Jeanne Rotunda

- Board of Advisors

Jeanne Rotunda has had extensive experience as a school designer, leader, and coach.  Over the nineteen years as principal of West Side Collaborative, MS250, she restructured and innovated a progressive school for Title 1 middle school students.  Before her work at WSC, she designed, established and led the Wadleigh Alternative Arts School, a 7-12 public school in Harlem.  Jeanne has focused on building collaborative school communities through developing teacher team structures and empowering teachers in multiple leadership roles. Working with a colleague, she implemented a middle school lab-site for citywide inter-visitations and was a facilitator for the NYC DOE Office of New Schools.  Her schools have been widely recognized for implementing innovative programs, promoting student involvement in learning and building organizational structures.

Jeanne has mentored new principals and administrative interns from a variety of leadership programs.  She has consulted on new school applications, school start-up, teacher and leadership evaluation systems, creative scheduling and SEL initiatives. She currently works for Hidden Sparks as a leadership program developer, workshop facilitator and mentor.  Jeanne is a graduate of New York University and Bank Street College of Education Principals Institute with degrees in art, education and supervision.  She has participated in numerous Harvard University Project Zero Summer Institutes and was trained as a Lincoln Center Institute Educator.