As a Brooklyn born and bred native, and with all we've gone through during the pandemic, in her 20th year at the NYCDOE, Nancy felt a "call to action" to return to a school after her tenure of 8 years as the Citywide Director of Technology & Engineering.  And being back in a school, she's never been happier putting her knowledge and experience into play here at John Dewey High School, in Coney Island / Gravesend section of Brooklyn.  Nancy's passion is promulgating STEM teaching and learning opportunities for students and teachers through the building of theme-based collaborative communities that support STEM education and the formation of partnerships to enrich the student experience.  Whether it was raising trout in the classroom with her students in her early days of teaching or supporting one of Microsoft's largest initial Minecraft Education Edition implementations here in NYC with thousands of students, her ultimate goal has always remained the same: students first.