Assessment Specialists

Our assessment specialists bring over 35 years of experience in evaluating young children. 

Meredith Resnick, our resident learning specialist, has played an essential role in developing the assessment instruments used by Bright Kids NYC in order to create the most comprehensive evaluation of children prior to tutoring. Meredith is skilled at working with and building rapport with children, drawing upon her many years of experience and education to provide an accurate evaluation of each child’s skill, performance and behavior. In addition to conducting and scoring assessments, Meredith provides support to the Bright Kids staff enabling us to continually improve every aspect of our assessment and tutoring process.

Meredith has been a qualified educator for 12+ years. She graduated Tufts magna cum laude with a B.A. in Psychology. After receiving her Master of Arts in Childhood Education from Columbia University’s prestigious Teacher’s College, Meredith went on to do post-master’s work in special education, inclusion education, and learning disabilities at various institutions including Bank Street College, the University of Michigan, and the Churchill Center. Recently she held a head math teaching position at the Dalton School where she participated in adapting, and implementing a new math curriculum.  In addition, her prior teaching experience included first and third grade positions at the Alexander Robertson School.

Over the last several years Meredith has been a learning and evaluation specialist in her own private practice, focusing on conducting assessments and a multitude of cognitive ability tests for children as young as 3 years old. She is a New York State certified teacher for Pre-K through 6^th Grade as well as has a Special Education Certification to teach students with disabilities. Meredith currently balances her time between her private practice and Bright Kids.

Meredith is a native New Yorker and has three young children of her own.

Hannah Wiltshire, MS Ed, LMSW

Hannah is our resident learning specialist and is skilled at working with young children and can draw on her 20+ years of experience to create a comprehensive assessment for each child. She also conducts teacher training sessions and observes both teachers and children to help improve overall effectiveness of tutoring sessions. She works closely with Meredith to continually improve our assessments and our teaching materials.

Hannah Wiltshire, MS Ed, LMSW has worked as a general and special education teacher, a learning specialist, graduate professor, consultant and therapist. Hannah holds a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University.

Hannah Wiltshire, MS Ed, LMSW has worked as a general and special education teacher, a learning specialist, graduate professor, consultant and therapist. She was a head teacher at Mary McDowell School for 6 years where she developed and taught grade appropriate curriculum in all areas for class of learning disabled and language impaired 5-7 year olds. She was also a learning specialist at theHannah Senesh Community Day Schoolwhere she assessed students in a K-8 general education dual language program through observation, teacher input and parent interviews and adapted curriculum for learning disabled students. Hannah was also an adjunct professor at Hunter College where she developed and taught graduate level course, “Teaching Reading and Writing to Special Needs Students for Ages 3-7.” The course fulfilled state requirements for special education teachers.

Hannah is a native New Yorker and is happily raising her three children with her husband in NYC.