- Terry Bergeson
Teresa "Terry" Bergeson is the three-term
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction .Biography
Dr. Bergeson graduated from
Emmanuel College in 1964 with a B.A. in English. In 1969 she earned a master’s degree in counseling and guidance fromWestern Michigan University . She earned her doctoral degree from theUniversity of Washington .Bergeson worked as a counselor at Lincoln High School in
Tacoma, Washington , and as a teacher andguidance counselor inMassachusetts andAlaska . During this period Bergeson served as chair of theNational Education Association 's Women's Caucus and implemented their National Women's Leadership Training Project. In 1981 Bergeson was elected vice-president of theWashington Education Association , and in 1985 she was elected president.In 1989 she was hired as an executive director in the
Central Kitsap School District where she had a supervisory role over 9 of the 21 schools in the district. From 1993 to 1996 Bergeson was the executive director of the Washington State Commission on Student Learning, in which capacity she led the development of statewide standards for students, as well as theWashington Assessment of Student Learning .In 1996 Bergeson launched her first successful bid for the non-partisan office of
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction . In 2000 she was elected again, and in 2004 Bergeson became a three-term Superintendent. [ [http://www.washingtonlearns.wa.gov/committee/members.htm Washington Learns Steering Committee Members] .] [(n.d.) [http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/improvement/bergeson.htm#a About the Author] . New Horizons for Learning website.] As superintendent Bergeson led further development of statewide standards andstandardized test s, particularly after the Commission on Student Learning was dissolved in 1999. [" [http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/WASL/ReadingPracticeTests/AppendixA-HSreading.pdf A Brief History of Essential Academic Learning Requirements and the Washington Assessment of Student Learning] ." Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Retrieved 2/19/08.]See also
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Washington Assessment of Student Learning Notes
External links
* [http://www.k12.wa.us/AboutUs/TBbio.aspx Terry Bergeson Biography]
*Bergeson, T. (n.d.) [http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/improvement/bergeson.htm By the Numbers: Rising Student Achievement in Washington State] New Horizons for Learning website.
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