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By Mirika Jambudi (III)<\/strong> After four years at Pingry, this past year serving as Lower School Director, Dr. Sandy Lizaire-Duff will be leaving Pingry in June to take the next step in her career. She will be relocating to Stamford, Connecticut, where she will be the Head of Lower School at King School.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Lizaire-Duff received a bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology from Montclair State University, a master\u2019s degree in Early Childhood Education at Teachers College of Columbia University, and a doctorate in Urban Systems from Rutgers University. She started her teaching career at Edgemont Montessori School in Montclair in 1999 after she had graduated from Teachers College. She credits her inspiration for becoming a teacher to her \u201clove for helping kids, even as a child,\u201d as well as her prior work with young girls thanks to a friend who was a teacher. Though she did not teach any courses as Lower School Director, Dr. Lizaire-Duff loved going into classrooms to visit and interact with the students, noting that seeing their \u201csmiling faces were some of the best parts of [her] day.\u201d In addition to her many day-to-day operational tasks, Dr. Lizaire-Duff was part of the development of the 2018 Strategic Plan, worked with the professional development program, and advanced the work of diversity and inclusion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Lizaire-Duff will fondly look back at her favorite memories of Pingry, such as the annual Field Day: a \u201csea of blue and white with smiling faces\u2026 and being able to see kids being kids and having fun.\u201d She will also forever cherish her connections with Lower School students, faculty, staff, and parents, and is proud to have had \u201cthe privilege of partnering and working with an incredible community these past four years.\u201d In a parting message to the school, Dr. Lizaire-Duff would like to wish everyone continued good health. Thank you, Dr. Lizaire-Duff, for your contributions to Pingry\u2013\u2013you will be missed!<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mirika Jambudi (III) After four years at Pingry, this past year serving as Lower School Director, Dr. Sandy Lizaire-Duff will be leaving Pingry in June to take the next step in her career. She will be relocating to Stamford, Connecticut, where she will be the Head of Lower School at King School.\u00a0 Dr. Lizaire-Duff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-departures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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