Meet the Team
Dedicated & Certified
WELCOME

Christopher Marroquin
Family Liaison

Principal
Principal
Principal Jess is a graduate of the BPS and has nearly two decades of experience teaching and leading in BPS. She is a life-long learner and holds degrees from Smith College, UMASS Boston, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about the Montessori method because she believes that the student-centered, inquiry-based, holistic approach of Montessori classrooms allows for deep student engagement, rigorous critical thinking, and social/emotional development.

Jessica Gorham Cronin
Principal

Principal
Principal
Cassandra Shelton has 10+ years of school administrator experience and has been a spirited team member at the Alighieri since 2019. Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Management from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she studied voice, sang in the GSU Women's Choir, and was an on-air DJ for WRAS 88.5 FM, She is passionate about music, theatre, the environment, traveling, spreading joy, and loves spending time with her family – which includes three young children of her own, and a very energetic standard poodle named Rudolph. Cassandra lives in East Boston and would love for you to say hello if you see her around the neighborhood.

Cassandra Shelton
Principal Clerk

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Patsy Perry-Pratt
School Nurse
Wanny Pimentel
Social Worker
Eddie Nunziato
Facilities Managment
CHILDREN'S HOUSE

Cassondra Basile
Lead Teacher

Angela Sicuranza
Paraprofessional

Mary Ramirez
Lead Teacher

Stephanie Gonzalez
Paraprofessional
SCHOOL HOUSE

Achala Godino
Lower Elementary

Mary Evelyn Lucier
Lower Elementary

Lisa Schad
Upper El, Math

Rosanna Doucette
Upper El, Humanities
SPECIALISTS

Meredith Hubbell
ESL + Literacy Specialist

Joanne McKoy-Lawrence
Lower El Specialist

Becky Connolly
Children's House Specialist

Kate Scheid
Special Education
ENRICHMENT
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Joshua Hardester
Physical Education

Science Teacher

Kelly Pry
Music Teacher
Pam Foggo
SUPPORT TEAM

Anna Esposito
Lunch Aid / Crossing Guard

Toni Fiorino
Lunch Aid

Koskia Lara
Cafeteria Manager