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Carol B. Hillman, M.S.Ed., M.Ed.
Vice President, Resident Agent
Director 2004-2010
Early Childhood Teacher Educator and Author
New Salem, Massachusetts
Harrison, New York
Carol currently serves as an Educational Consultant, which includes online consultation with early childhood students at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. She was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Early Childhood Education at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. Carol has also served as a consultant in early childhood centers in Newburgh, New York. She was the lead teacher for the four-year-old classroom at The Westchester Ethical Culture Nursery School in White Plains, New York for twenty years. Phi Delta Kappa has published her first two books: Teaching Four-Year-Olds: A Personal Journey, and Before The School Bell Rings. Her third book, Mentoring Early Childhood Educators: A Handbook for Supervisors, Administrators and Teachers was published by Heinemann in 2006. Carol has had numerous articles published by the newsletter Parent and Preschooler. Some of the subjects include: Finding and Promoting the Positives in Your Preschooler's Behavior, and Making the Ordinary Extraordinary. Her first book, Teaching Four-Year-Olds: A Personal Journey, will be republished by Exchange Press in 2009.
Carol formerly served as the alumni representative on the Board of Trustees at Bank Street College of Education, and presently serves as co-chair of The Westchester Alumni Group. She has spearheaded the reintroduction of The Long Trip at the college, a concept introduced in the 1930's. Then, students were taken by bus to visit various parts of the country to learn about a particular culture first hand through meeting the people and learning what problems they face in their daily lives. Now, alumni, faculty and friends of Bank Street travel both nationally and internationally to study both educational and humanitarian issues. Carol is currently a Board Member of Bank Street's Division of Continuing Education's Council of Friends, and a writer for Bank Street's newsletter for The Center for Early Childhood Professionals. Carol is a current member of The Professional Advisory Board of The Child Development Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.
Carol is also involved in agriculture, having restored two one hundred year old orchards in western Massachusetts, as well as manufacturing cider and solar-cooked strawberry, raspberry and blueberry preserves.