Margaret Leventhal

A dynamic leader passionate about language arts, equity, and eradicating the achievement gap for marginalized learners by elevating instructional best practice.

State Certified ACEs Trainer

2019 Unlock Learning Conference; Keynote Speaker, Omaha Literacy Conference, 2019, 2020; NJFEA Conference, 2019.

Within NJ: Building Self Healing Communities, PBL, Digital Literacy, Student-Centered Learning, SEL, Trauma Informed Teaching and more.

District-Wide :Explicit Literacy Instruction; Thought and Talk in the Literacy Classroom; Conferring with Students; Assessment in Balanced Literacy; Student Goal Setting; Gamification and many more.

2018 Governor's Teacher of the Year Award

Completed 600 hours of Administrative activities through Ed.S Leadership Internship

Co-Chair, Academic Advisory Council; Chaired Growth mindset Committee 2017/2018

Consistently chosen for district committees to choose curricular programs, redesign assessments, and more.

Member of District Equity Committee, 2017 - 2020

Wrote reading, writing, and social studies curricula, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020

Received 6 grants between 2013 and 2020.

Driving Our Children To Lifelong Reading (Oct.9, 2017) Nerdy Book club

Six Ways to Maximize Turn and Talks (Oct.16, 2018) Medium

Five Steps To Safeguard Teacher Efficacy (September 18, 2019) Medium

NJ Elementary K-8 Teacher's Certification