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Education is in our DNA.

Generation Ready educational consultants are a team of professional educators with decades of experience as teachers, coaches, administrators, curriculum planners, and professors. The depth and breadth of this experience allows them to provide support to all members of the education community from administrators to parents — by bringing practical, hands-on experience to the consultancy work. They are committed to, and have extensive experience in, partnering with schools and teachers to raise the standards, rigor and expectations for students.

Bill McConnell

President

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Maria Quail

Chief Executive Officer

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Alice Stabiner

Senior Director of Education

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Brooke Grabiner

Customer Relations Manager

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Jack Lavender

IT Director

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Marian Eugene

Human Resources Manager

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Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Director of Legal Services

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Our consultants

Alina Segura-Bustamante

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Ana Facenda

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Anna Munoz

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Andrea Mortensen

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Angela Reynolds

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Angie Primeaux

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Anthony Volforte

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Barbara Boriotti

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Beth Lopez

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Beverley Mowatt

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Boma Jack

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Christine Milton

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Clyde Cole

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Grace Chiu

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Harriette Grosvenor

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James Rice

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Jane Yuille

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Ken Petriccione

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Kevin Boston Hill

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Laura Caito

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Margaret Bertram

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Martin Wilson

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Mary Danke

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Mary Murphy

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Pam Warrick

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Patricia Wilcox

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Rebecca Odessey

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Ross Linegar

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Stephanie Fern

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Susan Midlarsky

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Therese Ebblewhite

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Trish Walter

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Bill McConnell

Bill joined Generation Ready (formerly AUSSIE) in 1998 as an educational consultant supporting struggling school districts throughout New York City. Bill brings more than 35 years of educational expertise having supported schools and education systems throughout the world, including Australia, England, South Africa and Asia.

Bill has been in a variety of roles within education as a teacher, administrator, coach, and consultant across all grades. He has supported schools, districts, and states at all levels in education.

Before moving to the United States Bill was the General Manager of Reading Matters, a national education non-profit organization in South Africa that provides teacher training, materials and schools to poor communities in the region. Equity has always been his passion – “it is vital to ensure all students have equal opportunities to help them succeed in life.” His mission is to provide every child with an outstanding education which he believes is the most critical 21st century challenge; this is why he affirms partnering with great schools has the potential to transform lives.

Bill’s background affords him a uniquely qualified perspective on modern education. He works closely with Maria Quail in providing a consistent nationwide strategy for Generation Ready’s professional development initiatives. The focus of such initiatives is ensuring consultancy is research-based and transformative, and supports educational equity, leadership growth, teacher effectiveness, and student achievement in schools that Generation Ready partners with.

Maria Quail

Maria Quail began her teaching career in Brooklyn as an elementary school teacher and later transferred to the Bronx. She went on to become a certified Reading Recovery teacher working with at risk students. In time she became an Assistant Principal and eventually the Principal of Public School 8 in the Bronx. Later she served as a mentor to new principals in her district under a Project Lead Grant in District 10 in the Bronx.

For the following 8 years, Maria served as a Network Leader in the Empowerment Organization of the Department of Education in the City of New York, initially leading a team of 4 who supported 26 NYC schools. Under her leadership the network quickly grew in school numbers and became one of the first in the city of New York to pilot a Children First Network (CFN) and Phase One of the Special Education Initiative. Selecting a team of 14 experts in operations and instruction, CFN 109 was formed which supported 36 schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn instructionally and operationally.

She has also served as an adjunct instructor for graduate students at Manhattan College. Maria joined Generation Ready in 2016 and is currently Generation Ready’s Chief Executive Officer.

Alice Stabiner

Alice Stabiner is the Senior Director of Education and Marketing for Generation Ready. Her distinguished career as educator and leader spans 50 years in NYC. She was a Teacher, Curriculum Coordinator, AP, Principal and Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development. As the Team Leader of Literacy for the New York City DOE, she was responsible for the implementation of standards-based Balanced Literacy in NYC for 1,200 schools, 1.2 million students and 88,000 teachers. 

