Welcome New Faculty: Mr. Benjamin Bailey

Riverdale Review: What brought you to Riverdale and what was your previous job?

Mr. Benjamin Bailey: What brought me to Riverdale was absolutely the culture that I experienced in my interview. Specifically, the idea that it’s experiential was a big deal, and so even in my interview, I actually had students experiencing something in my demo lesson. To answer the second part of the question, I came from a non-profit, called “Teaching Matters,” and…I was an educational consultant there, so the department of education would contract us to go into schools all across the city to work with teachers who are presently teaching both middle and high school classes. So I was working with teachers anywhere from sixth grade mathematics all the way through potentially calculus.

RR: What is one thing all students or teachers should know about you?

BB: My favorite place in the world is the Finger Lakes Region.