GENERALEDUCATION,SPECIALEDUCATION ANDEDUCATIONALADMINISTRATION PANEL

SESSION 3

Monday, March 27, 2023

New Dorp High School. In 1998 Barbara was offered the position as the Assistant Principal of Pupil Personnel Services at Fiorello LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts. In 2000 she was offered the position of Fit for Life Coordinator where she assumed the responsibility of overseeing Health and Physical Education and PSAL sports for the then BASIS (Brooklyn and Staten Island Schools) Superintendency. After serving in this position for two and a half years Barbara was asked to "throw her hat" into the ring for the Principalship of Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers. After an intense interview process she was offered the job and spent the last 8 years of her career serving the school where she began my career. After Barbara retired in 2010 she took a year off and then worked in various part time positions. Currently, she is a consultant for the Department of Education reviewing various Career and Technical Education programs in the New York City Public High Schools.

Barbara has traveled extensively throughout her life. Always active in sports until her recent injuries Barbara loves to read, spend time with friends, many of whom are her former students but first and foremost she spends most of her time with her family. She is blessed to still have her mother who is 93 years old. Although she is an only child Barbara comes from a large family and has many cousins on both sides of her family. She is Filipino and Italian. Her father passed away in 2014. He was from the Philippines and her mother is Filipino and Italian Barbara's class recently celebrated their 50th Anniversary from St. Joseph Hill Academy.