Brooke Grabiner

Brooke graduated from Towson University with a degree in Communication Studies, focusing on marketing, public relations, and advertising. Brooke is able to bring her years of marketing experience to the organization to help maintain client relationships and attract new customers. Her knowledge and work experience help her create an environment in which clients and consultants feel comfortable to contact her with their concerns, streamlining the processes used by clients and internal staff to create a nurturing atmosphere.

Brooke began her journey at Generation Ready 5 years ago as the Education Coordinator. During that time, she provided support and resources necessary for our Education Consultants to deliver their services in schools throughout New York City. Brooke quickly advanced to the position of Business Operations Manager, which offered her the opportunity to provide deeper assistance to clients. In her present position, Brooke serves as Customer Relations Manager where she manages all clients and consultants.

Coming from a family of educators, who strived to ensure success for all students, Brooke was motivated to follow in their footsteps. Working with Generation Ready, a premier Professional Development company gives her the opportunity to support teachers and leaders to develop schools of excellence.

Jack Lavender

Jack has been helping companies apply technology to improve their businesses for almost 40 years. He’s worked in large, multi-national companies, Big Four technology consulting, and multiple start-ups, including two of his own. His goal is always to make technology as transparent as possible for the end user. The first question he always asks about any technology is, “Will this make some aspect of the work easier, or faster, or better?” If it won’t, then it probably doesn’t need to be implemented.

Marian Eugene

Marian Eugene is the Human Resources Manager. After serving thirty-three years she retired from the New York City Department of Education. Her experience encompasses various areas of HR including recruitment of pedagogical staff and serving the Bronx community for the last twenty-seven years as an HR Director.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Prior to joining Generation Ready, Nadav worked as a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where his practice focused on mergers & acquisitions. Nadav also co-founded Rowgatta, a high-intensity, low-impact fitness brand based in NYC. Nadav holds a degree in Chemical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Florida and a JD, magna cum laude, from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Mitzi Bonnet

Mitzi has 30 years of experience in Accounting, Business Administration, and Human Resources.

She is bilingual, fluent in English and Spanish. She also has a deep expertise with Outlook 365 and QuickBooks.

As a team player, she uses her knowledge and experience to help our team achieve organizational goals.

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Dr. Alina Segura-Bustamante

Dr. Bustamante who is proficient in Spanish, is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience in child development and social emotional learning. She served as Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Woodhull Medical Center, a New York University Medical School affiliate, until 2019. In this role she supervised two school based programs. Dr. Bustamante has provided extensive consultation in behavioral assessment and management for mono-lingual and bi-lingual school populations. Additionally, Dr. Bustamante worked with Partnership with Children and other agencies in New York.

Anna Facenda

Anna Munoz

Anna Muñoz is an Education Consultant in the areas of math, literacy, equity, and culturally responsive teaching practices. She brings with her 15 years of experience in education as well as diverse personal and professional experiences giving her both a unique view of education and a broad range in perspective. Anna has a Master of Science in Education degree with a specialization in literacy from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York. During her graduate studies, her academic research explored the impact of culturally relevant text on student performance in reading and attitudes toward reading. As a classroom teacher she had the privilege of serving students in urban communities of New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and Virginia.

Andrea Mortensen

Angela Reynolds

Dr. Angela Reynolds is an experienced Education Consultant, Education Specialist, IEP trainer, and Educator. She brings a set of talents that I believe will be valuable to Department of Education and other school districts.

In her previous roles, she honed abilities in team building and collaborator, providing a solid foundation for supporting principals and teachers in professional development and workshops in-school and district wide for both. Her collaboration, people-centric nature, and eagerness to please have afforded her excellent communication skills.

As an extroverted and personable communicator with a proven track record in leadership, working effectively with school administrators, teachers, and other school professionals; her focus on building strong professional relationships has been a valuable asset throughout her career She is excited to contribute her strengths and proficiency in leadership toward your team efforts.

