farm owners, 

consumers, and community members 

in tracing how raspberries are grown 

around Everson, and what happens to 

them once they are picked, and how 

that influences the community. 

Ali noted that at West View, where there 

is a strong commitment to bi-lingual 

education, both English and Spanish 

have many Latin roots. She felt that by 

creating a literacy setting in which students 

actively investigated Latin and 

analyzed its influence on Spanish and 

English, ideas about spelling patterns as 

well as word meaning would be engaged. 

She also imagined the possibility of comparing 

English and Spanish to a native 

language present in the school without 

Latin roots – Mixteco or Triqui – both 

indigenous Mexican languages. 

We had other ideas as well. As we move 

ahead with our internship, we are eager 

to develop these ideas and the alliances 

with people and organizations that fostered 

them. We hope to try them out, 

adapt them, and keep on looking for 

ways to better connect to our students, 

their families, and their communities. 

For more information on the School & 

Community Assets Project, contact David 

Carroll at (360) 650-2251 or by email at: 

David.Carroll@wwu.edu.


Preparing thoughtful, knowledgeable, and effective educators for a diverse society. 

Burnt Roses: A Woodring Professor in Post-War Bosnia 

by Suzanne Krogh 

The expectations for my five-month 

position in Sarajevo continued to be 

vague as I prepared to leave in January, 

so I packed a wide array of books and 

sent them off by diplomatic pouch. They 

arrived well after I did, but as it turned 

out, they were mostly unnecessary and 

those I eventually needed had to be air 

shipped at great expense, because my 

participation evolved over time. 

My basic assignment as a Fulbright 

scholar was twofold: To work with the 

Education Faculty at the University of 

Sarajevo and with the NGO (non-governmental 

organization) CIVITAS-Bosnia. 

At the University, I did guest lectures in 

various classes. In addition, I had opportunities 

to teach at two other universities 

and in several elementary and high 

school English classes. 

Teaching experiences were somewhat 

more formal than those we are accustomed 

to in teacher education, and 

Bosnian university students primarily 

expect to just sit and take notes while 

the professor lectures. Group work was 

certainly not unknown, however, and 

the students were generally willing to 

play along with my American versions 

of it. 

Formality was also expressed in the students’ 

ways of addressing faculty. Even 

graduate assistants referred to their 

supervising professors as “Professor.” 

Acustomed, in recent years at least, 

to being addressed by my first name, 

I found this quite a change. On the 

other hand, students were much more 

informal about dropping into professors’ 

offices than our students would 

be. Posted office hours and closed doors 

seemed only decorative; students just 

barged in when they felt the need, rarely 

apologizing for interrupting anything. 

“It’s the result of the war, of course,” one 

professor explained. Observing my bafflement, 

she continued: “Imagine you 

live far out of town and you need to see 

your professor. So, you walk an hour or 

more, dodging snipers or worse. By the 

time you get to the university, you are so 

relieved to be alive that it doesn’t cross 

your mind that the professor might be 

too busy to see you. After the war, the 

students assumed that the professors 

would still always be there for them and, 

somehow, no one has been able to alter 

the ‘tradition.’” 

The 1992-1995 war between Bosnian 

Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks (Bosnian 

Muslims) seems always to be just below 

the surface of everything that happens 

and what people talk about, although 

the routines and experiences of everyday 

life give little clue that is the case. 

Rebuilding the post-war society was, 

in fact, the impetus for importing the 

California-based CIVITAS programs. 

Designed for elementary through high 

school, the CIVITAS curricula provide 

service-learning community projects as 

well as in-class experiences for learning 

about life in a democracy. The original 

pilot projects of a dozen years ago were 

so successful that the CIVITAS curriculum 

is now required in all Bosnian public 

schools. The staff at Sarajevo headquarters 

continually seeks ways to expand, 

update, and re-invigorate the program, 

generally focusing on the need to bring 

together students from the three previously 

warring ethnicities. 

This year, for the first time, the program 

was expanded to kindergarten, using 

new materials from the California 

organization. Because my background is 

in early childhood education, this pilot 

project was the one I worked with. 

Within two weeks of my arrival I was 

engaged in teacher training and evaluation. 

Most teachers were originally 

skeptical of the ability of small children 

to understand abstract concepts associated 

with democracy. However, they 

entered into the project with a professional 

attitude and were both delighted 

and amazed to observe the growth in 

their children and in themselves. As the 

children became more democratic in 

outlook, they did too, and found themselves 

altering their teaching and management 

methods. 

About all those books I shipped in 

January: many have found a home in 

the CIVITAS library. The largest number, 

however, are forming the beginnings of a 

professional library in a new school that 

opens this fall. Founded by two sisters, 

both recent graduates of the University 

of Sarajevo, it will be the first early childhood 

center to focus on the arts as its 

core curriculum. 

Suzanne Krogh is a professor and former 

chair of the Elementary Education Department 

at Woodring College. She was a 

Fulbright Scholar from February to July, 

2007, at University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 

Bosnia and Herzegovinia. 

Translation of the above drawing by 

Ismeta, age 11, from Zvornik, Liplje in 

1993: “The friends of that boy are crying 

for him. This is the school where we were 

put up.” Published in Burnt Roses: Horrors 

of War in Children’s Eyes, Institute for the 

Research of Crimes Against Humanity and 

International Law, Sarajevo, 2003. 

Professor Suzanne Krogh interacts with pre-school children at Banja Luka. “Official photographers 

were called, and immediately responded, to document any important event at most 

[childcare] centers. This included the arrival of visitors, such as myself.” 

Reports from Bosnia 

Selections from Suzanne’s occasional 

e-mails to faculty 

Preparing the Next Generation 

for the Next War 

I am told that there are 56 schools 

in the country that have two schools 

under one roof: one for Croats and 

one for Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). 

Each side has its own principal, office, 

teachers’ lounge, and classrooms. 

People from the two sides don’t talk to 

each other unless it’s kids fighting outside. 

The international high authorities 

have been too busy creating adult 

democratic institutions to make the 

kid stuff go away. I’d say they’re in for 

a surprise down the road a bit. 

A Slim Ray of Hope 

Civitas, the NGO I’m starting to work 

with, goes into these “double schools” 

and has the kids work on Project 

Citizen community service activities 

together. Japan volunteered to donate 

IT equipment, but only if the new 

labs were housed jointly. Reluctantly, 

the schools agreed. Small starts, but 

maybe important ones. 

The Benefits of Local Control? 

Whoever helped the Bosnians get 

their schools back and running after 

the war, decided that it would be a 

great idea to decentralize, so there 

are 12 ministries of education for a 

country of 3.8 million. Since the postwar 

population move is to ever-more 

ethnically segregated communities, it 

means that in the Croatian areas they 

publish their own books, and ditto the 

Serbian and Bosniak. The very slight 

differences in language can thus be 

highlighted and you can only imagine 

how each history book talks about 

the war. 

Will You Be Lecturing in Bosnian 

or English? 

Why do people ask me this when 

it’s all I can do to get out the word 

for thank you (hvala.) Not likely, but 

maybe I pronounce it so skillfully they 

make assumptions. Here’s where I am 

just now: “Dobar dan. Ja sam Suzanne 

Krogh. Ja sam iz Amerike.” Ciao. 

And a list of maybe 75 currently useless 

words. Tutor comes tonight. Am 

expecting fluency by tomorrow. 

Suddenly They’re Everywhere 

I had read about the Sarajevo Roses 

before I came here, but in the past 

few years the streets and sidewalks 

have been repaired sufficiently that 

they have become hard to find. The 

“roses” are depressions in concrete 

made by mortars, which leave a wide 

but shallow indentation that is more 

or less round in shape; small splats 

make rays from the center. In previous 

years, many of the roses were filled 

in with red resin if the mortar attack 

had been a particularly deadly one. It 

was only last week that I walked right 

over one of these for the first time and 

then, a few yards later, discovered a 

second. By now the red had turned 

to a faded pink and whole chunks 

of resin were coming loose in places. 

The roses were on a sidewalk next to a 

city park that contains some Moslem 

graves. I noticed that there was one 

section of relatively new tombstones 

and I went to check. Sure enough: 

Seven of them gave the death date as 

October 26, 1993. Beyond that experience, 

I have suddenly realized that in 

many of the places I walk, I cross over 

the roses. Since they are unpainted 

and because I’ve been blessed in not 

knowing what the results of a mortar 

attack look like, I hadn’t known what 

they were. 


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Woodring Welcomes New Faculty 

Kristen French has joined the Elementary 

Education faculty as Assistant Professor. 

She received degrees in Anthropology 

and Elementary Education (with a 

minor in Native American Studies) at 

WWU. Upon graduation, she taught in 

Marysville for several years. Later, inspired 

by Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical 

Context of Multicultural Education, Kristen 

went to study with Sonia Nieto, a leader 

in Multicultural Education, at the 

University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 

She sees her new position as an amazing 

opportunity to give back to the university 

and students where her journey 

began. She is the Director of Woodring’s 

Center for Educational Pluralism. 

Laurie Winder, who has been teaching 

for the Human Services Program for 

10 years as adjunct faculty, is now fulltime 

faculty. At the community college 

level she taught developmental education, 

career development, and parenting 

courses. Prior to working in higher education, 

she volunteered in elementary 

schools for many years with a focus on 

literacy development. 

She is earning her Ph.D. at the University 

of Washington. Her current research 

focuses on the perceptions and educational 

experiences of individuals who 

struggle with literacy acquisition. 

Additional areas of interest include critical 

theory as it applies to research and 

teaching/learning practices, social justice, 

and gaining understandings that 

may advance more equitable educational 

systems. 

This year she is teaching Human 

Development, Applied Research 

Methods, Introduction to Human 

Services, and the Practicum/Internship 

seminar series. 

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Meredith Josey is joining Woodring’s 

Teaching English to Speakers of Other 

Languages (TESOL) program. She was 

born in Atlanta, Georgia. After secondary 

school, she attended L’Institut 

de Touraine in Tours, France, and the 

University of Georgia, where she graduated 

with a B.A. in French prior to graduate 

school in Linguistics at New York 

University. She earned her Ph.D. from 

New York University in 2004. 

Her academic career began at Utica 

College in 2003, where she designed 

and taught two courses for ESL teachers, 

linguistics, French, and “Basic 

Communication” classes for speakers 

of other languages. She also worked 

as a coordinator for a refugee outreach 

program designed to help recent immigrants 

learn English with the assistance 

of local ESL teachers, and volunteered at 

the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for 

Refugees in Utica, New York. 

Diane Penland is the new assistant director 

for the Elementary Education Teacher 

Education Outreach Programs (TEOP) at 

the Oak Harbor and Everett sites. She has 

been teaching and supervising students 

for the past five years in Everett, Oak 

Harbor and North Seattle. 

Diane has been in education for 27 years 

– teaching as a special educator in Arizona 

for 17 years prior to moving to New York 

City, where she was the Administrative 

Assistant for the PreService Program, 

Administrative Associate for the Center 

for Technology and School Change, 

and the Assistant Director of the New 

Teacher Institute at Teachers College, 

Columbia University while working on 

her doctorate in Educational Technology 

and Media. She is ABD from Teachers 

College, and plans to complete her dissertation 

through Walden University. 

Paula Johnson is Assistant Professor in 

the Elementary Education Department. 

She earned her B.A. at Whitman College, 

M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of 

Connecticut. 

Her areas of special interest and research 

are effective teaching and leadership in 

online environments. She is teaching 

Educational Psychology. 

Molly Lawrence is a new faculty member 

in the Department of Secondary 

Education. She recently earned her Ph.D. 

in Science Education from the University 

of Georgia. In her dissertation she examined 

beginning teachers’ negotiation of 

middle school science teaching identity 

during student teaching. 

Molly has a strong background in the 

sciences, having earned her B.S. in 

Biology as well as her M.Ed. in Science 

Education. She has taught middle grades 

science and social studies for multiple 

years in rural and suburban schools in 

Georgia, collaborated with beginning 

high school math and science teachers 

in a professional learning community, 

taught science education courses at the 

University of Georgia, and facilitated 

and planned various workshops for preservice 

and in-service teachers. 

In her work at the university, Molly looks 

forward to building service-learning 

opportunities into her university courses 

in ways that support the learning of preservice 

teachers as well as the needs of 

schools in the community. Her research 

interests include longitudinal examinations 

of beginning teachers’ learning, 

sustainability responsive practices in the 

classroom, and pre-service teachers’ discourses 

of teaching and learning. 

Faculty Notes 

New department chairs for 2007- 

2008 are: Chris Ohana (Elementary 

Education); Bruce Larson (Secondary 

Education); Keith Hyatt (Special 

Education); and Jacquelyn Baker- 

Sennett (Human Services). 

Eileen Hughes (Elementary Education), 

was conferred the rank of Professor 

Emerita at the University of 

Alaska, Anchorage, in May. 

Victor Nolet (Secondary Education) 

was honored for outstanding work 

on behalf of children and families at 

the 10th Annual Community Building 

Awards Dinner in Bellingham. 

Angie Harwood (Secondary Education) 

is a steering commitee member 

of the National Association for 

Service Learning, and chair of the 

American Educational Research Association 

special interest group for service 

learning. She recently returned 

from a trip to Kenya with a WWU 

team exploring sites for future service-learning 

projects. 

Mary Lynne Derrington (Educational 

Leadership, Educational Administration) 

serves as editor of the Washington 

State Phi Delta Kappa journal, 

The Washington State Kappan. 

Ken Howell (Special Education), 

with Michelle K. and John L. 

Hosp, published The ABCs of CBM: 

A Practical Guide to Curriculum-Based 

Measurement, Guilford Press. 

Karen Hoelscher (Elementary Education) 

received the Roosevelt Elementary 

School’s 2006-07 School 

Community Parnership Award 

on behalf of WWU’s practicum 

program. 

Bill Lay (Special Education) and 

Jane Verner (Human Services) are on 

WWU’s leadership team for the Carnegie 

Academy for the Scholarship 

of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). 

