Coleen Carroll

Colleen Carroll is the Lower School director of curriculum and instruction. Before taking on this role, Colleen spent seven years at The Leffell School as a literacy enrichment specialist. In that role, she crafted a brilliantly creative curriculum and inspired hundreds of students to think critically, read carefully, write expressively, and generally love learning. Prior to joining The Leffell School, Colleen was a curriculum director for Edison Schools, a network of charter and district-partnership schools. She has held teaching positions at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, The Masters School, and Frank D. Parent Elementary School (California). She holds an undergraduate degree from Ithaca College and graduate degrees in education from Fordham University and UCLA. Colleen is the author of How Artists See, a 20-volume children’s art appreciation series that is sold worldwide (a student of ours was thrilled one summer to spot a book by his teacher on display in the gift shop of the Louvre in Paris!). She also creates educational content for clients including the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Nickelodeon, USA Today, major children’s book publishers, and several children’s book authors. A gardener, art lover, and collector of vintage quilts and jewelry, Colleen and her husband, Mitch, have three daughters and live in Chappaqua, New York.