Meet our Teachers
Red Rose Kindergarten
Michelle Loftus-Gold
Coursework in child psychology American River College; coursework at Rudolf Steiner College. Michelle has worked with at-risk youth in group homes, operated a Waldorf-inspired home program for children from infants to four-years-old, and was a kindergarten teacher at Golden Valley Charter School. An SWS alum (kindergarten through 12th grade), Michelle enjoys camping, felting and spending time with her husband and two young sons. (Joined SWS 2009)
Contact Michelle: mloftus-gold@sacwaldorf.org or (916) 860-2535 ext. 3573
Ann Landgraf
Course work in art and psychology at California State University at Sacramento; course work in early childhood education at American River College; course work at Rudolf Steiner College. Ann teaches in the summer program at Rudolf Steiner College. Before coming to SWS, she led a Waldorf-inspired playgroup in her home. She worked with young children at SWS in various capacities before she became a kindergarten teacher. Ann enjoys pottery, watercolor painting, drawing, and gardening. (Joined SWS 1985)
Contact Ann: alandgraf@sacwaldorf.org or (916) 860-2535 ext. 3555
White Rose Kindergarten
Eloisa Rodriguez-Drake
Waldorf Teacher Education Diploma (Rudolf Steiner College). Eloisa worked as a Kindergarten Assistant at Cedar Springs Waldorf School as well as a Gardening teacher. She then worked as a Kindergarten teacher at East Bay Waldorf School before coming to SWS. She enjoys music, rural living, vintage motorcycles and cars, family road trips, and camping. (Joined SWS 2007)
Contact Eloisa: erodriguez@sacwaldorf.org or (916) 860-2535 ext. 3547
Maija Beattie
Preschool
Jacquelyn Bieringer-Drake
Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate (Sunbridge College, New York); completing B.A. in Multidisciplinary Studies with emphases on child development, family social science and communications (University of Minnesota). Jacquelyn has been a Kindergarten teacher at Spring Hill Waldorf School in Minnesota as well as an educator and house parent in two Camphill Villages, working with adults and children with special needs. She has also worked in Development, Enrollment and Communications at SWS for two school years. Jacquelyn enjoys handwork, camping, singing, cooking, relationship building work and laughing. Her husband is a grades teacher at SWS, and her two children attend SWS as well.
Contact Ms. Jacque: jbieringer@sacwaldorf.org or (916) 860-2535 ext. 3542