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Our School CommunityLake Washington Girls Middle School students take responsibility for their learning and for their environment, through having a voice in curriculum and board meetings and cleaning and improving their school building.LWGMS Faculty Patricia Hearn
As the school grew and changed, so did its administrative structure. In 2005, the LWGMS Board appointed Patti Head of School. Before joining LWGMS, Patti developed all academic curricula and taught girls in grades five to ten at Chabad School. She started a drama program in 1994 and greatly enjoyed working with the students to grow the program from its first year, a small one-act play, to its fifth, a full-length musical production. She continues this theater experience at LWGMS, where she directs the eighth grade play each year.
Kirsten Rooks
Kirsten taught many subjects in a variety of academic settings before reaching the "perfect teaching job" at LWGMS. Her first teaching job After a few years, the education bug bit again and she attended Columbia University Teachers College in New York to get her MA in Teaching Secondary Social Studies. Kirsten then moved back to Washington, DC and taught for five years at Paul Junior High, three years as an English teacher and two as a Geography teacher. Though she liked social studies, she realized that her passion was in science education, and she started supplementing her education with courses in astronomy, anatomy, geology, and environmental science. Prior to moving to Seattle, Kirsten lived in Philadelphia where she taught seventh and eighth grade science at Ivy Leaf School, a small private African-American K-8 school. Kirsten joined LWGMS in September 2000. She now teaches all core science and science-related electives classes and is the yearbook advisor. Karin Kallander Karin has spent a lot of time traveling in Mexico, Spain and Central America, and has studied Spanish in various locations. She has been teaching Spanish at LWGMS since May 2000. She has spent time in Mexico studying Spanish and has worked in Seattle area public schools and clinics as a mental health therapist. In 1990, while working as the Intervention Specialist at Whitman Middle School, Karin chaperoned the Spanish Club on a weeklong trip to Mexico. Karin also ran a program for the Student Conservation Association in Mexico and Texas during the summers. The program gave youth from the U.S. and Mexico the chance to work together on environmental projects and to learn about one another's cultures. Karin previously worked for the University of Washington/Harborview as the Assistant Director and Mental Health Specialist for the HERS program (Help Each Other Reach the Sky), a program that works with Cambodian teenage girls. Lindsey Mutschler Lindsey received her bachelor of arts from Western Washington University in Art Education with a minor in music. Prior to coming on board at LWGMS in 2007, she taught art and music at Willowbrook Center for the Development of Human Potential and served as a Learning & Writing Assistant for four years at Western Washington University. She also volunteered as a guest art specialist in schools in Bellingham, WA, and worked as a gallery attendant at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art. An avid artist and activist in the art community, she left Bellingham as a member of the Bellingham Waterfront Art Collective. LWGMS is the ideal teaching enviornment for Lindsey, and she is delighted to have landed here. LWGMS' focus on integrating curriculum allows her to put into practice her belief that art is not detached from everyday life but is best understood when studied within history, culture, language, and all aspects of education. Martha Straley Martha developed math curricula and taught math to middle-school and high-school students at the Northwest School and Seattle Academy when those schools first opened in Seattle. While raising her two children, she left full-time teaching but continued to tutor students in middle and high-school level math and SAT preparation. In addition, she became a technical editor and writer for software companies in town, translating engineering language for technical audiences, all the while saying that she would some day return to teaching. She is delighted that the perfect math teaching job finally came along at LWGMS. Nancy Rawles Nancy was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Los Angeles, and went to college
at Northwestern, where she graduated with a degree in Journalism and a
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Jenny Zavatsky Toni Hughes
Conne McGlynn Bruce Conne brings to Lake Washington Girls Middle School her experience in assisting in the creation of a $1 million Endowment fund for St. Louise School, the knowledge she gained as the President of the Holy Names Alumnae Board, and the skills she learned in building the Northwest Alumni Counsel for the University of San Francisco, which included a year as the Event Coordinator. She brings her passion for girls’ education to the Development Office at LWGMS. Guest FacultyLWGMS benefits from a multitude of guest instructors who teach one-day or short-term classes as part of the curriculum.
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LWGMS students enjoy a wide range of athletic choices, including league soccer,
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In the spring of 1998 the board of Lake Washington Girls Middle School hired Patti as its first Head Teacher. She worked with the parent board to plan the opening of the school and wrote and taught the humanities, math, and
enrichment curricula for all three grades. 
was eighth through twelfth grade Spanish at the Sant Bani School in New Hampshire for one semester. She then traveled to Kenya with the World Teach program where she taught Biology and English at Samitsi Secondary School. Upon returning to the US, she lived in Washington, DC, helping to create and implement education and health programs for developing countries at USAID's Office of Education and then with one of their contracting firms. 
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in African American History. She worked as a journalist for The Chicago Reporter,
an investigative monthly covering issues of economics and race, as well as
for WBBM-AM CBS radio news in Chicago. After her brief career in journalism,
Nancy became a resident playwright at theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis.
She began teaching writing to students of all ages, a role she has enjoyed
for twenty years. In 2000, Nancy was given a Leading Voices Award from the
Starbucks Foundation for her work teaching writing in Seattle, most notably
with Seattle Arts & Lectures and Powerful Schools. Nancy has received numerous
awards for her writing. Her novel My Jim was recently honored with an Alex
Award from the American Library Foundation.
MBA, Finance & Human Resource Management, University of Washington 
exchange student. She lived and worked in Washington, D.C. before returning to Seattle to marry and start a family. She worked as administrator and Program Coordinator for YWCA of Seattle King/Snohomish County. She is a devoted member of her church family, and she enjoys using her talents and efforts in volunteer service and several charitable causes. In addition to her work at LWGMS, she works with Northwest Student Exchange, a non-profit organization placing international high school-age students in American host families in the Seattle area. Toni is excited about learning with and about the girls at LWGMS through the after school program. 
Some of our long-term guest instructors join us from:
basketball and tennis teams. All the girls are encouraged to participate, and everyone plays!
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