Bailey Landow has loved working with and mentoring students since she was very young. As a 5th grader in New York City, Bailey participated in her school’s buddy program, where she helped a first grader with homework while engaging in recreational activities. This love for working with youth led to an interest in child psychology, which transformed into a passion for education and development.
Bailey is a life-long New Yorker and a graduate of Riverdale Country School. Throughout her undergraduate years at Cornell University, Bailey immersed herself in various tutoring and mentorship positions for both college students and local Ithaca youth. Upon graduating in 2021 with a BS in Human Development and a minor in Theater, Bailey joined Teach for America as part of the New York Corps. After teaching a third grade summer program blending writing and Greek mythology curricula, Bailey spent two years at Harlem Link Charter School, where she taught kindergarten in an Integrated Co-Teaching classroom. As a special education teacher, Bailey supported students with various disabilities and worked closely with families throughout the IEP process. While teaching, Bailey obtained her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Relay Graduate School of Education. She is currently working towards her PhD in School Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she researches behavior plan implementation and teacher consultation.
Bailey has privately tutored students ages 3-13 in a range of academic subjects, including reading/phonics, writing, and math. Her time in the classroom has taught her the importance of differentiation and discovering the “whole child” to best build a collaborative relationship. Bailey has training in Wilson Fundations, Heggerty, Fountas and Pinnell reading assessments, as well as the Heart Words sight-reading method. Additionally, she was trained in reflective listening techniques and crisis intervention, and was an active volunteer with the Crisis Text Line while at Cornell.
In her free time, Bailey enjoys theater, dance, and spending time with family and friends. You can often find her at a Broadway show or in the audience of one of New York’s many late-night talk shows.
At Binghamton University, Mary Shaw studied the development of formal education around the world. Still fascinated about how education is understood within a culture, she joined Teach for America in 1992 and began teaching Spanish, K-5 in rural North Carolina. After leaving North Carolina, she was motivated to learn more. At Bank Street College, Mary was introduced to progressive education, a way of seeing and teaching the whole child through hands-on interactive exploration and social learning. Throughout her years of teaching she discovered children learn best when immersed in meaningful activities and discussion.
Erin Sauchelli Farrell graduated from Lafayette College with a BA in International Affairs and Spanish, and with honors from New York University with a dual MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and Teaching English as a Second Language. She draws on experience from her career in advertising and marketing, as well teaching different subjects and age levels, to help support students in language and literacy development. Erin loves to travel and spent several semesters abroad during her time in undergraduate and graduate school.
Vanessa Khemlani is a NYS-certified teacher with a dual master’s degree in early childhood education and early childhood special education. Vanessa cares deeply about child development and how best to support growth and learning at every stage. For over eighteen years, she has worked in classrooms and homes in New York City, Long Island, and Lower Westchester. She specializes in cooperative learning, supportive interventions, multi-sensory lesson plans, differentiated instruction, organizational skills, social / emotional skill development, literacy instruction, and classroom curriculum support for early childhood and elementary school students.
Pamela Burns’s passion for elementary education is realized every day as a Kindergarten teacher at a public school in Boca Raton, Florida, were she is the team leader for kindergarten. She has successfully worked with a wide range of students from primary through intermediate grades across the Boca Raton area.