The Education Advisory Council (EAC) is comprised of heads of the public, parochial and independent school systems in the New York metropolitan area. The mission of the EAC is to provide a forum for a dialogue between leading educators and mental health professionals to develop and share new techniques for removing barriers to learning for students in different types of educational settings.

Education Advisory Council

Marcia V. Lyles, Ed.D.
Deputy Chancellor
Office of Teaching and Learning
NYC Department of Education

Beth Beckmann
Interim Head of School
Ethical Culture Fieldston School

Scott Bezsylko
Headmaster
Winston Preparatory School

Bonnie Brown
Superintendent
District 75

Ellanor N. Brizendine
Head of School
The Spence School

Linda Gibbs
Head of School
The Hewitt School

Mark Griffin, Ph.D.
Headmaster
Eagle Hill School

Patricia T. Hayot, Ph.D.
Head of School
The Chapin School

B.H. Henrichsen
Headmaster
Robert Louis Stevenson School

Catherine Hickey, Ph.D.
Secretary of Education/Superintendent of Schools,
Archdiocese of New York

Stephanie J. Hull, Ph.D.
Head of School
The Brearley School

Dorothy A. Hutcheson, Ed.D.
Head of School
The Nightingale Bamford School

Stuart H. Johnson III
Headmaster
St. Bernard's School

Robert Lauder
Principal
The Friends Seminary

Christopher Marblo
Head of School
The Town School

Michael V. McGill, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
Scarsdale Union Free School District

Rosemary Milliman, Ph.D.
Lower School Principal
Trinity School

Marjorie Robbins
Director
9/11 School Recovery Program
District 2

John Jay Russell, Ed.D.
Head of School
Windward School

Rabbi Martin Schloss
Director of the Division of School Services
Board of Jewish Education

Nancy Schulman
Director
92nd Street Y Nursery School

Richard J. Soghoian, Ph.D.
Headmaster
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory

Andrea Spencer, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Bank Street College of Education

Lydia Spinelli, Ed.D.
Director
The Brick Church School

Ellen Stein
Head of School
The Dalton School

David R. Trower
Headmaster
The Allen Stevenson School

Lawrence S. Weiss, Ph.D.
Head of School
Saint Ann's School

Honorary EAC Members

Anthony Alvarado
University of San Diego

Priscilla Winn Barlow, Ph.D.
Former Head of School
The Brearley School

Edes P. Gilbert

Francine Goldstein

Judith Hochman, Ed.D.
Former Superintendent of Schools
Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District

Harold O. Levy
Senior Vice President
Kaplan, Inc.

Sandra Theunick
Former Head of School at The Chapin School