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 (https://www.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/teacher-education-programs/computing-integrated-teacher-education/, 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 Hostos, 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). https://ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ger/article/view/570
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). https://ijoer.scholasticahq.com/article/25020-beyond-saving-money-engaging-multiple-stakeholders-is-a-key-to-oer-success
DiSanto, J. M., & Guevara, C. (2019). The online learning initiative: Training the early adopters. 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). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1146145.pdf
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). https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.33