Devin Bauer is a Special Education Department Head and Learning Center teacher at Lakeside High School in Nine Mile Falls, Washington. He primarily teaches math to struggling students, while also assisting students with disabilities to succeed in their general education classes. Devin is the head football coach and work-based learning coordinator at Lakeside High School. Strong believer in positive relationships, Devin knows if students have adults in their lives that they can trust, opportunities for them are limitless.
In 2014 Devin was awarded the Teacher and Technology Award for his work in helping struggling readers succeed in their general education English classes. He proposed a grant that provided his students with reading pens that would allow students to quickly read and look up meanings of words they don’t recognize. Devin was also awarded the Outstanding Educator Award in 2016 from the Navy Recruiting District in Seattle.
Devin promotes inclusion for all students. When Devin started at Lakeside 75% of all special education students had grades modified in their general education classes with 17% of grades requiring significant modification. Currently in 2020, 14% of Lakeside’s special education students received modified grades and only one student with a significant modification. His students are in classes learning alongside their peers, and succeeding!
In Lakeside’s transition program, Devin saw a need for a more diversified and rigorous vocational program for his students with significant disabilities. In the past special education students often worked around the school and an occasional outside placement. Devin has changed Lakeside’s special education team’s vision. Through hard work and partnerships, Lakeside High School has students placed at the VA Hospital, Rosauers Grocery, Pet Grooming, Phase One Physical Therapy, and the county library because Devin believes in meeting the needs of all students.
