Corey teaches Amer­i­can liter­a­ture and two junior/​senior liter­a­ture semi­nars. Corey, who attended a K‑12 progres­sive school, is strongly commit­ted to the Waverly philos­o­phy. She studied English and world liter­a­ture at Pitzer College and has taught language arts, writing, and liter­a­ture in a variety of settings. (Email)

Bret teaches Spanish at the high school and is the 5th/​6th Spanish special­ist in the elemen­tary school. Bret earned a B.A. in French and Spanish and an M.A. in both languages from the Univer­sity of Hawai’i at Manoa. He enjoys sharing his passion for the Spanish language, its people, and its culture with his students and encour­ages them to use as much Spanish in the class­room as possi­ble to develop into confi­dent speak­ers. In his free time, he loves to travel, explore new places, and ride roller coast­ers. (Email)

Shelbie teaches high school English as a long-term substi­tute. Shelbie has a B.A. in English – Creative Writing from Univer­sity of Central Florida, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Full Sail Univer­sity, and teach­ing certi­fi­ca­tion in high school English and drama. She has train­ing in liter­ary editing and, in her words, ​“wants to instill a fasci­na­tion with language and story­telling” in her students. (Email)

Joanna teaches science at the high school. She holds a B.S. and M.S., both in biochem­istry, from the Univer­sity of Cali­for­nia, Los Angeles, where she taught numer­ous under­grad­u­ate biochem­istry courses and worked in research labs in the fields of biochem­istry, organic chem­istry, and chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing. Joanna feels strongly about making science acces­si­ble and (with hope) fun for all students, and she believes Waver­ly’s focus on expe­ri­ence-based, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary learn­ing makes for an ideal envi­ron­ment for students to explore their scien­tific curios­ity and develop an appre­ci­a­tion for the often surpris­ing rele­vance of science to all parts of life. (Email)

Robyn is Waver­ly’s social justice and well­ness teacher and coun­selor. Robyn holds a B.A. in Justice and Peace Studies from Univer­sity of Saint Thomas and an M.A. in Clin­i­cal Psychol­ogy with special­iza­tions in Child Studies and Applied Commu­nity Psychol­ogy from Antioch Univer­sity. Robyn’s work with chil­dren, adoles­cents, fami­lies, trans-racial adop­tion and post-adop­tion matters, LGBT commu­nity issues, and trauma-informed coun­sel­ing are impor­tant aspects of Waverly’s focus on build­ing compas­sion­ate affin­ity spaces and mean­ing­ful profes­sional devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties in her areas of signif­i­cant exper­tise. (Email)

Andrés teaches Spanish and AP Spanish language and culture at the high school. He is a native of Costa Rica and grad­u­ated from the Univer­sity of La Salle with a degree in busi­ness and inter­na­tional market­ing. Andrés loves to inspire students to deepen their under­stand­ing of crit­i­cal aspects of Hispanic culture and language. In turn, Andrés says, ​“Waverly students inspire me because of their humil­ity, consis­tency, work ethic, and deter­mi­na­tion in every­thing they do.” (Email)

Nick teaches math in the middle and high schools. Nick holds a bachelor’s degree from the Univer­sity of Chicago, and a master’s degree from the Univer­sity of Tennessee, Knoxville, both in econom­ics. He has taught under­grad­u­ate courses and has been involved in a great deal of fasci­nat­ing research, includ­ing with profes­sors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of Freako­nom­ics. Further, he attended a progres­sive school and believes deeply in build­ing strong rela­tion­ships with students and creat­ing learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties that allow students to connect deeply with the mate­r­ial. (Email)