WORK EXPERIENCE
2009-Present FULL-TIME & LITERACY LEADER , Creative Arts Team/CUNY
Erika Ewing, Elem/JHS Program Director
Gwendolyn Hardwick, Artistic Director
• Under the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), in collaboration with Neighborhood Development Area (NDA): In-class Literacy Leader incorporating the use of drama as a tool and strategy for promoting and enhancing literacy in 2 Brooklyn public schools: Mott Hall IV in Bedford Stuyvesant and McKinley Intermediate School S 259 in Bay Ridge. Project Synopsis & During interactive workshops, Literacy Leader delivers arts-based literacy building for students, through improvisational acting, writing, and discussion. Addressing NYC Performance Standards for English Language Arts, Literacy Leader encourages students to express their ideas by writing fiction, poetry, biography, autobiography, scripts, letters, critical commentary, and persuasive essays, and to illustrate them with pictures, music, and drama. Literacy Leader incorporates Balanced Literacy strategies within the educational drama workshops. These include reading instruction, word study, independent reading, writing instruction, and independent writing. By coupling reading, writing, and verbal exercises with topics of interest to youth, CAT will generate enthusiasm and motivate learning. Lessons are supported by weekly collaboration with English Language Arts teachers in order to meet NYS/DOE ELA Standards.
2002-2009 SENIOR TEACHING ARTIST , Creative Arts Team/CUNY
Erika Ewing, Elem/JHS Program Director
Chris Vine, Artistic & Education Director
• Program coordinator, instructor, staff developer, and creative and administrative support for the Elementary/Junior High School Program in the devising, developing, and facilitation of the implementation of interactive participatory drama(s). General responsibilities & accountabilities include: Resource guide development, implementation of professional developments, development of archival systems, management of rehearsals, and overall program support for specific grants/projects such as:
-Department of Youth & Community Development /Adolescent Literacy Program (DYCD/ADL):
Additional Grant Specific Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
Liaison with DYCD and DOE school coordinators and teachers
Established and delegated agendas, work timelines, and tracking systems
Developed Evaluation Methods, such as rubrics
Maintained and collected anecdotal write-ups, evaluations, and student work
Proctored, implemented, and graded DIBELS & RSPS Student Fluency Assessment
Development, modification, and rehearsal of curricula in accordance to DOE and DYCD standards
Development of long-term and short-term student follow-up activities
-Liberty Partnership Program/Red Cross Recovery and Resiliency:
Coordinated and implemented on-site visits at participating DOE schools
Received Recovery & Resiliency training from Lynn C. Howell PhD, CUNY
Established and delegated agendas, work timelines, and tracking systems
Implemented grant evaluation methods for 6th grade population
-Center for Arts in Education (CAE)/Leadership in Practice at I.S. 259, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn:
Developed, Designed, Scheduled, and Implemented a Teacher-Training Model 15-Day In-School residencies which aimed to
incorporate drama strategies into the 6th grade Language Arts classroom
Planned and implemented Professional Developments with DOE language Arts teachers
-Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) at PS 15, Red Hook Brooklyn:
Implemented a Teacher-Training Model 12-Day In-School residencies which aimed to incorporate drama strategies into the
classroom, 2nd-5th grade
Developed, Designed, and Implemented Professional Developments with DOE teachers which focused on using drama strategies
to enhance the school’s books of the month.
1999-2002 TEACHING ARTIST (Actor-Teacher), Creative Arts Team/NYU
Erika Ewing, Elem/JHS Program Director
Chris Vine, Artistic & Education Director
• As a traveling teaching artist: devised, developed, and implemented 5 to 21 day interactive participatory drama(s), which focused on social and curricula topics for both students and teachers. Worked with general education and special needs populations in DOE schools and Catholic Diocese schools, along with after school programs 2nd-10th grade.
1999-2010 Stage Manager/Props Master/Intake Coordinator CAT Youth Theatre/NYU
Directed by Helen White
• Stage Manager for seven main-stage productions involving casts of 35-45 high school age performers. Venues: NYU Black Box Theatre, Tisch Schubert Theatre, NYU Fredrick Loews Theatre, Bank Street Theatre, Theatre for The New City.
EDUCATION
-Bachelors in Arts Degree New York University/School of Continuing Professional Studies, 2009/2010
Major: Anthropology and Sociology
Anthropology/Sociology Club: Officer
University Honors Scholar
-Associates in Arts Degree from New York University/School of Continuing Professional Studies, 2007
Dean’s List: 2003, 2004
-Paul A Kaplan Center for Educational Drama: Professional Development Training
-High School of Economics & Finance, NYC
SKILLS & INTERESTS
-Accredited Visual Artist
-Actress
-Published Writer
-Conversational Fluency in Tagalog, Philippine Dialect
COMMUNITY SERVICE
-Visiting Artist and Presenter at the High School of Economics & Finance, Art Department, 2007-2010
-Volunteer Judge for the Quality of Life Program, W!SE (Working In Support of Education), 2008-2010
-Career Day Presenter at the High School of Economics & Finance, 2010
-Founder of UnBoxed Voices Productions
-Creator of “Immigrant is Not an F-Word” Internet blog and T-shirt Campaign
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