No Down Time in Christine Barresi’s Classroom
There’s never any “down time” in Christine Barresi’s sixth grade classroom at Woodhull Intermediate School. She keeps her students busy and they love learning so many new things and all the activity each new day brings.
Mrs. Barresi has been on the Huntington School District’s faculty for more than 20 years. She obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in elementary education at Adelphi University, earning Dean’s list honors. She also has a degree in interior design.
The road to Huntington began for Mrs. Barresi as a second grade teacher at St. John’s Lutheran School in Glendale, Queens. She later moved to the New Hyde Park/Garden City Park school district as an “extended readiness” teacher before coming aboard as a sixth grade teacher at Flower Hill School in 1987
In 1992 Mrs. Barresi moved over to Washington School to work as a fifth grade teacher under then principal and now district Superintendent John J. Finello. When the district reconfigured its elementary schools in 1995, Mrs. Barresi transferred to Southdown School, where she again led a fifth grade classroom. Another reconfiguration brought her to Woodhull School, where she has worked on the fifth and sixth grade levels.
In addition to teaching at Woodhull, Mrs. Barresi has been a student council faculty advisor and worked in the after school extra help program for the past two years. The longtime faculty member is married to retired Huntington principal Anthony Barresi. The couple recently volunteered at the Woodhull PTA’s Pasta Night with Mrs. Barresi manning a refreshments table and Mr. Barresi in the kitchen filling orders for student waiters.
“Christine has been a wonderful teacher in our schools and has approached her work with enthusiasm, dedication and good humor,” Mr. Finello said. “She’s always ready to pitch in and help make her school a better place for students.”
One of the veteran Huntington educator’s favorite quotes comes from prominent 19th century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin who said “It is a painful, continual and difficult work; to be done by kindness and by watching, by warning, by precept and by praise - but above all - by example.”
“Christine is a wonderful teacher and an even better person,” Woodhull Principal Jarrett Stein said. “She is a child advocate and goes beyond the call of duty for her students. She is a dedicated professional and person who can be counted on. Mrs. Barresi has the respect of her students, colleagues, parents and principal. She is an excellent role model for her students and someone they can talk to about anything. When I think of Christine Barresi, the first word that comes to my mind is ‘class.’
When not in the classroom, Mrs. Barresi loves to play golf, garden and travel.
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