Staff Member... Avila, Linda Barajas, Silvia Bembry, Tamara Carothers, Melissa Castro, Karen DeLa'O, Rebecca Farmer, Jennifer Fukumae, Monica Gamez, Terry Gonzalez, Guadalupe Harpham, Ann Hayes, Mark Hildreth, Martha Jungenberg, Lidia Lafferty, Alex Maple, Marti Mikes, Catherine Molnar, Erick Morris, Margie Nichols, Melody Plumley, Sarah Prescott, Dan Rich, Fred Runyon, Lynee Seawell, Patti Staley, Dave Steelman, Kari Sunderland, Marty

Marti Maple is a Bay Area native. She spent ten years in Los Angeles, where she studied communication studies at UCLA and business at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. She completed her multiple subject teaching credential at the Concord campus of Chapman University in June of 2003, concurrent with teaching second grade at King’s Valley Christian School. Before going into teaching, Mrs. Maple had spent over twelve years as a blood bank community relations and recruitment supervisor.  She has worked as both a short-term and long-term substitute teacher in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District and taught kindergarten at the district’s Summer Intervention Program. Through a church-sponsored program, she served as a reading tutor. She and her husband, Denny, are members of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, in Lafayette, and serve on several boards, including for missions, fellowship, and youth. Twin sons, Matthew and Michael Dahlquist, are away at CSU, Chico, and UC, Berkeley, respectively. All family members are avid San Francisco Giants and Cal Bear fans.