Sally Booth, Associate Director of Research, Curriculum, and Professional Development at the Ross Institute Academy, has worked to organize professional development with resptect to curriculum and pedagogy at Ross School and its affiliates, Ross Global Academy in New York City, Ross Tensta Gymnasium in Sweden, and at Riverview Charter School in South Carolina. Sally Booth holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD in Anthropology from City University of New York. She has received various grants and awards, including a Fulbright Award for graduate study and Wenner Gren Foundation research grant. Her 
research interests include immigration, architecture, and the application of anthropology to precollegiate education. Her most recent publication, Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington, 2007), co-authored with Jeffrey Cole, examines the contours and consequences of immigrant work in rural and urban Sicily. Dr. Booth taught at Fordham University, Suffolk Community College, and the Friends World Program at Long Island University before joining the Ross School in 2000 to teach Anthropology and Cultural History. Dr. Booth is a member of the Anthropology and Education Committee of the American Anthropological Association. She was the 2006 recipient of the Courtney Sale Ross Award for Teaching Excellence. Earlier, Suffolk County Community College recognized her with the Honors Society teaching award.

Jennifer Cross is an artist, educator, curator, and writer on art who has taught art at Ross School since 1994. She earned a BFA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Prior to Ross School, Ms. Cross taught art at Long Island University, Suffolk Community College and the Victor D'Amico Institute of Art. She helped develop the Ross Visual Art curriculum and has served as Chair of the Visual Art Domain since 1996. Jennifer Cross has received a number of awards for her art, including a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Ford Foundation. For six years Ms. Cross served as the Director and Curator of the East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, curating over 30 exhibitions. Ms. Cross has been a presenter at the conferences of the National Art Education Association for the past 10 years and has given workshops on teaching methods and Visual Arts at Tensta Gymnasium in Sweden. She was the 2008 recipient of the Courtney Sale Ross Award for Teaching Excellence.

Liz Dobbs studied at the New York Restaurant School and owned a high-volume restaurant in New York City. Ms. Dobbs has been part of the Ross School Café team for ten years and the Chef de Cuisine since 2006. She enjoys inspiring children and young adults to think about food, both culturally and nutritionally, and has witnessed how mindful eating can positively impact their development. Liz has presented workshops on healthy school food to teachers from Tensta Gymnasium in Sweden and Ross Global Academy in New York City. 

Patricia Lein has taught science for the past 20 years, at all grade levels from kindergarten through 12th grade in private school settings. She helped design and implement several high school programs during this time. Ms. Lein did her undergraduate work at Cornell University where she majored in biology and human service studies. She earned a graduate degree in science education at Columbia Teacher's College and holds a MBA in organizational psychology and development. Since 2007 Ms. Lein has been the Chair of the Science Domain at Ross School, in addition to teaching 10th Grade Integrated Science.  Ms. Lein is an active member of the accreditation committees of NYSAIS.  She has also done curriculum review for NSpires, a division of NASA. She has also given workshops on teaching methods, Science, and Service Learning at Tensta Gymnasium in Sweden.

Frances McArthur has a BA from Wells College, a Masters from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Administration and Educational Policy from Hofstra University. For much of her career, Ms. McArthur taught International Baccalaureate and AP English as well as humanities at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, where she was chairman of the English Department. After two years as Chair of English at the American School of Madrid, she returned to Long Island in 2002 to teach English and Cultural History to middle school students at the Ross School.

