Position: Principal, Teacher Grades 6-8
Phone: 530.265.2057
Email: alexis.hasse@nccsda.com
Teaching Certificate, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, current
Highest Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Major Field: Christian education (major), religion (minor)
College Where Earned: Weimar University
Year Earned: 2022
Alexis began teaching at Echo Ridge Christian School in 2022. She enjoys working with older students as they try to figure out what life is all about and what kind of person they want to be. She recognizes that long-term values are cemented in the middle grades and wants to guide her students through this important time.
Position: Teacher, Grades 3-5
Phone: 530.265.2057
Email: magdalena.ditgen@nccsda.com
Teaching Certificate, Provisional, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, current
Teaching Credential, Nebraska State, current
Highest Degree: Bachelor of Science
Major Field: Elementary Education
College Where Earned: Union College
Year Earned: 2023
Magdalena (Lena) started her teaching career here at Echo Ridge in 2023. She loves the challenge of ensuring her students become successful readers. She instills in them the importance of having a strong character. Since primary-grade students can be a bit wiggly, she incorporates movement and actions into her classroom instruction.
Position: Teacher, Grades K-2
Phone: 530.265.2057
Email: cassandra.chavez@nccsda.com
Teaching Credential, Preliminary (multiple subject, general subjects), California state, current
Teaching Certificate, Basic (elementary, English, junior academy religion), North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, current
Highest Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Major Field: English Education
College Where Earned: Pacific Union College
Year Earned: 2020
After graduating from college, Cassandra began teaching at Echo Ridge, a school with which she has a special connection. She says, "It has been a unique blessing to start my teaching career at the alma mater of my older siblings with the community and church family who raised me. Cassandra has been teaching here since 2021.
Position: Vice Principal/Registrar
Phone: (530) 265-2057
Email: louise.pryor@nccsda.com
Highest Degree: A.A.
Major Field: Applied Art and Design
College Where Earned: Sierra College
Year Earned: 2002
Louise has been involved with Echo Ridge since 2000, when her oldest daughter started attending. Over the years all four of her children graduated from Echo Ridge, and now two of her grandchildren are attending. She began teaching art as a parent volunteer in 2004. In 2011 she became the secretary and continued teaching art. In 2019 she became the administrative assistant. Louise is an artist, mostly painting portraits, and has painted murals on campus as well as around town.
Position: Board Chairman
Phone: 530.265.2057
Email: victoranderson@sbcglobal.net
1996 Yuba City Unified School District
2007 Principal of Pine Hills Adventist Academy
2018 Principal of Rio Lindo Adventist Academy
Highest Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Major Field: Religion
College Where Earned: La Sierra University
Vic attended Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) schools for 16 years, and graduated from La Sierra University with a BA. He and his wife of 40 years have two children who also attended SDA schools through college. Vic believes SDA education will provide students and their families with a strong basis for success in their academic, social, and spiritual lives.
Position: Youth Pastor, Grass Valley Seventh-day Adventist church
Position: Senior Pastor, Grass Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church
Email: jeff.richards@nccsda.com
Jeff Richards felt the call to serve the Lord in his teens. He graduated with his MDiv from Andrews University. He and his wife have six children and three dogs. Jeff loves to play with the students at Echo Ridge and enjoys his chapel time with them too.
Position: Janitor
Dolores Moore has been the janitor at Echo Ridge Christian School since 2016 and has taught American Sign Language in the choir since 2019. She has five grown children who attended Echo Ridge. She loves children and has fostered 45 children over the years. Although an accountant, she likes the flexible janitor hours and being able to take care of the needs of her mom during the day.
Position: Teacher, Music
Living in Iceland, Hafdís started piano lessons at the age of five. Having taught music for more than 30 years, she thoroughly enjoys teaching children and seeing them grow in knowledge, confidence and self-worth. She greatly values all her students and delights in seeing them progress and, while having fun, acquire love for making music.
We love the kindness & professionalism of the teachers. They are always so understanding, informative and responsive. We appreciate how loved the children feel, how much they absolutely love going to school, how they just fit in and have immediately adjusted with such grace because so much attention and love has been given to them.
