Greenwich Chabad, Greenwich Conn.1999-- 2000
Jewish Music /Movement Teacher
Moms and kids together. A weekly music and movement group, Jewish musical enrichment program
Music For Early Childhood, Nancy Hershader, Director 1999- ongoing
Itinerant Music Teacher at various schools in Westchester, Riverdale and Yonkers
MUSIC SPECIALIST- JEWISH RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel, White Plains 2003-04 Alan Block, Principal
Music Specialist for grades 1 through 6
Rodeph Sholom Religious School Jo Kay, Principal
Music Specialist K-3 1999
JEWISH EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Library Specialist/Storyteller
Rodeph Sholom Religious SchoollW.83rd St, NYC Jo Kay, Principal 1993 -2001
K through 4th grade *
- Teacher Specialist Weekly classroom program in each grade
see Course Description at bottom of this page*
- Teacher Family Programs, Jewish Education
Yachad and P.A.C.E. Special programs (Parent and child education)
Developed and led special family Yachad and P.A.C.E programs throughout the school year
NON-SECULAR DAY SCHOOL Library Specialist/Storyteller
Rodeph Sholom Day School NYC 1995-1997
Library Specialist, Nursery Division, Vicki Garavuso, Director
3 year olds program (request separate file Nursery Library Program):
*Developed and taught weekly story-time program which incorporated the use of
carefully chosen classical music recordings as an underscore to the books I read.
* Created interactive singing/movement piece to accompany each book, each week
As part of my library program, the children were invited to tell their own
spontaneously invented stories to the class. At times these would be their own
continuation of the book that I had just read to the class.
The children's storytelling was audio-recorded and transcribed as a developing
project documenting the program. samples available on request
CREATIVE ARTS SPECIALIST
Rodeph Sholom Day School 1994-1998
Creative Arts Teacher, After School Enrichment Program:
Kindergarten/1st Grade, Pre-K, and 3s
developed and taught after-school Creative Arts Workshops: Imagine That! and Create-A-Storyy
please see bottom of page for descriptions of these afterschool workshops and to view others,
click for Creative Arts Workshops webpage
Rodeph Sholom Day School Pre-K 1996-1998
Lincoln Center Arts and Education Program Specialist Teacher Pre-K
Developed and taught semester-long programs incorporating art projects, creative writing, acting,
and music in conjunction with Lincoln Center Institute performance. Samples available
Rodeph Sholom School, Summer Camp Carolyn Singer, Director 1996
Creative Dramatics Teacher Creative dramatics experience for each camp class
Camp Bear Ridge, Rosenthal JCC, Pleasantville, NY 2001
Creative Dramatics and Movement Specialist
Created and taught daily movement and dramatics program, directed end of year performances
Swing Around Dance Studio Brooklyn Heights, NY, Jackie Bogen, Director 1990-91
- Head Teacher, Creative Kids 3 to 5 year olds:
Developed and implemented program incorporating music, movement, story making and laughter.
- Head Teacher, Summer Fun 2 to 5 year olds
Summer day-camp program. Incorporated art, puppetry, music and movement
- Head Teacher,Stepping Stones Movement class 2 to 4 year olds
HEAD TEACHER, PRESCHOOL AND NURSERY
Open House Nursery School Brian Murphy, Director Brooklyn Heights, NY 1993-94
- Head Teacher, Extended Day Program, 3 through 5 years olds
Designed and implemented flexible curriculum for varied age group, including art projects,
music/movement,and specialized circle time. Goals of the curriculum were to meet the needs
of the individuals as well as to foster their collaborative group skills to promote a sense of the group as a team.
Educational Alliance West /Gani Heights School, Brooklyn Heights, NY 1991-93 Vicky Garavuso, director
Parenting Program of Educational Alliance West: Lyn Micarin, director 1991-93
- Head Teacher Mini-Camp 18 months to 2 &1/2 year-olds
Developed and led class focused on building motor skills, language, self- confidence and social development
through creative play, explorations of nature, music, art, movement and puppetry.
- Head Teacher, Friday Fun 2-3 year olds
Combining messy play, parachute play, music, dancing, free play and stories.
- Head Teacher, Messy Play
Once a week messy art projects with tots and moms.
