The Faculty of Good Shepherd Lutheran School
2009-2010

Mrs. Amy Babel, kindergarten
B.A. in Liberal Arts, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, 1996
6 years teaching experience; she has been at Good Shepherd since 2003

Mrs. Robin Goebel, grade 1
B.A. in Fine Arts, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 1980
Graduate courses from California State University, Northridge and California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks
20 years teaching experience; she has been at Good Shepherd since 1994

Mrs. Theone Geres, grades 2/3
B.S. in Education, Concordia Teacher’s College, Seward, Nebraska, 1973
M.A. in Education from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, 1998
35 years teaching experience; she has been at Good Shepherd since 1982

Mrs. Sylvia Wilmot, grades 6-8
B.S. in Business Management, University of Phoenix
Master’s degree in process, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks
4 years teaching experience; she has been at Good Shepherd since 2004

Mrs Melissa Field, grades 6-8
B.A. in Liberal Studies, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, 2008
This is her first year of teaching; this is her first year at Good Shepherd

Mr. Richard Ferrin, middle school mathematics
B.S. in Education, Concordia Teacher’s College, Seward, Nebraska, 1973
28 years teaching experience; he has been at Good Shepherd since 1985

Mr. Scott Peters, music
B.A. in Fine Arts, California State University, Northridge, 2004
Graduate of California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 2006
4 years teaching experience; this is his first year at Good Shepherd

Mrs. Rachel Toner-Diaz, Powerline  
B.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984
She has been at Good Shepherd for 4 years

Mrs. Linda Christensen, physical education
5 years teaching experience
She has been at Good Shepherd since 2004

Mrs. Nancy Hawthorne, principal, teacher in grades 6-8
B.S. in Education, Concordia Teacher’s College, Seward, Nebraska, 1977
M.A. in Educational Psychology, California State University, Northridge, 1980
M.A. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, California State University, Northridge, 2006
31 years educational experience; she has been at Good Shepherd since the school began in 1979