Faculty
Maria Palmer
Sixth Grade English Teacher
This is Maria Palmer’s 31st year at BPC. Maria received both her B.A. in English literature and her kindergarten through eighth grade teaching credential, with a specialization in teaching English, from UC Berkeley. Maria has also taken graduate courses in English literature at UCLA and completed the coursework for an M.A. in design at UC Berkeley. She taught sixth grade at both Franklin School in Oakland and Altadena School in Altadena, California. Maria was also on the curatorial staff at the Berkeley Art Museum before joining the Black Pine Circle School faculty in 1993. She is the proud mom to two grown children, adores being a grandmother to her four grandchildren, and travels frequently to visit her family in Berlin. Maria enjoys traveling, being in the mountains or at the beach, listening to jazz, making art, reading great novels and poetry, and teaching sixth grade!
Why I Work with Children
I love thinking, exploring, and learning with the children – they teach me so much!
A Favorite Book
Impossible to answer – but Watership Down and To Kill a Mockingbird are among my all-time favorites.
Quick Fact
Loves to write or paint
