Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
Born and raised for 12 years in Massapequa, Long Island, administrator and union president Greg Luongo was the sixth of seven children in a “very typical Roman Catholic family.” Before becoming an aeronautical engineer, his father, John, taught math in Catholic high schools and the City University of New York system. Greg’s mother, Hope, taught second grade briefly and, later, would go on to work in early childhood education and for Head Start.
When Greg was 12, the family moved to Northern Virginia for a year. In fact, they moved so often that Greg went to three middle schools in three years. He says, “My family was my constant.” He followed his father and siblings’ example in many things, including reading fantasy and sci-fi.
Then, in 1996, at only 49 years of age, Greg’s father died of cancer. His mother soon moved to Northern Virginia as the children dispersed to college, the first three to Duke, the next two to James Madison University. The youngest would go to Georgetown.
Having lost his father, Greg entered the University of Delaware, but he soon thought of dropping out. One of his father’s closest friends, Stan, an English teacher, talked him out of it. “He stabilized me,” Greg says. “Without him, I wouldn’t have gone back to college and my whole life would have been different.”
Although not crazy about it, he majored in hospitality management and went into the field “for a hot minute,” as a restaurant manager in D.C. He didn’t like it at all, and at 23 he began exploring education and soon became an English teacher: “I was a huge nerd and read a lot.”
He went back and read all the classics and named one of his sons Holden for the hero of Catcher in the Rye.
For seven years, Greg was a highly successful teacher: “I focused my English teaching on reading books as a reflection of our times.” For the first four years, he taught at Westfield High School in Fairfax County. Then Greg and his wife, Holli, with whom he’d fallen in love at first sight in college, moved to Northern New Jersey to be near her family. Greg worked in the family’s factory.
“It really wasn’t for me,” he says, so they returned to Northern Virginia, and he went back to Westfield High School for three more years until he earned his Education Specialist degree in administration and supervision. He already had a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
“My last two years in the classroom, I worked with struggling students, teaching two years in one,” he says. “We had a 100% success rate. I loved working with struggling students.”
As a principal, he holds struggling students as a top priority.
“Submit and subvert is a motto I learned from my sister Kathie, who was studying educational philosophy at UNC while I was teaching,” he says. “This means if you want to subvert the system, you’ve got to join it. The motto has guided me as an educator...
