Dave Weinreb

Dave Weinreb (he/him) currently serves as the Magnet Resource Teacher at Elm City Montessori School as well as an executive board member of the New Haven Federation of Teachers. Since moving to New Haven in 2015 he has taught 5th grade Spanish-speaking newcomers, led teams to develop schoolyard habitats, stewarded a neighborhood door-to-door vaccination campaigns and community blood drives, founded the City of New Haven’s LGBTQ Youth Task Force, participated as a Board Member of the Fair Haven Community Management Team, co-founded CodeHaven, helped steward Fair Haven Arts and Ideas festivals, and served as adjunct faculty at Relay Graduate School of Education and Quinnipiac University’s School of Education.

Previously, he worked in a variety of founding roles at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School in Washington Heights, NYC. He earned his M.Ed. in School Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University., M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, bilingual/TESOL cross endorsement via ARCTELL, and B.A. in History and Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dave, his wife Marlene, toddlers Dalia and Jude live in and love Fair Haven. Dave is bilingual in Spanish and English, and enjoys sharing about summer working in Panamanian public schools and his year working with an HIV-prevention project for injecting drug users in Mumbai, India.