Local teacher Julie Trout has earned the honor of Puget Sound Educational Service District Regional Teacher of the Year for 2012. Trout has served as visual arts teacher at B.F. Day Elementary School since 2008, and has seen to it that her students, in the process of educating and encouraging creativity, have had opportunities to display their art work for the enjoyment of our entire community.
A community partnership between the school and the Fremont Abbey Arts Center created Art Rocks!, a public art show of works by the students. Another partnership, with Windermere Real Estate, gave the students a chance to create and display works now on display in professional offices.
The Teacher of the Year application, submitted by a retired principal on behalf of Trout, noted, “Julie’s instructional practice is creative and grounded in best practice. She gets results! Yet her greatest power as an educator is her ability to shine light and love in the classroom. She instills confidence in children and supports them in taking safe risks in their thinking and learning.”
As the Teacher of the Year for the Puget Sound Educational Service District, Trout will be among those teachers under consideration as the 2012 Washington State Teacher of the Year, to be announced in the fall.
For Fremont, this honor only reinforces what many Fremonsters already knew – that the staff at B.F. Day are among the very, very best available to educate our children!