Angie Primeaux

Angie is a National Board Certified Teacher (Mathematics/Early Adolescence) and a Senior Fellow with the Trustey Family STEM Fellowship of the University of Notre Dame. Her experience includes teaching middle school science and math (through geometry) as well as writing math curriculum, coaching middle school teachers, integrating technology in math classrooms, designing inquiry-based lessons, and implementing STEM projects.

Anthony Volforte

Anthony is a K-8 Literacy, Literacy Across the Content, and Mathematics staff developer and education consultant. He has a proven track record of transformational changes that result in increased student engagement, rigorous levels of learning and student achievement working with schools in New York City, New York State, New Jersey and Baltimore City Public Schools. Anthony comes to us with 20 plus years of experience as a teacher, administrator and staff developer, that encompass professional learning cohorts in the teaching and learning of mathematics, curriculum development and utilizing the best practices within literacy and mathematics instruction. A life-long learner and a committed passionate educator who continues to dedicate his time in supporting all teachers and administrators and most importantly students and families in their pursuit for the best education.

Barbara Boriotti

Barbara M. Boriotti worked as a teacher, a reading specialist, assistant principal and principal in New York City. Her experience included working with Shelley Harwayne, Lucy Calkins, Joanne Hindley, Diane Snowball, and New York University’s Reading Recovery Network. She was trained by Brian Cambourne and Jan Turbil as a facilitator for Frameworks for Literacy. Barbara is presently an adjunct professor at Hunter College teaching literacy as well as a consultant for Generation Ready.

Beth Lopez

Beth is a career educator with over thirty years of experience. She has coached and supported staff in various roles including staff developer, assistant principal, and principal. She has leadership experience in both New York City as well as the suburbs and has facilitated workshops at both the school and district level designed to support a culture focused on student learning and achievement, outcome based accountability, culturally relevant teaching, data-driven decision making, differentiated instruction, and continuous adult learning as drivers of improved student outcomes. Beth is passionate about working hard to support every student as well as providing teachers with the tools they need to be successful.

Beth has also served as a city-wide coach for Balanced Literacy as well as a member of the New York City Quality Review Team.

Beverley Mowatt

Boma Jack

Boma is a Nigerian-American and has spent over thirty years working with both young scholars and adult educators. Boma started teaching with the Department of Education in 1985 as a teacher of mathematics, computer science, and business practice. He was privileged to interact with young and adolescent learners, who needed a second chance as a result of family instability, environmental ills, and incarceration. This experience furled his desire to continue in this endeavor, with a belief that every child is deserving of a healthy upbringing, education, and a productive life.

Over the years, in his capacity as Assistant Principal of Mathematics, Principal and Director of programs, he gained a wealth of experience in working with other colleagues to develop mathematics programs, stem education, career and technical education at the secondary level, as well as, collaborating with community-based organizations and colleges for skill acquisition and college readiness. BOMA is presently an Education Consultant with Generation Ready Inc., where he provides coaching to teachers of mathematics, and collaborate with school communities to achieve positive student outcomes.

Christine Milton

Christine Milton brings 30 years of educational experience serving elementary and middle schools as a teacher, literacy coach, and administrator. She has worked at the school and district levels, supporting a wide range of educators and administrators.

Christine brings with her a depth of expertise in instructional leadership, consulting in the literacy area, coaching, and facilitating professional development with collaborative team planning.

Literacy Consulting – Supported multiple campuses across the boroughs, Westchester and Long Island in job-embedded professional learning that immediately impacted curriculum planning, teacher pedagogy and Common Core Standards alignment

Leadership Consulting – Coached new administrators with a focus on observing teaching practice, providing actionable feedback, and gathering professional support for staff.

Clyde Cole

Grace Chiu

Grace is a K-8 Literacy, Leadership, and Literacy Across the Content staff developer and education consultant. She has a proven track record of transformational changes that result in increased student engagement with schools in New York City, Baltimore City Public Schools, Uinta County School District, and Teton County School District. Celebrating her 10th year with Generation Ready, Dr. Chiu has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, literacy coach and staff developer. She has also supported international schools in the United Kingdom and Denmark. Prior to joining Generation Ready, Grace served as Project Director at the University of Washington’s Center for Educational Leadership.

