Jeffrey Cipriani is a 2nd grade teacher at Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Boston Public Schools. Jeffrey transitioned from teaching high school after volunteering for one year at an after-school art program designed for primary school children in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Subsequent to that, he attended the Boston Teacher Residency, where he worked as a resident teacher at the Samuel W. Mason School in Roxbury, MA. In addition to his responsibilities as a teacher, Jeffrey is the K-2 literacy team facilitator and a facilitator of the Teacher Leader Cohort at Orchard Gardens. He holds a BS in Teaching English from New York University and an MEd from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.