Mrs. Rebecca Sasson

Rebecca Sasson joined Caskey Torah Academy in 2009 as a middle school language arts teacher. In addition to teaching, Mrs. Sasson evaluated and overhauled the school’s language arts curriculum and coordinated the school’s professional development program. In her role as professional development coordinator, Mrs. Sasson helped transform CTA into a learning organization by instituting professional learning communities, teacher mentoring, and peer coaching. She assumed the role of assistant principal for general studies in 2012 and principal for general studies in 2020.

Prior to her work at CTA, Mrs. Sasson was a Jewish education specialist at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where she taught Foundations of Education to graduate students preparing to become teachers in Jewish day schools. She is a co-author of The DeLet Alumni Survey: A Comprehensive Report on the Journey of Beginning Jewish Day School Teachers (2010) and a contributing researcher to The North American Study of Educators in Jewish Day and Congregational Schools (2007). Mrs. Sasson holds a master’s degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University, for which she received a Wexner Graduate Fellowship. Rebecca did her undergraduate work at Yale University in psychology and received her teacher certification at Southern Connecticut State University. She also spent a year interning and training at Feuerstein’s International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) in Jerusalem. Mrs. Sasson has taught in public and Jewish elementary and middle schools and in a preschool setting for developmentally delayed children.