Staff

Because of strong academic growth for all racial and cultural student groups, Washington has been recognized with the Title I Academic Achievement Award. Many of our teachers have won Prudential Teaching Awards for excellence and are trained in GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design), allowing them more skills to challenge every student at all levels.

Teachers can be reached using BUSD’s standard email address protocol with the first and last name of the person you would like to reach: firstlast@berkeley.net.

Office

Josh Heideman Principal 510.644.4525 Lois Jones School Administrative Assistant

Transitional Kindergarten (TK)

Shelby Johnson Room 106 Ted Watson Room 112

Kindergarten

Ashleigh Talbott Room 100 Hannah Margulis-Kessel Room 104 Sam Sambrone Room 108

First Grade

Janine Waddell Room 213 Sara Ellberg Room 211

Second Grade

Jamie Davidson Room 212 Annelisa Hedgecock Room 212 Luba Hancock Room B2 Lori Kasle Room B4

Third Grade

John Tubbs Room 110 Hilary Mitchell Room B6 Wendy Whiting Room B7 Lelia Clark-Riddell Room B7

Fourth Grade

Dawn Bail Room 200 Oscar Zarate Room B1 Ja’Mein Sanchez Room B5

Fifth Grade

Riti Dhesi Room 204 Laura Jokela Room 208 Kristen Kelly Room 208 John DeSerio Room 210

Science

Abby Paske Suzanne Ingley

Support Staff

Becky Bess – Special Education Jaya Chinnaya – Speech Devon D’Avanzo – Counseling Sian DeLuca – Occupational Therapy Mina Duffy – School Psychologist Arlene Foster – LEARNS Emily Hawkins – English Language Development / Office of Family Engagement and Equity Alyssa Hudson – Special Education John Alford Leaks – LEARNS Sacha Moustakas – Intervention Jackie Overlid – Library Liz Scarboro – Intervention Hillary Trainor – Special Education Ling Truong – Counseling Wendy Whiting – Intervention Latasha (Marian) Willis – BEARS Don Arreola-Burl Tom Fairchild - PE Emmma Christie - Garden