About Mr. Coulter

Mr. Coulter

Mr. Coulter was born in Pullman, Washington, somewhat near the middle of the 20^th century. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington, and attended Western Washington University, where he earned a B.S. in geology.

In elementary school, Mr. Coulter played baseball, basketball and football. He read Mad magazines around the clock. He collected baseball cards. He even played the violin and piano. In sixth grade Mr. Coulter was the president of his elementary school. In junior high Mr. Coulter discovered track and field and became a high-jumper. In high school he jumped 6’ 0”, which is not that bad, using the Fosbury Flop method.

In college Mr. Coulter studied geology. In his last quarter of college he traveled around the Southwest with eight of his classmates and one professor to study and map rock formations. He nearly stepped on a rattlesnake. He camped among iguanas.

Mr. Coulter’s first real job was as a geologist. It took him to northern California, southern Nevada and the Big Island of Hawaii, where he worked in the geothermal industry cataloguing the rock type, pressure, and temperature of geothermal well sites.

Mr. Coulter became a teacher in 1987. He has been teaching elementary school ever since. He loves kids and has been working with kids since he was a kid himself, beginning as a 6^th grader working with kindergarteners.

Mr. Coulter lives in Seattle in the sleepy hamlet of Wedgwood. He has two kids of his own. His daughter Cassady is somehow 16 years old. She plays soccer and ultimate frisbee. Last spring her ultimate team won the state championship. Over the summer she read thousands and thousands of pages. We couldn’t make her stop. Mr. Coulter’s son Dylan is 12. He got a new bike this summer and rode it everywhere. He plays soccer, basketball and ultimate. He has beaten his dad at cribbage way too many times.

Mr. Coulter enjoys gardening, and has recently been obsessed with grasses. He takes many photographs and listens to many different types of music. He rides his bicycle almost everywhere, including to school. Mr. Coulter loves to read. This summer he read Ernest Hemingway and Ken Kesey.