Miss Goodell moved to the Bay Area at the age of 8 ½ (Los Altos Hills, then Menlo Park). She was blessed with being part of a wonderful family, and now a church family she treasures. Miss Goodell is a graduate of Menlo College-Atherton and Pepperdine University-Malibu (B.A. English & Journalism) serving in student government and on the student newspaper editorial staff. She worked for many years at Anthony (real estate) Schools of the S.F. Peninsula, eventually serving as Associate Director. She has also served as an Executive Administrator (i.c.) to a real estate broker and is now a real estate broker in her own right (DRE #00804722). 

Miss Goodell is a member of Menlo Church, where she has been active with their Information/Connections/Hospitality ministries, and currently serves as Director of Activities and Spiritual Life Co-chair of their New Life Singles (50+) group (www.singlestogether.org).

Miss Goodell is pleased to be part of the Canterbury community as she fondly remembers her first time attending a Christian school in 7th grade–and how delighted she was to be learning about the world through the lens of Christianity.

Mrs. Vijay was raised in a devout Hindu family and surrendered her life to Christ by God’s grace during her post graduation days. She loves God and loves children. She believes that teaching is her calling. Her teaching philosophy is “Prayer, Prepare, and Persevere.” Since children are like arrows in the hand of a warrior, she likes to teach them in godly ways so that it becomes part of their character. She strives towards the spiritual, academic, emotional, and social growth of the children to bring the best from each child for His glory. Mrs. Vijay loves to work as a team with the Canterbury administration, parents, and students to raise a godly generation.

Her greatest joy is to hear that her own children, and the children God has placed in her life, are walking in the truth. In her spare time she loves to teach Sunday school, cook, and do Do-It-Yourself crafts. Her favorite Bible verse is from Matthew 19:26, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Mrs. Vijay has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from India. She is married and has a son and a daughter.  After marriage, because of her husband’s work, she has lived in Switzerland, London, and in Ohio. Her family moved to California in 2017. She previously has been a full-time mom for more than 10 years.

Miss Lien loves teaching first grade because the children are so eager to learn and experience new things, which makes each day in the classroom exciting and rewarding. She is especially grateful to teach at Canterbury, where there is freedom to instill a knowledge of God and teach His character. She looks forward to sharing God’s love and her love of learning with her students, to the glory of God.

Miss Lien enjoys crafts, calligraphy, camping, and playing board games with friends and family. Tea is her thing, and she loves to sit down and get to know people over a cup!

Miss Lien was born in Palo Alto, CA and grew up in West San Jose. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science with a minor in Education from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

One of the goals of Mrs. Moulden, who brings 23 years of teaching experience to her 2nd grade students, is “to instill the love of Christ into children while they are very young.” As part of this “foundation building,” she seeks not only to teach them that God loves them–but also to guide them into loving God. Mrs. Moulden enjoys singing, games, and laughter and attempts to weave these throughout the academic day. She believes  there is nothing boring about learning–especially in her classroom!  

Each year she looks forward to learning who each child is, knowing that every student is a fearfully and wonderfully made individual with a unique personality and specific calling. She also partners with the children’s families in training them in the way of the Lord.  One of her desires is to assist each child in fulfilling God’s plan for his/her life. Much of this is done through prayer which is a priority in her classroom. Mrs. Moulden says “I feel privileged to pray for (and with) my students and their families. We learn and grow together throughout the school year, knowing that God has placed each of us right where He wants us to be for the benefit of us all and the furtherance of His kingdom.”

Along her life’s journey Mrs. Moulden’s roles have included serving as an elementary school tutor (while in high school), PTA President, Girl Scout leader, Children’s Church leader, youth mentor, an athletic coach of volleyball, soccer and track, and teacher of PreK through high school students. She and her husband met in college and have a talented adult daughter and an adventurous almost seven-year-old granddaughter, who is also a Canterbury student. 

Father James Gadomski was educated in a Christian school for most of his childhood and through those teachers “fell in love with reading.” His favorite book series is C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, which helped shape him immensely, growing up. As well, he loves games that challenge the mind, especially board games; he feels one of the greatest tools for learning is through play.

