Administration

Lorayne Carbon, Director
lcarbon@slc.edu

Jan Drucker, Consultant
jdrucker@slc.edu

Shirley De Genova, Administrative Assistant
sdegen@slc.edu

Lead Teachers

Tricia Hanley
(914) 395-2353

Milagros Harper
(914) 395-2632

Robbin Hawkins
(914) 395-2353

Sarah Mathews
(914) 395-2353

Sonna Schupak
(914) 395-2632

Susan Schwimmer
(914) 395-2353

Claudia Sussman
(914) 395-2353

Lorayne Carbon, M.S., Ed, Bank Street College of Education. SLC (2003-present). Carbon comes to the ECC from the Virginia Marx Children’s Center at Westchester Community College in Valhalla where she was education coordinator since 1996. She has also been an adjunct professor of early childhood education and child development at Westchester Community College. For the last 19 years, Carbon has been an early childhood teacher and center director. She is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo and received her master’s degree from the Bank Street College of Education in New York City.

Jan Drucker, B.A., Radcliffe College, Ph.D., New York University. SLC psychology faculty (1972-present). Teaches both undergraduate psychology and graduate Art of Teaching courses. Former Director of the Child Development Institute. Areas of academic focus include developmental theory, development of personality, symbolization, narrative of life experience and the professional development of preschool and elementary teachers. Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, specializing in the development of normal and emotionally disturbed young children. Author and researcher on play and other symbolic processes and aspects of clinical practice.