Welcome Dr. Jacqueline Olivier
Director for New Roads Elementary

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Jacqueline Olivier who will assume the role of Elementary School Director beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. With Dr. Olivier's arrival, our community gains a leader with rich educational experience, a keen and profound sense of purpose, a dynamic personality, a delightful sense of humor, and a kind and compassionate touch.

Dr. Olivier began her career in education as a bilingual classroom teacher, then held positions as technology director, academic dean, assistant head of school, and head of school within the independent and elementary school communities.
Dr. Olivier has shared her approach to education as follows:

What do parents want for their children and teachers for their students when they grow up? We want them to be self-sufficient, able to make a living, able to raise a family. We want them to have an appreciation of the arts, a responsibility to the environment, and a global experience and perspective. We want them to be happy and successful, to take care of their health, to be good citizens and have a set of values. As educators, we need to make sure that what we teach in schools is working toward this goal from day one. .. 2010-2011 promises to be an exciting year at New Roads Elementary School!

David Bryan
President, Head of School & High School Co-Director

David Bryan was born in New York City and grew up in large cities and small rural communities in New York and New Jersey. He attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook (BA, 1974), the University of California at Los Angeles (MS, 1978), and the State University of New York at Buffalo (JD, 1982, Ph.D., 1985). Broad interests have led to several careers, including teaching law, communication theory, and kinesiology at SUNY @ Buffalo and UCLA, kinesiological research at UCLA’s Electromyography Lab, and private kinesiology practice. In 1985 he started a private business and began what would be a three year exploration of other cultures that took him to many Caribbean islands. In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles, where he taught briefly in the LA Unified public school district, and then for seven years at Crossroads, an independent K-12 school in Santa Monica, California. Also at Crossroads, he served as the Chair and then Dean of Human Development. In 1995 he became the founding Head of School of New Roads School. His publications include articles on law, language, mass media, movement and health and have appeared in such journals as The Buffalo Law Review, The Native American Law Review, Revision and others.

Joe Wise
Center for Effective Learning (C4EL) Director,
Assistant Head of School for Curriculum & Assessment

Joe Wise has been in the classroom for over thirty years. He currently teaches physics in addition to being our K-12 Assistant Head of School for Curriculum and Assessment and the Director of New Roads School’s research arm, the Center for Effective Learning (C4EL). Joe has extensive experience integrating technology into K-12 classrooms and developing novel methods in using technology to improve learning. Joe is active in the educational research and development arena. He is an educational consultant for the Center for Embedded Network Sensing at UCLA, is the Education/Public Outreach manager for NASA’s Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt and has co-authored numerous articles published in academic journals.

Tyrone Sandaal
High School Co-Director

Tyrone Sandaal’s passion for education dates back to his journey through the public schools of Miami, FL, where he saw both the best and worst of it. He attended the nation’s first bilingual public school, Coral Way Elementary, and later went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College. Tyrone credits Coral Way for helping him maintain his first language, Spanish, and Pomona for bringing him to California and teaching him how to write. Tyrone began his teaching career in Washington, DC as a member of Teach For America

Chris Elder
Santa Monica Middle School Director

Chris Elder was the first teacher hired by New Roads School in 1995. After four years as a teacher and Dean of Faculty, Chris accepted the position of Director of New Roads Santa Monica Middle School. Chris graduated from the University of California San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, not intending to pursue a career in education. She began substitute teaching while she investigated options for graduate school and quickly fell in love with teaching. While teaching 6th grade in the public schools, Chris earned her California State teaching credential which included a specialty in second language acquisition. She taught in public schools for over ten years. Chris has extensive experience in leading teacher training workshops and beginning teacher mentoring programs for Los Angeles Unified School District faculty. Chris has also earned a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology.

Evan Beachy
Malibu Middle School Director

Evan Beachy has been the Director of New Roads’ Malibu Middle School campus since 2007. He previously taught Fifth Grade at New Roads Elementary School but has also taught at the elementary, middle and high school levels at both private and public schools in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Costa Rica. Evan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology (Cum Laude) from Harvard University and completed the Harvard Undergraduate Teaching Education Program as part of this degree. In addition, he holds a doctoral degree from the University of California Los Angeles in Educational Leadership, with an emphasis on the transition from elementary to middle school settings in private independent schools.

Patrick McCabe
Elementary School Director

Patrick McCabe has been the Director of New Roads Elementary School since 2003. In 2001, Pat entered the world of education. Prior to shifting his professional focus to education, Pat had a successful 20-year career in marketing. He was President/CEO/Owner of McSand Group and a Senior Vice President with Cablevision-Sports Channel Networks and Western International Media. Pat is Past President of Harvard-Westlake Alumni Los Angeles and Wesleyan University Alumni Los Angeles, and is President of the Santa Monica College Foundation. Pat is also President of the Board of Shane’s Inspiration, Executive Vice President of the Music Center/Fraternity of Friends and a member of the Board of Directors of the New Visions Foundation, Determined to Succeed and the Student Voice Foundation. Pat holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University.