All About Me--Mrs. Shugrue

Hello!
This 2023-2024 school year begins my 11th year teaching in our District and I am excited to be your teacher!

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, I attended college at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, majoring in Political Science. After college, I had a business career in Legal and Compliance, working for various law firms and investment companies in Manhattan.

Later on in my working years, I decided to return to Rider University and attended Graduate School (in the evenings) and became an Elementary School teacher and have loved every minute of working with children and collaborating with their parents/guardians!

Married to my college sweetheart (Dennis Shugrue), we moved to New Jersey before starting our family, and have raised our twin daughters here in a neighboring town to our District. Our daughters recently completed Graduate School and we are incredibly proud of them both. Lianna earned her Master's in Health Administration at Columbia University and Brittany became a Speech Language Pathologist by earning her Master's degree at Seton Hall University. Both of our daughters are now working in their fields of study and add much love to our home.

Our house is quite busy and our dog (Phoebe) adds much excitement to our family unit.

When not teaching, I enjoy attending musical theater shows, singing, bike riding, power walking, swimming in our pool, and spending time at the beach. Mostly, I enjoy spending quality time with Mr. Shugrue and our daughters, as well as traveling. This past summer I finally experienced my dream trip to Italy and it was truly life changing.

I am looking forward to a fabulous year with my Shugrue Crew students and families!

We will be embarking upon an incredible year of learning as 3rd grade is a pivotal year in which tremendous growth academically, socially, and emotionally occurs.

I thank you in advance for your patience and support as understandably, your child may meet challenges along the way but together as we work as a "home-school connection" I am confident we will support your children and help them each to achieve their Personal Best. Mostly, we will work together to keep them happy in 3rd grade!

With patience and optimism, let's have an awesomely productive year, together!

Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] and remember to follow us on Twitter too at @mrs_shugrue