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PCS Community
Students and
Families
Administration, Faculty and Staff
Board of Trustees
The Paul Cuffee Employee
Handbook
Students and Families
Paul Cuffee
students come from a variety of backgrounds and live in the many
different neighborhoods throughout Providence. At PCS, they are
empowered to become confident, life-long learners through hands-on learning opportunities, individualized instruction and small
classes.
Paul Cuffee
families choose our school for a variety of reasons. Most often,
they say they want to belong to a responsive school community where
their children’s particular strengths and learning needs are
addressed and developed to their fullest potential. A 2004 survey of
Paul Cuffee families revealed a 98% satisfaction rate with the
school.
Paul Cuffee families are not only invited, but expected to
become equal partners
in their children’s education.
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Administration, Faculty
and Staff
Our recruitment goals include hiring highly qualified
professionals who reflect our diverse student population and who
share our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive model
for urban public education.
This hardworking, talented team of professionals, who share
a commitment to providing the best possible educational experience
for Paul Cuffee students, focus on the individual learning needs of
each child as means to positively influence his/her academic
performance and to help each one contribute to our inclusive,
respectful school culture.
Executive Staff
Lower School
Middle School
Executive Staff
David
Bourns
Head of
School
Dr.
Matthew Bowen
Psychologist
Michelle Bush
Acting Head of the Middle School
Andrea Carrera
Bilingual Receptionist / School Secretary
Dinka
Carreras
Middle School Administrative Assistant /
Assistant to Academic Head MS
Jonathan Conklin
Business Manager
Don DeCosta
Special Education Consultant
Sara Donaldson
Science Curriculum Consultant
Nina
Giannotti
Assistant to Head of School
Ben Harris
Technology Coordinator
Julia
Karahalis
Institutional Advancement Director
Alicia Luzón
Human Resources / Accounting
Coordinator
Candy Matos
Bilingual Receptionist / School
Secretary
Olinda Matos
Admissions Coordinator
Nell Sears
Middle School Academic Head
Suzanne Mills-Shaw
Lower School Academic Head
Christina Smith
Assistant to
LS Academic Head
Megan Southard Madden
School Librarian
Ana
Torres
Middle
School Receptionist
Dulibel Ureña
Institutional Advancement Associate
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Lower School Faculty and Staff
Kindergarten
Jennifer Reis
Amy Hill
Susan
Prouty
1st Grade
Ruth Doran
Hildreth Penman
Karen Wargo
2nd Grade
Robert Pike
Donna Raymond
Sarah Rich
3rd Grade
Jennifer Bifulco
Sandy Leclerc
Lauren Galoski
4th Grade
Brooke Beach
Rebecca Bueno
Emily Caldarelli
5th Grade
Darline Berrios
Kathryn Conley
Jenny Guzmán-Polanco
Lower School Special
Subject Teachers
Michelle Carden
Art Specialist
Frances Cruz-Candelario
Integrated Arts Instructor
Kelly Polak
Technology Instructor
Marlon Mussington
Physical Education Teacher
Lower School Health Care Services
Kathy Tudino, RN
School Nurse
Lower School Special Education Team
Lindsay Gonzalez-Correia
Speech/Language Pathologist
Lauren Fournier
Title I Instructor
Ann Hampson
Title I Reading Instructor
Geanise Love
Title I/Special Education
Becky Melrose
Math Specialist
Robin Y. Miles
Special Education Resource Teacher
Kristen Montag
Speech/Language Pathologist
Leanne Nyahkoon
Occupational Therapist
Nikki Philp
Title I Instructor
Sarah
Reis
ELL Instructor
Lower School Guidance / Behavior
Amy Borak
School Counselor
Lower School
Teaching Partners
Lavone Cevallos
Kindergarten
Rose Clapwood
1st Grade
Nancy Funes
1st Grade
Eugenia Giron
2nd Grade
Patricia Kunhardt
Kindergarten
Danielle Leclerc
1st Grade
Lina Lopes
Kindergarten
Ivette Maldonado
Clerical Aide for Grades 3,4,5
Timothy Nadeau
4th Grade
Leanne Robinson
3rd Grade
Eva Salazar
1st Grade
Elizabeth Trimbach
4th Grade / Senior TP
After School Club Staff
Tina McDonough
After
School Club Director
Catherine Edwards
Enrichment Coordinator & Family Engagement Coordinator
Leanne Robinson
After School Club Chaperone
Kareen Asmus
Luz Avila
Rose Clapprood
Danielle Leclerc
Lina Lopes
Tim Nadeau
Joel DeJesus Polanco
Lower School Maintenance
Staff
Henry
Leite
Maintenance/Custodial Staff
Jose Soares
Maintenance/Custodial
Staff
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Middle School Faculty and Staff
6th Grade Staff
Edna Attias
Classroom Instructor
Eric Charlesworth
Classroom Instructor
Emily Hoyler
Literacy Instructor
7th Grade Staff
Lynn Prentiss
Mathematics Instructor
Ariana Wohl
Humanities Instructor
Lance Comeau
Science Instructor
8th Grade Staff
Benjamin Hall
Mathematics Instructor
Tom Chen
Humanities Instructor
Kathleen Alvarez
Science Instructor
Middle School Teaching Partner
Michelle Colburn
One-on-One Student Support
Kedrin Frias
Moneca Kennedy
8th Grade
Massiel Liao
6th Grade
Christopher Love
8th Grade
Alana Markowitz
Naomi Morey
One-on-One Student Support
Libertad Vargas
7th Grade
Middle School Special Subject Teachers
Frank Piccirillo
Art Instructor
Victoria Talbert
Spanish
Instructor
Greg Balcavage
Physical Education
Middle School Special Education Team
Victoria
Talbert
Dean of Student Affairs
Michelle Bush
Special Education Teacher
Matt Black
Title I Instructor
Kedrin Frias
Special Education Assistant
Leslie McCrea
Title I Instructor
Beth Morris
Intensive Resource Teacher
Josie Batista
Title I Instructor
Middle
School Guidance / Behavior
Leslie Brackett
Director of Middle School Wellness Program
Middle School Health Care
Services
Dawn Britto, RN
School Nurse
After School Club
Ana Torres
After School Club Coordinator
Middle School
Maintenance Staff
Joao Fidalgo
Maintenance / Custodial
Staff
Antonio Soares
Maintenance / Custodial Staff
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Board
of Trustees
The Paul Cuffee
School Board meets every other month to review subcommittee
progress and approve any major financial or policy decisions. In
addition to bimonthly meetings, the school's annual meeting is held
in June. The present Board includes the following individuals,
several of whom are founders of the school:
Executive Committee
Joop Nagtegaal -
President
Keith Mathews - Vice
President
Babak Taleghani -
Treasurer
Russell Carey (PCS
Parent) - Secretary
Members at Large
Su Almeida
(Descendant
of Paul Cuffee)
Kathleen Alvarez (8th Grade Science Instructor)
Luz Avila (PCS
Parent)
David Burnham (Board President Emeritus)
Hon. William C.
Clifton, Sr.
Elizabeth Colon
(PCS
Parent)
Michelle Cortes-Harkins
Joan Cannady
Countryman
Stefano Crema
(PCS Parent)
Philip Gould
Maria Monteiro
Martha Newcomb, Esq.
Leanne Nyahkoon
Dorothy Patrick
Carolyn Pemberton
Sarah Reis (ELL
Instructor)
Ana-Cecilia Rosado
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