Emmanuel Appiah joined the Maury community in 2016. He grew up in Woodbridge Virginia, and received both his BA in Mass Communications from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2014 and MAT in early childhood education from the Relay Graduate School of Education in 2019. He has been teaching for 8 years in the […]
Category Archives: PreS/PreK
Bettina Schewe | Aide (PK3)
Bettina Schewe (aka “Ms. Bettina”) has worked as an Educational Aide at John Lewis ES for the past two years. Previously she served as the Library/Technology Aide at Brent ES. Bettina grew up in Germany where she obtained a law degree. In 1996 she moved to Washington, DC. When her daughter started preschool in 2006, […]
Rachel Austin | Special Education
Pre-K & Kindergarten Rachel Austin joined the Maury community as a parent in 2023, and as an educator in 2025, teaching Special Education for PreK and Kindergarten students. She started her career as a teacher in 2010 through Teach for America, teaching PreK and Kindergarten in Prince George’s County for 5 years. She moved to Tubman Elementary […]
Janine Levin | PK3
Janine Levin has taught PK3 at Maury since 2010. Ms. Levin started her teaching career at Brent Elementary where she remained for 10 years. She then spent one year working as a Master Educator for DCPS. In that role, she visited every public elementary school in D.C. and observed and evaluated Pre-K teachers. It was […]