Harriette Grosvenor

Harriette E. Grosvenor is a graduate of Vassar College and Manhattan College. Ms. Grosvenor has worked in both the private and public, school systems since 1991 as a teacher, assistant Principal and Principal. As a consultant she works to guide and build the capacity of school districts, leadership teams, faculty, and staff members through cultural proficiency. Ms. Grosvenor’s expertise includes instructional and transformational leadership with an emphasis on helping institutions establish equitable practices, policies and procedures; developing standards-based, inter-disciplinary ELA and Social Studies curricula and supporting the development of culturally responsive teaching and effective learning strategies that benefit all students.

James Rice

Jamie comes to Generation Ready with 14 years of k-12 education experience, with a background in instructional leadership, systems-level curriculum and framework implementations, and creating sustainable Professional Learning Communities.   Jamie’s greatest strength is his ability to put students at the center of the decision-making process while ensuring equitable representation from all community stakeholders. 

When not in schools, you may find him reading in a city park, or doing long open-water swims in the Atlantic.  He holds a B.A. in History from NJCU, and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Jane Yuille

Jane is committed to educating teachers, students, colleagues, families, and the community through establishing strong connections.  Jane has brought with her a depth of expertise in leadership, teaching and consulting in elementary leadership, curriculum development, literacy strategies and practices and has vast experience in coaching and leading professional development, especially in virtual instruction. As an educator and Administrator in Australia and New Zealand with 40+ years experience, this molded her beliefs in equity, celebrating diversity, and developing partnerships through education.

Ken Petriccione

Ken draws from a wealth of 27 years experience as a culturally responsive educator in both Mt. Vernon, New York, and the New York City school system. He has been a classroom teacher, a Math staff developer/instructional coach, a Summer School coordinator, an assistant principal, and for the last 12 years, a principal of a K-8 school. Ken has been thoroughly trained in culturally responsive teaching, and social– emotional learning, and will be consulting in all aspects of instructional leadership, with an emphasis on supporting quality math instruction.

Kevin Boston-Hill

Kevin has been a culturally responsive educator in New York City and Long Island for 25 years, serving as teacher, dean, assistant principal, principal, instructional coach, and mentor. He specializes in Leadership, Science, Social Studies, and Math

As a Google Certified Trainer and Distance/Blended Learning Expert, Kevin has conducted workshops on a variety of topics, including equity, and social-emotional learning. Kevin has also led SLTs and PLCs and has assisted schools in writing their CEPs and establishing Inquiry Teams.

Laura Caito

Margaret Bertram

Teachers LOVE working with Margaret. She is warm, knowledgeable, and goal-focused.

While literacy is her superpower, getting all students reading is Margaret’s real passion.

She uses her 30+ years of experience as a teacher, administrator and coach to partner with teachers to create effective, engaging and purposeful instruction.

Teaching is the most important job in the world, and so much more fulfilling when we see the significant impact we can have on our students’ learning.

Martin Wilson

Martin has been a consultant with Generation Ready since October 2003. In that time, he has worked in a variety of school districts but most of the 30 schools he has worked in were located in the Bronx. As well as carrying out his work in schools, Martin has supported Regional Instructional Supervisors on data collection, analysis and professional development. He has also worked for a number of local superintendents supporting their work in schools.

Martin’s work has also included implementing new mathematics curricula and providing support in terms of planning and development for Principals and teachers.

Martin’s main areas of expertise and interest include Math, data analysis and the links between data and pedagogy, classroom assessment, and school review. As a consultant in New York, a former high school teacher, and through his school-based and University work, Martin has both theoretical and practical experience in leading or coaching school curriculum change using a whole-school approach to improving instruction.

Mary Danke

Mary Danke is an accomplished consulting professional drawing experience from over 30 years in the NYC Department of Education. Mary Danke has a combined 15 years of administrative experience at the district level and as a building based administrator. She was instrumental with the implementation various programs that supported literacy and the differentiation of programs to meet the specific needs of identified students with disabilities and general education students that were not meeting standards. Her efforts improved teaching strategies and the practices of teachers supporting students with disabilities and improved the overall literacy scores of schools she was associated with.

