Associate Professor
Sullivan Hall 410
Phone: (718) 990-1475
Fax (718) 990-2340
guastelf@stjohns.edu
Office Hours
Sullivan Hall Room 410
Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday 3:30 - 4:40 p.m., 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
DaSilva Academic Center (Staten
Island)
Wednesday 3:30 - 4:30
p.m.
Oakdale Campus
Saturdays 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
E. Francine Guastello is an Associate Professor and Coordinator
of the Graduate Literacy Program. and Chair of The School of
Education’s Curriculum Committee at St. John’s University. Dr.
Guastello is also a fellow in the Orton-Gillingham Academy of
Practitioners and Educators.
Dr. Guastello has been an educator for over 36 years. She was an
elementary/junior high teacher for 12 years, an elementary school
principal for 16 years and for the past 9 years she has been a
part of the graduate literacy faculty at St. John’s specializing in
the diagnosis and remediation of children and adults with learning
“disabilities”.
Since 2002, she has been the co-project director of Project TIE:
Training Innovative Educators, a grant sponsored by the legislation
of No Child Left Behind. She has conducted staff development and
implemented a school wide K- 8 program of reading and writing in 17
low-achieving schools in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and
Queens. She is also part of the team of staff developers who are
currently working at St. Brigid’s School in Manhattan – a school
“adopted” by St. John’s University.
Dr. Guastello has instituted the first courses in Multisensory
Language Learning that trains our reading specialist graduate to
teach children and adults with dyslexia. She is currently training
the fourth cohort of students in these specialized techniques. Her
research focuses on effective instructional strategies that enable
struggling readers and writers to achieve.
In 2006, Dr. Guastello was initiated into The Kappa Delta Pi
Honor Society and in 2007 she received St. John’s University’s
Excellence in Teaching & Scholarship Award for Excellence in
Graduate Teaching.