Lorraine Kasprisin (Secondary Education) 

serves on the Washington 

Multi-Ethnic Think Tank. 

Susan Mancuso (Educational Leadership) 

was named to the Board of 

Directors for the National Association 

of Student Affairs. 

Trula Nicholas (Human Services) 

was appointed to the Board of the 

National Association of Human Services 

Programs. 

Trish Skillman (TESOL) serves on 

the Board of the American Consortium 

of Teaching English to Speakers 

of Other Languages (TESOL) 

Educators. 

Kay Klein, who joined the faculty in 

1995, retired from her position as 

site director at Oak Harbor.



Life Books Project Transformative for Woodring HS Students 

by John Korsmo 

The Human Services and Rehabilitation 

Program has a long history of partnering 

with community agencies of all 

sizes to provide field-based, experiential 

learning opportunities for our students. 

This is done as part of the curriculum 

through extensive field-based practicum 

and internship opportunities, and 

additionally through a wide variety of 

service-learning and community engagement 

activities in many of the individual 

courses the program offers. 

One such partnership is with the 

Department of Social and Health 

Services (DSHS), Region 3, where students 

enrolled in John Korsmo’s HSP 

315, Human Development and Human 

Services course learn about lifespan 

development in context by creating Life 

Books for children and youth who are 

being adopted through the state system. 

When children leave the foster care system 

without the facts about their years 

in care, they often find it virtually impossible 

to integrate those years into their 

current and future life experiences. Life 

Books are a tool for establishing a sense 

of continuity between the children’s past 

and future familial engagement. 

A Life Book is a collection of information 

about a child’s life that includes historical 

data, recollections, memorabilia, 

and stories by and about the child. They 

generally include a narrative describing 

what has happened to the child throughout 

his or her lifetime with a chronological 

compilation of life circumstances and 

events. Life Books frequently include 

photographs, artifacts such as birth certificates, 

medical reports, school report 

cards and other meaningful items. 

Creating Life Books for children who 

are being adopted through the system 

in Washington has been a requirement 

for state caseworkers for more than 26 

years. Due to large and complex case 

loads, however, Life Books are often not 

given the attention they require in order 

to be comprehensive and meaningful, 

Disability Business Technical 

Assistance Center Grows 

and thus having students engage in their 

creation serves as great benefit to DSHS 

and their clients. 

As affirmed by Marilyn Bader-Nesse, 

an Adoption Social Worker for the 

Department, “Opening the doors 

between our agency (DSHS) and the 

University in such a collaborative way 

has brought several layers of benefits. 

For our agency, which has always seen 

the powerful potential of the Life Book 

but has simply not had the time and 

resources to give it justice; for our children 

in care who really benefit from 

having this link to their past and as a 

concrete validation of their identity; and 

for the students – to glimpse the inner 

workings of the field of state social work 

for possible future careers...” 

Likewise, Dani Kooyman, the Adoption 

Supervisor for the area, has expressed 

gratitude for the partnership, stating, 

“Thank you for the opportunity to work 

with you and your students. The partnership 

is one that needs to continue, as 

it is important your students are exposed 

to as much as possible about the communities 

in which they live. We really 

value and enjoy Human Services students. 

They have a lot of energy, fresh 

ideas and questions. It is great to watch 

their personal growth during a project 

like the Life Books. The partnership 

benefits the Department by getting reenergized 

about the ideas of providing 

these books for the children.” 

Through this project, students are able 

to develop an understanding of the 

sociocultural and ecological contexts of 

human growth and development in relationship 

to biological contributions. 

Students complete the Life Books 

in small workgroups, each group 

receiving one case at the beginning 

of the quarter. The students first 

learn about the child and his or her 

family by navigating the many volumes 

of case files for that particular 

child. Once a general understanding 

of the child for whom the Life Book 

is being created is obtained, students 

The Region X Disability Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) 

welcomed new staff members this year: Iaytaco McKee and Terri Smith as 

Training and Information Specialists, Jo Fleming as the Washington Project 

Manager, and Don Brandon as Project Director. 

DBTAC Northwest provides information and technical assistance on the 

Americans with Disabilities Act in an effort to increase inclusion and employment 

for individuals with disabilities, to meet the growing need of the business 

community for qualified employees, and to assist with entities who wish 

to make their structure, programs, and services accessible to all people. We 

offer training on all Titles of the ADA and can provide training via teleconferencing, 

video conferencing, on-line or face-to-face. DBTAC Northwest 

offers a toll free information line 800-949-4232 as well as a website at 

www.DBTACNorthwest.org. 

DBTAC Northwest’s work is made possible by a grant from the National 

Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). 

Above. from l. to r.: Melissa Baldwin, Trula Nicholas, Jackie Baker-Sennett, and John Korsmo, 

presenters at the 2007 Northwest Human Services Association conference in Eugene, Ore. 

go about mining for additional information 

through family interviews, researching 

aspects of the child’s life, and general 

exploration into the world of that child 

and his or her family members. 

Finally, the students design the Life 

Book in any creative way they see fitting 

for the individual child, and ultimately 

have the opportunity on the last day of 

class to present the final product to their 

child. 

The students work under supervision of 

faculty, with support from staff members 

at DSHS. The vast majority of the work 

for this project takes place at the DSHS 

offices or in the community where the 

children live. For many of the students, 

this is their fist exposure to the state system 

and first opportunity to work with 

an actual client. 

Students frequently report that their 

experience creating and submitting the 

E-ATRC Teacher 

Fellowship 

Enters Second Year 

by Linda Schleef 

Last year was Year One of the 

Ershig Assistive Technology Teacher 

Fellowship Program. Woodring’s Ershig 

Assistive Technology Resource Center 

(E-ATRC) staff worked collaboratively 

with a diverse group of educators from 

Harmony Elementary School in the 

Mt. Baker School District. The result 

of the collaboration was the design 

of professional development training 

materials entitled, Tools for ALL 

Learners: Building Capacity for Diversity 

with Assistive Technology. 

The completed work took the form 

of a notebook containing a series 

of learning modules and a visually 

accessible “Quick Guide to AT Tools” 

which teachers can hang on the wall 

in the classroom for easy reference. 

During the past summer, E-ATRC staff 

Life Book has been a transformative 

learning experience that is a highlight of 

their academic experiences. 

This project was showcased in a presentation 

at the 2007 Northwest Human 

Services Association conference in 

Eugene, Oregon, by three faculty members, 

Jackie Baker-Sennett, John Korsmo, 

and Trula Nicholas and student, Melissa 

Baldwin, who participated in the creation 

of a Life Book in Winter 2007. An 

article about the efficacy of this project 

in teaching Human Services students 

about lifespan development is forthcoming 

(Korsmo, Baker-Sennett, Nicholas, 

2007). As we move into a new academic 

year, we will continue to build off the 

Life Book Project and maintain the working 

relationship with the DSHS. 

For more information about the Life Book 

Project, e-mail John Korsmo at: 

john.korsmo@wwu.edu 

worked to modify the materials for a 

series of on-line learning modules (by 

the same name) that will be accessible 

to any interested educator via the 

E-ATRC website at: www/wce.wwu. 

edu/resources/ATRC. 

Linda Schleef, coordinator of the 

E-ATRC, thanks the Year One Fellows 

from Harmony Elementary – Ann 

Moore, Bridget Rossman, Nicole 

Riedesel, Laura Bergan, and Michele 

Gordon – for their contributions to 

the project; the Herb and Billee Ershig 

family for the contributions that make 

this ongoing program possible; the 

WWU President’s office for new computers 

and additional staffing which 

enables extended hours. 

To express interest in participating in 

the next phase of the Assistive Technology 

Fellowship program, please contact 

E-ATRC coordinator, Linda Schleef at 

(360) 650-2783 or Linda.Schleef@ 

wwu.edu, or E-ATRC director, LeAnne 

Robinson at (360) 650-2783 or LeAnne. 

Robinson@wwu.edu. 


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Teaching, Learning in 

Mexico Connects Cultures 

by Marsha Riddle Buly 

Where can educators and teacher education 

students ride horses to a volcano, 

exchange ideas with Mexican 

teachers, and explore pre-colonial 

sites while earning WWU teacher education 

credits? 

One possibility is the summer educators’ 

course that Dr. Marsha Riddle 

Buly taught in the colonial city of 

Morelia, Mexico. 

In July, Riddle Buly and a group of elementary, 

secondary, TESOL, and special 

education teachers and students 

spent three weeks studying together. 

Some of the participants arrived 

speaking fluent Spanish, yet others 

had never studied Spanish. 

Located in the Mexican state of 

Michoacán, Morelia is a city with 

many links to the northwestern region 

of the United States. 

Members of Woodring’s summer class in Morelia, Mexico and local teachers from the 

binational (US-Mexico) teacher program after a day of sharing. The instructor, Marsha 

Riddle Buly is fifth from the right in the back row. 

Asian American Curriculum and Research 

Project Provides Materials for Grades 4-12 

The Asian American Curriculum and 

Research Project, based at Western 

Washington University, provides 

instructional and resource materials 

for teachers and students, grades 4-12, 

on the experiences of immigrants 

from Asia and Asian Americans in 

the Pacific Northwest with a central 

focus on the incarceration of people 

of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) during 

World War II. 

Through the collaboration of teachers, 

community members, scholars, 

museum educators, archivists, and 

community organizations, the project 

will create materials for dissemination 

to schools throughout the state and 

the Pacific Northwest region. 

The project was funded from October 

2006 – June 2007 through an Office 




Riddle Buly taught a class on literacy 

assessment and instruction with a 

focus on culturally and linguistically 

diverse students. All the students, 

including the instructor, took Spanish 

classes taught by local teachers. There 

were also many opportunities to practice 

Spanish with new friends and 

home-stay families. Exchanging ideas 

with local teachers, learning from and 

with local educators, and searching 

for the best tacos in town were some 

of the highlights. 

Here are a few student comments: “I 

have learned many ways to connect 

with English Language Learners, especially 

those from Mexico.” “Having 

the experience of trying to learn the 

language was invaluable.” “I learned 

so much about the varied Mexican 

culture, I can’t believe it!” “I learned 

more about the educational system, it 

was great.” 

Reach Marsha Riddle Buly at 

(360) 650-7348 or at 

Marsha.RiddleBuly@wwu.edu. 

of the Superintendent of Public 

Instruction’s Washington Civil 

Liberties Public Education Program 

grant for $15,000. Beginning January 

2007, the Norcliffe Foundation 

awarded $7,500 per year for two 

years. 

The project’s website, includes images 

and documents and will eventually 

include lesson plans that are still in 

development. 

For more information, contact the project’s 

director, Paul Englesberg at (360) 

650-2091 or Paul.Englesberg@wwu.edu. 

To view the website, visit: 

www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/AACR. 

Center and Holocaust 

Survivors Educate Students 

by Ray Wolpow, Director NWCHGEE 

At Woodring’s Northwest Center for 

Holocaust, Genocide and Ethnocide 

Education (NWCHGEE) we teach about 

the unfathomable. Since 1998 we have 

brought survivors like Noémi Ban and 

Fred Fragner to speak to packed lecture 

halls. Their messages of the dangers 

of hatred, bigotry and violence, of the 

strength of the human spirit, and of the 

need to act to affirm human rights have 

inspired thousands. Here at Woodring, 

we want to keep their messages alive. 

In that spirit, last May, I traveled with 

Mrs. Ban, her youngest son George, and 

Jim Lortz (WWU Theatre) to Holocaust 

archives and historical sites in Germany, 

Poland, and Hungary. This was my second 

such trip with Mrs. Ban. Our travels 

in 1995 led to the founding of the 

NWCHGEE and her book for children 

entitled Sharing is Healing: A Holocaust 

Survivor’s Story. Jim is completing a 

documentary about Mrs. Ban, so we 

did a great deal of filming, and at two 

of the historical sites we met with leading 

European Holocaust educators. My 

goal this trip focused on remembering 

for the next generation, especially those 

who will not have the opportunity to 

meet survivors. 

We traveled first to Bad Arolsen, Germany, 

where with the help of International 

Tracing Service (Red Cross) archivists, we 

searched the largest repository of original 

Nazi documents in the world. From 

among the 50 million references for 17.5 

million persons, we discovered 60+ yearold 

records of Mr. Fragner’s incarceration 

at Buchenwald and Mrs. Ban’s incarceration 

in Auschwitz/Birkenau. These 

documents included the signatures of 

prisoners upon arrival. Capturing Mrs. 

Ban’s reaction as she rediscovered this 

documentation was moving, profound 

and life changing. Unfortunately, no 

other records of the fates of either survivor’s 

families could to be found. 

Mrs. Ban is shown the document she signed 

upon admission to Auschwitz . (Courtesy) 

As we continued our journey of remembrance, 

we photographed extensively 

and gathered additional documentation 

at the sites of the camps at Buchenwald 

and Auschwitz-Birkenau. We ended 

our journey where Mrs. Ban’s story of 

deportation began, the city of Debrecen, 

Hungary. Here Mrs. Ban spoke to a 

group of Hungarian high school students 

in her native tongue. This was the 

first time she had told her story on her 

native soil. Jim Lortz and I captured the 

entire talk on video, and are in the process 

of translating most of the question 

and answer period. 

Electronic copies of these documents 

and hundreds of photographs are now 

stored in the NWCHGEE and, with permission 

of the survivors, will be valuable 

for future teaching and scholarship. 

To learn of Mrs. Ban’s upcoming speaking 

engagements at Western, or for more information 

about NWCHGEE, visit: 

www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/NWCHE/ 

or contact Ray Wolpow, at Ray.Wolpow 

@wwu.edu. 

These photos hold deep memories for me as a scholar and a human being. In the background 

are the remains of gas chamber and crematorium #5 where Noemi’s mother, grandmother, 

sister and brother were murdered. This photo was taken by filmmaker Jim Lortz after we 

completed a tearful interview.

