Ellen Taussig. Co-founder, NWS; Head of School 1992-2011.
B.A. (English), Bennington College; M.A.T (English), Yale University; Fulbright/DAAD Grant, English Teaching, Berlin, Germany. Ellen has over 35 years of experience in education as a teacher and administrator at the Oakwood and Newbridge Schools in Los Angeles, the Overlake School in Redmond, at Seattle and Bellevue public schools, and at NWS. She is a former Education Coordinator for the Seattle Symphony and was a founding board member of the Pacific Rim Camp for the Arts. Ellen has served on the Boards of the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools and Zion Preparatory School. She was a Klingenstein Fellow in 1997, a member of the State Commission on High School Graduation Requirements, and is currently a Governor appointee on the state Higher Education Facilities Authority. Her articles have appeared in Independent School Magazine and Education Week. At NWS since its inception.
Mark Terry. Co-founder, NWS; Head of School 1983-1990; Science Chair, 10th grade Biology and 12th grade Primate Biology.
B.A. (Anthropology), University of Washington; course work (History and Philosophy), Pomona College; Doctoral work (Physical Anthropology), University of Washington; M.A.T. (Science Education), Cornell University. Mark has been an environmental education consultant since 1969. He taught in the Project Open Future program, at the Oakwood School in California, at the Overlake School in Redmond, and in public schools in New York and Oregon. He wrote Teaching for Survival (1971), and the first environmental education guidelines for Washington State (1976). He is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and is a leader in the national effort to defend the teaching of evolution in the nation's public schools. At NWS since its inception.
Paul Raymond. 1932-2007.
Co-founder and first Head of School, NWS. Visionary of the Humanities Program.
B.A. (History), University of Oregon; M.A. (History), University of Oregon; post-graduate work, University of California, Berkeley. Paul was the History Department Chair at the Midland School and at the Oakwood School in California, where he founded Project Open Future, one of the first summer programs for inner city youth. He was Head of the Upper School at the Newbridge School in Beverly Hills and at the Overlake School in Redmond.