Coordinator, Monterey COE Teacher Residency at Alder GSE
jfigliomeni@montereycoe.org

Pronouns: she/her

Jennifer E. Figliomeni, aka Fig, began her career in education as a Grade 9 teacher at Marathon High School in Marathon, Ontario, Canada.  After teaching Career Studies, Geography, & P.E. there, she moved to Chicago and spent a decade teaching various grade levels for CPS, (Chicago Public Schools), mainly in socio- and culturally-diverse and underserved neighbourhoods.  Fig has taught elementary, middle, and high school, served as an instructional coach, an ELD TOSA, a Langague and Literacy, History & Social Sciences Program Coordinator, and is now the Teacher Residency Program Coordinator at the Monterey County Office of Education.  She has also instructed several courses with Alder, including ED 230, ED 231M, and ED 205. 

Fig earned a B.A. in Psychology and History from Lake Forest College, a B.Ed. in Elementary Education K-9 from Lakehead University, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and ESL at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Ed.D. in Reading and Literacy from Capella University.

Having been born and raised in Northwestern Ontario, Fig is pretty much done with the cold and snow and moved to California for the yearlong sunny weather.  She enjoys taking walks on the beach with her pup, Lucia, reading, Pilates, watching movies, and travelling.