2016 Scholars. |
Ishrat Ahmed-Moran.
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Ishrat graduated from Barnard in May 2016 with a double major in Mathematics and Psychology and a minor in Economics. Growing up in Queens, NY, she always wanted to teach math in one of New York's five boroughs. She taught SAT prep Math for TestTakers from 2012-2015 and was the Clery Intern at Sexual Violence Response and Rape Crisis/Antiviolence Support Center at Columbia during her time as an undergraduate. She is very grateful for the opportunity to be a Noyce Scholar because of all the overwhelming support she has received from it and from the Education Department Professors at Barnard to do exactly what she has always wanted to do.
Ishrat Ahmed-Moran is currently attending Teachers College in New York City where she is pursuing her Masters of Arts in Mathematics Education. She is also starting her first year of teaching at M458: Forsyth Satellite Academy in Lower Manhattan, where she will be teaching Islamic Art & Geometry and Statistics & Racial Justice this year. This past year, she began her first year as a Knowles Fellow in the Knowles Teacher Initiative. During Summer 2017, she attended the four-day summer institute, Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools, at Teachers College, alongside 2014 Scholar, Rebecca Battat. |
Romi Messer.
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As a Barnard student, she studied Psychology and Education, and graduated in May 2016. She loved learning about the human psyche and all of its intricacies, and took her interest in science to other classrooms. During her student teaching placement in the fall of 2015, Romi taught science to her 3rd grade students, covering topics such as distance, mass, and temperature. The Noyce Program aided Romi on her path to becoming a teacher and continues to do so, allowing her to devote herself to her goals. Growing up in an environment that always encouraged and promoted learning, she is excited to one day have her own classroom and instill a love of learning in her students.
Romi Messer lives in New York City with two friends from Barnard, and works as a teacher at Bronx Lighthouse Charter School. In her first year of teaching, she taught 4th grade math and social studies. At the end of the year, she had the opportunity to visit the Ron Clark Academy for a professional development course, rounding out a formative first year. She is about to begin her second year of teaching and hopes to begin her masters in education in the next year or two. |
Samantha Schwartz.
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Sammy Schwartz graduated from Barnard in May 2016 as an Urban Studies major concentrating in Environmental Science &Sustainable Development. As a Noyce Scholar, she plans to focus on adolescent Earth Science education and she is excited to do so. Sammy is particularly interested in bringing issues of social and environmental justice into the classroom.
Over the past few years of living and working in New York, she has witnessed and learned about the resource imbalance provided to communities of color in New York and around the United States. Particularly during times of environmental crises - such as hurricanes - certain communities and districts are treated as the last priority. On a day-to-day basis, these same communities deal with the effects of sewage treatment plant emissions and excessive motor vehicle traffic causing a variety of public health issues. As a science educator, Sammy hopes to alert her students to these issues and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to push for environmental justice in the communities in which they live. |
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