Job Openings for 2010-2011:

Class Teacher Position:

Woodland Star Charter School is seeking 1st grade class teacher and Kindergarten lead teacher applicants for the 2010-2011 school year. Strong preference given to applicants who are Waldorf-trained or experienced and have a California teaching credential or are enrolled in a credentialing program

Woodland Star Charter School
Our thriving ten-year-old, K-8 Waldorf-inspired public charter school seeks applicants for class teacher positions for the fall of 2010. Salary commensurate with Waldorf training and experience, to $58,000+. STRS retirement. Health benefits for employee and dependents. BA required; CA teaching credential or enrollment in a CA credentialing program required. Priority enrollment for children of staff. Spanish bi-lingual preferred but not required. Join our mature, experienced faculty. Sonoma is an authentic, small (7,500), picturesque mission town in the wine-growing region one hour north of San Francisco, ninety minutes from both the Pacific Ocean and Sacramento. We are a committed, conscious community of teachers and families, and our school is in the geographical and visionary center of the exciting Waldorf-inspired charter school movement. We enjoy a new campus and are blessed with an unusually supportive parent community. Do you feel our children calling you? Please email resume, including contact information for three references, and a brief biographical narrative.
 
Woodland Star Charter School
Sheila Reilly

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17811 Arnold Drive

Sonoma, CA 95476

707-996-3849
Fax:707-996-4369 

Monnica O’Grady
Sweet Pea Kindergarten Teacher
Monnica O’Grady earned her BA and California teaching credential from Sonoma State University and her Waldorf teaching certificate from Rudolf Steiner College. She is also trained as a remedial reading teacher. Ms. O’Grady has been a Kindergarten teacher at Woodland Star for nine years and previously worked in Kindergartens and the primary grades of public schools and private Waldorf schools. She has taught at Woodland Star since 2000.

Katie FitzGerald
Morning Glory Kindergarten Teacher
Katie FitzGerald earned her BFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She earned her California multiple subject teaching credential at Sonoma State University and is earning her MA in Waldorf Education at Touro University. She worked as a Waldorf Kindergarten Assistant for two years, including one at Woodland Star Charter School before becoming a lead Kindergarten teacher at Woodland Star in 2006.  

Kathleen Pearl
Grade One Teacher
Ms. Pearl earned her Waldorf teaching certification at Rudolf Steiner College and at the Kelowna Waldorf School in British Columbia and her B.A. and teaching credential from the University of Alaska Anchorage.  She is also trained in Waldorf special education through the Gradalis Institute and has done HANDLE training, with a certification in Neurodevelopment in the Learning Environment.  Ms. Pearl is a long-time Waldorf kindergarten who has also taught Waldorf grades one through three.Ms. Pearl has taught at the Aurora Waldorf School of Alaska as well as in Anchorage public schools.                          

Keith Swift
Grade Two Teacher
Ms. Swift received her BA from Sonoma State University, her Waldorf training from the Center for Educational Renewal in Santa Rosa and her teaching credential from Dominican College in San Rafael.  Ms. Swift has completed a four-year Waldorf Remedial Education program as well as her Therapeutic Educational Specialist training from the Gradalis Institute in Boulder, Colorado.  She has training in Social Inclusion Character Education programs as well as Lindamood-Bell Learning process, story telling and sandplay.

Nancy Cherniss
Grade Three Teacher
Ms. Cherniss earned her BA from Bloomsburg State University in Bloomsburg, PA, her Waldorf teacher training from Sound Circle Waldorf Teacher Training Program in Seattle, Washington and her teaching credential from San Francisco State University.  

Ms. Cherniss has worked at several Seattle area Waldorf schools as a class teacher, math teacher, extra-lesson teacher, resource teacher, substitute and tutor.

John Graham
Grade Four Teacher
Mr. Graham earned his BA from Cal State University, Northridge, his Waldorf teaching certificate from Rudolf Steiner College and his California multiple subject teaching credential from Sonoma State University. Mr. Graham has over 20 years experience teaching first through eighth grades at the San Francisco Waldorf School, the Marin Waldorf School and Novato Charter School, a Waldorf-inspired public charter school. Mr. Graham is Spanish bi-lingual and has also taught Spanish, woodworking, games, drama and Kindergarten. He joined Woodland Star in 2003.

Robert Bucher
Grade Five Teacher
Mr. Bucher received his BA from Sonoma State and his Waldorf training at Highland Hall in Los Angeles.  Mr. Bucher spent 12 years as a class teacher at the City of Lakes Waldorf School in Minneapolis where he took a class through grades 1-8.  In addition to his class teaching experience, Mr. Bucher has developed Waldorf curriculum and authored research papers on spelling and grammar approaches in Waldorf schools. He has traveled extensively and spent several years overseas teaching English at the elementary and high school levels. 

