About Us

At VMNY Consulting Group, we specialize in educational consulting and instructional coaching for schools and districts to support Multilingual Learners and Students with Disabilities, in both content instruction and language development.

Meet Our Team

  • Vanessa MacDonna, M.S. Ed, is the owner and Director of Professional Development at VMNY Consulting Group LLC. She specializes in inclusive practices and differentiated instruction across content areas for English Language Learners.

    Ms. MacDonna is a native New Yorker. She attended the New York City public school system from K-12 and was enrolled in the first generation of bilingual education programs from K-5 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated from Stony Brook University with a B.A. in Sociology, and minor in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture and received her M.S. Ed. in TESOL K-12 from Fordham University.

Vanessa MacDonna

  • Vitaliya Popovych started her teaching journey in Ukraine in 2006. To be a teacher was her childhood dream. From 2006 to 2013 She was an ENL teacher in an Ukrainian public school. To explore wider horizons she came to the United States with her husband and two sons. She has worked in New York City as an ENL teacher, ENL coordinator, ENL Data Team lead, NTC mentor, teacher leader, ILT, MTSS, and Equity team member in her middle school. This is her 8th year working as an ENL teacher at one of the public schools in the Bronx, for a total of 15 years experience. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from the Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine, and an Advanced Certificate in Educational Leadership from the College of Saint Rose.

    She is passionate about working with children. She loves hearing their life stories, their experiences as immigrants, and the struggles they go through in their lives. Being an immigrant herself, she can relate to many students, and it inspires her. She proves to them through her knowledge across subjects and skillful teaching that education is the key to success. It can help them open many doors.

Vitaliya Popovych

Esteban Sánchez

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