Individualized Education.  Community Classrooms.  for grades 1 to 6.
 

Co-Founder - Teresa Foster

• In addition to co-founding RiverRun and being a very active past and current Board member, Teresa created RiverRun's website and continues to serve as webmaster.  She also maintains the school's blog, has created much of the school's marketing materials, has served continuously on the school's Program Committee, and coordinated the most recent fall fundraiser which brought in nearly $10,000.
   

• Completion of Northeast Montessori Institute's "Rising Stars" Advanced Assistant's Overview training; Summer 2010
   

• Employee of the State University of New York System Administration since 1998 in the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis
   

• Adjunct faculty member of Empire State College's Center for Distance Learning - Algebra and Statistics
   

• Prior employment experience includes:
  ::  performing institutional research at Siena College
  ::  statistical programming and reporting at Wadsworth Center for Labs & Research and at the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  ::  working as a women's advocate at a non-profit shelter for victims of domestic abuse
  ::  working in a day care center
   

• Additional experience:
  ::  writing a variety of education-related documents
  ::  survey design
  ::  presenting and analyzing data
  ::  web design and maintenance
  ::  designing newsletters and public relations materials
  ::  tutoring and advising fellow college students
  ::  serving as homeroom parent
  ::  chairing PTO committees
  ::  homeschooling her son during his middle school years
  ::  regular attendance at education-related conferences
  ::  teaching pre-K / K in the Religious Education program at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady
   

• Masters of Science in Biometry and Statistics, State University of New York at Albany; 2000
   

• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Biology, Northland College, WI; 1994
   

• Enjoys participating in life-long learning by taking classes such as Food Prep, Elements of Baking, Professional Ethics, Spanish, and Nutrition at Schenectady County Community College
   

• Resides in Niskayuna with her husband and four children – Julian, Chloe, Benjamin, and Sean Gabriel

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