Vincenzo LaRuina
I am currently a fifth grade teacher in Bay Shore with 11 years of experience. Before becoming a teacher, I studied psychology and elementary education at SUNY Geneseo and photography at FIT. After graduating college, I worked at an advertising agency in NYC for two years, where we created print, radio, and TV advertising for Advil. I then became a math and science teacher in Queens, as part of the NYC Teaching Fellows Program. After a year, I was hired at Gardiner Manor School in Bay Shore, where I happily reside. While at Gardiner Manor, I've travelled to Japan to visit schools in Tokyo and Hiroshima. I also visited polar bears in Canada and received over a dozen grants from small and large organizations for projects ranging from an Italian club to clay animation projects and extra field trips.
