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

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Juana Cruz

11 Years at Downtown Little School

Associates Degree BMCC

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Ben Grill

4 Years at Downtown Little School

BA McGill University

MSEd Bank Street College, In Progress

 

Mariah Helfrich

13 Years at Downtown Little School

BA The New School

MSEd Brooklyn College, In Progress

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Jeanee Johnson

18 Years at Downtown Little School

BA Touro College

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Ali Lawrence

New to Downtown Little School!

BA Trinity College

MFA Brown University

 

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