Don Wile:  

MARCH, 2013 I retired on March 31, 2013, after 50+ years as an educator. With the exception of two years as principal at Monroe High School (1971-73), the first 22 years were in the Bellevue School District. My initial position was as a math teacher at Tyee Junior High School. After four years of teaching, I was named to administrative positions including VP at Tillicum Jr. High, VP at Newport, Bellevue and Interlake High Schools. District administrative positions included Trainer, Professional Development Center, Modernization Coordinator for Interlake High School and Director of Employee Relations. In April, 1994, I was asked to start Christian Faith School in SeaTac and served as principal and superintendent of that school. In addition, I was also founding administrator of Dominion College, a private four-year liberal arts college. I left those positions in July, 1993 and my wife (Carole) and I worked with a private consultant, advising and consulting with private schools and government educational officials in the U.S., Nigeria, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bulgaria and Albania. I continued doing private consulting and training with schools throughout the Northwest and Canada. We moved to Phoenix, AZ in 1998, when my wife was employed as Director of Training and Certification for Spalding Education International, a non-profit organization training teachers to teach reading, spelling and writing using a strong phonetic ap...Expand for more