AnnualReport 

WOODRING COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 2006-2007 

Four New Scholarships 

Awarded for 2007-2008 

Courtesy photo 

Marina Iyerusalimets (above), Everett, 

is the very happy first recipient of the 

Campus School Legacy Scholarship 

for student teachers. Marina embodies 

the ideals of the Campus School environment 

– rapidly excelling in a different 

education system through self-motivation, 

creativity, and a positive attitude. 

Marina was born in the Ukraine and 

immigrated to Everett with her family 

at age 9. 

The Campus School Legacy Scholarship 

was endowed this August by alumni of 

the Campus School at Western during 

their second reunion. It will provide 

tuition and fees for one student a year 

during the full-time student teaching 

term, when the most help is needed. 

Alayna Gagnier, Seatac, is the first recipient 

of a new scholarship made possible 

through a donation by M. Maureen 

Fairfield. 

Gagnier is enrolled in the M.I.T. 

Secondary Education Program in Seattle. 

The financial assistance from this scholarship 

has helped her restart her career 

teaching English to second language students 

in a Seattle high school. She has 

previous training in special education. 

Andrew Michel, Puyallup, is the first 

recipient of the Inspired for Teaching 

Excellence Scholarship. Andrew is 

a 2006 graduate of Rogers High School 

in Puyallup, after which he spent five 

months in Kenya teaching in the second 

largest slum in the world. 

Courtesy photo 

The Inspired for Teaching Excellence 

Scholarship will be awarded annually 

to one entering freshman from 

Washington who possesses a passion for 

making a difference through teaching in 

P-12 schools. It provides full tuition and 

fees and is renewable until graduation 

with demonstrated excellence in teacher 

preparation. Funding for the scholarship 

was made possible through a very generous 

gift from Dennis Madsen, a member 

of Western’s board of trustees and 

avid supporter of Woodring College’s 

students. 

Renato “R.J.” M. Rongcal Jr. (pictured 

below) is the first recipient of the 

Marilyn F. Nold Scholarship. Rongcal 

is a senior who plans to teach in the elementary 

grades in Bellingham and pursue 

a master’s degree in English. 

The Marilyn Nold family and 

Bellingham-based Madrona Bay Real 

Estate Investments established the scholarship 

to provide housing assistance to 

one student a year pursuing teacher certification 

through Woodring College of 

Education. The scholarship, named in 

memory of educator Marilyn F. Nold, 

enables a student in the College to live 

rent free for three academic quarters. 

Recipients are selected by Woodring and 

the Nold family. 

Photo by Sarah Postma 

“Our family is very excited about this 

opportunity to give back to the teaching 

profession,” said Claire Nold-Glaser. 

Marilyn Nold was an elementary teacher 

and spent many years teaching and 

substituting in Puyallup, Seattle, Port 

Angeles and Stanwood. 

“Marilyn Nold was a dear and beloved 

family friend,” said Morgan Bartlett, 

president and owner of Madrona Bay 

Real Estate Investments. “As I grew up, 

Marilyn always welcomed me into her 

home as part of her family. The opportunity 

to work with the family to honor 

Marilyn, and give back to the teaching 

field that Marilyn was a part of is the 

least I can do.” 

Through the generosity of Woodring 

supporters - $123,430 was awarded in 

scholarships to Woodring students for the 

2007-2008 academic year. This does not 

include the value of in-kind donations, 

such as the Nold Scholarship. 

All scholarship applications are screened 

and rated by faculty committees. Awards 

are made based on committee recommendations. 

For more information, contact Michael 

Henniger, Associate Dean, at (360) 650- 

4419 or Michael.Henniger@wwu.edu. 

For a list of other scholarships visit: 

www.wce.edu/Resources/Scholarships. 

Scholarship Winners 2007-2008 

Emily Ameluxen, Special Education, Max & 

Priscilla Higbee Scholarship 

Adrianne Amundson, Psychology: Human 

Development/Elementary Education, Irene & 

Lloyd Williams Scholarship. 

Cody Arashiro, History/Social Studies, WCE 

Promise Scholarship 

Erin Ashbrenner, Spanish, Paul & Jeannette 

Woodring Scholarship 

Mary Donna Ballew, Elementary Education, Avis 

J. Stewart Scholarship, Departmental Tuition/ 

Fee Waiver 

Bethany Baughey-Gill, Social Studies/Elementary 

Education, Florine Wheeler Scholarship, Ted & 

Jean Mork Scholarship 

Micah Bockstruck, Elementary Education 

Interest, John and Marilyn Warner WCE Promise 

Scholarship 

Christine Bron, Mathematics/Elementary 

Education, Horn Teacher Education Scholarship, 

Mann Challenge Scholarship 

Lindsey Brown, Secondary Education, John 

Dewey Graduate Scholarship 

Lauriel Bybee, Special Education/Elementary 

Education, Max & Priscilla Higbee Scholarship 

Jessica Cantrell, Anthropology, Marilyn Fisher/ 

Charlene Geisert Scholarship 

Bernice Chang, Elementary Education, State 

Farm Insurance Promise Scholarship 

Joanne Conger, Human Services, Jerry House 

Human Services Scholarship 

Gina Dorn, English/Elementary Education, Hazel 

Lowrey Anderson Scholarship, Paul & Jeannette 


Lindsey Dunwoodie, Mathematics/Elementary 

Education, Florine Wheeler Scholarship 

Reinhart Earhart, Master in Teaching, Paul & 

Jeannette Woodring Scholarship 

Emily Estep, Spanish, Departmental Tuition and 

Fee Waiver for Secondary Education 

RaJeanna Foxx, Special Education/Elementary 

Education, Avis J. Stewart Scholarship 

Courtney Gallo, Elementary Education, Avis J. 

Stewart Scholarship 

Andrea Gannon, Marilyn Fisher and Charlene 

Geisert Scholarship 

Patricia Gordon, Human Services, Mary Barnes 

& Violet Malone Scholarship, Ralph & June 

Rohweder Scholarship 

Sara Graves, Master in Teaching, Paul & 


Sonja Harris, English/Elementary Education, 

Lucille McGhee Linn Scholarship 

Heidi Holtzclaw, Special Education/Elementary 

Education, Departmental Tuition and Fee Waiver 

for Instructional Technology 

Elizabeth Insera, Elementary Education, Mann 

Challenge Scholarship 

Marina Iyerusalimets, Elementary Education, 

Campus School Legacy Scholarship 

Yu Hye Kang, Special Education, Avis J. Stewart 

Scholarship, State Farm Promise Scholarship 

Kimberly Kirkpatrick, Mathematics/Elementary 

Education, Florine Wheeler Scholarship 

Ashley MacGavin, Special Education/Elementary 


Andrea Marshall, Elementary Education, Avis J. 


Laura McKenney, Mathematics/Elementary 

Education, Woodman Family Scholarship 

Kailyn McLean, Special Education/Elementary 


Andrew Michel, Inspired for Teaching Excellence 

Scholarship 

Raquel Morales, Secondary Education, Avis J. 


Lily Mounlamai, State Farm Promise Scholarship 

Mary Neppl Bennett, Secondary Education, 

Alpha Delta Kappa Fidelis Scholarship, Alpha 

Delta Kappa PSI Scholarship, Preuss-Wasisco 

Scholarship 

Jessica Nicholas, Secondary Education, 

McCallum Scholarship 

Amy Norton, Interdisciplinary Child 

Development/Elementary Education, Catherine 

Ruth Jarvis Scholarship 

Kristine Nugent, Secondary Education, Edward 

Tilden Mathes Scholarship 

Kurt Ottum, Secondary Education, Bertha 

E. Crawford Outstanding Student Teacher 

Scholarship 

Karen Pollack, Theatre, DeYoung Scholarship 

Karen Porter, Mathematics/Secondary 

Education, Paul & Jeannette Woodring 

Scholarship 

Jessica Prochaska Goodwin, Special Education/ 

Elementary Education, Robert J. Copland 

Scholarship 

Kendra Rahman, Human Services, Mary Barnes 

& Violet Malone Scholarship 

Lisa Rice, Master in Teaching, Mary Barnes & 

Violet Malone Scholarship 

Toni Rocco, Special Education/Elementary 

Education, Departmental Tuition and Fee Waiver 

for Special Education 

Bonnie Jean Rytkonen, Elementary Education, 

Avis J. Stewart Scholarship 

Joan Sager, CCE, John and Elizabeth Terrey CC 

Scholarship 

Shawne Sanders, Master in Teaching, Woodring 

Diversity Committee Scholarship 

Andrea Sapp, Special Education, Elizabeth Rider 

Montgomery Scholarship 

Monica Savory, Psychology: Human 

Development/Elementary Education, Paul & 


Amanda Schroeder, Spanish, Avis J. Stewart 

Scholarship 

Sally Shiau, Elementary Education, Avis J. 


Susan Shin, English/Literature Emphasis, WCE 

Promise Scholarship 

Alison Skjei, Elementary Education, Florine 

Wheeler Scholarship, Fredericka H. Bond 

Scholarship 

Katherin Smith, Special Education/Elementary 

Education, Corinne Werder Scholarship 

Alysen Snavely, Special Education, Avis J. Stewart 

Scholarship 

Jason Stillwaugh, Interdisciplinary Child 

Development/Elementary Education, Elizabeth 

Rider Montgomery Scholarship 

Kelsey Underwood-Russick, Special Education, 

Fred & Ellen Agee Scholarship, John and Marilyn 

Warner Graduate Scholarship 

Stephen Valentine, Special Education, Avis J. 


Tara Vaughan, Elementary Education, Edward 

Tilden Mathes Scholarship 

Heather Whitney, Elementary Education, Mary 

Ann Smith Endowment, Paul & Jeannette 


Nick Wolfe, Master in Teaching, Horn Teacher 

Education Scholarship 


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WoodringCollege 

From everyone at Woodring, thank you for supporting our 

MAJOR GIFTS 

Mildred Bain Estate 

Dennis Madsen 

PRESIDENT’S CLUB 

The Boeing Company 

The Capital Trust Company of 

Delaware - Donald Gerould 

Margaret Casanova 

Earl Cilley 

Lenorah Devine 

Kelly and Christopher Follis 

Dennis and Dianne Gillespie 

Patricia Lant Grenfell 

Brian and Marya Griffin 

Brian and Janice Grimes 

Paul and Ann Hanson 

Michael and Lisa Henniger 

Michael and Rosa Hoagland 

Horn Foundation 

Frank and Mary King 

Larry and Billie Marrs 

Monty and Eileen Montgomery 

Theodore Mork 

The Norcliffe Foundation 

Victor Nolet 

Larry and Benita Offutt 

Ralph Oldroyd 

Carol Pederson 

Loren and Ruth Rankin 

Stephanie and Ken Salzman 

Curtis and Ruby Smith 

State Farm Insurance Co. 

