staff bios
- Linda Inlay, Director
- Cathy Adams, 7/8
- Celeste Akiu, 7/8 (email)
- Christine Ansley, 7/8 Math/Math Coordinator (email)
- Mary Lynn Bryan, Social Studies, Language Arts
- Megan Burton, Social Studies, Language Arts
- Sara Euser, 6 (email)
- Madeleine Gomez, 6 (email)
- Jeremy Grove, 7/8 (email)
- Chris Kvidahl, PE (email)
- Thom Lichtenstein, 6 (email)
- Fawn Lustig, PE
- Richard Mettler, Math/Science 7/8 (email)
- Nancy Perez, PE (half) (email)
- Diane Reid, Drama (email)
- Kevin Reid, Vocal Music
- Wendy Scott, Band
- Louann Talbert, 7/8
- Gentle Tassione, 7/8 (email)
- Melissa Vashe, Art (email)
- Keith Waechtler, 7/8 (email)
- Heather Watson, 6 (email)
support staff
Wendy Beltrami, Attendance Secretary (email)
Venita Bush, Business Manager
Teri Renz, Attendance Secretary
Beth Wheeler, Executive Assistant (email)
Mary Lynn Bryan
- Educational Background
- BA in Communications with a minor in Spanish from CSU Chico. Go Wildcats!
Multiple Subjects Credential: CSU Chico
National Board Certification in Early Adolescent Language Arts: November, 2003.
Every day in the River School classroom.
- Personal Information
- I am the best dancer (and singer) at River School. I have been perfecting my craft for a lifetime. I am always willing to share my knowledge and skills on the dance floor with others. My students beg for me to sing to them on their birthday and I usually oblige. Other than the above mentioned, I like to do just about anything outside. I am a lover of books, music, and all things Brazilian. Oh yes, I love going out to eat and eating inespecially if I am not cooking. I live with my partner in Petaluma and we have two catsPreto and Rhodadonıt ask.
- Subjects Taught
- I teach Language Arts, Social Studies, and Advisory (the most important class).
- Teaching Experience
- I spent the first year of my teaching career in Japan pretending to impart my knowledge of English to four and five year olds. It was an invaluable experience to live within a culture where I was completely illiterate and unable to communicate. I then taught in Union City, Winters, and an International school in Brazil. Over the course of three years in Brazil, I taught Language Arts, Social Studies, Journalism, Drama, and Music. Oh yes, and Dance (just kidding). From Brazil, I moved to Boston and worked as an Educational Consultant before landing at the River School. After a number of years at River School, I had a great experience for two years teaching and supervising credential candidates at Humboldt State University as a Distinguished Teacher in Residence. I am now working at the River School full time and perusing my masterıs degree in Education at Sonoma State.
- What is important to you in education?
- Helping students figure out who they are and who and how they want to be in the world.
- What defines the River School to you?
- An ongoing process of living, learning, making mistakes, and being real with students. I do believe ³We teach who we are.² It is so simple, yet so challenging.