Faculty | The Berkeley School

What Matters in Education is:
making connections between and within people and communities; learning to see our interconnectedness.

1st/2nd Grade Teacher (Blackberry Creek Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
guiding children to connect with their inner wisdom and adjusting the environment to the capacity of every child.

ECC Teacher (Cedar Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:

building confidence, encouraging curiosity, and fostering love for life long learning!

4/5 Co-Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
having an inclusive, supportive, and safe environment to learn.

Human Resources & Operations Manager

What Matters in Education is:

Opening a child's eyes to all the possibilities of who they can become by guiding in their exploration, adventures and discovery.

ECC Associate & Extended Day Teacher (Eugenia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:

the enrichment of culture, spirit, values and everything that characterizes us as human beings.

MS Spanish Teacher

What Matters in Education is:

learning how to learn—and learning in community—in order to grow as a community

Director of K-8 Teaching & Learning

Chrissy Hoffman – Preschool Music & Movement Teacher

ECC Music & Movement Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
always remembering there is more to learn.

ECC Teacher (Mariposa Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
fun! When activities are fun, students want to stay engaged which allows for true learning to happen.

UAC Physical Education Teacher/After-School Sports Coach

What Matters in Education is:
joy. With joy comes a freedom that allows magical, powerful, important learning experiences to take hold.

Kindergarten Teacher (Sweet Briar Creek Classroom) & K-2 Team Leader

What matters to me in education is:

A connection with all students, letting them know that we are here for them through the ups and downs.

UAC Extended Day Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
nurturing a child’s understanding of the world through exploration and self-expression.

TK & K Associate Teacher

ECC Associate Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

ECC Associate Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
helping students develop their curiosity. They need to build their ability to seek the truth.

7th & 8th Grade Science Teacher & MS Team Leader

What Matters in Education is:

Empathy, accessibility, self-expression, collaboration, and critical thinking

Chief Financial Officer

What Matters in Education is:
nurturing a child’s understanding of the world through exploration and self-expression.

ECC Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:

Embracing the "uh oh" moment and relishing in the "aha" moments.

MS Math Learning Specialist

What Matters in Education is:

Patience and Faith

MS English Teacher

What Matters in Education is:

Consistency, application of what you are learning and ensuring a great learning environment for everyone in the classroom.

K-5 Spanish Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
awakening curiosity beyond your own culture and respecting different beliefs.

ECC Teacher (Live Oak Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
knowing no matter how young you are you still can change the world for the better!

MS Art & Extended Day Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
Academic Intelligence

MS English Teacher

Jennifer Tilson

MS Academic Learning Specialist

jtilson@theberkeleyschool.org

MS Academic Learning Specialist

What Matters in Education is:
speaking the truth. As educators, we are called to inform and empower our future citizens to take on and, hopefully, resolve the challenges they will face to preserve and expand the benefits of our democracy.

UAC Extended Day Director

What Matters in Education is:
that each student’s world and heart is expanded.

4th/5th Teacher (Cerrito Creek Classroom) & 3-5 Team Leader

What Matters in Education is:
helping students understand themselves as learners through the process of art making.

ECC-5 Teaching Artist

What Matters in Education is:

expanding our empathy, passions and interconnectedness by actively choosing vulnerability, intention, and curiosity.

MS Student Life Coordinator & Health Teacher

What Matters in Education is:

Preparing students for our ever changing world by giving them the tools and opportunities to question, collaborate and innovate with both empathy and resiliency. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin ...Read More

K-5 Academic Learning Specialist

What Matters in Education is:
the passion and love for learning.

ECC Associate Teacher & Extended Day Team Leader

What Matters in Education is:
meeting students where they are and helping them discover their academic and personal promise.

7th & 8th Grade Math Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
the freedom to create, grow, listen, question, make mistakes, wonder, belong, and build in a safe environment that values and challenges you.

ECC Teacher (Eugenia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:

Creating an environment where all types of learners feel comfortable asking questions and sharing their ideas.

Director of Enrollment & Outreach

What Matters in Education is:

connecting

1st/2nd Grade Teacher (Blackberry Creek Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
igniting curious minds. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ~Socrates

3rd Grade Teacher (Temescal Creek Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:

Creating a space where youth can thrive and be their best selves

UAC Front Office Administrator

Louisa Mascuch

ECC Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

lmascuch@theberkeleyschool.org

ECC Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
that every student feels empowered to reach their full potential.

Data Manager & K-8 Program Coordinator

What Matters in Education is:

empowering students to boldly ask "why?" and "how?". Pursuing the answers drives innovation and change-making.

MS 6th Science/Math Teacher

What Matters in Education is:
helping all students feel simultaneously seen and supported in every way: academically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally.

Head of School

What Matters in Education is:

Each child’s innate capacity to learn and providing each child an equal opportunity to learn in a nurturing, multi-cultural environment.

ECC Teacher (Magnolia Classroom)

What Matters in Education is:
Imagination. Knowledge is powerful, and imagination can help us see different things and opens brand new paths to knowledge.

ECC Associate Teacher (Live Oak Classroom)