Lucia Figueras
Brooklyn
Summary
Compassionate, creative and effective Teacher with valuable experience in classroom administration, professional development and project planning. Equipped with extensive background in versatile education environments. Student-centric instructor, academic facilitator and motivational coach. Competent at performing independently or as member of teaching team. Well-versed in classroom and online technologies.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Attendance Teacher
District 13
New York City Department Of Education
12.2025 - Current
- Work collaboratively with administrators, teachers, and support staff to identify and address the needs of chronically absent students.
- Attend attendance meetings for all assigned schools
- Maintain accurate records of student attendance.
- Conduct outreach via phone calls and/or home visits
- Work with schools to develop plans to improve overall attendance
- Communicate regularly with students and parents of chronically absent students to track progress.
- Work with families and schools to provide resources
- Creating data
- Document all outreach efforts by completing program paperwork as directed to include ATS and ILOG entries.
Regional Manager
Students in Temporary Housing
New York City Department Of Education
04.2021 - 12.2025
- Hire, supervise, and support a team of regional staff including shelter-based Family Assistants, school-based and shelter-based Students in Temporary Housing Community Coordinators.
- Support hiring and oversight of Bridging the Gap social workers.
- Lead or support hiring as noted above, coordinating with STH team management, divisional Human Resources and Operations staff to track vacancies, post openings, interview candidates, recommend finalists, tender offers, and onboard new staff.
- Provide weekly supervision meetings and monthly professional development series to ensure staff support students to receive timely interventions, services, supplementary education, and counseling.
- Support clinical supervision of Bridging the Gap Social Workers to ensure compliance.
- Conduct site visits to schools and shelters regularly to evaluate the implementation of policy and programming, ensure compliance with program elements, documentation, and recordkeeping, and meet with school staff to resolve challenges or offer training.
- Provide professional development for team members, schools staff, Field Support Centers, and others, to foster understanding of important issues such as the McKinney-Vento Act, trauma-informed practices, etc.
- Provide compliance focused annual training for team members and school personnel to ensure alignment with City, State, and Federal regulations.
- Support oversight of contracted service providers to ensure quality programming and adherence
- Facilitate case conferences and manage escalations on STH cases, in collaboration with shelter- and school-based staff, Field Support Center staff, and others working with STH.
- Create and analyze data of STH students based on shelter location, school location, attendance rates, and STH housing status data clean up.
- Create pivot tables and analyzing data trends used to work closely with school STH staff and administration about best “next steps” and brainstorming best use of STH Title I funds based on the schools’ STH population
- Provide detailed data analysis to district level personnel and superintendents’ team about STH data trends for their specific districts.
- Overseeing shelters and supporting schools with policies in Districts 19, 20, 21, 22, 31, and 32
Interim Director, Design and Content
Office of Assessment
NYC Department Of Education
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Managing a team focusing on content development for SHSAT and LOTE exams
- Managing Math item creation for SHSAT exam
- Participate in Office of Assessment Leadership team meetings
- Strategize and created per session budget for school year activities
- Working with LOTE project manager to streamline assessment creation process
- Working with LOTE project manager to create LOTE item banking system
- Create and provide OA leadership with decision and policy memos
- Creating work and career goals for each team member
- Participate in Request for Proposal (RFP) for new SHSAT exam in 2025
- Office of Assessment
Associate Director
Office of Assessment
NYC Department Of Education
02.2019 - 09.2020
- Managing a team focusing on Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE assessment implementation.
- Coordinating across teams with the Office of Assessment to successfully implement Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE.
- Creating and maintaining project plans for Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE.
- Responding to daily communications regarding Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE.
- Creating and supporting the creation of communications to schools, students, and families regarding Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE implementation policies- assessment handbooks/memos, assessment training materials
- Creating and assisting in creating policies regarding Regents, SAT/PSAT, and LOTE.
- Providing support to Regents scoring sites, which includes, but is not limited to:
- Teacher and scoring team hiring
- Scoring policies
- Scoring material support
- Scoring site budgets
- Score report
- Liaison between scoring sites and NYSED
- Working with a large budget and making cost-effective decisions regarding hiring consultants, per session hiring, scoring related materials, and implementation.
