Carol Lock Stewart, Ed.D.

Administrator at Rockland County BOCES

Carol Lock Stewart, a newcomer to Rockland County, is currently an Administrator at Rockland County BOCES in West Nyack, New York. She has been an educator since 1972 when she became a teacher for the Maryvale Union Free School District in Buffalo, New York.

Carol has extensive experience in the Western New York area where she was selected honorable mention winner in 1997 as Distinguished Secondary School Principal, an award given by the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS). She was also given the award of Educator of Excellence by the New York State Teachers of English in 1994, the Pathfinder’s Award of Western New York 1997 and Educator of the Year in 1998 in Buffalo, New York, were she resided until September of this year.

She is active in her profession and has served on various community enterprises in Western New York that include: Commissioner of the Center for Studies of the Black Child (Buffalo Board of Education and Niagara University initiative), Steering Committee for the Division for Youth of Erie County and Founding member of the BISSNET (Buffalo Independent Secondary School Network. She was instrumental in receiving grant monies for her school and community that included a Bell Atlantic (NYNEX) grant for establishing Distance Learning in her school and an OASAS (Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse) funding for partnership with the Buffalo Police Department Neighborhood Initiative Program.

There have been a total of 27 educators in her family. She enjoys music, singing, quilting, and has two grown children who are educators as well.