Estelle
Leavitt
, MEd, CAGS
Professor of Education; Chair, Education Department
Department:
Education
Location:
Elliott House
107
Degrees
BA, Queens College; MEd, Westfield State College; CAGS and Doctoral Study: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Contact
Phone: 413.565.1227
Email: eleavitt@baypath.edu
Profile
Estelle S. Leavitt, MEd, CAGS, is professor and chair of education at Bay Path College. As department chair, Leavitt works with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to ensure program quality and excellence in teacher training. In addition, she teaches education courses and helps her students with the licensure process so they can obtain teaching positions upon graduation.
Leavitt has served Bay Path for 20 years, and she brings more than a decade of prior experience as a teacher and preschool director. She started her career as a classroom teacher in New York City and taught in Belchertown, MA public schools. She also worked as a preschool teacher and was an associate director of an early childhood center. She worked as a consultant for the Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, where she developed and taught workshops for teachers, primarily in reading and language arts and mathematics. Today, she teaches courses and works with student teachers, and is working with the Massachusetts DESE as part of a pilot program to develop and test the DESE college program approval process.
A graduate of Westfield State College, Leavitt received her master of education in moderate special needs and was named the recipient of the Teacher Competency Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Education. She earned her certificate of advanced graduate studies in teacher education and school improvement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Leavitt earned her baccalaureate in education and psychology from Queens College in New York, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She holds licensure as a teacher in kindergarten through eighth grade and as a teacher of students with moderate special needs in kindergarten through eighth grade, granted by the Massachusetts DESE. She also holds licenses as a pre-kindergarten teacher and director, which were granted by the Massachusetts Office of Early Education and Care.
Leavitt is a member of the Massachusetts Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Massachusetts Association of Early Childhood Teacher Education. She serves on several committees at Bay Path.
