Kim Libertini
“I’m a K to 12 person” states Kim Libertini, with a smile, describing her standpoint on raising science and technology training in the Jericho universities, where by she has been named new Curriculum Associate for Science and Technology.
“You have to have to plant the seeds early to make fascination in the sciences and technologies education” she clarifies, recalling her personal enthusiasm for biology, a science that she nurtured under the guidance of her inspirational biology teacher at the large university in upstate New York wherever she grew up.
Libertini went on to earn her B.S. in Biology from SUNY New Paltz, her M.S. in Biology Instruction from LIU/C.W. Submit and her Administrative certificates from Stony Brook. Her track record also involves study in most cancers genetics for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Libertini taught science and analysis at Valley Stream North High College ahead of joining the Cold Spring Harbor Central Faculty District exactly where she was director of the school district’s K to 12 STEM plans for 3 decades.
At Cold Spring Harbor Senior Significant School, 1 of her initiatives was to generate summer months analysis activities the place high faculty pupils earned study course credits for assignments that integrated social science, computer system science know-how, including drones and hydroponics.
She joins the Jericho school formally on June 1 when she will commence functioning with science and engineering lecturers in all grades . She seems ahead to forming partnerships with colleges and study amenities on Lengthy Island. She also wishes to see Jericho carry on to take part in regional and nationwide science and technologies competitions, specifically kinds involving engineering, robotics and drones.
Libertini stated she looks ahead to incorporating the condition-of-the-artwork anatomy desk that the Nassau Legislature, by means of legislator John Lafazan, supplied funding for. The anatomage desk, a state-of-the-art unit ordinarily found in medical colleges, will allow pupils fascinated in wellness care and medicine to accomplish virtual techniques and surgeries.