He also believes that spiritual formation is essential to education. He says, “My passion in education is helping children find the reason God made them, find His Purpose for them. I do not think there is a higher calling than that.”

Rev. Gadomski received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Middle Tennessee State University and his Master of Divinity degree from Trinity School for Ministry.

Mr. Materum loves to learn and hopes to instill this love of learning to his students through personal example. As a Christian classical educator, one of his greatest desires is to teach children how to be philosophers in the strictest sense—where “Philo-” means love and “-sophy” means learning.

He is delighted to help fulfill the Great Commission through teaching his Canterbury fourth graders. And his enthusiasm is contagious as he delights in being able to combine his passion for Christian ministry with his love for elementary school teaching–following his previous public school teaching experience in 2nd and 4th/5th grades.

Though he attended a Christian school growing up it was during high school that he made a firm decision to accept Christ and then to follow Him wholeheartedly. With the help of his youth pastor Mr. Materum even ended up founding an official Christian club–on his public high school campus!

After high school he headed to the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he earned his B.S. in Chemistry. While at Cal Poly he served in several leadership roles in the Chinese Christian Fellowship. But, rather than pursuing a medical degree (as did most of his family) he felt called elsewhere by God so he instead obtained his Multi-Subject Teaching Credential.

More recently he has been serving as Executive Director of the West Coast Chinese Christian Conference, and he and his beautiful fiancee, who lives in San Jose, have been attending Grace Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto.

Mr. Materum also loves a good conversation, reading books, listening to podcasts, photography, anything related to writing, weightlifting, and bicycling. He also likes Epic Fantasy and is currently working his way through the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World ten-year reading plan.

Coach Mike has been teaching chess for the past 20 years in the Bay Area. He graduated with a BA in Recreation Admin from San Diego State University. Coach Mike is also a Pastor with a MA degree in Ministry. He is an outstanding teacher and coach. He continues to teach chess to children and adults in group and private lessons.  He is always learning and likes to read and bike in his spare time.

Fr. Parrish is a South African by birth, and was educated at St. Andrew’s College, an Anglican high school. He graduated with a B.A. and H.D.E. (Higher Diploma in Education) from Rhodes University; a B.Th. from the University of South Africa; a B.Th. (Hons.) and an M.Th. from Rhodes University. Classical Latin began for him in grade school and continued through his university years at the University of South Africa.

He has taught English, Biblical Studies, Afrikaans, and Religious Instruction, and headed the English and Religious Instruction departments at Queens College. He has tutored Latin for a number of years and has served as a substitute teacher at Canterbury on a number of occasions.

He has been an Anglican priest for thirty-four years, serving in various churches in the United States.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cox currently teaches art for Kindergarten thru 5th grade. She enjoys helping the children re-create masterpieces of famous artists and bringing a Biblical perspective to art.

Mrs. Cox graduated from San Jose State University with a BS in Nutritional Science and completed her dietetic internship at U.C Berkeley. She has been working as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in Bay Area hospitals and health care for the last 35 years and currently oversees the Nutritional Care for residents in 16 Assisted Livings in the Bay area.

Mrs. Cox directs weekly summer art camps for 1^st-5^th graders at various locations around the Valley. Some of her themes have been God’s Glorious Garden, The Fantastic Fruit Festival and God’s Majestic Universe where participants will create and bring home over 15 themed art projects for the week.

Mrs. Cox also owns a gift basket business where she has made gift baskets for individuals and companies like Apple and Google for the last 30 years. You can check out her website at www.Saratogabaskets.com.

Mrs. Ruder, a California native, earned her first degrees in nursing, working over 40 years as a neonatal ICU nurse at Stanford and Packard Children’s Hospital. While loving her first calling, she simultaneously studied and participated in music, playing piano, clarinet, organ, handbells and singing. She now has a master’s degree in music, and is the organist for Valley Church, Cupertino.

An accomplished handbell ringer and solo ringer, she has taught and directed for over 30 years, including presenting workshops in the U. S., Australia and Korea. She and her husband, a retired school music educator, direct the five classes of the Valley Handbell Academy at Valley Church, Cupertino. They have seven grandchildren who share her remaining free time.