Email Ms. Wood at nichelle.wood@manzanitacharterschool.com

I am Nichelle Wood, and I am ecstatic to be a scholar teacher at our new Manzana Middle School Academy. Warmly received and inspired by the dedicated staff of Manzanita, I look forward to embarking on another educational adventure this year with our scholars at Manzana.

 

I was raised in northern California, in a small town called Sebastopol. When I graduated from Petaluma High School, I promptly relocated to study at UC Santa Barbara. With an inherent desire to travel, I lived and studied in Washington DC and Queretaro, Mexico while completing my Bachelors Degree. In my final year of perusing a double major in Spanish and Business Economics, I met my future husband and we moved to Geneva, Switzerland where I mastered the French language and provided administrative support at CERN, a physical science research laboratory. During our six years residing in France and voyaging the world we married and had a beautiful, artistic daughter named Morgane.

 

We returned to the US and in 2011, I earned a teaching credential and Masters in Education from UCSB, and I have been teaching at Manzanita for the past 13 years (mostly in 3rd grade). In 2025, I completed my Preliminary Administrative Credential and intend to apply that knowledge to support the creation of our new middle school.

 

I believe that every person is a unique learner, with individual dreams and talents. My goal is to become a leader and partner in the development of students’ educations to cultivate those abilities and hopes. Foreign languages, technology, art and literature are my strengths, which I intend to pass along to my students. Through differentiated instruction, multiple learning techniques and meeting the special needs of every scholar I foresee a busy and incredible year ahead of us at Manzana Middle School Academy.