Mark Blomquist, who will be teaching 7th and 8th grade LA/SS at Timberline. Mark has 21 years’ experience as an educator and has taught students from 1st grade to 8th grade. Mark has been an elementary classroom teacher, a gifted education teacher, a middle school language arts/social studies teacher, district technology specialist, and a school administrator. Mark was also part of a team that opened Stony Brook Elementary School in Pennington, New Jersey. Mark is excited to return to the classroom and work with the students and staff of Timberline Middle School. Mark has a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Washington and a Master’s in Teaching from Seattle University.

Mark shared, “I am so excited to join the Timberline staff and to help students discover amazing things about themselves they didn’t know existed. Helping students work through problems and challenges, whether they are academic or social and learning that they are more than capable of tackling them on their own, is, by far, the best part of my job. I can’t wait to be a part of a community that places kindness, respect, and social and emotional learning alongside academics.”