The Jones-Gordon Team

The best of the best!

Our teachers are educated, smart, talented, creative, skilled, dynamic, and above all, positive role models for our students!

We attract and retain the best of the best and invest heavily in their professional development. We provide a supportive professional environment that nourishes our teachers’ strengths, gifts, and talents and allows them to leverage these unique advantages in their classrooms each and every day to the benefit of our students.

JGS teachers have many decades of combined experience in regular, gifted, and special education. They are experts with implementing numerous instructional strategies for diverse learners and incorporating executive function and social skills instruction into daily lessons. And, they all agree that constant adaptation, flexibility, and evaluation are the core of effective teaching.

Interested in joining our team? We’re hiring!

If you’re an amazing teacher with a passion for educating incredible kids who learn differently…

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School Leadership

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Dana Herzberg, BAE, M.Ed.

Founder & Head of School

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Monica Yaeger, BS, M.Ed.

Director of Foundations & Lower School

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Kris Shen, BS, M.Ed.

Dean of Students for Middle and High School

Foundations (Grades 1/2) & Lower School (Grades 3-5) Core Team

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Ashley Cunningham

Foundations Teaching Assistant; Art Educator; Wilson® Reading System Teacher

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Caylin Kacmarcik, BA, M.Ed.

Lower School Special Education Teacher

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Olivia Nieves

Lower School Paraprofessional & Student Teacher

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Jennifer Roscoe, BS, M.Ed.

Lower School Teacher

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Vickie Shen, BAE

Lower School Teacher

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Adrienne Springfield, BA

Lower School Teacher

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Kate Wilkes, B.Ed.

Foundations Teacher

Middle School Core Team (Grades 6-8)

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Samantha Clark, BS, M.Ed.

ERWA (Executive Function/Reading/Writing/Arts); Humanities; Art Educator; FLEX Teacher

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Maggie Roberts, BA, M.Ed.

Humanities & Visual Arts

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Kelsey Sartain

Teaching Assistant

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Karen Turner, BS

Math & Humanities

High School Core Team (Grades 9-12)

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Barry Boulanger, BS

CTE (Career and Technical Education); STEM

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Mike DeLaura, BA, MA

History & Social Studies; English

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Samantha DePalo, BA, M.Ed.

High School English Teacher & Director of Outreach

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ElizaBeth (Izzy) Garcia, BA, MA

American Sign Language (ASL)

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Jennifer Nimlo-Edmonds, BA

Spanish; Electives

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Marcus Shaw, BA, MS

High School Electives & Executive Function Support; Middle School Math

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Tesla Theoryn, BS, M.Ed.

College & Career Counseling

FLEX Intervention Team

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Amanda Burke, BAE

FLEX Generalist; Wilson® Dyslexia Therapist; Middle & High School Math Teacher

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Lisa Duran, BS

Reading Interventionist; Wilson® Reading System Instructor; Lindamood-Bell trained

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Sarah Guidry, BS, SLPA

Speech Services; FLEX Teacher

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Sara Kilstrom, BS, MS

Wilson Reading System® Teacher; Barton® Certified

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Sandee Levine, BS, MA

Wilson® Dyslexia Practitioner; Middle School Math & ELA Teacher

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Tiffany Nelson, BAE

FLEX Generalist; Wilson Reading System® Teacher

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Lauren Nolan, BS, M.Ed.

Wilson® Dyslexia Therapist; Lower School ELA Teacher

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Jennifer Palmer, BA, M.Ed.

Reading Interventionist; Wilson Reading System® Teacher; Motor Cognition Squared (MC2®), Lindamood-Bell, and Barton® Certified

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Rose Waage, BA, M.Ed.

Wilson Reading System® Teacher

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Melissa Wiegand, BS, M.Ed., CALT, C-SLDS, WDT, WCT

Wilson® Dyslexia Therapist; Wilson® Credentialed Trainer; Wilson® Program Director; IDA Dyslexia Therapist

Lower & Middle School Specials (PE, Cooking, ASL, Art)

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Reid Blakey

Recreation Coordinator; PE and STEM/Film Instructor; Athletic Co-Director

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Shawna DeLaura

Cooking Instructor; FLEX Instructor & Executive Function Coach

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Nikki Hendricks, BA

American Sign Language (ASL) Instructor

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Cady Maharaj, BS, M.Ed.

Physical Education Teacher; Lower School STEM Teacher

Administrative Team

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Samantha De Palo, BA, M.Ed.

Director of Outreach & High School English Teacher

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Jeanine deRozieres, AAS

Health Services

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Tracie Glover Hawxhurst, BA

Director of Admissions and Enrichment Programming

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Kim Hogan

Office Manager & HR Director; Director of Tutoring Services

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Emily Hsu, BAE, MTESOL

College & Career Tranistion Program Director; Development Coordinator

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Tara Prewitt

Facilities Management

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Jeff Pedler

Facilities & Custodial Services

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Michaela Sands, BSW, MSW

Specials & RULER Education Director

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Shari Schwartz, BFA

Director of Marketing & Communications; Community Service & Givebacks Coordinator; Art Educator

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Jessica Wilhelmsen, BA

Director of School Operations; Finance Manager

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Dana Wolman, BAE

Registrar; Front Desk Administrator; Wilson® Reading System Teacher