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.
No South Sound school, public or private, offers more Advanced Placement courses than we do.
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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Sue Tjardes
Upper School English
Sue Tjardes teaches English in the Upper School. “I love having conversations with individual students,” she says. “I like getting to know them as whole people. They’re all great people, very intelligent and interesting.”
“The most important thing about Charles Wright is that everything and everyone here is student-centered,” says Tjardes. “The number of opportunities for students also makes a big difference. They don’t have to choose between sports and arts, or between loving science and literature.”
Tjardes completed her bachelors degree in speech and theater and her masters degree in communications at Colorado State University. She earned her Ph.D. in rhetorical studies at the University of Iowa. She came to Washington to teach at the University of Puget Sound and joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2007. Her favorite areas of study are satire, new fiction, and media technology literacies, from orality to cyber-literacy.
“At heart, I'm just a cowgirl who grew up in Eastern Colorado,” says Tjardes. “I have a spunky sorrell gelding, Roy, who lives on my folks’ place.” She also enjoys playing and promoting acoustic music and has worked with various local events including Wintergrass, the Commencement Bay Maritime Festival, Ethnic Fest, and numerous open mics. She has also written for many regional music magazines.
“The most important thing about Charles Wright is that everything and everyone here is student-centered,” says Tjardes. “The number of opportunities for students also makes a big difference. They don’t have to choose between sports and arts, or between loving science and literature.” Tjardes completed her bachelors degree in speech and theater and her masters degree in communications at Colorado State University. She earned her Ph.D. in rhetorical studies at the University of Iowa. She came to Washington to teach at the University of Puget Sound and joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2007. Her favorite areas of study are satire, new fiction, and media technology literacies, from orality to cyber-literacy.
“At heart, I'm just a cowgirl who grew up in Eastern Colorado,” says Tjardes. “I have a spunky sorrell gelding, Roy, who lives on my folks’ place.” She also enjoys playing and promoting acoustic music and has worked with various local events including Wintergrass, the Commencement Bay Maritime Festival, Ethnic Fest, and numerous open mics. She has also written for many regional music magazines.