Robert Swaile 

Cecil and June Thomas 

Donald Turcotte 

ANNUAL GIFTS 

Anonymous 

Susan and Jon Aarstad 

Brian and Karen Aase 

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Chester and Amy Ferrell 

Dan and Sue Field 

Beverly Evon Fields 

Patricia Kathleen Fife 

Steven Finch 

Jana Marie Finkbonner 

Mary Finley 

Marylynn Louise Fiscus 

Harold and Joanne Fisher 

Mary Ann Fisher and Keith 

McLeod 

Mary Flaming 

Katherine Andre Fleming 

Shelli Renee Fleming 

Angela Flesher 

William and Karen Flint 

Randolph and Sarah Flowers 

Karen and Thomas Follis 

Craig and Kimberly Forbes 

Rose Ford 

Lori Fordham-Scruggs 

Susan Fortin 

Tom and Sharon Fortin 

Jim and Pat Fosnick 

Patricia Jean Fouts 

Jennifer Boyer Fox 

Bill and Mari Fox 

Larry Francois 

Carol Frazee 

Denny and Kathy Freeburn 

Kim Allyson Freier 

Krysta Corinne French 

Masako Fry 

Sheryl Fryberg 

Mary Jane Fujimura 

Tabetha Ann Fuller 

Gaye Fullner 

Patricia Gaillard 

Kathy Galbraith and David 

Tuttle 

Monday Nacole Galbreath 

Margaret Hultman Gall 

Caren Gallanger 

Joyce Galloway-Mihalovich 

Dominic and Carol Garguile 

Melvin and Donna Garland 

Sandra Garrioch 

Margaret Gaston 

Betty Gebhardt 

Vernon and Pamela George 

Jill Geringer 

J. Jay and Sheila E. Giles 

Theadora L. Gill 

Jona Riggan Gilliam 

Ann Gillis 

Gary and Linda Gizinski 

Joanne Glasgow 

George and Maryan Gleason 

Ronda Goetz 

Janice Goode 

Bert Gorder 

Arletta R. Gould 

Ernest and Julia Graham 

Patrick Grant 

Robert Grant 

Chris and Julie Grasseschi 

Judy Graveline 

Barbara Gravett 

Grays Harbor Internal Medicine 

David and Ilene Green 

John Green 

Myrtle Greene 

Dennis Gregory 

Robert and Jammie Griffith 

Daniel and Carolyn Grimshaw 

Janet Grizzard 

David Grocott 

Herbert Grose 

Robert and Catherine Gundred 

Thelma Gustafson 

Laura Luzelle Guthridge 

Marralee Haagen 

David and Elizabeth Hageman 

Kevan Vernon Hagen 

Kathleen Marie Hagwell 

Gary and Ellen Hahn 

Carrie and Brian Haines 

Lissa Hakoda 

Mary Ellen and David Haley 

David and Pam Hall 

Michael and Mari Halley 

Deborah Halliday 

Lisa Halsan 

Lois A. Halvorsen 

Tani Ham 

Sharon G. Hammond 

Caroline Hamre 

Ron Hanken 

Diana Hanlin 

Jo Ann Hannan 

Harold and Sally Hansberry 

Martha White Hanscom 

Marilee Hansen 

Elaine Hanson 

Beth and Daniel Harkenrider 

Janice Harlor 

Barbara Harper 

Jamie and Stuart Harr 

Ms. Yvonne Marie Harrington 

Catherine Harris 

Darlene C. Harris 

Donna Harris 

Robert and Janet Harris 

Ruth Harris 

Geraldine Olsen Harrison 

Daniel and Wendy Harvey 

Linda Hauta 

Irving and Joan Hawley 

Loretta Hayashida 

Melodie Hayashi-Taisey 

Theresa Hayes 

Barbara J. Hayslip 

Arthur and Georgia Heald 

Wayne and Dianne Heath 

Woody and Sherri Hedman 

Kathryn Heling 

Dan and Joyce Hensley 

Eileen Herling 

Elizabeth Ann Herseth 

Ronald and Shelia Herzog 

Gerald Hickenbottom 

James and Susan Hickenbottom 

Howard W. Hickey 

Merlin Hickle 

Susan and Terry Higginbotham 

Karyn and Dennis Higgins 

Patricia Higman 

Carolyn Hill 

Jim and Anne Hill 

Susan Hill 

Russ Hills 

James Hitchman 

Judith Louise Hoban 

Patricia Hobbs 

Kathleen Stephenson Hodges 

Virginia Hoeft 

Jacque Lee Hoekstra 

Karen and Charles Hoelscher 

Nancy Joan Hoff 

Carolyn Hoffman 

Celia Onkels Hogan 

Rebecca Hogg 

Marilyn Holen 

Katharine B. Holland 

Kay Hollenbeck 

Sarah and Matthew Jones 

Bud Holten 

Judith Hopkins 

Bernadette S. Houghton 

Randal and Michelle Houle 

Henry and Virginia Howe 

Kristen Howe 

Janet and Bjorn Hrutfiord 

Roger and Sharon Hubbard 

Sheila Joan Hubbard 

Rayna Ann Hudson 

Meghan Elizabeth Huffman 

C. Richard Hughes 

Craig and Renee Huizenga 

Julie Humling 

Hal and Fay Humphrey 

Mary Hunninen 

Cheryl Hurd 

William Hussey 

David Ibea 

Sandra and Lance Imboden 

Jo Ann Iwane 

Gina and Thomas Jackson 

Harlan and Linda Jackson 

Laura and Blake Jackson 

Ola Jackson 

Julie Marie Wiener Jacoby 

Nora Jangard 

Alan Edward Jarvimaki 

Mary Jellison 

Beverly J. Jennings 

Betty Jensen 

Gregory and Cynthia Jensen 

Sandra Jerome 

Jeffrey Jewell 

Beverly and Larry Johanson 

Brendolynn M Johnner 

Gary and Jane Johnsen 

Jane Johnsen 

Carol Johnson 

Claudia Johnson 

David V. Johnson 

David and Ingeborg Johnson 

Eden and Allan Johnson 

Nancy Burgess Johnson 

Pamela Johnson 

Rudolph P. Johnson 

Scott and Debra Johnson 

Susan Janette Johnson 

Kristine Alida Johnston 

Patricia and Joseph Jonas 

Donald Jones 

Dorothy Jones 

Joanne Jones 

Larry Jones 

Mark Stephen Jones 

Roy and Vickie Jones 

Sandra Jones 

Ann Jones-Richardson 

Damian Paul Jordan 

Sarah Jordan 

Julie Joselyn 

Linda Joseph 

Winston Joseph 

Patricia Jovag 

Jeffrey Charles Jumisko 

Edwin Nathaniel Jungblom 

Bill Jury 

Lorna and Friedrich Kaechele 

Susan Kaelin 

Jean Louise Kares 

Kristin Spane 

Monika Beth Karnikis 

Jay Kaufman and Shirley 

Roberson 

Rosalie A. Kaune 

Charles and Katherine Keagle 

Robert Keiper 

Judith and Perry Keithley 

Stephanie Elizabeth Kemp 

Kathryn Kettwig 

Kibble & Prentice 

Richard Kieslich 

Jonathan and Debra Kime 

Susan Kincaid 

Susan Kindem 

William and Trudy Kindler 

Joan and Harold King 

Wayne and Mary King 

Steve Kink 

Dwan and Bruce Kinney 

Kyle Kinoshita 

Terry and Kurt Kinzel 

Judith Kleweno 

Marilyn and Mike Klose 

Julie and Scott Knight 

Robert Knipe 

Joanne Knowles-Blankenship 

Arlayne Knox 

Janet Knudsen-Nevitt 

Richard and Marcia Knudson 

Matthew and Sheila Kok

of Education 

AnnualReport 

College and the new Campus School fund* in 2006-2007! 

Jennifer Lee Kompkoff 

Margy Kotick 

Sue Kraft 

James Kuder 

Joan Kuhn 

Robert Kurus 

Sandra and Richard Labadie 

Jennifer Laitinen 

Darlene Lake 

Louis and Evelyn Lallas 

Michael Lambert 

Nancy Lambert 

Eileen and Mark Lamphere 

Paula Langbehn 

Mary Langland 

Roberta Langworthy 

Amy Lanum 

Pamela Annette Large 

Charles and Margaret Larrabee 

Gerald Larson 

Janet Lynn Larson 

Jeff Latham 

Phyllis S. Latimer 

Joy and William Lauderbaugh 

Helen Laustsen 

William Lay 

Roger Laybourn 

Lorraine Lechner 

Debbie Leighton 

Candace Lein-Hayes 

Julio Luis Leiva 

Kristy Jo Leuenberger 

Charles and Pauline LeWarne 

Hal A. Lewis 

Jennifer Lewis 

Amanda L. Light 

Clara Limbacher 

Charlotte Lindberg 

Mary Lindberg 

Steven and Lynette Lindblom 

Bet and Sally Lindman 

Mary Lindsey 

Charlotte V Madsen Lindstrom 

Dennis Lingo 

Richard and Marie Little 

Margret and Tom Lloyd 

Lockheed Martin Foundation 

Ann and George Lockman 

Lisa Lockwood 

Jennifer Lofberg 

Frank Henry Logan 

Samuel Logan 

Sandra Long 

Sue Longwell 

Matthew James Loop 

Johnny Love 

Frances Low 

Julanne Lucic 

John and Carlah Luck 

Eugenia Lee Lund 

M. Melody Lund 

Douglas and Laurie Lundgren 

Mandie and David Lusk 

Susan Luthy 

Alfred and Nancy Lynch 

Mary E. Lynch 

Judy Lyon and Curtis Smelser 

Don and Margaret Lytton 

Marilyn and Robert Mack 

Carter Maden and Rebecca 

Krueger 

Anna Bertilson Maderis 

Dennis Madsen 

Reyna Starling Maestas 

Arthur Mafli and Martha Perry 

Sarah Magee 

Donald Mahlum 

Gerald and Marian Main 

Sarah Malby 

Doris Maley 

Myrna Manier 

Stephen Marafino 

JoAnn Marchese 

Susan Marie Marchese 

Shirley and David Margeson 

Michael and Paige Marken 

Barbara Lyn Marshall 

Dana Mattson 

Laura Eilene Maudsley 

Betty Mayerbock 

Mark Maynard and Leona 

Domingo 

Linnae McAnally 

Marc McBride 

Charles McClure 

Richard and Barbara McCollum 

Gerald McElholm 

Monique Adrienne McFadden 

Nancy McHale 

Vicki McLaughlin 

Molly J. McClellan 

Janice and Thomas McCormick 

Sandra and Wayne McCroskey 

Dorothy McDonald 

Elin McDuffy 

Robert and Valorie McElroy 

Martin and Janelle McFalls 

Margaret McGinnis-Brown 

Elizabeth McGuire 

Troy McKelvey 

Judy McWilliams 

Lois and Estyn Mead 

Janice and Robert Mecord 

Carol Meetze 

John Meier 

Dolores Ann Michaels 

Microsoft Corporation 

Becky Midboe 

Mark Williams Migliore 

Kevin and Cami Miller 

Marilyn R. Miller 

Mary Miller 

Matthew Miller 

Norma Miller and Erik 

Christianson 

Todd Townsend Miller 

Wendy Miller 

Jean Mills 

Madalyn Mincks 

Anne Mitchelson 

Maureen Miyashiro 

Martin Moilanen 

Tanya Lee Moll 

Nathaniel S. Mom 

Robert and Marilyn Monahan 

Dale and Linda Monroe 

Jeanne Monroe 

Stephanie Monroe 

Mikael Montague 

Carol Montgomery 

William and Rhonda Montross 

Debnath and Supriya 

Mookherjee 

Amy Nicole Moore 

Mary K. Moores 

Christine Mora 

Mary and Rollin Morford 

Carole Teshima Morris 

Sonya Hall Morrison 

Edward and Elizabeth Morrow 

Gerald and Helen Morrow 

James Morse 

Karen and Joseph Morse 

Robert and Jeanette Morse 

Sandra K. Moser 

Susan Mosich 

William Parker Mosiman 

Nancy Reiko Motomatsu 

Patricia Mouton 

Roger Mullen 

Nancy Carol Mullins 

Jean Marie Munro 

Heather L Munro Hildreth 

Karen Murphy and Timothy 

O’Donnell 

Marion Murray 

Lucy Musatti 

Michele Mustell 

Linda Kirk Mutch 

Evelyn Myers 

Karl Myhre 

Lettie Nakamura 

Rosalie and Gordon Nast 

Patricia Navarre 

Karen Neal 

Robert and Gay Neal 

Charles and Bonnie Neeley 

Karna Lee Nelson 

Sharon D Nelson 

Julee M. Neuhart 

Mary Newby 

Betty Newell 

Gregory W. Newgard 

Joan A. Newman 

Jack and Elzbieta Newman 

Trula and Thomas Nicholas 

Kathleen and William Niles 

Lisa Marian Karoline Nilsen 

Sharon Nishida 

Viola Nixon 

Mary Alice Noble-Davies 

Winifred W. Nogard 

Elizabeth Nolan 

Susan Nolan 

Susan Norland 

Patty Norman 

Ernest Tim Novakowski 

Michael Nugent 

Larry and Joyce O’Donnell 

Kathleen O’Grady 

Patricia O’Neill 

Robert and Marie Oberg 

Kathryn Oberleitner 

Deborah Anne O’Brien 

Chris Ohana 

Elizabeth and George Olsen 

Larry and Luella Olsen 

Dan and Bunny Olson 

Janet Olson 

Judith Olson 

Katherine Olson 

Dominica and Dan Olvera 

Therese Ann Onderisin 

Louise Ono 

Kari Oosterveen 

Jon Orloff 

Roxanne Lee Orr 

Keith and Ann Osborn 

Evelyn Oswald 

Muriel and Jonathan Palmer 

Bill and Kaye Palmer 

Barry and Margaret Parish 

Aleta Parker 

Irene Parton 

Mary and Martin Passmore 

Lynn Patten 

Susan Patterson 

Debra Kay Pavlich-Boaz 

Kenneth Pawlak 

Mark Pearson 

Molly Pearson 

Maureen Pecaric 

David Jay Reiser Peckarsky 

Betti Penn 

Karen Penno 

Amy Perine 

Elizabeth Perry 

Vincent Pesantes 

Marie and C.R. Peters 

Lani Suzanne Petersen 

Janice Peterson 

Timothy Peterson 

Linina Pfeffer 

Babette L. Phillips 

Patricia Picha 

Michael H. Pickrell 

Teresa Pierce 

Jean Piispanen 

John Pill 

Elva Eileen Pilling 

Gloria and Donald Pinard 

Rena Debra Pitasky 

Charles Pittis 

David Robert Pittman 

Jacques C. Plante 

Nancy Anne Polich 

George and Jennifer Pomeroy 

Cecilia S Poon 

Frederick Robert Pope 

Philip and Susan Porter 

Robert F. Porter 

Kristine Powell 

Jacqueline Powers 

Ruth Poynter 

Daniel and Jayne Preston 

Darlene Marie Price 

Stephanie and Jared Price 

Tammi and Korey Price 

Todd Thomas Provancha 

Michael Pucci 

Puget Sound Energy - Bellevue 

Gerald and Helen Punches 

Kevin and Carol Purcell 

Scott A Purl 

Joyce Quinlan 

Bernadette Quinn 

Robert R. Rainwater 

Shelley Lynne Ramcke 

Chris and Shannon Ramirez 

Dorothy Jane Raney 

Kathleen Raney 

Rebecca Raney 

Charles and Judith Ratte 

Michael Raymond 

Wendy Reavill 

Colleen Reding 

Roslyn Regudon 

John and Gloria Reichmann 

Mary Reinbold 

Joyce Reinhard 

Robert and Patricia Reistroffer 

Mary Ellen Rekers 

Charleen Relyea 

Ralph and Vicki Renner 

Shareen Elizabeth Reser-Knowles 

Sylvia Reuben 

Christine Reynolds 

Lois Reynolds 

Susan Marie Richards 

Gail Richardson 

John and Susan Richardson 

Karla Inez Richardson 

Robert and Brenda Richardson 

Marsha Riddle Buly and Phil 

Buly 

Joseph William Riedel 

Dora Rilea 

Doug and Sharon Ringenbach 

Mary Rivkin 

Howard and Judith Robbins 

Bron Roberts 

James Roberts 

JoAnne Roberts 

Bryant Eugene Robinson 

Janice Robinson 

Joni and Robert Rodger 

Kent and Jane Rogers 

Leslie Jane Rogers 

Carlotta Rojas 

Susan and Stephen Roland 

Robin Rolph 

Charles Roome 

Merilyn Rorvik 

Laurie and Raymond Rosa 

Judith Maria Rosas 

Christopher and Amy Roselli 

Danielle Marthe Roselli 

Nicholas Roth 

Patrick and Meribeth Rowe 

Cynthia Rudnicki 

Arthur and Meredith Runestrand 

Mercedes Rutledge 

Susan Sanchez 

Patrick Sanchez 

Nadine Santo Pietro 

Bruce Sarjeant and Ellen Moore 

Kenneth Hans Satre 

Anne Louise Schaadt 

Diane Schairer and Timothy 

Juvinall 

Reuben Schlaffman 

Mary Schmand 

John and Connie Schmidt 

Sonja Schmidt 

William C. Schmitt 

Judith Schoenecker 

Susan Schroeder 

Michelle Schulz 

John and Virginia Schuster 

Julie Ann Schutte 

Karolyn Schwartz 

Alicia K. Scott 

James and Barta Scott 

Rae Etta Scott 

Beckie Scribner 

Paul Neel and Jill Seager 

Jean Seater 

Melena Seek 

Heather Howard King Shainin 

Dustin Shattuck 

Kathleen Shaw 

Jean Paul Sheets 

Shell Oil Co Inc 

Bryant Sheppard 

Judith Sherman 

James and Persis Shook 

George Short 

Margo Shortt 

John and Margaret Shulene 

Lynn M. (Peggy) Shull 

Tara and Bill Simmons 

David Simonson 

Gary Simundson 

Henry Lewis Singer, Jr. 

