Calvary Academy Staff
Calvary Academy knows what it means to invest into students lives. Every staff member employed by Calvary Temple is here to do just that.
Mrs. Becky England
Elementary and High School Spanish
Becky England graduated from Greenville College with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Spanish. She has taught both Junior Kindergarten through 6th grade Spanish and high school Spanish at Calvary Academy since the fall of 2000. She is married to Bryan England. Her life verse is Eph 3:20-21, which reminds us that God is infinitely bigger than we understand.
Email: bengland@calvaryspringfield.org • Extension: 251
Ms. Lauren Erdahl
5th Grade Teacher
Miss Erdahl graduated Summa Cum Laude from Olivet Nazarene University with a degree in Elementary Education. She is certified to teach Kindergarten through 9th grade and specializes in Language Arts, Science, and Family and Consumer Science. Miss Erdahl joined Calvary Academy in the fall of 2011. Her favorite scripture verse is James 1:2-3 because it reminds her to keep leaning on Christ.
Email: lerdahyl@calvaryspringfield.org • Extension: 260
Mr. Josh Heberling
HS Boys Basketball Coach
Mr. Heberling joined the coaching staff of Calvary Academy in June of 2011. Mr. Heberling graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College with a degree in Secondary Mathematics. During his time at IWC, he played basketball and won the Coach’s Award his senior year. Coach Heberling has been coaching basketball for eight years. He began his career at Taylorville High School and most recently coached in Rochester where he teaches math. He and his wife, Sarah, make their home in Rochester with their son, Hayden.
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Dr. Jay Hinckley
Principal and Senior Bible Teacher
Dr. Hinckley graduated from Evangel College in 1987 with a major in Social Science, a concentration in History, and a minor in Communication and is a life time member of the International Honor Society in Social Science, PI Gamma Mu. He is certified to teach elementary self-contained classes (Kindergarten through eighth grade) as well as junior high and high school social science and English. His first teaching job in the fall of 1987 was in Girard. He joined the Calvary Academy staff teaching sixth grade in the fall of 1988. Dr. Hinckley completed his Master of Arts in Education Administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 1997. Beginning in the summer of 1998, he became the principal of Calvary Academy. In 2008, he graduated with his Doctor of Biblical Studies in Theology from Master's International School of Divinity. Dr. Hinckley has taught a myriad of courses during his many years at Calvary, but he currently teaches the senior Bible class. He is married to Amy and they have three sons, Jeremiah, Jesse, and Micah.
Email: jhinckley@calvaryspringfield.org • Extension: 237
Mrs. Polly Jamison
Junior Kindergarten
Polly Jamison teaches Junior Kindergarten. She graduated from the University of Illinois – Urbana with a Bachelor's Degree in Child Development. She received her teacher certification from the University of Illinois –Springfield. She has taught in both private and public schools. She has also worked for non profit organizations as a Family Life Educator. She most recently returned from Alaska where she taught first grade in a Title 1 school in a remote Yupik Eskimo fishing village on the Bering Sea. She is enjoying teaching at Calvary Academy and being near family once again. Mrs. Jamison started teaching at Calvary in the fall of 2010.
Email: pjamison@calvaryspringfield.org • Extension: 226