Graduate School of Education

Graduate School Faculty & Staff

Graduate Faculty Directory

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Adrianne Kamsler
Chair, General Teacher Education Department
E-mail: akamsler@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4571
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, University of Wisconsin; EdM, Lesley College
Practitioner background: director of staff development program; staff developer; public school teacher, preK-6th grade general and special education
Academic interests: teacher development; children's literature; the structure of schools 

Sabrina Hope King
Director, Leadership Preparation Institute
E-mail: sking@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4504
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, EdM, and EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Practitioner background: adult education teacher and staff developer; high school teacher; school/district administrator; consultant/advisor
Academic interests: urban leadership and teacher education; conditions that support effective leadership; diversity; educational equity; culturally relevant practice

Kira Kingren
E-mail: kkingren@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4687
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: MA, New York University 

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Judith Leipzig

E-mail: jleipzig@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4694
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Long Island University; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: work with children and parents (ages birth-6); training of teachers and childcare providers; work with parent-child groups, prisons, high-risk families, therapeutic nurseries, childcare groups; teacher training and staff development in former Soviet-bloc
Academic interests: developmental psychology; observation and recording; children's literature; staff development; working with parents; infant/toddler issues; gender stereotyping; teacher training

Harriet Lenk
E-mail: hlenk@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4580
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Montclair University; MA, Fairleigh Dickinson University; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education; EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Practitioner background: middle school teacher; assistant principal (in K-8 school)
Academic interests: psychoanalysis and emotional maturation; teacher learning; group process; and integration of the arts in teacher education

Judith Lesch
E-mail: jwlesch@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4548
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BS, Juilliard School of Music; MA, EdM and EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Practitioner background: classroom special education teacher (preK-4th grade); K-3 reading specialist
Academic interests: early childhood special education; literacy and reading problems; inclusion; conflict resolution; autism; observation and assessment; teacher as researcher

Linda R. Levine
E-mail: llevine@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4480
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Smith College; MSEd, Bank Street College; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Academic interests: anthropology of education; urban education; ethnography; teacher development; practitioner research

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Karen Marschke-Tobier
E-mail: kmt@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4507
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Daemen College; graduate, Anna Freud Centre; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education; MSW, Yeshiva University
Practitioner background: early childhood teacher; Head Start consultant; child therapist; school social worker
Academic interests: the role of play in development; family/infant/child mental health; play therapy; school social work; professional identity; emotional intelligence

Nesta Marshall
E-mail: nmarshall@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4559
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: MSEd, Bank Street College of Education

Diana-Elena Matsoukas
Director, General Teacher Education Programs
(for students in head teacher positions)
E-mail: dmatsoukas@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4616
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BS, Lehman College/CUNY; MS, Lehman College/CUNY; PhD, New York University
Practitioner background: early childhood/elementary teacher and bilingual teacher; teacher in alternative HS; founder of University Settlement School in District 1, NYC
Academic interests: bilingual education; multicultural education; women's studies; secondary education; international education; literature for children and adolescents; issues of social justic and curriculum

Nancy McKeever
E-mail: mckeever@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4582
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BS, Cornell University; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education; PhD, The Union Institute
Practitioner background: teacher in public and private schools; consultant
Academic interests: child development; early childhood education; first-year teacher development

Margaret McNamara
Director, Reading and Literacy Programs
E-mail: mam@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4586
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Fordham University; MSEd and EdM, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: classroom teacher (grades N-8, general and special education); professional developer (K-12) in school change and literacy
Academic interests: reading and literacy; assessment; second language learners; special education

Harold R. Melnick (Hal)
E-mail: melnick@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4485
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Queens College/CUNY; MSEd, Bank Street College; PhD, Union Institute
Practitioner background: NYC public elementary school teacher; math staff developer in public schools; N-6 methods instruction to teachers in the US, Switzerland and Belgium
Academic interests: Mathematics Education, the "teacher learning process", leadership and systemic change

Linda Metnetsky
E-mail: lmetnetsky@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4557
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Birmingham-Southern; MA, Brooklyn College; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: math staff developer; classroom teacher (preK-9)
Academic interests: mathematics and related subjects: art and angles, language of algebra; staff development; special learning needs

Virginia Miller
E-mail: vhm@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4490
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BA, Wellesley College; MSEd and EdM, Bank Street College of Education; MA, New York University
Practitioner background: classroom teacher (grades 3, 5-6); educational therapist/remedial reading teacher (ages 5-25)
Academic interests: literacy issues; reading and writing problems; family-school connections; educational policy

Michele Morales
Director, Early Childhood and Elementary Education
(for those who do fieldwork as student teachers)
E-mail: mmorales@bankstreet.edu
212-875-4588
212-875-4753 (fax)
Education: BS, Mercy College; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: NYC public school teacher; math staff developer in public schools
Academic interests: early childhood mathematics; early childhood literacy issues