Ryan Gassaway Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

I am responsible for all elements of instruction and student culture at a college preparatory urban middle school that serves 360 promising young men and women in grades five through eight.

Brooklyn, New York

I oversee all elements of the school that reinforce our student culture including: coaching teachers to manage academically focused classrooms, executing our character education curriculum, planning school-wide celebrations, stocking and managing our school store and designing and leading logical student consequences.

Brooklyn, NY

I co-founded the reading position at the school as the non-fiction reading teacher in 5th grade. While in that role my students averaged 1.61 years of reading growth. After two years in the position, I founded the US History I position for which I developed the curriculum.

Over 5 summers at the Philadelphia and New York City Institutes I worked in a variety of roles, initially as a school operations manager and an instructional coach to novice teachers. In my third years I coached our all of our instructional coaches on classroom observations, professional development facilitation and one-on-one coaching. In my final two.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

I taught 7th and 8th grade social studies and achieved solid gains with my 200+ students. In addition to my primary responsibility, classroom teaching, I also coached basketball, advised the student council, and led the school's first college visit. During my summers, I worked at Teach For America Institute supporting new teachers.

Masters Of Arts, Educational Leadership

I earned a Masters of Education Leadership after completing the Summer Principals Academy. I earned high marks in coursework including.

Ba, Political Science

I earned a bachelor of arts in political science with certificates of completion in the honors program and the international relations.