- Ensuring assessment policies and per-session hiring practices are uniform across all assessments.
- Evaluating implementation and scoring practices to ensure equal practices across NYC.
Deputy Director Communications and Implementation
Office of Assessment
NYC Department Of Education
07.2018 - 02.2019
- Working with the Director of Communication and Implementation regarding the vision of the team.
- Manage a team focusing on implementation and communication of NYC DOE Assessments: Regents, NYS 3-8, Gifted and Talented, PSAT/SAT, SHSAT, NAEP, LOTE (Languages Other Than English), among others.
- Implement project plans for related assessments.
- Create communications, such as handbooks and memos, communicating changes in related assessment policies.
- Create communications, such as handbooks and memos, for various stakeholders, such as other DOE offices, schools, families, and media.
- Assist in creating assessment policies for related assessments.
- Assist team in professional development: researching professional development opportunities within and outside of the DOE.
- Responding to daily communications regarding related assessments: concerns about scoring, appeals policies, misadministration etc.
- Communication with Field Support Centers regarding completion reports and assessment policy changes.
SHSAT School Day Manager
Office of Assessment
NYC Department Of Education
06.2017 - 07.2018
- Creating and implementing a project plan for SHSAT School Day test prep
- Selected a vendor to provide test prep to 50 SHSAT middle schools with SHSAT vendor and testing sites to provide a smooth administration.
- Train SHSAT School Day sites to provide a viable SHSAT administration day
- Train SHSAT School Day teachers in test prep structure and procedures
- Work with test prep vendor to provide a rigorous and grade appropriate afterschool program for SHSAT School Day schools
- Planned, managed and coordinator with multiple offices to review the SHSAT Handbook, Administration Manuals, and all documentation needed for SHSAT administration
- Conducted interviews to hire a consultant to support the creation of supplemental materials for SHSAT test prep
- Planned and coordinated professional development trainings for SHSAT School Day teachers
- Manage consultants to support professional development trainings for SHSAT School Day teachers
- Oversee the production and delivery of SHSAT test prep materials by managing communications between vendors and Assessment Operations team
- Manage SHSAT weekend administration- providing administration training for test site coordinators, overseeing the weekend administration across 7 administration sites, coordinating communication during weekend administration with test site coordinators, Office of HS Enrollment, and Pearson, escalating issues or misadministration in real-time to Office of Assessment leadership and Pearson.
- Communicating with teachers and administrators participating in SHSAT School Day
- Communicating with families who escalate SHSAT administration concerns
- Coordinate inter-office communication for solutions to SHSAT administration concerns
- Use data from completion reports to help strategize support for SHSAT School Day schools
STEM Assessments Manager
Office of Assessment
NYC Department Of Education
01.2014 - 06.2017
- Provide managerial level expertise, direction and supervision related to the content area of Mathematics and Science.
- Managed and supervised full-time Math and Science content specialists
- Supervised consultants by delegating work for various projects, managing working hours and creating timetables for deliverables.
- Managed a large consultant budget.
- Created, posted and supervised per session activities.
- Participated as a program evaluation advisory member (i.e.: SHSAT, Periodic Assessments).
- Participated in selecting vendors as a voting member
- Participated in test content development and scoring, assessment tools
- Collaborated with vendors to assess math items for alignment to Common Core standards, mathematical correctness, age-appropriate vocabulary and context, biased and sensitivity.
- Collaborated with vendors to ensure accuracy of assessment directions, handbooks, and teacher’s guides.
- Managed the creation of the SHSAT Math Bilingual Glossaries
- Strategized changes to the SHSAT overall and SHSAT Math section: reducing the number of answer choices from 5-4 and adding the Math Grid-Ins
- Managed the SHSAT Test Views: Communications with parents about test views, escalating issues to OA/Enrollment leadership, communicating with parents about item challenges, managed/trained test view specialists to standardize the test view process, communicated with administration testing sites when families requested original test booklets
- Conducted SHSAT Math item reviews, per session posting, interviewed/hired teachers, trained them, consolidated teacher comments
- Worked closely with Office of Assessment Psychometrician to review SHSAT item statistics to create SHSAT tests and forms
- Review field test item data to edit, approve, or reject test items for operational use.
