Isaac Berniker is Oakwood School’s High School Head and Principal. Born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay near Berkeley, Mr. Berniker graduated from The Head-Royce School in Oakland before attending Dartmouth College, where he earned a degree in computer science with a minor in engineering sciences.

After graduation, he returned to the Bay Area, tutoring extensively before teaching at a public charter school in Oakland. There, he spent two years teaching 7th and 8th grade and five years at the adjacent high school, where he taught Precalculus, AP Calculus, and AP Statistics. During this time, he also completed a master’s degree in applied mathematics at California State University.

After a year of traveling around the world, Mr. Berniker joined Oakwood in 2013. Since then, he has taught a variety of math, economics, and computer science courses, chaired the Mathematics Department, served as an 11th grade advisor, and held roles as Dean of Students and Dean of Academics. He has also coached the girls varsity basketball and volleyball teams and chaperoned Oakwood’s international trips to Italy/Greece, the Galapagos Islands, and Japan.

“Oakwood High School already offers so many terrific academic, athletic, and extracurricular programs on the strength of its capable, dedicated faculty and the eagerness of its multi-talented students, and I look forward to only enhancing these opportunities while sustaining Oakwood’s incredibly unique culture of kindness."