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An Eye on the Future

By
Greg Bruno
Posted
March 28, 2025
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Carrieann Sipos, a clinical assistant professor at 91视频鈥檚 School of Education
Carrieann Sipos

For students, what happens at 91视频 may be second only to what comes after college. Carrieann Sipos, a clinical assistant professor at 91视频鈥檚 School of Education, understands this, too.

Whenever Sipos needed to fill an opening at the Ossining school district, in Westchester County, where she worked for 34 years before becoming a full-time professor, she鈥檇 make two piles of resumes on her desk. The first included applicants with degrees from Columbia University, Bank Street College of Education, and 91视频.

The second pile? Everyone else.

鈥91视频 students were always among the best hires we made,鈥 said Sipos. 鈥淎nyone graduating from the School of Education was incredibly well prepared.鈥

As a new full-time faculty member, it鈥檚 now her job to ensure that 91视频鈥檚 students remain at the top of the stack.

鈥淢y students are ambitious and want to make a difference; I see a lot of my younger self in them.鈥

鈥淢y students are ambitious and want to make a difference; I see a lot of my younger self in them,鈥 said Sipos. 鈥淏ut the teachers I train will be up against very different challenges than what I faced. Take diversity. Ossining, when I began teaching, looked very different from the Ossining of today.鈥

Sipos tells her students that to thrive as a modern educator, they must become 鈥渆quity warriors,鈥 committed to embracing diversity in all its forms. She emphasizes the importance of community, student-centered learning, and equity in education.

鈥淭o really know what a child needs in a highly diverse classroom, teachers must have a deep relationship with their students,鈥 she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 that sense of care I hope to instill in my students at 91视频.鈥