- Co-Teacher Morning Time 2 and 3 year-olds.
Guided free play, music, art, Circle Time, socialization development.
Gani Heights Day and Afterschool Enrichment Program: Educational Alliance West:
- Head Teacherr Enrichment Class: Explorations 4 and 5 year-olds.
Created and taught class fostering the growth of creative process of the individual child
and of the group as a creative team through exploring the creative arts.
- Substitute Head Teacher; Gani Heights Day school Kindergarten
Park Avenue Synagogue Summer Camp, Melinda Tiger, Director 1996
- Head Teacher
Children's Museum of Manhattan
- Head Teacher Art and Music Classes for Tots and Moms, CMoM
MUSIC LEADER and STORYTELLING,Synagogue Shabbat and Jewish Holiday Programs
Carlebach Shul NYC 2005-present Rabbi Naftali Citron, rabbi
Program coordinator and Storyteller Shabbat interactive storytelling for young children
ongoing 11:30 Saturday mornings
Temple Beth El Rabbi Joshua Caruso Springdale, NY
- Story-telling performance Chanukah program 2000
- Tot Shabbat services storytelling 2001
Congregation B'nai Jeshuran, NYC
- Tot Shabbat Leader ................. October 2005
- Music Leader for Children's Yom Kippur services 2001
- Music Specialist weekly Mommy and Me Shabbat class B'nai Jeshuran 2000
Cong. Shearith Israel NYC
Storytelling performances Yom Kippur, Purimr.2005-2006
Congregation Ohav Shalom
Holiday storytelling program, Rosh Hashonnah 2005
Temple Israel, E.77th St NYC Rabbi Marcia
Music Leader/Pianist Family Passover Seder 2001
New Synagogue, Riverdale NY 2001
Tot Shabbat Leader, childrens Kabbalat Shabbat service
MUSIC AND STORYTELLING FAMILY PERFORMANCE EVENTS
Hippo Park- Riverside Park Public Programs Outdoor interactive Music performances Weekly Summer 2006
Chelsea Synagogue, Chanukah Party Performance Storytelling and interactive music concert 2002
Rosenthal JCC, Pleasantville, NY, Purim Party Concert performance 2001
Rosenthal JCC Snuggly Stories Series inter-active stories and music performances, evening family series 2000-04
Riverdale JCC Preschool, Family Evening Concert/Storytelling performance 2000
Brooklyn Heights Playground Family Concert Series
Central Park Zoo Concert/Music For Children and their Families Fundraising Event, Rodeph Sholom Day School
CMoM
Concert and Songwriting Workshop, (Caring for Our Environment) CMoM Theater
Little Flower Children's residence Aids patients
Calvary Hospital Chanukah music performance 2004
Birthday Party Entertainer click here
PROFESSIONAL SINGING:
- Featured artist in numerous concert and club performances in Jazz, and Family Concerts NYC and cities throughout the US
(see singing bio webpage) music performances
- Songwriter and featured performer for And Then - Music CD of Devorah's original songs for children
and their families hear one of Devorah's original songs!
- Studio Singer- for numerous television and radio commercials (music in advertising) see music bio/webpage
- Featured vocalist on films for Cannon, PBS, and on BMG/Zoom Records (Music for Children), see music bio
OTHER TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT:
Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMoM):
- Public programs Development As part of a creative team, designed and developed interactive
public programs to coordinate with current exhibits
- Museum Educator Exhibits Public Educator, facilitating hands on interaction with the exhibits, CMoM
- Head Teacher Art and Music Classes/Moms and Tots CMoM
- Museum performer/writer:
Writer musical play, The Word Wizard,as adjunct to current language exhibit The Word Wizard,
and appeared in daily performances as the main character at Children's Museum of Manhattan
- Daily sing-a-long performer
Rodoph Sholom Day School Nursery and Pre-K 1994-1999
- Floating Teacher in all classes daily
- Longterm Substitute Head Teacher PRE-K 1999
Brookdale Center on Aging and Lenox Hill Care Program, Elizabeth HaDavid, Dir. 2001- 2004
Music Leader volunteer Play piano, sing, lead sing-a-longs, Facilitate interactive creative arts
Program for Alzheimer groups, including music, group story making
- Bnai Jeshuran Religious School, NY1999- ongoing
Substitute Head teacher
- Crownvortex Publishing 2003-04
Copy Editor, proofreader book Ancient Landscapes/Distant Music
- CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS- PRIVATE CLIENTS: Drama and Creative Arts Specialist
individual freelance work with special needs children
- Pittsburgh Children's Theater Company:
Actor in repertory company member æ- roles in various drama and musicals
- JCC/ Irene Kaufmann Center, Pgh, Pa.
