Presently, Rebecca Isseroff is teaching at Stella K. Abraham HS for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park; Rambam Mesivta HS and West Hempstead HS.  Her program includes Regents Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, Advanced Placement Chemistry and Regents Physics and Independent Science Research.

She is a graduate of Brooklyn College with a major in Chemistry and a Minor in Mathematics and Speech. Rebecca  received an MA in Secondary Education for Chemistry at Adelphi University.

To get her students excited in Chemistry, Rebecca uses magician's flash paper to distinguish physical and chemical change; immerses iron nails into a solution of copper sulfate for a Redox Reaction and to show the relationship between volume and pressure of a gas, she compresses air in a 10 mL syringe with a marshmallow inside.  She inserts humor and songs and, of course, celebrates Mole Day.

Rebecca is the Sunday test site coordinator of the Chemistry Olympiad.  Three of her students were eligible to take the National Exam.  Her students also take the AP Chemistry Exam.  In a class of 9 students, - 8 students received a 5 and 1 student had a 4.

She spends her summers at the Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces, past of the Department of Engineering of SUNY-Stony Brook, as a member of the Research Experience for Teachers Program.

She also mentors her students on their projects - research in the field of nanoparticles.

Her students placed first in the Team Category of the National (Siemens) Westinghouse Science Competition.  They also had a 2nd place at the Intel Competition in Kentucky.

Shira Billet, Class of 2002 from Stella Abraham HS for Girls, and a Westinghouse winner, wrote: " On the first day of tenth grade, Mrs. Isseroff entered the classroom fully clad in a labcoat, goggles and a tee-shirt that said " Old chemists never die, they just fail to react."  She performed a demonstration in which she used a chemical reaction to burn the phrase "Chemistry is cool"  through a white piece of fabric.   I had never encountered a teacher quite like her.  She was funny, she made science interesting; she made it "cool",; she taught in such a way that every student felt challenged on her own level.  She absolutely adored chemistry.

Another student, Lauren Klein, wrote: "As a college graduate with the decision to become a teacher, she is my role model.  I learned in my education classes that it is not enough for teachers to be knowledgeable in their subject area, they need to be able to give over the information to their  students.  Mrs. Isseroff brought Chemistry to Life."

Rebecca Isseroff definitely expresses the criteria for the 2005 Nichols Foundation HS Teacher Award.