Who I am
I am Salvatore Prevosto. I teach Family and Consumer Sciences at Brentwood South Middle School on Long Island. I have taught Home and Careers to eighth graders and Career Skills to sixth graders, about ten sections, roughly 28 students each, in 40-minute periods, with three or four kitchens running at once.
Certification
I am finishing my New York State certification in Family and Consumer Sciences through the Post-Baccalaureate Advanced Certificate program at Queens College. I started in January 2026 and have 21 credits done. I passed the CST in FACS in May 2026 and the EAS in October 2025. My workshops and fingerprinting are complete. Student teaching is spring 2027.
Before teaching
I have a Penn State MBA and a Penn State BS in Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I worked at Oracle in business development and then as a business intelligence analyst, at New York Life, as an Orangetheory coach, and as a seasonal hotel and bar manager on Fire Island running food and beverage, point of sale, inventory, and staff training. I hold the FINRA SIE and Series 6.
That background is why the money and careers units in this course are as detailed as they are. I have read a profit and loss statement for a living, and I teach students to read a Nutrition Facts label and a paycheck stub the same way: what is the real number, and what is somebody hoping you skip.
ClassroomStreet.com
I built ClassroomStreet.com, a fantasy market investing simulation for middle school students. Each student starts with 25,000 in simulated capital and trades seven to ten assets. News dispatches move the prices, a crisis hits mid-unit, a leaderboard runs the whole time, and on the last day every asset is revealed as a real instrument so students see what they were actually holding. More than 150 students have traded on it, and math, English and history teachers at Brentwood used it in their own rooms. ClassroomStreet is its own project, separate from this curriculum. Unit 2 names it as one optional tool for the investing lessons; the written default there is a paper and spreadsheet budget, so no lesson depends on it.
What I believe about teaching
Kids do not learn from people they do not trust. That is the first thing, and everything in this course is built on it: the same opening routine every day, role cards so nobody is left standing around, a rubric handed out before the work starts, and nobody made an example of in front of the room.
The way you talk about yourself is a skill, not a personality trait. It can be taught. That is why this course ends with a resume, an interview and a pitch, and why every unit asks students to stand up and explain what they made.
The rest is simple. Hands on wherever it can be. Safety before any lab, with no exceptions. Every standard I list is a standard I actually teach and actually assess. Vocabulary in the languages my students speak. A no-kitchen version of every lab, because a room without a stove is not a reason to skip the cooking.
Languages
I speak conversational French. I do not speak Turkish or Portuguese, so the vocabulary tables on this site were built through a translation workflow and are marked for a native speaker to check before they go to students.
Contact
Email me at my school address. [Sal: school email] If you have a skill you would share with a class, a recipe, a craft, or a job you could talk about for ten minutes, I would like to hear from you.