- Theater Director, One Act Plays - Teen theater program
- Shadylane Montessori School, Pgh.Pa. Allegheny Community College:
Assistant Teacher, Practicum in Child Development Studies
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONALTRAINING/CERTIFICATION
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pgh, Pa., Voice Major
- Allegheny Community College, Child Development Studies
- Certified Teacher in Orff Schuulwurk, early childhood and elementary grades (music and movement )
- Registered Music Together teacher
- Lincoln Center Institute Aesthetics in Education Teacher's Training Completion
- College of Jewish Studies, Pgh. Pa.
- Ongoing learning in Jewish Studies: Talmud with Rabbi Meir Fund, Sfas Emes with Zwi Padeh, Hebrew with Rabbi Avraham Newman
- Ongoing Professional Development Coursework: Orff/Dalcroze and Board of Jewish Education, CAJE
- Ongoing private vocal and piano study as well as 7 years of dance training
- Independent Study : applying varied uses of Music and the Arts in educational and therapeutic settings
(i.e: the Mozart Effect, Helen Bonney Method, et al.)
- NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Training with Eric Carleson NYC
- Private voice and music theory study, NYC - David-Sorin Collyer, Aldo D'Tullio, Andy Laverne, Jeanne Goffi
- Coursework, Professional Development workshops:
- NAEYC: Use of Narrative in the Classroom, NAEYC: Expanding the Arts in Early Childhood Curriculum
- TouchDrawing NYC,
- University of Pgh: Art Therapy, 3 day professional development training
- Feldenkrais Movement, NY Open Center
- NLP Training. Eric Carleson NYC
- Private Feldenkrais Movement Training with Maxine Davis,
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
:
CAJE, NAEYC, Orff/Dalcroze/Kodaly association, Children's Music Network, S.A.G., A.F.T.R.A
SPECIAL SKILLS
Classroom management, fluent in computer technology, design, Conflict Resolution,
highly skilled in art, piano, guitar, recorder, voice, dance
songwriting, scriptwriting,copy-editor, proofreader. Currently working on a book about the creative process in children.
*Class Descriptions:
1. Jewish Religious School Library Specialist/Storytelling
Teaching Jewish values through the medium of interactive story-telling and group processing
I choose and tell interactive stories relating to values and lessons found in the Torah, linking them to our own lived lives.
Course Objectives:
- Link the Torah values and lessons to our own lived lives
- Foster a sense of being able to make a positive difference in this life in the present and future
- Facilitate and foster integrative processing, group discussions of the stories and themes, with focus
on their relevance to each child's own life.
- Discuss empowering ways to integrate these connections to spirit in their daily lives
- Nurture a sense of true community within the synagogue and in this world.
Through this teaching, I developed an additonal program that focused on the children's creation
of ongoing group--made "Midrash" stories throughout all of the grades.
After-school Creative Arts Workshops descriptions: to view others, please see Creative Arts Workshops
2. Imagine That Workshop
In a playful atmosphere, the children explore and expand their greatest inner resource, their imagination!
The workshop creates ongoing multifaceted projects incorporating art, puppetry, creative writing,
creative dramatics, music and movement. Each week the puppetry, creative different art form.
Linking hands on aesthetic experiences within the Arts creates an exciting learning forum that fosters
expanded self -esteem, self -discovery.
3. Create-A-Story Workshop
Child centered adventures through the Creative Arts using ?expanded story-telling. This is an ongoing workshop
using a collaborative story-making process which weaves together Narrative Creative Writing, Improvisation,
Art, Music-making, Song-writing, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry and humor through individual and group process.
Each child created their own original stories and books as well as group generated stories enactments and songs