Math Common Core Reviewer
NYC Department of Education
10.2012 - 01.2014
- Working with the Department of Education to help teachers by providing informative feedback about alignment of their lessons to Common Core Standards. Assess the effectiveness of lessons along Common Core guidelines. Helped analyze and select curriculum created by companies to use in New York City (K-5). Providing continuous feedback to textbook companies on their lessons, assessments, and end of unit tasks to be used by the Department of Education the following school year.
Teacher
PS 170
NYC Department Of Education
09.2003 - 01.2014
- Taught Grades 1st, 3rd, and 4th Grades
- Developed lessons and assessments for all subject areas
- Created a balanced literacy classroom environment according to NYS Standards and America’s Choice Program
- Modified lessons for academic interventions and ELLs
- Created a model Math classroom for Grades 3-5 using Everyday Math Program.
- Mentored a new teacher in teaching elementary mathematics
- Trained new teacher how to teach with different math tools, how to create meaningful quick assessments, how to arrange and pace the lessons to develop mathematical concepts.
- Conducted professional development on implementing iPad applications for everyday classroom use.
- Led 4th Grade meetings regarding math curriculum
- Created and aligned assessments and lessons to Common Core Standards for 4th Grade.
- Math Lead Teacher- 4th Grade
- Worked with Math Coach and attended several Professional Developments.
- Turn-keyed to knowledge learned at professional development to colleagues.
- Conducted professional development for 3rd and 4th Grade teachers to implement Cyber Chase PBS program into Math curriculum.
- Led professional development meetings once a month to align classroom math curriculum to America’s Choice Math.
- Conducted yearly professional development on grading Math Field Tests (3rd and 4th Grade), reviewing rubrics and anchor responses.
Math Intervention Specialist
PS 170
NYC Department Of Education
09.2011 - 06.2012
- Conducted small group intervention with Grades 3, 4, and 5, focusing on basic math development.
- Developed own curriculum from various resources to build a basis in mathematics.
- Focused on building math vocabulary and building basic math concepts.
- Worked closely with teachers to help reinforce skills that were taught in small group sessions.
- Met weekly with teachers to teach them different math strategies and how different mathematical concepts connect through the grades.
Education
Master in Public Policy -
University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, Mass01-2018
Master of Science - Elementary Math Education
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY01-2009
Master of Science - Childhood Education
Fordham University
New York, NY01-2003
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science, Communications
Fordham University
New York, NY01-2002
Skills
- Data analysis
- ATS
- New Visions
- Insight
- Microsoft applications
- Google applications
- Adobe Pro
- Classroom management
- Faculty collaboration
- Special needs students
- Record keeping
- Relationship building
- Critical thinking
- Lesson planning
- Public speaking
- Conflict resolution
- Parent-teacher communication
Certification
- Permanent Certification, Elementary (Birth-6), NYSED - September 2008
- School Attendance Teacher (Provisional), NYSED - September 2024
- Administration Education Officer (Permanent), NYCDOE- April 2017
- Administrative Education Analyst, NYCDOE- August 2023
Languages
Spanish
Timeline
Attendance Teacher
District 13
12.2025 - Current
Regional Manager
Students in Temporary Housing
04.2021 - 12.2025
Interim Director, Design and Content
Office of Assessment
09.2020 - 04.2021
Associate Director
Office of Assessment
02.2019 - 09.2020
Deputy Director Communications and Implementation
Office of Assessment
07.2018 - 02.2019
SHSAT School Day Manager
Office of Assessment
06.2017 - 07.2018
STEM Assessments Manager
Office of Assessment
01.2014 - 06.2017
Math Common Core Reviewer
NYC Department of Education
10.2012 - 01.2014
Math Intervention Specialist
PS 170
09.2011 - 06.2012
Teacher
PS 170
09.2003 - 01.2014
Master of Science - Elementary Math Education
Brooklyn College
Master of Science - Childhood Education
Fordham University
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science, Communications
Fordham University
Master in Public Policy -
University of Massachusetts