Each week, we celebrate one of our CPSD schools with a #SuperSchoolShoutout. Last week, we showed our #CPSDPride by giving a shoutout to Tyee Park Elementary School second grade teacher Amy Rust and fifth grader Racer Johnson.
Rust has taught in CPSD for more than 20 years and recently celebrated her tenth anniversary at Tyee Park. “The community of learners and families here is everything, and our wonderful staff just keeps getting better,” she said.
Rust is proud to take an active role in elevating student voice in her classroom because students succeed when they feel they belong. “From the way this building is built with its open courtyard to the way we all check in with kids of all grades, this place has a strong sense of community,” she said.
Rust began her career teaching second grade and after trying her hand is happy to have returned to her roots. “At this age, they’re outwardly excited about learning and experience so much academic growth,” she said. “It’s a privilege to see and it helps to have an outstanding second grade team that is professional, supportive and respectful.”
Racer loves being a fifth grader because of the many wonderful friendships he’s made at Tyee Park. He cares deeply for his school community and is proud to represent with his Tyee Park T-shirts. “Every day I look forward to recess and I really love all the teachers because they’re so nice,” he said.
This year, Racer is proud of his growth in math. “I like figuring out different problems, especially with multiplication,” he said. After school, he enjoys putting his math and science skills to the test by building video games levels on Super Mario Maker.
Racer’s goal this year is to be on time, do well in class and help people each day. He hopes to one day become a YouTuber to discuss video games and other interests with his online audience.
Go Tigers!
Amy Rust is the best! She helped build my child’s confidence so much. Thank-you Ms. Rust!
Yet another CPSD Public Relations department “puff piece”. Granted teacher and student deserve recognition but that’s 1 teacher out of 32 teachers and 1 student out of 338 students. What about the other 31 teachers and 337 students? What about the academic situation at the school versus individual level?
I suggest you take a look at Tyee Park from an academic perspective. I wrote about it in the Suburban Times on 21 June 2024. Tyee Park’s academic performance is disastrous on many levels.
https://thesubtimes.com/2024/06/21/letter-tyee-park-elementary-is-there-an-academic-heartbeat/
New 2024 statistics are now available and it only gets worse. In 2016 Tyee Park was an above average elementary school ranked academically at 53.9 percentile. By 2019 Tyee Park had collapsed academically ranked at 2 percentile! How does this happen in just 4 years? Since then Tyee Park has remained at the very bottom of all state elementary schools ranked in 2024 at 5.1 percentile down from 6.5 in 2023. It has never recovered academically with hundreds of poorly educated students taking their academic deficits to Lochburn Middle School (0.4 percentile…533rd out of 535 middle schools academically) and Clover Park High School (3.4 percentile…96.6% of high schools outperform them academically).
Read the article mentioned above to get the full depth of this academic disaster.
LakewoodCARES.org