| Name | Shimon Waronker |
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| Page created at | 23-10-2024 |
Shimon Waronker is the headmaster of The New American Academy, PS 770, a public school that opened in 2010 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York.[1][2] He modeled The New American Academy's approach to education after Phillips Exeter Academy's methods.[3]
Born Simón Bernardo Warren, Waronker was born to a non-Jewish Chilean mother and an American father. He grew up in Chile, Honduras, Uruguay and Guatemala. When Waronker was 11, his father died and his mother moved with Waronker and Waronker's two siblings to Rockville, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in 1990. He took the U.S. Military's basic course in military intelligence at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1991. Waronker graduated from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in Rabbinical Studies in 1997. Waronker graduated from Touro College in New York City, New York with a master's degree in 2003. He graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009 with a Master of Education degree.
Waronker converted to Judaism as an adult, and is a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism.
Waronker lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York with his six children, Shoshana, Yaakov, Tzvia, Tamar, Leah, and Baruch and his wife Malka.