Email: JDISANTO@HOSTOS.CUNY.EDU
Phone: 718 518-4437, 917 880-0121 
Office Number: A- 107
Office Tel: (718) 518-4437
Jacqueline M. DiSanto is full professor, chair of the Education Department, and coordinator for Teacher Education. She is the co-chair of the Educational Technology Leadership Council and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Dr. DiSanto is a team leader on the multi-year, grant-funded CUNY Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) initiative, which supports CUNY teacher-education programs to prepare educators to equitably and meaningfully integrate computing and digital literacies into public school classrooms (, 2026).
Dr. DiSanto began her journey in higher education at New York University, where she earned a B.S. in Business Education (grades 9-12) and an M.A. in Business Education/Higher Education. She continued a professional certificate at Fordham University in Administration and Supervision, followed by her Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership. Her doctoral research was on the effects of learning-styles strategies on the academic achievement and attitudes of twelfth-grade students studying world literature.
Prior to coming to ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, she served as a college instructor, vice-principal, and principal. She also wrote staff-development curriculum for organizations such as Dun & Bradstreet and Local 1199.
These are examples of Dr. DiSanto’s scholarly work:
Cummings-Clay, D., Hayes, A., DiSanto, J. M., (2021). Shifting modalities: Providing K-5 Montessori education online during the pandemic [Special issue]. Global Education Review, 8(4).
DiSanto, J. M., Cummings-Clay, D., Mitchell, S., and Ford, M. (2019). Beyond saving money: Engaging multiple stakeholders is a key to OER success. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 2(1).
DiSanto, J. M., & Guevara, C. (2019). . In K. Wolfe, K. Lyons, & C. Guevara (Eds.), Developing educational technology at an urban community college (pp. 79-93). Palgrave Macmillan.
Nunez-Rodriguez, N., DiSanto, J. M., Varelas, A., Brennan, S., Wolfe, K.,
& Ialongo, E. (2017). Building understanding of high-school students’ transition to college. International Journal of teaching and learning in higher education, 29(2).
Pujol-Ferran, M., DiSanto, J. M., Nunez-Rodriguez, N., Morales, A. (2016). Exploring plurilingual pedagogies across the college curriculum. Canadian Modern Language Review, 72(4).