2nd Grade
At PS 8 since 2005
A Brooklyn Heights native, Jessica Levy earned a degree in communications at Boston University, then worked in advertising and marketing before deciding that she wanted a more rewarding career. “I have always related well with children,” she says. So she returned to school to study literacy. While pursuing her master’s at Brooklyn College, she was an assistant teacher at The Packer Collegiate Institute, a private school in Brooklyn Heights. She joined the PS 8 faculty as a regular substitute in 2004, and became full-time in 2005. Ms. Levy particularly enjoys teaching children to read: “It’s so exciting to watch it ‘click’ for a child, and so much fun getting the kids excited to learn.”
Ms. Levy says she loves the warmth of the PS 8 community, and enjoys living in Brooklyn Heights, in part because it reminds her that the relationships she forms with her students are likely to continue even after they leave her classroom. (While out and about in the neighborhood, she often bumps into kids from school, and they invariably run up to give her a hug.) In her free time, she enjoys live music, the theater and movies, and spending time with friends and family on Long Island’s North Fork.
