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Each New School teacher brings a different perspective and passion to the classrooms while sharing a common philosophy about how children learn.

mary cunninghamMary Cunningham

Mary Cunningham is the school’s Educational Consultant. Mary, one of the school’s founders, has been instrumental in maintaining the school’s philosophy and purpose since 1988. Prior to The New School’s founding, Mary taught for 10 years at Syracuse Institute for Enabling Education, a model on which The New School was created. The staff and children at The New School are supported and enriched by other adults in the classroom, including a teacher assistant, parent volunteers, retired teachers, work study students from Syracuse University and student-teachers from LeMoyne and Syracuse University.

Miranda with StudentsMiranda Hine

Miranda Hine began with the New School in 1999. Prior to joining the New School, Miranda was a Reading/Learning Disabilities Specialist for Syracuse University’s Stars Program, a five-year research study funded by the National Institute of Health and jointly sponsored by Syracuse and Yale Universities. During this period Miranda provided intensive reading tutoring to four students attending Smith Road Elementary School, North Syracuse. From April 1996 until June 1998 Miranda was the special education teacher in 4th and 5th grade inclusive classrooms at Meachem Elementary School in Syracuse. Since 1982, Miranda has taught as an adjunct professor for Syracuse University’s Department of Visual Communication. Miranda holds an MS in Reading Education, a BS in Inclusive Elementary and Special Education and is permanently certified in New York State as an Elementary teacher, Special Education teacher and as a Reading Specialist. While an undergraduate at Syracuse University, Miranda was nominated University Scholar in 1996 and Remembrance Scholar in 1995.

brett mosierBrett Mosier

Brett starting teaching at The New School in the spring, 2008, after teaching science for six years at Bishop Grimes High School, where he also coached track, volleyball and tennis.  Brett earned his master’s degree in Chemical Ecology at SUNY ESF, and then worked as an environmental educator for the Peace Corps in Paraguay.  He taught elementary school there, developed use and construction of didactic materials, and directed teacher workshops on environmental education.