Meet Ms. Tomasello

Kirsten Tomasello is a dedicated first grade teacher at Shoemaker Elementary School. She graduated from Gettysburg College with a BA in Business and worked in the business world for many years. After staying home a few years with her twins, she returned to school at Muhlenberg College to pursue an Elementary Teaching Certification. Ms. Tomasello started her teaching career as a long term Substitute in Kindergaten at EPSD's former Kindergarten Center. From there she was a long term substitute at Lincoln Elementary in EPSD in 5th grade.  Then she moved to her current home, Shoemaker Elementary. Ms. Tomasello was a 5th grade teacher for 4 years and then moved to her true love, 1st grade. She was privileged to loop from 1st to 2nd grade one year with her entire class giving her a unique experience to see how students develop and grow over two school years. This changed her perspective on how her first graders need to grow and what they are capable of.  

Teaching is a second career for Ms. Tomasello, but she feels it is her true calling. She has a love of learning and has completed her Master's Degree in Early Childhood Literacy through Wilkes University and continues learning by taking graduate school classes of interest.

When she's not teaching, Ms. Tomasello loves spending time with her family. Her daughter, Adrianna, lives and works on Capital Hill in DC and her son, Alex, lives outside of Philadelphia and works for Deloitte in Center City. Although her twins are young adults and on their own, they enjoy spending time together at the beach and mountains with her parents and sister and her family.  In her free time, Ms. Tomasello enjoys reading all kinds of books especially historical fiction, spending time with good friends and family, hiking, and going to the beach.