Our Alumni: Profile of Recent Graduates

Profiles of 2007 BBE Program Graduates

2007 BBE Program Alums: What They Are Doing

After Graduation

Beth Pollak is teaching at MS 328 (164th and Amsterdam near Washington Heights). She is the 6th and 7th grade science teacher for dual-language, bilingual, and ESL classes. She's really enjoying every second of teaching and working with the students, and it's a great challenge of course to differentiate the instruction for such a variety of levels and students.  

Christina Celic is working at P.S. 165 as the Literacy Coach

Genevieve (Genie) Charette has just moved into an apt. at 32nd and Lex. She will be in the same position and classroom, which you know very well, at PS 87 (First grade dual-language teacher).

Jeanneth Wagner is working as a Spanish teacher (9-12) in Fairfield, CT.

Jessica Bedard is in her second year of teaching in Long Beach, NY. She's currently split between the Long Beach middle school and the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach. In the middle school, she's working as the Special Education teacher in an inclusive Spanish classroom and as an ESL resource room teacher. In the Hebrew Academy, she's continuing to work as a resource room teacher. She's working with both 6th and 7th grade students.

Jessica Rojo is working at PS 143 the Louie Armstrong School in Corona, Queens. She is teaching a 1st grade ESL class. The program is transitional, but English is only supposed to be spoken to the students. They follow the TC writing workshop, but for reading they have a government-funded program called Reading First. Jessica is very happy and excited to be teaching, however she feels overwhelmed with all of the
new material that has to be learned at the beginning of the school year.

Joan Guangqiong Zheng -- no info      

Kristin Ebberly is a first grade teacher at PS 249 in Flatbush, Brooklyn (Haitian/Carribean/Mexican/Salvdorian Community). I'm the Spanish component teacher for a 1st grade class, in a program like none I've ever heard of before.

Lei Zhang is teaching Chinese in the East Asian Studies department of Princeton University.

Mami Masuya worked in a summer camp in Japan this summer. Mami is currently in Japan, organizing her Japanese wedding next year in the Spring. She will be back in NY late October/Nov.

Marie Bouteillon started teaching kindergarten in a French new dual language program at PS 58 in Brooklyn. The program has been receiving a lot of media attention. 

Read the New York Times article: French Gains Foothold on New York

City’s Dual-Language Map by Julie Bosman

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A14FC3E5B0C718EDDA10894DF404482

Read the France-Amerique article: Le Français à la carte by Pascale

Richard http://www.france-amerique.com/la_vie_franco-americaine/article.php?id=175

Read the French Morning NY article: Du français pour la paix by Solenn Poullennec

http://www.frenchmorning.com/ny/spip.php?article235&var_recherche=bilingue. Here is the video clip that aired on French prime time news the first day of school

http://videos.tf1.fr/video/emissions/0,,3537398,00-premiere-maternelle-franco-americaine-new-york-.html

Mee-Young Kim is currently working for the NYC Dept. of Education, Translation & Interpretation Unit.

Meredith (Merry) Mc Connochie is currently working at the English component in a Kindergarten Dual Language program at PS 94 in Brooklyn. 

Rodolfo Estrada will possibly be relocating back to CA this fall

Sara Ali has left NYC and is teaching in San Diego as a Spanish teacher k-8 at a charter school. She's enjoying learning about the politics of charter schools in California. She is also the testing coordinator. Sara was married on August 18 at her grandfather's home in northern California.

Susan Hammer is working as a librarian at HPA Hawaii Preparatory Academy on the Big Island (Hawaii).