Nell Shapiro Email & Phone Number

Bedford, NY, US

Bedford Hills, New York, United States

Serving in a volunteer capacity as a member of the board for the Foundation to support fundraising and grant fulfillment for the teachers, administrators and families of Bedford Central School District.

Brooklyn, NY

Frustrated by the absence of compact, hands-free diaper bag options on the market, I finally gave up waiting for someone else to create a beautiful, minimal, and highly functional bag, and I decided to tackle the challenge myself.More than two years and a dozen prototypes later, my co-founder Steph and I bring you Kibou: the Deliberately Minimal solution.

Brooklyn, NY

• Supervised classroom teachers; observing, providing feedback and facilitating professional development programming—including weekly staff meetings, team meetings and monthly in-service training.
• Developed interdisciplinary curricula across all content areas, ensuring integration of benchmarks and standards, and coordinating enrichment offerings in the arts, STEM, outdoor and physical education.
• Monitored student achievement and challenges in grades K-5, including oversight of special education referrals and services, regular formative assessment in classrooms, data collection, and ERB assessments for grades.
• Collaborated with leadership team to oversee all-school programming and manage day-to-day operations.
• Co-founded and facilitated Family Committee efforts, including family education workshops, community service, fundraisers, social events, and monthly planning meetings.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborate with school staff--directors, teachers and social workers to evaluate and strengthen programming and resources for staff and families
• Create program evaluation tools—aggregating and analyzing staff and family feedback to maximize program impact
• Conduct Professional Development sessions and developed data reflection practices
• Co-facilitated Office of Head Start National Webinar “Using Data-Guided Structural Changes to Support High Quality Parent Family Community Engagement in Head Start” with Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Early Childhood.
• Co-facilitating National Head Start Conference session “Creating an Integrated School Readiness-Family Engagement Model” at May 2016 NHSA Conference & Expo with Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Early Childhood Center

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated with Directors and Social Worker to redesign programming, develop resources and data collection methods
• Created a Theory of Change to outline goals based on research and staff/family feedback
• Co-facilitated Office of Head Start Region II panel discussion on Best Practices in Family Engagement

New York, NY

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ed.M, Mind, Brain, And Education

Program of Study: Mind, Brain, Education Concentration: Family Engagement and Early Childhood

B.S., English Education

Activities and Societies: Order of Omega