Teaching, Coaching, Advising, and Learning: U. Penn Teaching Fellows Join The Lawrenceville School Faculty

Five new University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) Independent School Teaching Residency Fellows will join The Lawrenceville School faculty this fall. These early-career educators are earning their Master of Science in Education degrees while completing an intensive, two-year teaching fellowship at Lawrenceville.

The Fellows work under the guidance of experienced Lawrenceville faculty mentors as teachers and coaches or by assisting with community service initiatives. Each Fellow is assigned to a House, where they learn about—and become an integral part of—Lawrenceville's residential life program. In addition to their responsibilities on campus, the Fellows are studying at Penn, where they are learning—and bringing back to Lawrenceville—the latest research on effective teaching practices.

 

B.A. in Mathematics and Education Studies, Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, Ava Kennon served as a math fellow, tutor, and grader, working with first-year calculus students. In 2025, she was selected for the SMALL Undergraduate Research Project where she collaborated with a team of undergraduates to co-author a paper submitted to Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory. She also presented her research at the Young Mathematicians Conference.

In July 2024, Kennon taught introductory algebra and geometry to international students ages 14 and 15, developed lesson plans, and organized/led a mathematics competition at the conclusion of the program.

Faith Park, History Department
B.A. in Government, minor in Economics, with a Korean Language Citation, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

Faith Park served most recently as a government affairs and effective practices intern with the National Head Start Association and as a communications and culture education consultant for Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2025, she received a Harvard STAD Fellowship, which supports undergraduate students pursuing full-time summer work in government. Through the fellowship, she worked as a summer intern in the office of Katherine Clark, the Democratic Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives.

As an undergraduate, Park captained Harvard's fencing team and was a four-time Team USA Junior World Team member, winning silver and bronze medals at the Fencing World Championships. She was also an eight-time U.S. national champion and the nation's top-ranked junior women's épée fencer. Her additional fencing honors include the 2025 Ivy League championship, the 2024 NCAA national championship, and the 2023 NCAA regional bronze medal and Second Team All-America recognition.

 

BA. in Psychology & Education and English, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.)

Cameran Steiger joins Lawrenceville after graduating from Mount Holyoke College, where she completed the College's Teacher Licensure Program as part of her studies. Through the program, she served as a full-time eleventh grade English language arts teacher in the Holyoke Public Schools, working under the mentorship of an experienced educator during the spring of 2026. While at Mount Holyoke, Steiger also served as a senior admission ambassador.

Steiger has held summer teaching positions at Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.), Northfield Mount Hermon (Mount Hermon, Mass.), and, most recently, The Taft School (Watertown, Conn.). Across those schools, she taught middle school humanities, forensic science, public speaking, and English while also serving as an athletic coach, club advisor, and dorm parent.

 

B.A. in Neuroscience; minors in Chemistry and Education Studies, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)

Alyse Wicentowski joins Lawrenceville after graduating from Wesleyan University, where she served as a Teaching Fellow for the National Education Opportunity Network (NEON) and as a teaching assistant for the Chemistry Department. She also completed specialized coursework in chemical demonstrations, gaining experience communicating scientific concepts by presenting weekly live demonstrations. In her role with NEON, she facilitated discussion sections for Wesleyan’s Introduction to Psychology course and led lab sessions for Introduction to Computer Programming for students from underserved high schools.

Wicentowski spent five summers as a counselor for high-school-aged campers at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. Through the National Ramah Organization, she attended several leadership conferences and served as a college network coordinator for Wesleyan’s Ramah community.

 

M.A. in Spanish Language and Culture, University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain); B.A. in Philosophy and History, minors in French and Spanish (Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.)

 

Peter S. Wolff recently completed the Teaching Assistant in France Certificate through the University of Paris Nanterre (Paris, France), teaching English to middle school students in Bordeaux, France. He spent a year as an assistant librarian at Regis High School (New York, N.Y.), where he also served as head junior varsity basketball coach. Wolff has also been a summer teaching intern at Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.), teaching middle and high school courses. While an undergraduate at Fordham, he served as a senior residential life assistant and a strength and conditioning intern.