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Katie Bailey has called western Whitman County home since grade school. Katie and Steve live in LaCrosse, and she teaches in Endicott, where she began in 1999.

Leann Bafus was her master teacher when she did her student teaching in LaCrosse. The second of five children, Katie is closest to Rachel, who lives in Silverdale.

Katie really enjoys her second/third grade combination class which keeps her very busy. Looping with the children for a second year allows her to observe their growth over the course of two years. In the combination classroom, older children mentor younger children, which she...