The Learning Hub

The Learning Hub

Burbank Staff

Kindergarten

Kindergarten Teachers

  • Melissa Chalmers

  • Wendy Hurwitz

  • Jen McKenzie

Kindergarten Professional Aides and Classroom Assistants

  • Olivia Hardy - Chalmers 

  • Jeanne Crisafi - Hurwitz

  • Leah Packard - Hurwitz

  • Dong Lee - McKenzie

  • Niki Colombo- McKenzie

Grade 1

Grade 1 Teachers

  • Isabelle Boniface

  • Hannah Kulik

  • Diana Sidman

Grade 1 Professional Aides and Classroom Assistants

  • Kate Sacca - Kulik

Grade 2

Grade 2 Teachers

  • Patrick Mongeau

  • Brianna Normile

  • Elise Smith

Grade 2 Professional Aides and Classroom Assistants

  • Jackie Hardy-Mongeau

  • Elaine Arvanitis-Normile

  • TBD - Elise Smith


Grade 3

Grade 3 Teachers

  • Sarah Pierson

  • Janet Flaherty

  • Lisa O’Sullivan

School Psychologist

  • Kim Kost Okitsu 

School Counselor

  • Kristin Romig 

Resource Teachers

  • Maria Bonfiglio

  • Stephanie Spencer

Related Services

  • Madeline Piela-S/L 

  • Jen Sims- OT

  • Jen Richards- PT

Inclusion Specialist

  • Joy Kucinkas


Specialists

Art - Elizabeth Sobkiw-Williams

Music - Shannon Sinclair

PE - Aimee Doherty, Wayne Franey

Library - Barbara Watson

English Language - Jen Karigianis, Eunbee Noh

Reading - Laura Edmonds

Math - Erin Collins

Team Chair - Jeff Forti

School Nurse

  • Becca Berger

Administrative Assistant

  • Melissa Boucher

Custodians

  • Divino Roza 

  • Mafran DaSilva


Kitchen Staff

  • Suna Cinar

  • Michael Pearson

  • Natasha Vazquez

Lunch Aides

  • Ani Yildirim

  • Kathy Mann

  • Stephanie Guler

  • Makbule Sahin


Technology Resources for Families

Math

Dreambox  is an adaptive, individualized math program that is aligned with state standards in a gaming environment.

Reading

Lexia is a comprehensive technology-based literacy program that extends learning for students who are advanced and accelerates learning for students who struggle. It’s an all-in-one package that seamlessly integrates into the classroom.

Books

Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.

Learning

Epic is an award-winning subscription service, which gives millions of families and classrooms instant, unlimited access to thousands of books, videos and quizzes from leading publishers to help kids everywhere read, learn and grow.

Tutorials

Family Technology Resources. This site has many helpful tutorials for remote, hybrid and in classroom learning at Belmont Public Schools.

@belmontschools.net

Every Belmont Public Schools student now has a belmontschools.net account which is used to log into Chromebooks (grades 3-12), or iPads (K-2) Google Apps, GMail, and other programs as determined by your child’s school this fall.

To access your student’s account information, please do the following

1. Log into PlusPortals with your email address at:  Plus Portals
Note: if you have not as yet activated your account, please do so using the instructions found in the activation e-mail sent recently from: Messenger.   If you have difficulty activating your account, contact IT Support (Email Student Support), please include your student's full name and the school they attend.

2. Once you have logged in, select the "More…” button and then choose “School” and then “Demographics”.  You will find your student’s username and password there.