Ms. Shaw
Ms. Shaw recently retired from serving over 30 years with the NYC Dept. of Education, Universal Literacy Reading Initiative. She served as a reading coach for 5 years, before that she was a classroom teacher in elementary and middle school. Now, she is pursuing research with Northcentral University in the Science of Reading with hopes to support readers in developing proficiency in literacy. Ms. Shaw is proud of accomplishing a personal reading of her mother’s book on the PBS show “Let’s Learn NYC”, Phyllis Wants to go to School, which aired across the nation. Ms. Shaw loves teaching and her educational philosophy is that “I believe we will make our world better by empowering everyone to be lifelong learners by giving individuals the tools to live conscientiously in our complex world.”