Andrew Ayers and Amelia Glauber are the learning and reading specialists at Collegiate School in New York City. They began creating workshops and curricula for their faculty and parent community on the interconnection between executive functioning and reading. Since then, they have presented at various NYSAIS, SAIS, IBSC conferences, as well as to faculty in independent schools in the greater metropolitan area.
Andrew has had a wide variety of teaching experiences over the course of his career. He has been a special education teacher in public schools, a Head Start educational director, a Peace Corps teacher trainer, a learning specialist in a charter school, and a learning specialist in New York City’s independent schools. In addition to his classroom teaching, Andrew has been an adjunct professor at Rutgers University, PACE University, and City College of New York, as well as a student teacher mentor at Teachers College. Andrew has spoken at a variety of conferences on topics of reading development, differentiating instruction, teacher training, executive functioning skills, and the impact of stress and anxiety on learning. Andrew earned a master’s degree in Learning Disabilities from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Amelia received a degree in psychology and education from Bowdoin College in Maine. She continued her studies at the Bank Street School of Education, graduating with a dual masters degree in General and Special Childhood Education. Her thesis, entitled “Teaching Social Skills in the Classroom” was early research for her more recent focus on executive functioning skills. She has worked in many settings, beginning her career in Boston where she supported teachers at a Head Start program and the Epiphany Charter School. In New York, she worked as a teacher’s assistant at Prep for Prep, in a District 75 school supporting students with autism, as a second grade teacher at an independent school and a fourth grade teacher at the Collegiate School.