Lois Singleton 

Rodger and Nancy Sitko 

Patricia Skillman and Jean- 

Marcel Gayraud 

Jessica and Randall Sleight 

Nancy Slentz 

Shane and Marilyn Sliva 

Daryl and Lori Smiley 

Margaret Smiley 

Donald and Kathleen Smith 

Eunice Jean Smith 

James Western Smith Sr. 

Jennifer Lynne Smith 

Joan Smith 

Jon and Kathy Smith 

Lloyd Smith 

Richard and Jennifer Smith 

Heather Leigh Smull 

Linda Snapp-Olsen 

Janice Gay Soine 

Stephen and Deborah Solatka 

James Solberg 

Carol Solle 

Kelly Ann Somers 

Sony Electronics Inc 

Manohar Sood 

Linda M. Sorensen 

Dominic Soriano 

Mick Spane 

Jon Speck 

Carol Sperber 

Thaddeus and Lois Price 

Spratlen 

Olivia Sroufe 

George and Carmela St. Pierre 

Gerald Staley 

Geraldine Bourne Stamm 

Doreen Standish 

Jacqueline Vickery Stanley 

Shannon Stanton 

Nancy Stark 

Kelly L. Starr 

Margaret Staudenraus 

Keith Stearns 

Randy Steeves 

Mikal Steinbacker 

Kristin Steinmetz 

A. R. Stewart 

Susan Stimac 

Catharine R. Stimpson 

Herbert and Kristine Stimpson 

Mr. John K. Stimpson 

Dianna Stockdale 

Grant Gaylord Stone 

Mark Steven Stonestreet 

Cynthia Stragier 

Glen and Victoria Strandberg 

Jeanne Strickland 

Kathleen and Joe Strilaeff 

Theodore Arthur Strong 

Anitra Sudderth 

Beverly and Gordon Sullivan 

Daniel Eugene Sullivan 

Laura Ann Summers Lockwood 

Kimberly Sutherland 

Linda Swanberg 

Alexandra Sweeney 

Sysco Corp 

Mary Ann Taormina 

Carl and Jodie Taylor 

Berteena Taysi 

Charles Teel 

John N. Tennefoss 

John and Elizabeth Terrey 

Lisa M. Tetzloff 

Lennard Thal 

Dorothy Thayer 

The Principal Financial Group 

Christy Theriault 

Edward and Anita Thompson 

Kurt and Leslie Thompson 

Lawrence and Velma Thompson 

Richard Thompson 

Peter L. Thomson 

Michelle Thoreson 

Thomas Paul Thorleifson 

Duane Thorson 

Janice E. Tietz 

Joyce Tighe 

Robert and Anne Timm 

Sharie Todd 

William Tong 

Susan and Wesley Tonkins 

Hugh Townsend 

L. Lynne Tracy 

Judy Ann Trauth-Thomas 

Loch and Susan Trimingham 

Victor Allen Trojovsky 

Kimberly and Steven Trumfio 

Tom and Susanne Tsoming 

Richard M. Tucker 

Michael Tully 

Daniel and Diane Turbeville 

Frances and Richard Tuttle 

Robert and Patricia Tuttle 

Sarah Cecelia Updike 

Lloyd and Janis Uradomo 

Christine and Neil Valentine 

Lane Valum 

Annetta J Van Andel 

Mary Lorraine Van Brocklin 

Russell and Penny Van Buren 

Amy Squires Van Dam 

Alyson Van Der Toorn 

Julia Leigh van der Werff 

Robert and Pauline Vann 

Margaret Jane Varkados 

Manuel and Ann Velez 

Mary Jayne Veljkov 

Susan and Mike Venable 

John Verdoes and Beth 

Rosenstiel 

Jane Verner 

Sylvia Yvonne Viney 

Marvin and Joanne Vining 

Judith Vollbracht 

Joseph Emil Vucinovich 

Roland and Nancy Wagar 

Ruth Waid 

John Waldrop 

Don Wallace 

Marilyn Wallace 

Wal-Mart Stores Inc 

Beverly Walser 

Marilyn Walsh 

Katherine and Charles Walter 

Bunny Walters 

Frieda Walworth 

Pattie Washburn 

Washington Dental Service 

Carole and Jim Watkins 

Betty Watson 

William Albert Watson 

Gerald and Roberta Webster 

Susan and Craig Weckesser 

Amy and Nathan Weed 

Allison Eleanor Wegg 

Donald and Priscilla Wegg 

Candace Weingart 

John and Delia Weinheimer 

Marie Weiss 

John Wells, Jr. 

Thomas and Lucile Wells 

Joanne and Paul Werner 

Russel West 

David Weston 

Ken and Janice Wherry 

Russell Whidbee 

Charles White 

Frank and Linda White 

Kayrene White 

Winifred Breakey White 

Deanna Whitton 

Mary Ellen Elizabeth Wigen 

Patrick Willett 

Georgia and Raymond Willey 

Barry and Ann Williams 

Carla Jay Williams 

Marjorie M. Williams 

Suzanne Williams 

Gloria Willman 

Paula Gay Wilson 

Julia Ann Winchell 

Patrick and Judy Winsor 

Lora Wood 

Robert and Debra Wood 

Marlene Wooten 

Susan and Ed Wrasmann 

Don Yakesh 

Clarence and Gladys Yarnell 

Kay York 

Janie Young 

Ken and Eve Young 

Andy and Lynne Yurovchak 

Mary Zabilski 

Steffen Ben Zielke 

David and Nora Zollweg 

This list includes donations 

to all Woodring programs, 

scholarships and general 

support through June 30, 

2007. Donations made 

after that date will be 

reported in the Fall 2008 

annual report. 

*For more information 

about the new Campus 

School Legacy Scholarship 

and an updated list of 

donors, please visit: 

www.wce.wwu.edu/ 

CSchool/CSScholarship. 

shtml 

It is our sincere intent to 

thank all donors. If we 

missed you please call 

(360) 650-4419. 


9

Future WCE Scholars Thrive 

Grants 


AnnualReport 

WOODRING COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 2006-2007 

Last year, Woodring initiated a new 

program to encourage students from 

high need areas to enter teacher education 

and human services by inviting 

a select group of entering freshmen 

to participate as Woodring Future 

Scholars. 

The success of the first year of the 

program has been encouraging and 

a second cohort is now participating 

in group activities designed to maintain 

and bolster their enthusiasm for 

their indicated career path. Activities 

include socials where students meet 

representatives from various student 

groups and offices on campus, presentations 

on scholarships, one-on-one 

meetings with mentors, and interaction 

with Woodring students. 

To date, the following Future Scholars 

from the first cohort have been admitted 

to Woodring: 

• In Special Education or Special Education 

+ Elementary Education: Kelly 

Barefield, Yu Hye “Grace” Kang, Ashley 

MacGavin, and Erin Nakamura. 

• In Elementary Education: Ann Burton 

and Katie Ko. 

Students working toward Secondary 

Education must complete a majority 

of their chosen majors prior to applying 

to Woodring. 

U.S. Department of Education, $1.45 

over five years to Stephanie Salzman 

and Catherine Collier for Curriculum 

Integration for Responsive, Crosscultural, 

Language-based Education. 

(see page 1). 

U.S. Department of Education, 

$2,210,000 over two years to Kathe 

Matrone (Center for Continuing 

Education in Rehabilitation) for 

Disability and Business Technical 

Assistance Centers (DBTAC) 

Northwest. 

Kamehameha Schools, $50,000 to 

William Demmert for Kamehameha 

Schools Project. 

Research Corporation of the University 

of Hawaii, $30,000 to William Demmert 

to procure multi-media materials. 

Northshore/Shoreline Community 

Network, $40,000 to Lawrence Marrs 

for Center for Family Supportive 

Schools & Communities. 

L’Shray Jones, at far left, is one of the 

outstanding freshmen in the 2007/08 

Woodring Future Scholars program. To 

her right is Jaminah Shannon, who accompanied 

L’Shray to a Future Scholars 

Social. Shavette McGhee, at far right, is a 

graduate assistant in Woodring’s Student 

Affairs Administration program and serves 

as recruitment and retention coordinator 

for Woodring. Photo by Carole Morris 

This year’s cohort of Future Scholars 

includes: 

• Rose Ager/Deming 

• Nicole Amor/Shoreline 

• Nicholas Anderson/Everett 

• Hikari Asami/Mercer Island 

• Shelby Bushman/Lynnwood 

• David Choi/Federal Way 

• Andrea Daisley/Spokane 

• Kristina DeReese/Bellingham 

• Kristine Fontanilla/London 

• Margaret Garcia/Burien 

• Annie Hout/Tacoma 

• Allison Johnson/Olympia 

• L’Shray Jones/Tacoma 

• Kassie Kadiasang/Vancouver 

• Brianne Kumar/Auburn 

• Erin Lawhead/Spokane 

• Max Levine/Mercer Island 

• Kathryn Luera/Burlington 

• Katie McConnell/Bellingham 

• Andrew Michel/Puyallup 

• Sean O’Leary/Japan 

• Tessa Olson/Everson 

• Austen Pflanzer/Bellingham 

• Maddison Rosenberg/Redmond 

• Alisa Sacha/Arlington 

• Cramer Sande/Centralia 

• Jessica Stipe/Deming 

• Andrea Tafoya/Ephrata 

• Courtney Udo/Ferndale 

• Brittney VanDijk/Belfair 

• Alekzandr Wray/Seattle 

Human Links Foundation, $25,000 to 

Lawrence Marrs for Family Supportive 

Schools and Communities. 

WWU Student Technology Fee 

Committee, $33,000 value to Anthony 

Jongejan to replace all Dell computers 

in the Miller Hall P.C. lab. 

Honors 

William Demmert (Elementary 

Education) received the Alumni 

Achievement Award at Harvard’s 

Graduate School of Education. 

Demmert earned his doctorate in education 

from Harvard in 1973. He was 

recognized for his research on aboriginal 

and native education. 

Stephanie Salzman (Dean) was 

appointed by the governor as the 

higher education representative to 

the Washington State Professional 

Educator Standards Board (PESB). 

2007 Outstanding Students 

The 2007 Woodring Presidential Scholar 

and Special Education Department Outstanding 

Graduate, Karen Siverson, graduated 

cum laude last fall with a Bachelor 

of Arts in Education. While at Western, 

Karen received a diversity award from 

Woodring’s Center for Educational Pluralism 

for embedding effective teaching 

techniques for diverse populations 

into an in-depth multicultural unit of 

study. She also received two awards for 

outstanding academic achievement. 

Siverson organized a large-scale effort to 

defer temporary housing costs for Hurricane 

Katrina survivors. Currently, she 

is organizing a fund-raising project with 

the Laurendeau Foundation of Bellingham 

and O.T.S. Limousine of Bellevue 

designed to increase public awareness 

of cancer and raise money to support 

Whatcom County families impacted by 

cancer. She is pursuing a career as a fulltime 

teacher in a local Whatcom County 

school district and hopes to someday 

teach in Ferndale – her home town 

school district. 

Kathleen Elenbaas, B.A. Human Services 

interned for two quarters in the Community 

Resource Center at Bellingham’s 

Opportunity Council before being hired 

as Community Jobs Case Manager, coordinating 

and managing the Community 

Jobs program for a staff member on 

leave. 

Sherri Koester, B.A. Elementary Education, 

demonstrates not only the ability 

to plan thoughtful effective lessons, 

but she is also skilled at engaging her 

students by creating a relaxed, supportive 

environment. Sherri has also 

worked hard to incorporate a certificate 

in Teaching English to Speakers of Other 

Languages as well as an endorsement as 

a reading specialist – quite a feat for an 

undergraduate. She is already an active 

member of professional organizations. 

Sherri Kokx, M.Ed., Educational Administration 

and Residency Principal’s Certificate, 

was hired as Assistant Principal 

at North Middle School in the Everett 

School District. Faculty and colleagues 

are impressed with her commitment 

and work ethic. With her statistical 

knowledge and extensive background, 

Sherri also has incredible potential as a 

researcher. 

Echo Mae, Post-Baccalaureate teaching 

certificate and Teaching English to 

Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 

has demonstrated personal and academic 

qualities that allow her to be easily 

identified as an outstanding student and 

future teacher of English language learners. 

Although threatened by a health 

scare, Echo completed all of her work at 

an excellent standard – a model of dedication 

and perseverance for everyone. 

Iyataco McKee, M.A. Rehabilitation 

Counseling, was the Vice President of 

the Student Rehabilitation Counseling 

Association (SRCA) during 2005-2006 

and was President the following year. 

The students of the Graduate Program 

in Rehabilitation Counseling selected 

Iyataco as the 2006 recipient of the Jerry 

House Award based on her leadership 

skills, academics, and genuine character. 

Brittany Miller, B.A. Human Services, 

demonstrates a powerful ability to analyze 

and synthesize large amounts of 

complex information and share her 

understanding with others in an articulate 

manner. As a student at Western, 

Brittany interned with the Dispute Resolution 

Center and with the Snohomish 

County Juvenile Court Foster Care Citizen 

Review Board. 

