Staff
Pioneer Site, Truckee
Browning, Robin
Education Specialist
I received my BA and teaching credential from California State University in Sacramento. I developed a tutoring business and tutored all subjects, with my primary focus on students who have learning disabilities. I find it exciting to take students from being non-readers to being able to function at grade level. I thoroughly enjoy working in the personalized learning model and like the challenge of problem solving to address each student’s needs.
Daniels, Janet
Education Specialist
I attended California State University at Northridge where I earned my Bachelor’s Degree. I majored in history, specifically Latin American history, and minored in cultural anthropology. I took a year off to work, and travel in Europe. I went back to school at the University of California, Irvine, where I earned my teaching credential. I thoroughly enjoy working at Forest Charter School as an education specialist and especially watching students I worked with in years past grow up and move on successfully with their lives.
Deslauriers, Laura
Education Specialist
I graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S. in biological sciences. I attended the University of Nevada, Reno where I earned my teaching credential. I have spent the last six years teaching small groups biology and anatomy/physiology, as well as working as an education specialist for individual students.
Dorland, Sarah
Education Specialist
I attended the University of New Hampshire at Durham where I received my undergraduate BA in US history and my MAT in secondary teaching.
I so enjoy my position as an education specialist at Forest Charter School, and I am excited about the future of personalized learning.
Eggers, Janice
Education Specialist/Truckee Site Coordinator
After graduating from Humboldt State University with a BA in liberal studies, I was accepted in the teacher credential program. I graduated in 1993 with a credential in multiple subjects, with supplementary credentials in art and English. I became employed by Forest Charter School in the fall of 2003. I became a full time educational specialist, while teaching drama, service learning, and cooking classes. In the last couple of years, I have been working as an education specialist, teaching Tahoe ecology and engineering for middle school while also taking on the position of the Truckee site coordinator. As coordinator, I interview new students, arrange schedules for classes, provide support for teachers, and generally oversee the workings of the site.
Fyfe, Candi
Education Specialist and Special Services Teacher
After teaching for 20 years in varied positions, I am happy to be part of the innovative education team known as Forest Charter School. For the past 30 years, I have been able to live the dream and live on the north shore of Lake Tahoe and raise my family. My teaching experience has been as a special education and classroom teacher in public schools, including working with independent study students at Prosser Creek Charter School. I also serve on the Board of Directors for Project MANA, a local hunger relief agency, and sponsor "sisters" in wartorn countries through Women for Women International.
Hill, Linda
Education Specialist
I received my BA in English from UCLA and standard secondary teaching credential from CSU Northridge. Subsequently, I obtained an elementary credential as well. I so enjoy working at Forest Charter School, especially helping parents meet their child’s educational needs. I am very passionate about helping all students learn to learn with joy and confidence.
Nobriga, Nancy
Education Specialist
After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Environmental Studies/ Biology, I earned a teaching credential at Sierra Nevada College. For over thirteen years I've taught students in a variety of settings including: outdoor education, traditional public classrooms, a private academy, and charter schools. I've worked in the Tahoe/ Truckee area for the past eleven years, where I also own an educational services business. I especially enjoy teaching middle school math and science, while helping students find connections to their learning.
Quine, Geoff
Education Specialist
Born in San Francisco, California and raised in Carmel, Indiana, I have the benefit of being born in one of the most liberal parts of the country and growing up in one of the most conservative. I received my bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of California at Davis and was granted my post-baccalaureate degree in Secondary Education from Sierra Nevada College. An avowed news junkie and wannabe pundit, I have worked as a private investigator, managed projects for a software company that developed software for political campaigns, ushered at a gubernatorial inauguration ceremony and drove in a presidential motorcade. In my free time I enjoy backcountry skiing, mountain biking, backpacking, cooking, eating, photography and reading.
I have five years of teaching experience and am excited to be joining the Forest Charter School family. While I am looking forward to bringing this experience to the table, I also look forward to picking up new ideas and strategies from all of the great education specialists and teachers at Forest Charter School.
Creekside, Tahoe
Adams, Melinda
Education Specialist
I completed my schooling at the University of Nevada, Reno earning my B.S. degree in Elementary Education in 1996 and my Masters of Education in Elementary Education in 2003. I have been teaching since 1998 and have lived at Lake Tahoe since 1987. I have taught kindergarten through second grades, many times with combination classes. I have taught with private schools, in traditional District schools, a former charter school, and now I have found a home with the Forest Charter School. Teaching is my passion. I am looking forward to my second year with Forest Charter School.
Willow, Gillian
Education Specialist
I graduated from San Francisco State University with a Masters in Education. I started my teaching career teaching 2nd and 3rd grade at a small school with great family support and children from amazing cultural backgrounds. I continued my career in the Lake Tahoe area, joining the team at Forest Charter School in 2005 at their Creekside Cooperative.
Taylor, Camille
Creekside Coordinator
I have come to Forest Charter School by way of a shift in careers from
the subject of Law to that of Education. Acting within a group of Tahoe
parents seeking options to the local traditional public schools, I found
myself coordinating with Forest Charter School to establish a Tahoe City
site: Creekside Cooperative. My education in English Literature from
University of California at Los Angeles serves me well as the Site
Coordinator at Creekside, enabling me to facilitate communications
between teaching staff, parents, students and administration, and
organize our efforts toward a common educational goal. I am daily
inspired by my experiences with the exceptional talents within Forest
Charter School and am thrilled to be a part of this exciting development
in education.
Chippendale, Anne
Education Specialist
I grew up in the Bay Area. I ventured a couple hours east to U.C. Davis for college. After college, I traveled east again to be a ski bum in Tahoe, and I'm still here. In 1990, I completed my teaching credential at UNR. I've been teaching preschool for years,and coaching for the Squaw Valley Ski Team. Children have been a major portion of my life and I look forward to continuing that tradition teaching Kindergarten at Creekside Cooperative.