Lynbrook Schools to Use Elementary Specialist

With students beginning classes today, the Lynbrook School District will, for the first time, be utilizing one elementary curriculum specialist to oversee teaching at all four elementary schools. The Lynbrook Board of Education named Allison Curran to the job this past summer.
   
"She'll be working with the elementary school principals and she will oversee all of the testing that goes on at the elementary level," said district Superintendent Dr. Santo Barbarino.
   
The district had been operating with four curriculum coordinators for elementary and secondary students up until last year. But Barbarino explained that budget cuts forced the elimination of those positions, and now the district has rearranged its supervisory model: one curriculum coordinator (Curran) at the elementary level, and chairpersons for oversight of secondary education.
   
One of Curran's most important tasks will be involving herself in the district's response-to-intervention model, or RTI, which aims to identify early on students that are experiencing difficulties in school.
   
"The idea is to assist children's learning in a way that we can identify issues and have them addressed," Barbarino explained.

Previously, Curran worked as an elementary reading teacher and workshop facilitator in the Oceanside School District, and in Huntington schools as a reading teacher, classroom teacher, literacy coach and instructional support liaison.

"I am looking forward to working closely with the Lynbrook staff to advance the
district's goals for further developing instructional innovations in reading and math," Curran said.