Mary Danke taught and supported students in grades K-12 and worked to provide support to students transitioning to High School and College.

Mary Danke also implemented and supported behavioral initiatives that improved classroom management, as well as, school-wide positive behavioral plans.

Mary Murphy

Mary has had substantial experience as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. As a consultant Mary has been responsible for the provision of administrator and teacher professional development and whole staff professional dialogue around the pedagogical changes needed to embrace current philosophies and practices for teaching and learning with an emphasis on improving student outcomes. Mary’s role continues to include continuing supporting administrators, mentoring coaches and new teachers.

Pam Warrick

Pam Warrick brings decades of educational experience serving students from Pre- kindergarten through college as a teacher, coach, professional developer, college professor, and consultant. After receiving the National Presidential Award in Secondary Mathematics and the State Presidential Award in Elementary Mathematics as a classroom teacher, the move was made to training and developing teachers in the field. As a consultant, her ability to model engaging instruction, while providing fellow educators the needed tools to plan, organize, and maintain a conducive learning environment, has been effective in raising student achievement in the area of math in many schools. She also develops STEM curricula and provides development of programs.

Trisha Wilcox

Trisha has worked as an educator for over 30 years as a teacher of English, Social Studies and Performing Arts. She has been part of public-school leadership teams as a Department Head, Assistant Principal and Acting Principal. An experienced virtual and instructional coach, Trisha has worked as a successful team builder, curriculum developer and literacy consultant in High School, Middle School and Upper Elementary School Communities in Australia and the USA. One of her career highlights has been working as an English Language Arts Advisor for Australia’s National Curriculum. She is a passionate advocate for high quality, culturally inclusive, research based instructional practices that engage all learners in becoming successful and powerful global citizens.

Rebecca Odessey

Ross Linegar

Ross brings a wealth of experience in instructional leadership, consulting at a District and school level in Elementary Mathematics. This involved working with school and district teams to improve Mathematics outcomes. This work included curriculum development, and coaching and modeling in the classroom and the remote learning environment.

Ross has worked for 42 years in education first as teacher, then principal in several schools. He also worked at a district and state level in developing Principal Leadership.

Stephanie Fern

Stephanie Fern has almost 20 years of experience serving students from kindergarten to middle school as a teacher, reading specialist, and consultant. After a career working inside the classroom, Stephanie began working as an educational consultant focused on strengthening teachers’ instructional approaches and improving students’ academic achievement. Through her work, Stephanie has shown the ability to relate to teachers, model engaging instruction, and provide educators with the tools to organize and build a conducive learning environment.

Susan Midlarsky

Susan brings a great deal of experience in elementary and middle school mathematics coaching, drawing from her teaching, curriculum writing, and research experience. Having consulted in schools around the country and overseas, she brings a broad perspective about how education is evolving. Her previous scientific and technical experience in higher education informs her coaching in technology, STEM and science. She is a passionate team player who brings a growth mindset attitude to her work.

Therese Ebblewhite

Therese brings over 35 years experience as a classroom teacher, administrator, and literacy specialist to empower and engage classroom teachers. Her work centers on the development of K-8 teachers’ capacity to design and deliver effective and appropriate literacy instruction to a wide variety of learners. Therese has been tremendously received as a literacy specialist and consultant in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. She is equally comfortable presenting to groups or working alongside teachers in their classrooms. Therese is well regarded for her knowledge of classroom literacy instruction and her ability to work positively and productively with teachers of varying experiences and approaches.

Trish Walter

Patricia has worked in education for over 30 years and has a depth of expertise in teaching and consulting in the elementary mathematics area and coaching and leading professional development.

As a consultant, Patricia works at the school and district-level to guide and build the capacity of educators in developing and vertically aligning standards-based mathematics curricula that supports the needs of all students. Patricia also provides school-based support through demonstrating lessons in classrooms, side-by-side coaching and providing professional development sessions for K-8 teachers.