The T-bird Crew

WELCOME TO THE
T-BIRD CREW

What is the T-Bird Crew?

The T-Bird Crew is a program at Shorewood High School for students with severe disabilities. It is a community-based program where we teach our students (and the community) how we all can be productive members of our community.

We also have an awesome peer tutoring program, where other students at Shorewood can work with our students and earn credit.

Classroom Awards:
1997 Seattle Times Top of the Class Award
1997 Ablenet Inclusion Award
1998 Leaders in Restructuring Award

Who is the Teacher?

My name is Veronica Cook. I graduated from Central Washington University in 1993 with a degree in Special Education. I began teaching at Shorewood in 1994. I was the 5th teacher in 5 years in this classroom. I build the program that is now known as the T-Bird Crew, a program for medically fragile students. In 2001, I earned my masters degree from the University of Washington in Severe Disabilities.

Besides my classroom, I am the advisor of the Shorewood HIV/AIDS Peer education program. As advisor of this group, I received the 2006 Ryan White Memorial HIV/AIDS Educator of the Year.

In my spare time, I am the mother of Colin (born 2003). He keeps me very busy. I also am a seating host for the Seattle Mariners (It pays for my addiction to the Mariners), ride my Harley, am a Representative for the Shoreline Education Association, teacher representative on the WASL Accommodations Committee for OSPI, WEA representative on the WAAS workgroup for OSPI (see Associated Press article on the Links page), and do private consulting for individuals with disabilities.

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Hippocrates
(ca. 460–ca. 377 BCE) said many wise things, but
I here mention only one: “It is better to know the patient
who has the disease than it is to know the disease which the
patient has”