Kimberly Rasmussen, B.A. Elementary 

Education, enters each encounter with 

children from an assessment-driven 

perspective and applies her considerable 

talents to creating vivid opportunities 

to support their learning. Her future 

students will be very fortunate to work 

with this enthusiastic and accomplished 

teacher. 

Joshua Smalley, B.A. Secondary Education, 

earned a 4.0 since beginning the 

teacher education program and was 

selected as a speaker for Spring 2007 

Commencement. Josh is the recipient 

of the Edward Tilden Mathes Memorial 

Scholarship (2006-2007). 

Sian Thornton, Secondary Education, 

Post-Baccalaureate, interned in Costa 

Rica. Sian has demonstrated academic 

excellence by earning a 3.90 GPA since 

beginning the teacher education program, 

while at the same time completing 

a master’s degree in chemistry. Sian 

is a serious and thoughtful academician; 

her content knowledge and international 

teaching experience will make her 

an exemplary classroom teacher. 

Harden VanRy, Elementary Education, 

Post-Baccalaureate teaching certificate, 

Teacher Education Outreach Programs, 

serves as the Executive Director of Skagit 

Habitat for Humanity, performs in local 

theater, and does volunteer work with 

diverse youth populations. In an even 

broader arena, Hardy has co-authored 

two very popular children’s books and 

has had his work published in a variety 

of children’s magazines. 

Joseph Wooding, Master in Teaching, 

Secondary Education, has distinguished 

himself as one of the department’s most 

outstanding graduate students. In addition 

to his outstanding contributions in 

class and practice, Joe served as a graduate 

assistant in the Center for Educational 

Pluralism (CEP), where he 

facilitated many events and helped to 

form the Critical Conversations series, 

a bi-weekly forum for students to discuss 

issues related to CEP forums and 

classroom discussions. He organized the 

Youth Summit for the Martin Luther 

King Jr. Human Rights Conference and 

was the recipient of the John and Marilyn 

Warner Graduate Fellowship Scholarship 

for 2005-2006.

2007 Campus School Reunion Draws Close to 500 

by Carole Morris 

It was two years in the making, and in 

the end, it was more than worth it. The 

2007 Campus School Reunion, held 

August 24-25, was an overwhelming 

success as close to 500 former students, 

teachers, student teachers, parents and 

friends gathered to visit and compare 

their individual, yet equally rich experiences 

at the Campus School at Western. 

One thing the alumni can be very 

proud of is their success in endowing 

a new scholarship. The 2007 Reunion 

Committee noted that 40 years have 

passed since the Campus School closed. 

The committee decided to keep its 

remarkable legacy alive by establishing 

the Campus School Legacy Scholarship. 

The idea was to help student teachers 

at Woodring College while keeping the 

Campus School and Western alumni enjoyed 

good times at the reunion banquet. Some 

Campus Schoolers went on to become Western 

grads and were also celebrating their 50 

plus years as Western alumni as part of the 

Golden Vikings reunion the same weekend. 

Above are Golden Vikings Phyllis Knick 

(Western class of 1937) and Cheryl Smith 

Bickford (CS 1935; Western class of 1945). 

Photo by Laurie Rossman. 

Former students and student teachers at 

the Campus School reconnect at the 2007 

reunion. From left to right are: Enid “June” 

Carrick Russell (Campus School 1941; 

Western class of 1957), Ruby Johnson 

Smith (Western class of 1951), and Stefani 

Bozorth (Western class of 1952). Photo by 

Laurie Rossman. 

New Student Club Encourages Diversity 

A new Associated Student club – Diversity 

Inspired Volunteer Educators (known 

as D.I.V.E.) – meets on a regular basis 

to socialize and support one another’s 

learning and to plan volunteer work in 

the community. 

Its mission statement is: “to impact students 

with diverse backgrounds through 

volunteer work to be successful in their 

lives and to raise awareness of diversity 

among educators.” 

school’s name and memory of Western’s 

pioneering educators alive. 

The $38,000 endowment will generate 

an annual award to cover most of one 

quarter’s tuition and fees for a student 

during his/her internship, when financial 

assistance is most needed. Some 

donors honored favorite teachers or 

others with their gifts. Additional contributions 

will help the annual award 

amount increase to meet the rising costs 

of tuition. (See page 7 for a photograph 

and information on the first recipient.) 

The second accomplishment was the creation 

of the Campus School Collection, 

which includes all of the written questionnaires, 

recorded interviews, material 

objects and research materials donated 

during the Campus School Memories 

Project. Much of the material was dis- 

Human Services Graduate Proud of Heritage 

Katrina A. Echtinaw-Wagner of North 

Bend completed the Human Services 

cyber program winter quarter. 

She was proud to show her native 

heritage by wearing a cedar hat with a 

feather next to her tassel at Western’s 

commencement ceremony. The hat was 

a gift woven especially for her graduation 

from Northwest Indian College, 

prior to transferring to Western. 

This year’s officers are: 

President - Wandaya Terry (Secondary 

Education) 

Vice-President - Wiebe Boersma 

(Secondary Education) 

Secretary - Cody Arashiro (Secondary 

Education) 

Treasurer - BonnieJean Rytkonen 

(Elementary Education) 

Activities Coordinator - Katie Ko 

(Elementary Education) 

played in the Whatcom Museum of 

History & Art’s exhibit. The collection 

will be preserved at WWU Libraries 

Special Collections through additional 

donations from alumni and friends. 

In addition, WWU Libraries commissioned 

the production of the video 

“Loving Learning: The Campus School 

Experience 1899-1967.” 

Marian Alexander, Director of Special 

Collections, wrote the text for a special 

edition of The Journal of the Whatcom 

County Historical Society, titled “Model 

School: A History of the Campus School 

at Western Washington University, 

1899-1967,” which was presented as 

a gift to alumni from WWU President 

Karen W. Morse. 

For more information on the Campus 

School collection contact Tamara Belts at 

(360) 650-3193 or by email at 

Tamara.Belts@wwu.edu. 

A list of scholarship donors is available at 

www.wce.wwu.edu/CSchool/CSScholarship.shtml. 

To contribute to the scholarship 

or the preservation fund, contact 

Angie Vandenhaak at (360) 650-7647 or 

email her at Angela.Vandenhaak@wwu.edu. 

Visit the Campus School Memories Project 

website at www.thecampusschool.com for 

more on the reunion and the Memories 

Project. 

Thanks to everyone behind the scenes! 

Reunion Committee: 

Curt Smith, Chair 

Harte Bressler 

John “Rob” Calhoun 

Bob Funkhouser 

Paul Hanson 

Florence Winsor Helliesen 

Bob Morse 

Andra Brand Phibbs 

Latest National Board Certified Teachers 

The following teachers who were 

enrolled in Woodring’s National 

Board Certification program last 

year achieved their National Board 

Certification (shown below with their 

employing school districts): 

• Shelley Barker – Snohomish 

• Jennifer Bender - Sedro-Woolley 

• Mark Bond – Marysville 

• Paul Clement – Bellingham 

• Carl Dellutri – Anacortes 

• Jody Dylan - Mount Vernon 

• Andrea English – Arlington 

• Kecia Fox – Anacortes 

• Laura Friend – Ferndale 

• Ann Fulton – Ferndale 

• Kelly Glynn – Bellingham 

• Mike Grambo – Blaine 

• Lynda Jackson – Snohomish 

• Natalie Johnson – Bellingham 

• Roshni Jokhi - Sedro-Woolley 

• Mark Kerr – Bellingham 

• Robert Knickrehm – Bellingham 

Ann Jones Richardson 

Marilyn Monahan 

Craig Smith 

Ruby Johnson Smith 

June Hardin Thomas 

Exhibit Committee/Memories Project: 

Marian Alexander, Chair 

Tamara Belts 

Christine Kendall 

Carole Morris 

Toni Nagel 

Steering Committee: 

Michael Henniger, Chair 

Mary Haggen King 

George Lamb 

Bob Monahan 

Toni Nagel 

Susan Stimpson Trimingham 

Gail Weiss 

2007 Campus School Reunion Logo: 

Ann Cilley Hanson 

WWU Staff : 

Timothy Bartunek/Ira Simon 

Tamara Belts 

Kimberly Caulfield/Carole Morris 

John Dlouhy/Mackenzie Boetes 

Angela Vandenhaak 

Facilities Manangement 

Custodial/Dining/Housing Services 

Transport Services/V.U. Staff 

WWU Alumni Association/Foundation 

WWU Students: 

Bethany Baughey–Gill 

Todd Belmondo 

Megan Bezzo 

Erik Casynn 

Megan Krueger 

Special thanks to: 

Joel Connelly, Seattle P-I (6th grade ‘56) 

Karen W. Morse, WWU President 

Western Libraries 

Whatcom Community Foundation 

Whatcom County Historical Society 

Whatcom Museum of History & Art 


• Izi Loveluck – Snohomish 

• Mary Lynch - Sedro-Woolley 

• Maria Martin – Bellingham 

• Diane Mayer - Oak Harbor 

• Coleen McKinney - Lake Stevens 

• Sonya Morrison – Bellingham 

• John Mumma - Mount Baker 

• Janelle Parsons – Snohomish 

• Brian Powell – Lynden 

• Kevin Richins - Lynden 

• Steven Ruthford – Bellingham 

• Kirby Schaufler – Marysville 

• Erica Schneider – Snohomish 

• Michael Shappell – Blaine 

• Deanna Smith – Snohomish 

• Michael Smith – Ferndale 

• Brian Smith – Blaine 

• Kimberly Sutherland - Mount Baker 

• Kati Tilley - Lake Stevens 

• Lenore Wilson - Mount Vernon 


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Special Education 

Offers Variety of 

Degree Options 

by Keith Hyatt 

Faculty in the special education 

department recognize that there 

are at least two definitions of special 

education. One is the education 

of students with disabilities, 

and a second is the application of 

exceptional teaching. We in the 

Department of Special Education 

believe very strongly in the second 

definition. 

We think it is our mission to prepare 

exceptional teachers and, while students 

who have disabilities often 

require the services of such teachers, 

we also believe that there are many 

other students who can benefit 

from high quality instruction. The 

demand for quality special education 

teachers in the state continues 

to exceed the supply, and special 

education teachers from Woodring 

are routinely recruited by districts 

throughout the state, nation, and 

even internationally. 

We are continually updating our 

program to reflect evidence-based 

practices. We are committed to 

helping the districts obtain quality 

special education teachers by 

providing a variety of undergraduate 

program options which include 

coursework leading to an endorsement 

to teach special education 

only, a dual endorsement program 

which includes an elementary 

education endorsement, and an 

early childhood special education 

program. 

Our options for graduates include 

an endorsement program, a certification/endorsement 

program, 

and a newly revised masters program. 

We also work with and 

continue to provide a special education 

endorsement option in conjunction 

with the Department of 

Secondary Education. In addition 

to campus programs, programs are 

offered through Teacher Education 

Outreach Programs located in 

Everett, Seattle, and Bremerton. 

Current students and graduates have 

been involved in a variety of rewarding 

activities including: publishing 

articles; presenting at national 

and international conferences; and 

completing student teaching in 

Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Peru, 

and other exciting venues. In fact, 

one student recently accepted a 

teaching position in Ireland. 

For more information, visit the 

Special Education Department office 

in Miller Hall 322, call Keith Hyatt 

at (360) 650-2353 or email him at: 

Keith.Hyatt@wwu.edu. 

Information is also available on the 

Special Education website at: 

www.wce.wwu.edu/Depts/SPED/ 


Dedicated Students Working Together to 

Create a Positive Image of Childhood 

“I value childhood, not just as preparation 

for living. It is living.” 

Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood 

Special Education Student 

by Eileen Hughes 

Woodring College of Education is 

pleased to launch the Bachelor of Arts in 

Early Childhood Education in response 

to the critical shortage of qualified early 

childhood educators. There have been 

numerous developments in the state of 

Washington to draw attention to the 

critical issues in early care and education. 

Recently, experts and community 

members across the state set forth 

in the Washington Learns comprehensive 

study several recommendations 

to promote improvement in child care 

for young children and to foster professional 

development opportunities. 

In 2006, the organization “Thrive by 

Five Washington” was formed to serve 

as a catalyst for supporting the improvement 

of quality care and education for 

Washington’s young children and their 

families. Woodring Dean Stephanie 

Salzman successfully sought funding for 

two faculty positions that will increase 

faculty resources to support the early 

childhood education program. 

In keeping with the needs of the state 

to promote professional development 

for early childhood educators, the WWU 

early childhood education program now 

prepares students to meet the requirements 

of teacher licensure for birth 

through grade three. The program is 

designed to meet both Washington 

State teacher requirements and those set 

forth by the National Association for the 

Education of Young Children. 

The program blends theory, research 

and applied practices. There is a 

strong emphasis on field experiences of 

throughout the curriculum. Students 

are expected to develop dispositions 

for inquiry, adopt reflective and critical 

stances about their teaching practices 

and hold the highest of professional ethics. 

Faculty members are committed to 

the delivery of a personnel preparation 

program that prepares teachers to focus 

on the strengths and potential of young 

children. Faculty members and students 

view themselves as teachers and researchers 

who seek a deeper understanding of 

the child’s knowledge. 

A vision of the program is to create 

“collaborative learning communities” 

among the WWU early childhood education 

faculty, students, child care centers, 

Head Start and K-3 public school 

programs. Collaborative learning communities 

will share a common goal to 

gain insight in teaching practices and to 

review information to plan meaningful 

curriculum with young children. The 

work of the learning communities will 

“make visible” the children’s ideas, questions 

and theories and make transparent 

the learning of the teachers, faculty and 

Woodring College is partnering with the Associated Students Child Development Center to give 

Woodring Students enrolled in the Early Childhood Education program a chance to participate 

in the Child Developmpent Center’s assessment project, funded by the state Higher Education 

Coordinating Board, as well as to gain hands-on experience. Here a Woodring student is asking 

the children to make observations at a pond. Courtesy photo 

students. The community settings will 

participate as partners in class assignments 

or projects that are linked to field 

experiences or internships. 

