The 2025-26 associate teacher cohort has flourished during the first classroom placements of the school year. They got to know and deeply care for their students, discovered who they are as educators in a student-facing role, and supported students’ growth in their respective grades.
Each associate will move to a second placement for the winter and spring. Associates will stay in these placements with new mentor teachers through the end of the school year.
- Elana Litsky will be in kindergarten with Lisa Wilson
- Sam Sanpietro will be in first grade with Geoffrey Fox
- Ethan Rao-Cramer will be in sixth grade with Khang Phan
- Genevive Bondaryk will be in eighth grade with Sandra Trentowsky
- Emma Baldinger will be in eighth grade with Emily Phan
Thank you to the fall placement mentor teachers–Nicole Siverls, Julia Fox, Vaniecia Skinner, Maggie Small, and Emily Phan–for providing the associate teachers with a space to learn, grow, and support the classroom. Thank you to the associate teachers for the care they provided the students and the creativity they infused into the classroom. We are excited to see what they bring to their new placements!
– Larissa Rochford ’93, third grade teacher and coordinator of the associate teacher program
