
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
12 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Wesleyan University
MSEd Bank Street College of Education
Juana Cruz
9 Years at Downtown Little School
Associates Degree BMCC
Ben Grill
2 Years at Downtown Little School
BA McGill University
Mariah Helfrich
11 Years at Downtown Little School
BA The New School
MSEd Brooklyn College, In Progress
Jeanee Johnson
16 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Touro College
Jennifer McConnell
1 Year at Downtown Little School
BA Middlebury College
MSEd Bank Street College of Education
Eva Stenskar
6 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Lund University, Sweden
Namgyal Tendol
7 Years at Downtown Little School
BA Brooklyn College
MSEd Touro College

Teaching Staff