Unique features of the WWU Early 

Childhood Education program include: 

• Observation and the process of documentation 

as an inquiry process is embedded 

across courses in the study of 

child development. 

• Students learn inquiry tools for developing 

meaningful and integrated learning 

experiences for young children. 

• Students work together with faculty, community 

members and other students in 

the study of children. 

• Students are prepared to understand and 

respect intercultural/familial diversity as 

they learn to develop partnerships with 

families. 

• Students gain experience in teaching 

children in three age groups (infants/ 

toddlers, pre-primary and primary). 

• Students take core courses with students 

from the early special education program. 

• Students gain experience with children 

in a variety of settings (child care, Head 

Start, public school, etc.) 

Advised to carefully consider their decision 

before enrolling, students in the 

Early Childhood Education program are 

coming into it excited with their career 

choice and demonstrate dedication to 

the study of young children. 

WWU’s early childhood education program 

is a unique teacher preparation 

program that prepares students to work 

in a variety of settings beyond the public 

school system. A student and child care 

director taking one of the courses commented, 

“There is a big need for qualified 

and dedicated professionals with 

passion rather than just being there with 

children.” 

For more information on the Early Childhood 

Education Program, contact Eileen 

Hughes at (360) 650-3416 or e-mail her 

at: Eileen.Hughes@wwu.edu. 

Homewaters Project 

Partners with WCE 

by Dina Benedetti 

Homewaters Project, based at North 

Seattle Community College (NSCC), has 

developed a partnership with Western’s 

Urban Campus, also located at NSCC. 

Western undergraduate or post baccalaureate 

students who are in Woodring’s 

Teacher Education Outreach Program’s 

Elementary Education Teacher Certification 

program can earn practicum credit for 

training and teaching in Homewaters’ 

Land and Water Field Investigation during 

spring quarter. 

The Homewaters program is a fantastic 

partnership that gets engaged, enthused 

college students to deliver high quality 

programs to fifth graders and at the same 

time these pre-service teachers are learning 

to teach field science to youth.



Textbook Outlines Effective 

Instructional Strategies 

by Bruce Larson 

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High 

School, co-authored with Tim Keiper 

(Secondary Education), is designed 

to examine curriculum development, 

instructional strategies, classroom management, 

and student assessment. 

This book prepares pre-service teachers 

to effectively use seven powerful 

instructional strategies. Since effective 

classroom management and valid assessment 

techniques are important parts of 

student learning, practical ways to manage 

the learning environment and assess 

student learning for each strategy are 

integrated throughout the text. 

Each strategy in the text includes stepby-step 

procedures, provides aspiring 

teachers with a deep understanding of 

each strategy and the tools to determine 

how to best use each with a classroom of 

adolescents. 

The book provides a concise overview 

of assessment, and offers many concrete 

examples of assessments to use 

with each of the instructional strategies. 

For example, valid assessments of what 

students learned from a role play activity 

will be different from assessments 

following a classroom discussion. The 

authors provide examples of unit plans, 

lesson plans, and rubrics gathered from 

the many teachers who provided input 

to the contents of the book. 

In addition to exploring assessments 

specific to each strategy, the authors also 

describe classroom management within 

the context of each of the teaching strategies. 

Most methods texts do not apply 

management theory or valid assessments 

to specific strategies of instruction. 

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High 

School does, because it is impossible to 

use a strategy effectively without considering 

unique management concerns and 

assessments for each strategy. 

All of the ideas presented in the book are 

theory-based, and the practical suggestions 

are built on extensive examinations 

of current and longstanding research. 

As we wrote the text, we focused on the 

day-to-day teaching and learning that 

needs to occur in classrooms because we 

wanted to provide future teachers with 

the tools to proactively manage their 

classrooms and ensure that all students 

are able to learn. The following ideas 

directed our development of the book’s 

content: 

• Effective teaching promotes student 

learning of the course content; teachers 

matter! 

• Students bring diverse abilities, interests, 

and needs to the classroom that the 

teacher must accommodate. 

• Teachers need skill with a large and diverse 

set of instructional strategies to help their 

students learn. 

• The content students will learn will help 

determine the instructional strategies 

selected by the teacher. 

• Each instructional strategy has unique 

assessments, and teachers must closely 

match the assessment to the strategy if 

they are to accurately and validly know 

what their students learned. 

• Aspiring teachers need tools for developing 

effective classroom management 

skills and student discipline strategies. 

Teachers often forget that each instructional 

strategy presents unique classroom 

management considerations, so part of 

a teacher education program needs to 

apply management theories to each 

instructional strategy. 

• Teaching requires constant decision 

making. As such, decisions about class 

activities, student discipline, classroom 

management, and student assessment 

will be better if the teacher engages in a 

thoughtful decision making process. 

While the primary audience is pre-service 

teachers, the book is an excellent 

resource for re-tooling/re-focusing inservice 

teacher practice. It is our hope 

that all teachers will establish classrooms 

that have a positive impact on all their 

future students’ learning. 

Contact Bruce Larson at (360) 650-3702, 

or email him at: Bruce.Larson@wwu.edu. 

Call Tim Keiper at (360) 650-3329 or 

email him at: Tim.Keiper@wwu.edu. 

Preparing Students for Responsible Citizenship 

in a Global Society Research Conference 

The Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) Washington 

Chapter held its first state conference 

for teachers and educators on Western’s 

campus, September 29. The conference 

theme was “Preparing Students 

for Responsible Citizenship in a Global 

Society.” Mary Lynne Derrington, 

Woodring faculty member in the 

Educational Administration Department, 

and Setsuko Buckley, were conference 

co-chairs. 

The keynote speaker was Dr. Walter 

Parker, Citizenship Education, College 

of Education, University of Washington. 

Woodring faculty presenting at the conference 

included: 

• Mary Lynne Derrington (Educational 

Administration) 

• Paul Englesberg (Asian American Curriculum 

Projec) 

• Lorraine Kasprisin (Secondary Education) 

• John Korsmo (Human Services) 

• Bruce Larson (Secondary Education) 

• Trula Nicholas (Human Services) 

• Victor Nolet (Secondary Education) 

• Shelby Sheppard (Secondary Education) 

Lummi Nation Dancers Visit 

Members of the Lummi Nation School Song and Dance Club performed for an open house at 

Woodring’s Center for Educational Pluralism. Photo by Carole Morris 

Oh, The Places We Can Go! 

by Sara Apperson (WCE student) 

On March 2nd, Western Washington 

University students joined over 45 

million others throughout the nation 

in the Read Across America project, 

a daylong celebration of Theodore 

Giesl’s 103rd birthday. Giesl, better 

known to millions as Dr. Seuss, the 

most beloved of children’s authors, 

wrote dozens of children’s books, 

including such classics as The Cat in 

the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Oh 

the Places You’ll Go. 

It has been recognized by research 

that children who spend more time 

reading do better in school. One of 

the most important factors in both 

student achievement and creating lifelong 

successful readers is motivation. 

It is the goal of Read Across America 

participants to create reading motivation 

and awareness. 

This past year marks WWU’s third 

annual involvement in Read Across 

America. Participation is coordinated 

by the Woodring College of 

Education’s chapter of the Student 

Washington Education Association 

(SWEA). Local participation in the 

event has grown progressively over 

the years , and in collaboration with 

the Bellingham School District over 

Online Journal of Educational Controversy 

Explores Dispositions for Good Teaching 

The current issue of Woodring’s online 

Journal of Educational Controversy 

is ready for viewing at: www.wce. 

wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/ 

v002n002/ 

Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2007: 

Developing Dispositions: Professional 

Ethic or Political Indoctrination? is dedicated 

to Gary Howard, who has written 

a special prologue for this issue. 

On March 30, 2006 and May 12, 

2007, Gary Howard facilitated several 

workshops at Western Washington 

University, based on his book, We 

Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know. His 

150 volunteers visited approximately 

130 elementary classrooms in thirteen 

district grade schools. 

Supported by donations from businesses, 

private vendors, the WWU 

Children’s Literature Clearinghouse, 

and a $1000 grant from the NEA, 

Woodring’s SWEA chapter provided 

volunteers with nearly one hundred 

Dr. Seuss books, which they read 

aloud to the school children and then 

donated to participating classrooms. 

In addition to the Seuss books, other 

children’s literature was donated to 

each of the participating school libraries. 

Dr. Seuss bookmarks were distributed 

to each of children to mark the 

progress of their own reading. 

This year’s event was coordinated by 

Sara Apperson and Gina Dorn, students 

in the Elementary Education 

Department’s teacher certification 

program. Volunteers from the WWU 

football team and from the newly 

created Diversity Inspired Volunteer 

Educators (DIVE) club worked closely 

with SWEA to spread reading enthusiasm 

to the young children. When 

groups of people come together and 

work for the good of a single cause, to 

quote Dr. Seuss, “There’s no limit to 

the places we can go.” 

workshops provided the impetus for 

reexamining the concept of dispositions 

in teacher education. Video 

of the workshops is linked to the 

Journal’s website. 

A call for papers for the next issue: 

Volume 3, Number 1, is also posted on 

the website. The theme is Schooling as 

if Democracy Matters. 

The issue will consider how we are to 

fulfill the traditional moral imperative 

of our schools -- to create a public 

capable of sustaining the life of a 

democracy in light of current global 

challenges. 


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Teaching at Korean 

Winter English Camp 

by James Doran 

On December 31, 2006, I boarded an airplane 

as a teacher of middle school students. 

I was employed for four weeks 

by EduDCGlobal at the Cheong Shim 

Youth Center at their Winter English 

Camp located 

near Seoul. I occasionally 

thought, 

“What have I gotten 

into?” But I 

had made a commitment, 

felt safe 

and would honor 

my word. My contacts 

at Incheon 

International Airport were almost on 

time, and after four hours we arrived at 

the English Camp. 

Out of a group of 26 English-speaking 

teachers, 20 were from Canada, two were 

from the USA, one was from Australia, 

and three were expatriates from Canada/ 

USA. We enjoyed three days together 

before the children arrived. After each 

student took placement examinations, 

we interviewed them to help determine 

their appropriate education level. 

On the fourth day I entered my classroom 

of 14 students who had placed at 

the highest junior level. At this level, 

the students could read and write well 

but could neither speak nor comprehend 

English. Using our four abbreviated 

novels and an excellent grammar 

book (Grammar Spectrum series: English 

Rules and Practice by Norman Coe), 

through a combination of information 

sharing and experiential learning, we 

worked on speaking, comprehension, 

essay writing, oral presentations, current 

issues and speech delivery. This 

approach also increased their confidence 

and self-esteem. This was very rewarding 

for all of us. 

Korea is a homogeneous socially structured 

society, and we ‘foreigners’ were 

given no status or respect throughout 

the camp. The kids were great and I 

still maintain relationships with many. 

On two occasions we were allowed to 

travel from our rural mountainside to 

Seoul for sightseeing. We lived about 

two miles from the nearest village and 

it was an occasional trip to this village 

and another village that helped us stay 

positive. 

We finished teaching on January 26. 

The farewell ceremonies were very emotional 

for all of us. We then went on, as 


our contract stated, a three-day sightseeing 

trip of Korea. We saw the DMZ and 

Gyeongju, then proceeded to depart to 

different parts of the world to continue 

our lives. 

In all, this was a very rewarding and lifechanging 

experience. I could not have 

adjusted to the situation without the 

skills and abilities I mastered at WWU 

and Woodring College’s Department of 

Educational Leadership. It was refreshing 

to see that that educational philosophy 

was adaptable to middle school 

students as well as to the adult population. 

Out of my four university degrees, 

this is the most rewarding. 

James Doran is a 2005 graduate of Woodring’s 

Adult Education Program (now 

Continuing and College Education). He 

most recently worked as a representative 

of Coastline Community College, near 

Los Angeles, helping Naval personnel and 

families obtain their AA degrees. He is 

pictured at left with some of his students 

in Korea. 

Outstanding Teachers 

Karen Strain (BAE ‘86), and Jennifer Sue 

Zapatka (BAE ‘92) were both named as 

2006 outstanding teachers of the year 

in their respective Educational Service 

Districts, and were among eight teachers 

considered for the 2007 State Teacher 

of the Year. 

Strain was honored 

by ESD 112, which 

encompasses Southwest 

Washington. 

She has been teaching 

17 years, the 

past 12 at White 

Salmon’s Henkle 

Middle School. Her students outperform 

many peers on the WASL despite higher 

poverty rates and being English language 

learners. 

Zapatka teaches at 

Ridgetop Junior High 

School in Central Kitsap, 

where she began 

her career in 1995. 

The nomination for 

her award noted the 

outstanding original 

curriculum she helped develop for the 

school’s Advanced Placement Humanities 

in Depth program. 

AnnMarie DeCollibus, Ferndale, (Cert 

‘90), was selected as the Washington Art 

Education Association’s Secondary Art 

Teacher of the Year. Going beyond her 

duties as a 15-year ceramics teacher at 

Ferndale High School, DeCollibus has 

become a widely-recognized advocate 

for arts education. She opens her home 

studio and classroom on her own time 

to accommodate students and the community 

and created the Empty Bowls 

project. “I truly believe that art is one of 

those things that keeps kids in school,” 

she said “The Arts teach everything the 

business world is looking for in a worker: 

problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, 

creativity and innovation.” 

Mary Schoenfeldt Recipient of International 

Lifetime Achievement Award 

Mary Schoenfeldt (B.A. Human Services 

’79), was awarded the 2007 Lifetime 

Achievement Award at the 9th World 

Congress of the International Critical 

Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF). 

ICISF is recognized by the United 

Nations as the premier Disaster Mental 

Health organization in the world. 

Her award recognizes her for cutting 

edge work in the field of School Crisis 

Response, Disaster Mental Health and 

Emergency Management. 

