Staff Spotlight

One of our fifth graders was awed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership when his country was invaded by Russia in...

After 33 years of checking books out and in, shelving them, and teaching library classes and reading stories to thousands of children,...

If you’re someone who watches the credits at the end of movies and you happened to be watching The Lion King (or Pocahontas or James and...

Pediatrician Gwen Hamilton joined our board of directors Sunday. She replaces psychologist Wendy Ritchey, who retired after 19 years on...

There are many reasons people love to crochet. That crocheting animals involves engineering and math is probably not high on most...

Room 10 first grade teacher Laura White announced to her class last week that she’s going to have a baby. Once they got over their...

When she was a student in our fourth grade, Amy Weinstein told her mother that her teacher, Christie Vinson, was one of her best friends....

Kevin Kentfield taught in our elementary school many years ago. A number of his former students are now on our staff. He lives in...

Second grade teacher Karima Hastings was at wit’s end. It was March 2020, and thrust practically overnight into remote teaching, she was...

Room 6 kindergarten teacher Shelby Gregg and her mother, Felicia, have been sewing facemasks since the beginning of the pandemic. They...

This is the second in a series about our Nurtured Heart Approach trainers who work at The Meher Schools. "My dedication to using the...

We first learned about the Nurtured Heart Approach in 2002 in a flyer for a workshop in South San Francisco. “The timing was perfect,”...

Including the spring and summer, there are 22 Meher Schools staff members who attended the school as children. We asked this special...

In our last issue, we noted that 22 of our staff members are Meher Schools alumni. Now that Brenda Barnhart has returned to the fold,...

Including the spring and summer, there are 22 Meher Schools staff members who attended the school as children. We asked this special...

“No way. I NEVER want to be a teacher.” This is how Elementary Co-Principal Vince d’Assis says his elementary self would have responded...

You might catch Benedict (“Dick”) Clark high on a ladder or rushing to resolve a plumbing or electrical emergency, but there is always a...

“Remember the day you got that really bad news and you didn’t know how to move on?” Room 1 teacher Chris Cameron does. “For our family,...

We’ve been fortunate to see Indi Wibisono’s smiling face at The Meher Schools for 15 years, as one of our most experienced kindergarten...

Many of you know Mr. Max as one of our kindhearted and playful preschool teachers, but when he started here more than 20 years ago, he...