Wayne Osborn

After spending seventeen years in the retail grocery business, Wayne Osborn decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a teacher. After graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, he taught special education at Oakbrook Elementary in Lakewood for five years. Nine years ago he started his “dream job”, and has been the teacher-librarian and building “Site Tech” at Hillside Elementary school on Joint Base Lewis-McChord ever since. A committed life-long learner, he has a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Washington and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Wayne became a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of Library Media in 2008Wayne lives in Puyallup with his lovely wife Robin, a lovable but annoying dog and an ornery cat, and has three grown children of whom he is very proud. They are neither annoying nor ornery.