Welcome to District 1, located on Manhattan’s Lower Eastside and East Village!
Welcome to District 1, located on Manhattan’s Lower Eastside and East Village!
Madison Pisano brings extensive teaching experience, with a focus on elementary education, having taught in various schools across New Jersey, a NYC Charter School, and most recently at a District 1 school, where she served as a districtwide lab site teacher, leading District 1 educators in piloting the NYC Reads
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With over 15 years of experience in the NYC Department of Education, Selina Yu Ye is a committed educator supporting English and multilingual learners. Prior to joining the DOE, her teaching career spans private, international and non-profit organizations. She specializes in ENL, ICT, bilingual education, and mentoring teachers to ensure
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Ellie started her teaching career with the DOE in 2004 as one of the founding members of KAPPA IV (M302) in district 5 where she taught middle school English Language Arts and was a model teacher and ELA coach. In 2022, Ellie continued to support schools in districts 29, 5,
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With 12 years of experience in the New York City Department of Education, Kelly has dedicated much of her career to creating an inclusive and dynamic learning environment. Having served for two years as a special education coordinator, she has developed a strong expertise in differentiation and scaffolding techniques to
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Aracelis Araujo, born and raised in the South Bronx, started her career as a General Education Teacher in Baltimore, MD. In 2005 she relocated back to the Bronx teaching various grades for ten years in District 7. In 2011 she received a Masters Degree in Special Education from Bank Street
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Kimberley Mascoe started her teaching career as a NYC Teaching Fellow in 2003 and taught middle school mathematics for eight years in District 26 and District 8. Kimberley spent two years as a Mathematics Achievement Coach with one of the networks in Cluster 2 where she continued to support District
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Claire Lowenstein started her education career as a Special Education, Reading and ELA teacher in Manhattan. She has a master’s degree in Special Education from New York University. A graduate of the Leadership Education Apprentice Program (LEAP), she received her Administration and Supervision degree from Baruch College and Bank Street
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Before joining District 1, Sasha Sam was an ICT and Special Class (12:1) teacher, Special Education Liaison, and Academic Intervention Service Coordinator in Brooklyn and Queens. She has an undergraduate degree in Special Education, a Master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Touro University, and an
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Shoshana Lief is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who started her career in the DOE as a school-based social worker in Brooklyn. She then went on to serve at the central level as the citywide Family Support Manager helping to support and empower parents through the various challenges they encountered.
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Luz Maria Rojas-Vilson has worked as a teacher, assistant principal, and acting principal across the city for over 20 years. In 2000, Luz Maria left the field of corporate advertising and became a teacher for multilingual learners after she read a local newspaper article about disproportionate drop-out rates for Brown
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