Who are we?
Business and Facilities Office
We are the Business and Facilities Offices of Valley Stream 30.
Brian Phillips, Assistant Superintendent for Business, works with Ashley Starna, Rosann Colucci, Teresa Fergus, and Suzanne Brady in the Business Office. The Business Office supports the District’s educational needs by ensuring that funding is properly accounted for and used.
Chris Malone along with the Facilities staff in each school help to maintain and improve the District’s buildings for our students and staff.
Both Facilities and Business offices are located in the Administration Building at 175 N. Central Avenue.
Human Resources
We are a newly created department at Valley Stream 30. Marcela Moran, the new HR Administrator, is here to provide assistance with any employee-related matters.
The HR office is located at 150 Washington Avenue, at the Washington Avenue Kindergarten Center.
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Kimberly Rivera
Kimberly is joining us as a Probationary Special Education teacher at Forest Road School.
Kimberly worked for the past 5 years as a special education teacher at private special education school in Queens. Prior to that she worked at DDI for 4 years also as a special education teacher. And she is also has provided parent training for the past 11 years.
Kimberly has a BA in Child Study from St. Joseph’s college and a Master of Arts in Autism from Dowling College.
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April Laracuenti
April is joining the Valley Stream 30 family as a probationary general education teacher. However, she was with the VS 30 family last year as a 5-day substitute teacher.
Prior to joining us, she worked in our neighbor district VS 13, and also as a teacher in a private school.
April holds a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Education with Childhood education, both degrees from Queens College.
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Torianna Simpson-O'Neal
Torianna is joining us as .9 part-time General Education teacher at Clearstream Avenue school teaching grade 2.
Torianna comes to us with 11 years of experience in the NYC Charter school system. She has taught Math in Grades 5 and general education in the upper grade level.
She has a BA in Sociology from Stony Brook University, a Masters of Arts in Teacher from RELAY Graduate school and an Advance Special Education certification.
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Alison Cortes-Reid
Alison joins the Clear Stream family as a .9 part-time Kindergarten teacher.
Alison comes to us with a wealth of experience in the early grades. Alison most recent job was teaching at Pioneer Academy 307 located in Corona. At Pioneer Alison taught 2nd and 3rd grades. She also worked with the NYC DOE teaching Grade 4 in Brooklyn for 2 years.
Alison has a BA in Childhood Early Childhood Education and a BA in psychology from Hofstra University. She also has a Masters degree in Special Education from Touro College.
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Keep Calm
We know how stressful things can be trying to balance home and work life. For the past two years, the Special Services Department in collaboration with Nassau BOCES and led by Dr. Schimpf acquired the Calm app for all staff members who expressed interest in utilizing it. Currently, Clear Stream and Shaw Wellness rooms have the app if you would like to try it.
The app is designed to assist with meditation and sleep. If you are interested in getting the app, please click here.
We are hiring!
Please go to the HR Website to find job openings across the district and other job opportunities across our region.
Share with Us!
If you have HR news or information that you would like to share with our staff please make sure to share to mmoran@vs30.org or (516) 434-3600 X 5010.
