Who are the paid staff at Chickpeas?
The paid staff consists of the Educational Director, a Head Teacher, a Teacher, and an Assistant Teacher. In addition, an After School Assistant works five afternoons per week, from 3:00 until 6:00 pm. Substitute teachers are available in the event of teacher absences. Alexandra Ferguson is our Educational Director. She is a certified Early Childhood and Elementary Education teacher with a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Education, New York University. In addition, she completed course work towards a Master’s degree at Teacher’s College, Columbia University in the area of Educational Administration. Her student teaching internship included working in the 6/7’s class at Bank Street School for Children. Before pursuing a second career as an Education Law attorney, Alexandra taught in an American elementary school in Athens, Greece for a year followed by three years as Teacher/Director at the Greenhouse Preschool in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Alexandra also was a Kindergarten tea
The paid staff consists of a Head Teacher, a Teacher, and an Assistant Teacher. In addition, an After School Assistant works five afternoons per week, from 3:00 until 6:00 pm. Substitute teachers are available in the event of teacher absences. Carolyn Lyons is our Head Teacher. She joined Chickpeas in 2002. She holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from West Chester University in Pennsylvania and an M.S. Ed. degree in School Counseling from Hunter College. Before joining the Chickpeas staff, she worked as a tutor and summer school teacher for the the Bell Foundation in Harlem. After completing her Master’s degree, Carolyn worked in the counseling departments of P.S. 506 and P.S. 120 in Brooklyn. She later went on to be a Child and Family Therapist at Joseph J. Peters Institute in Philadelphia. Carolyn has over 10 years of experience working with children in both educational and therapeutic settings. Lizzi Mazal has worked with young people of all ages in the Park Slope area over the past 8
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