Schoenfeldt is a longtime Everett resident, 

who began her devotion to helping 

people prevent and recover from 

traumatic life events while working 

as a Community Service officer with 

the Everett Police Department in the 

1980s. 

Besides being a tireless volunteer, 

for the past 20 years she has headed 

Schoenfeldt and Associates, a Crisis 

Prevention and Incident Response 

Management organization. The company 

is involved in the areas of crisis 

response management, crisis response 

education, and violence prevention 

for schools, communities and private 

businesses. Working with a network 

of professionals, Schoenfeldt has provided 

assistance in communities such 

as Littleton, Colorado; San Diego; 

New York City; New Orleans and others 

who have experienced devastating 

events that impacted their communities 

and schools. 

She authored the Crisis Response 

model for all schools in California, 

helped at local, state and federal 

levels to adapt the now mandated 

Incident Command System for school 

systems, and has been an advisor to 

the US Department of Education and 

other agencies. Among the books 

she has written are: School Crisis 

Response: Lessening The Aftermath; 

From Chaos to Control, Picking Up The 

Pieces: Responding to School Crisis; and, 

Conducting Effective Drills In School 

Systems. 

For more information, see her website 

at: www.safer-schools.com 

$25,000 Milken Prize Goes to Cassandra 

Baddeley of Thurgood Marshall Elementary 

Cassandra Baddeley (BAE ‘99) of 

Seattle, has reason to be proud. Not 

only was she one of only 100 teachers 

nationwide to receive the prestigious 

Milken Educator Award for the 

2006/07 academic year, but every 

single student in her fifth-grade 

classroom at Thurgood Marshall 

Elementary School met the standards 

on the state assessment in reading in 

2003 and 2004. The district’s valueadded 

data analysis shows that they 

also achieve an average of two years’ 

growth in her class. 

The award, worth $25,000, is given 

Alumni Notes 

Patricia Wood Weber, Olympia, (B.A. 

‘73); retired after nearly 31 years in 

the Olympia School District, 18 of 

which were as a teacher of 8th grade 

humanities, middle school math and 

an elective class for which she helped 

design the curriculum—an exploration 

of foreign languages. The last 13 

years, she worked as a middle school 

teacher-librarian. She was actively 

involved with the Olympia Education 

Association for most of her career. 

During her final four years she served 

as district coordinator of teacherlibrarians 

in addition to her regular 

contract. 

Katherine Playford, Bellingham, (M.I.T. 

‘04); was selected as the Wal-Mart 

Teacher of the Year. She teaches Spanish 

and English as a Second Language at 

Sedro-Woolley High School. 

annually by the Milken Family 

Foundation as a way to recognize 

excellence in education, and in doing 

so strive to develop, retain, and motivate 

talented people to the challenge 

and adventure of teaching. The 

awards are announced each year in 

surprise assemblies attended by policy 

makers, media and constituencies. 

Baddeley, who has been at Marshall for 

seven years, also serves on the school’s 

leadership team and is their technology 

specialist. She was nominated 

for the award by the Office of the 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Tim Yeomans, Bellingham, (Principal’s 

Certification ‘98); was named 

Superintendent of the Meridian School 

District. He was previously Assistant 

Superintendent at the Mount Baker 

School District. 

Greg Colfax, Friday Harbor (B.A.E. ‘74), 

was featured in a recent Island Guardian 

article. Colfax, a Makah artist and wood 

carver, presented a lecture on the origins 

of Northwest Coast Native art and 

its evolution into today’s contemporary 

forms. His artwork has been featured 

across the country. 

In Memoriam: 

Curtis E. Mayberry, Lynden, (B.A.E. 

1968); passed away April 23, 2007 at 

age 60. 

Additional Alumni Notes are available 

at: www.wce.wwu.edu/Alumni/ 

AlumniNotes.shtml



Donor profile: 

Ted Mork is busy “giving back” 

Retired Woodring professor, Ted Mork, with 

his late wife Jean Jellison Mork. (Courtesy) 

Although retired since 1996, former 

Woodring faculty member, Theodore 

“Ted” Mork is busier than ever – 

involved in a wide variety of interests, 

from fine jewelry making at his home 

studio on Lummi Island to service as 

a board member of the Lummi Island 

Boys and Girls Club and the Desert 

Hot Springs home owners association. 

His longtime connection to Western 

began with a three-year stint teaching 

in the Campus School from 1964 

until it closed in 1967, and continued 

four years later when he returned with 

a doctorate from Syracuse University 

to teach reading in the School of 

Education. 

From there he moved into elementary 

education, research and design, and 

became program area head and later 

chair of the Department of Educational 

Curriculum and Instruction before it 

was split into elementary, secondary 

and special education. 

Director of Development: 

Michael Reinke 

W o o d r i n g 

College of 

E d u c a t i o n 

is one of 

the first colleges 

within 

W e s t e r n 

Washington 

U n i v e r s i t y 

Michael Reinke to benefit 

from a fulltime 

Director of Development, focusing 

exclusively upon developing 

additional financial support for the 

College. 

This new position will allow the 

College to reach a greater percentage 

of our 20,000 alumni, help them 

understand the exciting projects currently 

taking place, and offer them the 

opportunity to participate through 

their time, their talent, or their treasure. 

Whether one can offer to mentor 

a future teacher or human service 

“I was lucky, in that I looked forward 

to coming to work everyday,” 

he said in a recent interview. As an 

early proponent of “micro-teaching,” 

a forerunner of what is now called 

service-learning, he placed his elementary 

education students in practica 

and small group interactions in 

Bellingham classrooms. 

“I was one of those professors who 

would tell students ‘you need to cut 

back on your work and concentrate 

on your student teaching, which will 

result in a good evaluation and help 

you get a job’,” he said. “That was 

one of the rules – even knowing that 

I had to violate it myself.” His own 

memory of how hard it was to work 

while student teaching is what motivated 

Ted and his beloved wife, the 

late Jean Jellison Mork, to establish 

the Ted and Jean Mork Elementary 

Education Scholarship Endowment. 

Jean, a Western alumna, taught fourth 

and fifth grades in Bellevue and 

Bellingham for 17 years. 

The scholarship idea started five years 

before Jean died in 2005. “It was a 

long term commitment that we both 

wanted,” he said. With their contributions 

and memorial donations, the 

fund was endowed and now generates 

enough interest to award one scholarship 

a year. 

Ted recently hand-signed several hundred 

letters to former students, asking 

them to consider adding to the 

endowment. “The next logical step 

is to ask how we can grow it so more 

students can benefit,” he said. “I enjoy 

keeping in contact with the university 

and the Western Foundation. It’s just 

one more way to give back.” 

professional or help students in need 

of scholarships, Woodring would love 

to have your support. 

Michael Reinke and his two children, 

Canaan and Anikó, followed his wife 

Holly Folk, to Western Washington 

University when she received an 

appointment to Liberal Studies in 

the College of Humanities and Social 

Sciences. Michael was born and 

raised in Massachusetts, receiving 

his B.A. from Wesleyan University 

in Connecticut and his M.Div. from 

Union Theological Seminary in New 

York City. He has served as the chief 

executive and fund development officer 

for four different nonprofit organizations, 

most recently with ICHHI 

a statewide nonprofit advocacy group 

in Indiana focusing on issues of poverty 

and the working poor. 

Contact Michael at Michael.Reinke@ 

wwu.edu or (360) 650-2368. 

Returning with honors: 

Clarke and Fotheringham - 

Distinguished Alumni 

Steve Clarke was 

named Distinguished 

Alumnus 

for Woodring College 

of Education 

at the 2007 Alumni 

Association Awards 

Ceremony. Clarke 

received both his 

Steve Clarke 

B.A. in Speech Education 

in 1985 and 

his M.Ed. in School Administration in 

1991 from Western. His favorite faculty 

members were Sy Schwartz and Marvin 

Olmstead. 

Clarke has been principal at Bellingham 

High School since 2000-2001. Prior 

to that, he was assistant principal and 

taught English and drama there from 

1985 until 1993, when he became assistant 

principal of Nooksack Valley Jr/Sr 

High School. 

He sits on Woodring’s Administrator 

Professional Education Advisory Board 

(PEAB) and is a member of the Woodring 

Educational Administration specialty 

faculty. 

His honors include Teacher of the Year 

1986-1988, 1992 and 1993; the Christa 

McAuliffe Award in 1993; the Woodring 

Award for Professional Excellence in 

1998; the 2004 NW League High School 

Principal of the Year; Washington State 

High School Principal of the Year in 

2005; and a finalist for the National High 

School Principal of the Year in 2006. 

John Fotheringhamgraduated 

from 

Western in 

1955 with a 

B.A.E. in Physical 

Education/ 

S e c o n d a r y 

E d u c a t i o n . 

John Fotheringham 

He was honored 

for lifetime 

achievement at the 2007 Alumni 

Association Award Ceremony. While 

attending Western, his favorite classes 

were anthropology and sociology. His 

favorite faculty member was Herb 

Taylor. 

Fotheringham currently works as an 

educational consultant to school districts 

and stays connected to Western 

by making presentations to Western’s 

Superintendent Preparation Program 

each year. He also refers potential students 

to Western. 

Fotheringham’s career highlights 

include mentoring and guiding leaders, 

and providing professional assistance 

to most of the 296 school 

districts in Washington State. 

His career honors include the Distinguished 

Service Award in Educational 

Administration, the Golden Gavel 

Award for Enhancement of Public 

Education, and being named one of 

the Top 100 School Administrators in 

the nation. 

How Gifts to Woodring Help 

Each year, Woodring College of Education 

sets priorities for funding. This year’s list 

includes the following: 

Ershig Assistive Technology Resource 

Center, $100,000 

The E-ATRC provides Woodring students 

and faculty access to equipment and 

materials to support learning and development 

of individuals with disabilities. 

Funds would be used to maintain the 

Center and to expand the Center’s outreach 

to regional school districts, alumni 

and families in the community. 

Center for Educational Pluralism, 

$100,000 

The Center provides resources that support 

faculty and student understandings 

of, and ability to work with, diverse people. 

Grants for the CEP would be used 

to fund additional resources, support 

special events and assist with publication 

costs for the center. 

Student Scholarships, $200,000 

There is an ongoing need to support students 

with additional scholarship money. 

Continually rising tuition rates, coupled 

with declining state and federal dollars 

for scholarships and loans; makes 

it imperative that additional private 

donor funding for scholarships be 

found. The following areas are being 

targeted for further scholarships: 

• Human Services 

• Future Teachers of Color 

• Students entering high needs areas 

(special education, math, and 

sciences) 

• Students attending off-campus sites 

(Bremerton, North Seattle, Everett) 

• Graduate Students 

For the full list, visit: www.wce.wwu. 

edu/Alumni/Priorities.shtml 

For more information, contact Michael 

Henniger, Associate Dean, at: 

(360) 650-3979 or Michael.Henniger@ 

wwu.edu 


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Please visit us online at www.wce.wwu.edu 

Adult Educators Gather at WWU for First 

Western Region Research Conference 

by Amy Cloud and Sandra Daffron 

Under clear blue skies and fall leaves at 

their most colorful, Woodring hosted 

the first-ever Western Region Research 

Conference on the Education of Adults 

(WRRCEA). Certainly those who presented 

their peer-reviewed papers, as 

well as students, visiting scholars, and 

leaders in the field of adult education 

-- including Tom Sork, Gretchen Bersch, 

and Sharan Merriam -- say. The conference 

was destined to be successful. 

In her keynote address, “Trends of Adult 

Education,” Merriam observed that the 

research presented under WRRCEA’s 

triad theme of education, professional- 

Debora Nelli, above, earned her M.Ed. in 

Adult Education at WWU in 2005, and is 

now at Portland State University. She copresented 

a poster session “Access denied: 

A feminist policy analysis of the 1996 TANF 

Act on access to educational opportunities 

for impoverished women” and a session on 

health among older adults. 

ism, and sustainability was representative 

of all those trends. 

Seventeen Continuing and College 

Education (CCE) graduate students, 

along with CCE faculty Sandra Daffron 

and Stan Goto, were among nearly 70 

presenters. Conference participants 

attended from several Canadian provinces 

and states ranging from Alaska and 

California to Georgia. 

In concurrent sessions, Bob Rowden, 

of Cappella University, spoke on the 

trillion dollar industry of “workplace 

learning,” while Goto and several CCE 

students explored “Who Is Not Here,” 

preliminary research to identify populations 

in need of Basic Skills and ESL 

training. From “Nutrition and Health 

Education” to “Why Social Movements 

Fail” and “Environmental Education,” 

research papers underscored the role of 

adult educators in what has become a 

growth industry. 

Merriam, author of numerous textbooks 

in the field, put a capstone on the 

WRRCEA when she told participants: 

“This is a great and exciting time to be 

in Adult Education; you are and will be 

leaders in the field.” 

Sponsoring the conference was a collaborative 

effort between Woodring’s 

CCE program and eleven other universities 

in the western region of the 

U.S. and Canada: Eastern Washington 

University, Montana State University, 

North Dakota State University, Portland 

Adult educators from the Western Region participate in a roundtable discussion the first afternoon 

of the conference at the Lakeway Best Western Inn. Conference proceedings moved to 

campus for a second full day. WWU professor Stan Goto is pictured facing the camera left 

of center. 

State University, San Francisco State 

University, Seattle University, University 

of Alaska, University of British Columbia, 

University of Idaho, University of 

Victoria, and University of Wyoming. 

The goal of the conference was to provide 

the opportunity for graduate students 

and faculty mentors to present 

their research. The conference also 

provided a forum for practitioners and 

researchers to explore ideas, and collab- 

oratively learn with each other. Papers, 

roundtables, and poster presentations 

that discussed practices, concepts, evaluation 

and research studies for educating 

adults were presented. 

For details about the CCE program 

and to learn more about the conference, 

please contact director Sandra 

Daffron at Sandra.Daffron@wwu.edu or 

(360) 650-2977, or visit the website: 

www.wce.wwu.edu/Depts/CCE/

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