Biography

== I am known all over the Middle school as Mrs. Washington, the Wiki Witch of the West (the picture above is courtesy of Mr. Kitterman's HTML class). I have been so named by my former colleague, Jay Butler (retired), and the students in his science class, currently the class of 2012. Since The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite films, I gladly accept the moniker. I'm not sure if I should be pleased, however, because everyone knows that "Only bad witches are ugly."

My real name is Tonya Washington, I was born in Long Beach California in 1961. I have been married for nearly 28 years (more than half my life) and I have 4 adult children,scattered all over the United States. I graduated from Cal State San Bernardino in California in 1998.

I have been teaching in Douglas for 8 years, I am the 6-8 grade behavior specialist at DMS and I recently received my Masters degree from UW. I love my job and the kids are great, they definitely keep me on my toes. I really like the people I work with, I couldn't have asked for a nicer group.

My husband, Andre, and I love to travel and now that the kids are grown, we get to do a little bit of exploring on our own. We just celebrated our 25th anniversary in Mexico at Chichen Itza, the rest of the time we spent by the pool and running around the beaches of Playa Del Carmen and Cancun (it was just awful)!
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 * Chichen Itza ||


 * [[image:http://mrswashingtondms.ccsd1.wikispaces.net/file/view/Florida_2007_Family_Disney_%28Chick%27s_camera%29_014.jpg/32303781/Florida_2007_Family_Disney_%28Chick%27s_camera%29_014.jpg width="396" height="296"]] ||
 * Alex, Anthony, Andre and Chickie at Walt Disney World ||


 * [[image:http://mrswashingtondms.ccsd1.wikispaces.net/file/view/Disney_Pinochio_Friends.jpg/32304511/Disney_Pinochio_Friends.jpg width="571" height="427" align="center"]] ||
 * Time away from the family reunion ||
 * [[image:http://mrswashingtondms.ccsd1.wikispaces.net/file/view/Rome_and_Cruise_135.JPG/86265325/Rome_and_Cruise_135.JPG width="403" height="353"]] ||
 * The Coliseum at Sunset, August 2009 ||