As another excellent summer with our middle school students, Teaching Assistants, and Instructional Coaches concludes, we’re excited to announce the winners of the Susan M. Blum Teaching Excellence Award! Susan was a lifelong educator and founding BTNY board member....
Izzy Rutkey is a rising senior at Hamilton College (Class of 2022), where she is majoring in Sociology and minoring in History and Education Studies. Before teaching with Breakthrough New York, she planned on having a career in early childhood education. She now wants...
Grace Maffucci is a rising senior at Providence College (Class of 2022), where she is a Music Performance and Spanish major, with a Latinx Studies minor. She joined Breakthrough New York during the summer as a Teaching Assistant at our Bronx location, and was awarded...
Shane Joseph (Relay Graduate School of Education, Class of 2020) joined Breakthrough New York in 2021 as an Instructional Coach with two summers of experience teaching at Breakthrough San Francisco. The time Shane spent with Breakthrough San Francisco was “life...
