Jenna Pettinicchi

Jenna received a MSED in Early Childhood Education from Dominican University and a MSED in Early Childhood Leadership from Bank Street College. She is certified in birth to second grade and has extensive experience in the early childhood field as a teacher, education director, trainer, coach, mentor and program director. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, supervision and management, Head Start and Early Head Start programming, birth to five programming and quality improvement. In addition to teaching as part-time faculty at CUNY School of Professional Studies, she is also currently a Regional Quality Improvement Coordinator for QUALITYstarsNY, NY state's quality rating and improvement system for early childhood programs, and serves on the Board for NYAEYC, the NY Chapter of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.