Jacqueline Israel has been the co-director of the Early Childhood Center since September 2000. She holds as B.A. in Early Childhood Education from Brooklyn College and holds an M.S. in Special Education from the College of Staten Island. Jaci enjoys an extended relationship with the Early Childhood Center where she began her teaching career in 1986 and continued to serve as Co-Director of the Lower Day Camp each summer. She has coordinated Early Childhood programs for several non-profit agencies and initiated the Project Reach Youth Universal Pre-K Program. She has additionally worked extensively with elementary age students with learning disabilities as a teacher at the Mary McDowell Center for Learning and as an Orton-Gillingham tutor.