Over 15 years of experience working as arts educator and program administrator.
Skilled at art curriculum development and implementation, creating STEAM style
multi-
disciplinary curriculum , arts assessment, working in diverse school communities,
mentoring pre-service teachers, organizing student exhibitions and performances.
Avid believer in the Arts as tools to nurture the hearts, hands and brains of all learners.
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
ART TEACHER CREATIVE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2009 - PRESENT
My work in this position involves teaching an Arts Integrated curriculum to children in
Kindergarten through the 8th grade. I also work collaboratively with the school’s classroom
teachers to devise and implement an arts-integrated curriculum. I have organized student
performances, exhibitions and arts based service learning at school and in the larger
community
of San Francisco. Annually, I supervise and mentor student teachers and interns from SFSU
Teaching Credential Program and CCA's Center for Art and Public Life.
ART TEACHER/ARTS COORDINATOR
CREATIVE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2001 - 2009
My work in this position involved teaching, program administration and development for a
multi- disciplinary Kindergarten - Eighth grade Arts Program at a school with an
Arts-Integrated
curriculum. In this capacity I hired and supervised guest artists and teaching staff members from
a wide range of arts disciplines: music, theater, dance, visual art. Collaboratively, I developed art
based professional development and consultation for the classroom teaching staff. I served as a
liaison for the school and larger San Francisco
community, coordinating parent volunteers,
organizing performances and exhibitions at school and in the larger community of San
Francisco. In collaboration with the Arts team,
I developed a collaboration model to plan for and
implement the school’s unique, arts integrated curriculum. My work as a program developer has
involved organizing the school’s
Arts Advisory Board and a five year strategic development plan.
I have an excellent record of bringing in supplemental arts program funding from local grantors
and foundations.
My work included supervising teaching interns from CCA, USF and SFSU. I
have taught Kindergarten through the Eighth Grade, developing curriculum that addresses
Visual Art as
a distinct discipline as well integrated with other art forms and each grades’
standards based curriculum.
ART TEACHER DISCOVERY CENTER SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 1999 - 2001 Worked
as a lower school, Visual Art teacher. Generating curriculum, teaching a broad based
Arts
curriculum, ranging from Visual Art, Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing, Painting.
E D U C A T I O N
BA: Double Major: Painting & Sociology: University of California at Santa Cruz, 1984
MA: Creativity and Art Education, San Francisco State University, Inter-Arts Center, 2001
California State Teaching Credential: Single Subject/Art, San Francisco State University
2005
A D D I T I O N A L P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E & A F F I L I A T I O N S
KQED Art Educators Working Group, San Francisco, CA 2014-15
KQED Education Advisory Board Member, San Francisco, CA 2003 - Present
Trainer, Pre-Service Art Educators, California College of the Arts, January, 2012, San
Francisco, CA
Presenter, National Art Education Association Conference, March, 2011, Seattle,
Washington "Creating a Zero Waste Classroom"
Teaching Fellow 2009/2010 Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management [ISKME]
Author, Teacher Guide to Exhibition “Asia Now” 2003, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
T R A I N I N G S
Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, Understanding. Lick-Wilmerding High
School San Francisco, CA. October 2014
Visible Thinking Strategies, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. October 2013
Advisory as Equity Pedagogy, Coalition of Essential Schools, Oakland, 2009
Leading for Equity, National Equity Project, Oakland, CA, 2008