September 2, 2016 • THE RYE CITY REVIEW • 7
New Rye City School District Staff RYE HIGH SCHOOL
RYE HIGH SCHOOL
RYE HIGH SCHOOL
RYE HIGH SCHOOL
Peter DeVasto, English Teacher
Mary Ellen Reidy, English Teacher
Taryn Phelan, Social Studies Teacher
Caitlyn Stein, Mathematics Teacher
DeVasto comes to Rye from Mamaroneck, where he taught 10th-grade English Language Arts and Academic Enrichment at Mamaroneck High School as a leave replacement English teacher. Prior to working in Mamaroneck, he was a long-term leave replacement teacher at Harrison High School, where he taught ninth-grade English and a humanities-based enrichment class. As a student teacher at Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, he planned and implemented ninth- and 10th-grade college preparatory and honors English classes. DeVasto graduated cum laude with a B.A. in humanities and philosophy from the University of New Hampshire and has an M.A. in secondary teaching in English, with distinction, from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
Reidy comes to Rye from the Life Sciences Secondary School in New York City, where she has worked as an English teacher since 2007. Prior to working at Life Sciences, she was a student teacher at the Louis D. Brandeis High School and at the Center School, both in New York City. Reidy has a B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in teaching adolescence English from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education.
Phelan comes to Rye from Hastings High School in Hastings-on-Hudson, where she was a sociology and world history leave replacement teacher for the past year. Prior to that, she was a permanent substitute and a teacher assistant at Dobbs Ferry High School. Prior to working in Dobbs Ferry, she was a social studies per diem and leave replacement teacher at the Islip Middle School. She also worked as an at-home teacher in both Dobbs Ferry and Islip. Phelan has a B.S. in adolescence education and social studies from The State University of New York at Oswego. She is currently working towards her master’s degree in literacy education from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry.
Stein comes to Rye from F.E. Bellows Elementary School in Mamaroneck, where she was a temporary elementary school leave replacement. Prior to working in Mamaroneck, she was a substitute teacher at the Fox Lane High School in Bedford, and at the Rye Neck Middle/High School in Mamaroneck. She completed her student teaching at the Fox Lane High School. She has worked as a private mathematics tutor for Westchester County families since 2012. Stein has a B.A. in mathematics and an M.A. in teaching and secondary mathematics, both from Manhattanville College, where she participated in the Dual Degree Honors Program. (Submitted)