Bridget Carta

PRE-K TEACHER, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL

“The world has changed since I started teaching,” explains Bridget Carta. As a pre-K teacher, she has in-depth knowledge of what our newest Partnership students need. “They face new challenges; they’re going to have to be much more adaptive. And we’re going to have to teach them that.”

As a twenty-year teaching veteran who had a decade of experience at Immaculate Conception in the Bronx before it became part of the Partnership, she also has a keen sense of how she and her colleagues are equipped now to meet those challenges. “The resources we have in the Partnership are amazing. Just getting a set of classroom books used to be hard.”

The difference is more profound than even having the right curriculum and supplies. “There is more support now that I’m working as part of a Partnership team—and I felt that from Day 1. You feel that you are being listened to, that you are part of something bigger than your own classroom and school—and that comes from the top.”