We are lucky to have teachers whose knowledge about children and about the material they teach is exceeded only by their genuine affection, patience and generosity with our children.

— Parent

Faculty & Staff 2007-2008

About the Common School
Nursery Program & Elementary Curriculum
Diversity & Community Life
School Facts
Faculty & Staff
Board of Trustees

Administration & Staff

Bud Lichtenstein - Director
BA African History Wesleyan University
MALS American Studies Wesleyan University

Evelyn Bloom - Business Manager
BA Psychology Oberlin College

Deborah Hanley - Administrative Assistant, After School Coordinator
BA Urban Studies Hobart and William Smith Colleges
MEd UMass/Amherst

Ellen Doris - Assistant Director of Studies
BS Aquatic Sciences Cornell University
MEd Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environments Harvard
Ed D Learning and Teaching Harvard

Dana Kadish - Outreach Administrator, Summer Program
BA Communications UMass/Amherst
MEd Early Childhood Education UMass/Amherst

Nancy Clydesdale - Bookkeeper

Faculty

Green Nursery

Marcy Sala
BA Early Childhood Education UMass/Amherst

Marese Dolan Hutchinson
Assoc Education National Froebel College London

Gigi Kaeser
BA English and Early Childhood Education

Blue Nursery

Jean Meister
BA English Barnard
MS Early Childhood and Elementary Education Bank Street College

Jen Jarrell
BA English Westfield State College

Cathy Wolf
BA Theater Arts Smith College
MST Environmental Education Antioch New England

Primary I (P1)

Burleigh Muten
BA Liberal Arts State University College at Buffalo
MS Early Childhood Education Wheelock College

Jessica Plaut
BS Geology University of Wisconsin

Primary II (P2)

Zevey Steinitz
BA Social Thought and Political Economy UMass/Amherst
MEd Urban Teachers Program Wheelock College

Michelle Parrish
BA Art/Philosophy Hampshire College
MA Comparative Religion lliff School of Theology

Elementary I (E1)

Joanna Frankel
BA Liberal Arts Sarah Lawrence
MEd Elementary Education Smith College

Terry McCue
BA Media Studies Fordham University
MEd Elementary Education UMass/Boston

Elementary II (E2)

Linda Donnelly
BA Education Illinois State University
MEd Education of the Hearing Impaired Boston University

Meghan Bone
BS Geosciences UMass/Amherst
MEd Integrated Learning Antioch University New England

After School Programs

Marese Dolan Hutchinson
Arik Bieganak
Bachelor of Music Berklee College of Music

Specialists

K.C. Conlan - Music
BME Music Education Boston Conservatory of Music
MM Music Education UMass/Amherst

Lynne Smith- Physical Education

Juan Carlos Carpio - Spanish

Karen Blum - Consulting Psychologist
BA Vassar College
MS, PhD Cornell University
Clinical Psych Internship Yale University

Robin Kassis - Tutor
BA Speech and Language/Early Childhood Education UMass/Amherst

Holly Turner - Learning Support Teacher
BA Theater Ohio Wesleyan University
MFA Performance Ohio University
MEd Elementary Education Smith College

Library

Kate Lamdin
BA History New York University
MST Elementary and Environmental Education Antioch University

Susan Chase - Library Assistant
University of Colorado
Pacific Oaks College

Maintenance

Dave Russell - Maintenance
City Building Maintenance - Janitorial

Past Directors

Emily Johnson - Founder (1967 - 1975)
Jim Buckheit (1975 - 1982)
Mark Segar (1982 - 1994)