DID YOU KNOW?
Over a five-year period, students’ SAT scores averaged 1,260 points compared to the national average of 1,000 points.
Typically, 20 percent of a Charles Wright graduating class are National Merit Scholars or Commended Students.
Charles Wright offers more Advanced Placement courses – the equivalent of college courses – than any other high school in the South Puget Sound area.
Minority students account for 28 percent of the student body.
In the last decade, Charles Wright students consistently earned top honors among the State of Washington’s journalism students.
Charles Wright grants over $1.3 million in financial assistance to 21% of the student body.
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Alex Koerger
7th Grade Science, 6th Grade Math, 7th Grade Advisory Coordinator
Alex Koerger teaches seventh grade science. His favorite project is watching students take on the task of designing and building a working submarine that demonstrates the principles of buoyancy. He says students here respect and love their teachers because the teachers respect and love their students.
“I hope my students will remember seventh grade science as the most challenging and rewarding experience of their education,” says Koerger. “I want to push them to the limits of their abilities and have them struggle through to the other side, knowing they have worked hard and been successful.”
“The adage ‘nothing worthwhile comes easy’ is particularly pertinent in my class, where rote memorization and repetition of facts and figures will prove to be ineffectual. Students must develop their ability to think and analyze, creating evidence from data to support or refute their hypotheses about the workings of the natural world. The students who tell me that they no longer can look at certain facets of nature without asking themselves ‘how’ or ‘why’ means I’ve done my job.”
Koerger holds a bachelors in science from the University of Washington and a masters degree in education from Western Washington University. He has been a member of the CWA faculty since 2004. In addition to teaching, he has coached boys’ basketball and baseball and served as advisor for the rocket club.
Prior to teaching, Koerger worked for NASA, both as an undergraduate research assistant at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and as the coordinator for the NASA Educator Resource Center in Seattle. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, where he served as an aviation electronics technician and in-flight technician aboard P3-C anti-submarine warfare aircraft. He is also a former board member of Salish Sea Expeditions, a ‘science-under-sail’ program for fifth through twelfth graders.
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“I hope my students will remember seventh grade science as the most challenging and rewarding experience of their education,” says Koerger. “I want to push them to the limits of their abilities and have them struggle through to the other side, knowing they have worked hard and been successful.”
“The adage ‘nothing worthwhile comes easy’ is particularly pertinent in my class, where rote memorization and repetition of facts and figures will prove to be ineffectual. Students must develop their ability to think and analyze, creating evidence from data to support or refute their hypotheses about the workings of the natural world. The students who tell me that they no longer can look at certain facets of nature without asking themselves ‘how’ or ‘why’ means I’ve done my job.”
Koerger holds a bachelors in science from the University of Washington and a masters degree in education from Western Washington University. He has been a member of the CWA faculty since 2004. In addition to teaching, he has coached boys’ basketball and baseball and served as advisor for the rocket club.
Prior to teaching, Koerger worked for NASA, both as an undergraduate research assistant at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and as the coordinator for the NASA Educator Resource Center in Seattle. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, where he served as an aviation electronics technician and in-flight technician aboard P3-C anti-submarine warfare aircraft. He is also a former board member of Salish Sea Expeditions, a ‘science-under-sail’ program for fifth through twelfth graders.
Visit his web site