Sharon Williams
Grade Six Teacher
Ms. Williams received her Masters in History from San Francisco State, her BA from University of Hawaii, her Waldorf teaching training from Center for Educational Renewal in Santa Rosa, CA and her teaching credential from Dominican University.  She has worked for the past three years as a substitute teacher at several area Waldorf inspired charter schools in grades 1-8.  In addition to her class teaching experience, Ms. Willliams brings a passion for drama, history, art and math.

Phil Stone
Grade Seven Teacher
Mr. Stone earned his MA in Waldorf Education from Touro University, his BS in Computer Science from Cal State LA and his California multiple subject credential from Sonoma State University. He continues to study Waldorf education with on-going professional development courses at Rudolf Steiner Prior to joining Woodland Star in 2007, Mr. Stone taught at Stone Bridge (Waldorf-inspired) School in Napa, where he graduated the eighth grade class in June of 2007.

Bob Harrington
Grade Eight Teacher
Mr. Harrington earned his BA in History from University of California Santa Cruz, an MA in International Affairs with an emphasis in History from Ohio University and his multiple subject teaching credential from Dominican University. He taught grades five though eight at Novato (Waldorf-inspired) Charter School. Prior to discovering Waldorf Education and teaching at Novato Charter, Mr. Harrington taught at the University of West Virginia and at Ohio University; he has studied and taught internationally at the university level in Indonesia, Japan and Russia. He joins Woodland Star in 2008.

Gaylan Paige
Special Education Assistant and Aftercare Director
Ms. Paige earned her BA from San Francisco State University and has worked in education for the last twenty-five years. Ms. Paige directed the After School Program at the San Francisco Waldorf School for fourteen years and has worked as a special education assistant, teacher, Kindergarten teacher, school librarian and special programs instructor. She has founded and directed several businesses, including a consulting firm that specialized in children and family issues and challenges. Ms. Paige joined  Woodland Star in2001.

Heather Zavaleta
Spanish and EL Teacher, Grades K through 7
Maestra Zavaleta earned her BA in Spanish, graduating with Highest Honors from UC Davis. She earned her multiple subject credential with BCLAD and her single subject credential in Spanish from U.C. Davis. She has taught grade school, high school, adult school and ESL in the California public school system. She lived and taught for two years in Oxaca, Mexico and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico. Maestra Zavaleta is the mother of a Woodland Star student.

Wendy Aguilar
Handwork Teacher, Grades 1 through 5
Wendy Aguilar teaches Handwork in grades one through five. She earned her BFA degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, her California teaching credential from Sonoma State University, her Handwork teaching certificate from Rudolph Steiner College, and her Waldorf teaching certificate from the Center for Educational Renewal. She has taught Arts and Crafts in South Carolina and in Bay Area public middle and high schools. Ms. Aguilar also teaches the developmentally disabled at the Sonoma Developmental Center. She joined Woodland Star in 2001.

Katelyn Willens
Singing and Recorder Teacher, Grades 4 through 8
Katelyn Willens earned her BA in History at Trinity College, an MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at Sonoma State University, an MA in Music Education at Sonoma State University, her multiple subject teaching credential at the University of San Francisco, and her Waldorf certification at Rudolf Steiner College.  She has taught at San Francisco Waldorf School, Summerfield Waldorf High School, Sebastopol Independent Charter School and Sonoma State University. She studies Werbeck singing with Christiaan Boeles. Ms. Willens joins Woodland Star in 2008. 

 Barbara Neumann
Eurythmy, Grades K through 4
Ms. Neumann earned her BA from the University of Arizona and her Eurythmy diploma from Eurythmy Spring Valley in New York. She has taught Eurythmy for over 16 years at the Chicago Waldorf School, Willow Wood Waldorf School in Sebastopol and, most recently, at Marin Waldorf School. She has also worked as a Waldorf Kindergarten Assistant, and is the mother of two Waldorf students. Ms. Neumann joined Woodland Star in 2006.

Sheila Reilly
Administrator
Ms. Reilly earned her BA from Eastern Illinois University, her nursing degree from Santa Rosa Junior College and is completing her MBA at Sonoma State University. She has studied Waldorf education for many years and is currently pursuing her MA in Waldorf Education from Touro University. Prior to joining Woodland Star as Assistant Administrator in 2007, Ms. Reilly managed a surgery center in Napa for seventeen years. A Woodland Star parent, Ms. Reilly has directed parent education and served on the Parent Council and Charter Council.

Susan U’Ren
Office Manager
Susan U’Ren is a graduate of Santa Rosa Junior College and worked many years in bookkeeping and business administration. Ms. U’Ren spent seven years as a licensed childcare provider before becoming a public school business and office manager in 2001.

Janis Lynne
Business Manager
Janis Lynne served as the Business Manager of the Petaluma Charter School from 1997-2004, where she also served on the Board of Trustees. She has extensive experience in managing all aspects of school finance and worked for Woodland Star in 2004-05 as a consultant before joining our administrative staff.