
Our dedicated and professional teachers truly make the school the special place that it is. Teachers usually stay on staff for many years, often moving from student teacher to assistant to head teacher. This means that we have a consistent and unified school culture across all four of our classrooms. Every classroom teaching team meets with a Director once a week to discuss curriculum, individual children, room arrangement, and classroom management. The entire school staff meets together monthly for professional development.
Kate Delacorte and Meredith Gary, Co-Directors of the Little School, share a variety of roles at the school. They support the teachers by doing regular classroom observations and meeting weekly with every classroom team. They spend time getting to know each child in the program so that they can work with the teachers on setting individualized goals.


Cecilia Bathory
14 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Wesleyan University
MSEd Bank Street College of Education
Juana Cruz
11 Years at Downtown Little School
Associates Degree BMCC
Leslie Cruz
New to Downtown Little School!
Associates Degree in Progress
Ben Grill
4 Years at Downtown Little School
BA McGill University
MSEd Brooklyn College, In Progress
Mariah Helfrich
13 Years at Downtown Little School
BA The New School
MSEd Brooklyn College, In Progress
Jeanee Johnson
18 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Touro College; MSEd in progress
Jennifer McConnell
3 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Middlebury College
MSEd Bank Street College of Education
Sara Robinson
10 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Hunter College
Namgyal Tendol
9 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Brooklyn College
MSEd Touro College

Teaching Staff