Our Staff

Office Staff and Support Staff

Please visit our friendly office staff to help you with any questions.

Role	Name	Location	Email Address
Principal	Rebecca Julien	Main Office	rjulien@philasd.org
Secretary	Melanie Ricco	Main Office	mricco@philasd.org
Counselor	Andrea Jamison	Counselor Suite	abrown6@philasd.org
Counselor	Carly Wickham	Counselor Suite	cwichkam@philasd.org
Psychologist	Derek Wager	Counselor Suite	jwager@philasd.org
Nurse	Morgan Heibel	Nurse's Office	mheibel@philasd.org
Dean of Students	Kim Oteri	Counselor's Suite	koteri@philasd.org
SBTL - Math	Nicole Del Quadro	Room 107	ndelquadro@philasd.org
SBTL - ELA	Deirdre Potter	Room 107	dpotter@philasd.org
SSO	Dorphylia Lincoln	-	dlincoln@philasd.org

Our specialists provide daily instruction to students with a bi-weekly teacher rotation.

Role	Name	Location	Email Address
Digital Literacy/TTL	Damian Furmanchin	Room 304	dfurmanchin@philasd.org
Physical Education	Anthony Drames	Gymnasium	adrames@philasd.org
Art	Peter Metcalfe	Room 015	pmetcalfe@philasd.org
Science Enrichment / Health	TJ Gobreski	204	tjgobreski@philasd.org
String Instrumental Music	Jirair Youssefian	IMC	jyoussefian@philasd.org

Special education teachers support students who need extra help with school work.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
K - Gr. 2	Victoria Frederick	Room 106	vrfrederick@philasd.org
Grades 3 -4	Leah Pazda	Room 210	lpazda@philasd.org
Grades 5 -8	Carol Harper	Room 102	charper@philasd.org
Speech	Kyleigh Pope	Room 210A	kpope2@philasd.org

Name	Language	Location	Email
Marie Chan	Cantonese	Counselor's Suite (Tuesday)	mkchan@philasd.org
Chau Hua	Vietnamese	Counselor's Suite (Tuesday)	chua@philasd.org
Polyka Ma	Khmer	Counselor's Suite (Friday)	polykama@philasd.org
Diliana Cho	Spanish	Counselor's Suite (M-F)	dchosolis@philasd.org

Our ESOL teachers provide services to students learning English.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
Kindergarten & Grade 2	Ella Schwalb	Room 102	eschwalb@philasd.org
Grade 1	Yoon Byun	Room 201	yjbyun@philasd.org
Grade 3	Christopher Morales	Room 201	cjmorales@philasd.org
Grades 4/5	Angela Pelosi	Room 203	apelosi2@philasd.org
Grades 6/7	Sarah Hosan	Room tbd	shosan@philasd.org
Grade 7/8	Stacey Siegel	Room 203	stsiegel@philasd.org

Our amazing pre-K teachers and assistants.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
Pre-K	Cierra Keene	Room 101	ckeene@philasd.org
Pre-K Assistant	Donita Thomas	Room 101
Pre-K	Veronica Carfagno	Room 104	vcaporale@philasd.org
Pre-K Assistant	Rebab Mehfoud	Room 104

Our Kindergarten to 5th grade classroom teachers.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
Kindergarten	Linda Chim	Room 103	lchim@philasd.org
	Amy Hunter	Room 109	ahunter3@philasd.org
Grade 1	Nertila Ferko	Room 202	nferko@philasd.org
	Somaly Valentine	Room 205	snvalentine@philasd.org
Grade 2	Kristin Oteri	Room 208	kdoteri@philasd.org
	Melissa Heidel	Room 211	mpolisano@philasd.org
Grade 3	Sara Caselle (ELA/SS)	Room 209	scaselle@philasd.org
	Liza Taylor (Math/Sci)	Room 212	ltaylor2@philasd.org
Grade 4	Christina Forline (ELA/SS)	Room 308	cforline@philasd.org
	Kelly Orr (Math/Sci)	Room 311	korr@philasd.org
Grade 5	Francesca Freed	Room 309	ffreed@philasd.org
	Rachel Grant (Math/Science)	Room 312	rgrant@philasd.org

Our grades 6 - 8 team.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
Grades 6/7 - ELA	Theodore Brown	Room 310	tdelafossebrown@philasd.org
Grades 6/7 - Math	Thomas Duch	Room 307	tduch@philasd.org
Grades 7/8 - ELA	Erica Devose	Room 301	edevose@philasd.org
Grades 7/8 - Math	Ryan Brown	Room 302	rbrown7@philasd.org
Social Studies Grades 6-8	Bach-Nhan Tram	Room 303	btram@philasd.org
Science Grades 6-8	Charlie Porter	Room 305	rporter@philasd.org

Grade band teachers that provide support to our students with autism.

Grade	Name	Location	Email Address
K - Grade 2	Victoria Frederick	Room 106	vrfrederick@philasd.org
Grades 3 - 5	Nicole DiSpigno	Room 108	ndispigno@philasd.org
Grades 6 - 8	Angelique Goldberg (Lesly Stearns)	Room 110	lstearns-ext@philasd.org

Great assistants who help our teachers and students.