Tracy Duliban

TRACY DULIBAN

Tracy Duliban, Director of Park’s After School Program (ASP), leaves Park this spring after 20 years. Tracy first came to Park as an intern in 2000 and then worked as a Kindergarten assistant and after school teacher at Pierce School in Brookline until 2003, when her Park mentoring teacher, Pam Shepley, reached out to see if Tracy would join her as a member of Park’s after school team. When Pam left Park a few years later, Tracy stepped in to lead the program.

Under Tracy’s leadership, ASP has become a warm and welcoming community at Park, a place where children find friends, connection across grade levels and with adults in the community, where they feel seen and valued, and enjoy a relaxing, play-based end to their day that feeds their social-emotional needs. ASP has also been the channel through which many current faculty have found their way to Park—the list of teachers who started out at ASP is a testament to Tracy’s legacy. The community-within-a-community that ASP creates is what Tracy most appreciates. For families who cannot be present on campus during

the day, ASP is their main entry point to community engagement at Park, where they get to connect with other families and with teachers. The team sees the children and their families in the ASP community grow from PreK and Kindergarten onward, helps celebrate big moments in children’s lives, and ASP becomes an important point of connection given the wide geography from which Park families draw.

ASP continues to grow and evolve, and Tracy feels fortunate to have been a part of an amazing program. While enrollment was necessarily sharply limited during the pandemic, enrollment now continues to grow beyond pre-pandemic levels, perhaps because families who might previously have signed their kids up for activities outside of Park know they can count on Park to provide a stable, healthy, and stimulating environment where their children are known and appreciated.

As she moves on beyond Park, she looks forward to giving up her long commute from south of Providence, and to all she will be able to do with her reclaimed time: baking and trying new recipes, and traveling. We appreciate her long and loyal dedication, and wish her all the best.