Debra McCall is an Associate Director of the Ross Institute Academy and formerly Dean of Cultural History and Director for Curriculum at Ross School, East Hampton, NY, where she also taught World Dance, Choreography and coordinated Senior Projects. Debra earned a BS in psychology and child studies from Tufts University, an MA in education from New York University, and a CMA in Movement Analysis from the Laban Institute for Movement Studies (LIMS), where she is a Senior Research Associate. She has served as Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Graduate Programs in arts, therapies and education at New York University, Adelphi University and Pratt Institute, where she was also Mellon Lecturer, and at Art Therapy Italiana, Bologna, Italy, where she is an Honorary Board Member. She has taught elementary age special needs, middle, high school and graduate university level students. Her reconstructions of the 1920s Bauhaus Dances of Oskar Schlemmer garnered international tours and a citation from the American Dance Film Festival. Her writing on the subject was included in Oxford Press's International Encyclopedia of Dance and in the catalogue for the exhibition "Oskar Schlemmer." A recipient of the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome, she was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and grants from the NYS Council on the Arts and NY Foundation for the Arts. Ms. McCall’s kinesthetic lesson on Roman architecture for the Ross School was included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Annenberg/CPB documentary “The Mind’s Intelligences” with Howard Gardner. She has been with the Ross Institute since 2006.

Maria Maciak, Media Director at the Ross Institute, is an educator and a video artist. Ms. Maciak co-founded the Media Studies program at the Ross School where she served as faculty member for eight years. She authored and applied a progressive series of digital filmmaking curricula and integrated media projects weaving history of media and contemporary media issues. Her students have been recognized by PBS Independent Lens, in the archives of the Museum of Radio and Television, and won awards in the Native American Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the United Nations Film Festival. Ms. Maciak's work as producer, camera operator, film/video editor included projects for Bravo Television, PBS, Phoenix Films, Charlex and Polish Television. Ms. Maciak's documentary Departed for Damascus, screened at the 2009 Asian & Arab Film Festival, is part of a student dialogue between the Ross School and Native Without A Nation, a grassroots support group for Iraqi refugees in Syria. Ms. Maciak has produced numerous films about the Ross Educational Model and is currently developing interactive content for the Ross Institute website.

Urban Reininger studied biology and chemistry at SUNY-Purchase for his undergraduate degree.  Since then, his focus has been on technology.  He is the Director of Technology Integration at the Ross School where he has taught since 1996. Mr. Reininger’s insatiable appetite for discovering new ways to integrate technology into all aspects of student learning has led to his goals of changing the current perception of technology in the classroom and empowering students in their individual learning processes. In classroom teaching, his approach is student-centered, encouraging students to learn how to think independently and work collaboratively to discover their own solutions. Mr. Reininger also facilitates the integration of technology at the Ross Schools by providing professional development programs and working with teachers in the classroom. In addition to basic classes about technology, Urban teachesstudents about programming, architectural modeling, and website design. He has shared his ideas and insights of technology integration at professional conferences and at the Ross Global Academy in New York City and Tensta Gymnasium in Sweden.

Bryan Rosenberg earned an undergraduate degree in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a masters degree in communications and education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. While teaching third and fifth grades at The School at Columbia University, Mr. Rosenberg helped design curriculum for elementary and middle school teachers. He speaks, reads, and writes fluently in Spanish, having lived and studied in Costa Rica, where he was a founding member of the Costa Rican Exchange Program and was honored as an Earth Time Scholar for his work educating fourth graders about the ecosystem and biodiversity of the Costa Rican tropical rainforests. Mr. Rosenberg also taught Hebrew, Hebrew prayers, and a seminar on Jewish ethics to fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students. He joined Ross School as a technology integrator, and has also taught as a Cultural History teacher at Ross Global Academy in New York City. He is Director of Curriculum at Ross Global Academy for the Ross Institute Academy.

Junellen Tiska received a BS in art education and an MS in elementary education from Long Island University, Southampton. She has permanent New York State teaching certification and has taught and designed curricula in many disciplines and domains over the past twenty-plus years. She has taught at all levels of pre-collegiate and collegiate education, and covered such diverse topics as math, art, photography and science. Ms. Tiska spent 18 years at the Hampton Day School/Morriss Center as a classroom core teacher, division coordinator and faculty representative to the Board of Trustees. She taught third grade at Ross Lower School and was the 2007 recipient of the Courtney Sale Ross Award for Teaching Excellence. Junellen is the Associate Director of the Ross Institute Academy.