Clients and Projects
Teacher and Teaching Artist training -- click here to see a past example from my work as Executive Director at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts when it was an affiliate of the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Learning from 2000 to 2006. Through my Creative Education Institute, teachers and artists still engage in classroom arts integration by studying live works of art.
'Making Learning Visible' Teachers graph their thoughts about arts and equitable classrooms 2009
Representative Client List
Montalvo Arts Center - Teaching Artist Fellowship (2007-2010). Consultation and coaching with Teaching Artist Fellows in partnership with Downtown College Prep. Documentation of learnings and outcomes from the Fellowship. Writing "Artist as Example Framework," a proposal (coming Fall 2010) for a new model for Teaching Artists in schools and community settings, detailing characteristics of effective Teaching Artist Fellows, recommendations for dissemination of the Framework, and defining core principles emerging from evaluation of the Fellowship.
Peralta Hacienda - Docent Training Program (2009-2010). Research, develop, implement, and assess impact of a Docent Storyteller training for community members surrounding the historical and community center in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, CA.
Each One Reach One - Executive Coaching and strategic planning. (description coming)
Young Audiences of Northern California
Teaching Artist Professional Development (2010). In partnership with Teaching Artists Organized (TAO), develop and implement artist-centered orientation
workshops for Young Audiences Artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Creating Public Value strategic planning 2010-2011. Create and supervise research for background and decision-making for strategic planning, and develop and
implement a community-input process for guiding a new strategic plan with the board of directors, staff leadership, and community stakeholders.
Paden and Otis Elementary Schools, Alameda Unified School District 2006-2012 - Teacher Training in Arts Integration
Train teachers and artists to implement units of study customized by grade level for whole-school participation in arts integration programs modeled on the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education pedagogy.
Teaching Artists Organized, Interim Executive Director and consultant to programs 2009-2012
Youth Guidance Improvement Center and Youth for Service 2010 - Facilitated proposed merger conversations, troubleshooting for emerging issues, support for executive director of the newly merged entity.
Publications
Partnering Successfully in Schools Today: A Three-Day Teaching Artist Training Curriculum
Bi-monthly column for Teaching Artists in Theatre Bay Area Magazine
The Art of Serving on a Performing Arts Board
Completed Projects Client List For Client Recommendations, click here
San Francisco Circus Center. (2006-2007)
Strategic planning and community conversations.
Contra Costa County Family Physicians Leadership Group. (2008-2009
Strategic planning.
Youth Enrichment Services, Richmond
(check out their YouTube video about our Creating Public Value community input Strategic Planning process)
Youth in Focus, Oakland/Sacramento. Executive Director coaching and board support.
Alameda County Office of Education, the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership (2003-2008). Steering Committee founding member, Director for Creating Public Value communications for motivating change.
California Arts Council, Arts Marketing Institute Fellow (2001-2004). Develop Creating Public Value protocols and conducting workshops in values-focused community conversations for artists and arts organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Sacramento counties. Provide coaching for City of Brentwood Arts Council, Alameda County Arts Commission and local arts entitites.
ACT
Berkeley Opera
Teatro Vision de San Jose
Montalvo Arts Center - Teaching Artist Fellowship (2007-2010). Consultation and coaching with Teaching Artist Fellows in partnership with Downtown College Prep. Documentation of learnings and outcomes from the Fellowship. Writing "Artist as Example Framework," a proposal (coming Fall 2010) for a new model for Teaching Artists in schools and community settings, detailing characteristics of effective Teaching Artist Fellows, recommendations for dissemination of the Framework, and defining core principles emerging from evaluation of the Fellowship.
Peralta Hacienda - Docent Training Program (2009-2010). Research, develop, implement, and assess impact of a Docent Storyteller training for community members surrounding the historical and community center in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, CA.
Each One Reach One - Executive Coaching and strategic planning. (description coming)
Young Audiences of Northern California
Teaching Artist Professional Development (2010). In partnership with Teaching Artists Organized (TAO), develop and implement artist-centered orientation
workshops for Young Audiences Artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Creating Public Value strategic planning 2010-2011. Create and supervise research for background and decision-making for strategic planning, and develop and
implement a community-input process for guiding a new strategic plan with the board of directors, staff leadership, and community stakeholders.
Paden and Otis Elementary Schools, Alameda Unified School District 2006-2012 - Teacher Training in Arts Integration
Train teachers and artists to implement units of study customized by grade level for whole-school participation in arts integration programs modeled on the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education pedagogy.
Teaching Artists Organized, Interim Executive Director and consultant to programs 2009-2012
Youth Guidance Improvement Center and Youth for Service 2010 - Facilitated proposed merger conversations, troubleshooting for emerging issues, support for executive director of the newly merged entity.
Publications
Partnering Successfully in Schools Today: A Three-Day Teaching Artist Training Curriculum
Bi-monthly column for Teaching Artists in Theatre Bay Area Magazine
The Art of Serving on a Performing Arts Board
Completed Projects Client List For Client Recommendations, click here
San Francisco Circus Center. (2006-2007)
Strategic planning and community conversations.
Contra Costa County Family Physicians Leadership Group. (2008-2009
Strategic planning.
Youth Enrichment Services, Richmond
(check out their YouTube video about our Creating Public Value community input Strategic Planning process)
Youth in Focus, Oakland/Sacramento. Executive Director coaching and board support.
Alameda County Office of Education, the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership (2003-2008). Steering Committee founding member, Director for Creating Public Value communications for motivating change.
California Arts Council, Arts Marketing Institute Fellow (2001-2004). Develop Creating Public Value protocols and conducting workshops in values-focused community conversations for artists and arts organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Sacramento counties. Provide coaching for City of Brentwood Arts Council, Alameda County Arts Commission and local arts entitites.
ACT
Berkeley Opera
Teatro Vision de San Jose
Facilitation and planning
San Francisco Circus Center - Board of Directors. 2007-2008
Facilitate public meetings with extended community to address unresolved tensions following major transition. Create customized process for strategic planning, including dialogue with staff, faculty, students, volunteers, board and others. Produce strategic plan with clear goals and supporting implementation strategies with Interim Executive Director.
Youth Enrichment Strategies - Executive Director and Board of Directors. 2009-2010
Design and facilitate strategic planning process including Creating Public Value community meetings, focused group conversations, research, and analysis. Facilitate board retreat to define mission and set long-term strategic objectives.
Contra Costa County Family Physicians Leadership Group 2008-2009
With group leaders, design and facilitate process for group decision-making, including protocols for identifying and following through with competing priorities. Through facilitate dialog and workshops, create strategic plan with clear mission and actionable goals.
Livermore Arts Commission - Newly created commission with newly appointed commissioners
Design and facilitate process to create mission statement and strategic objectives. Ensure consensus building and sufficient exploration of potentially divisive issues. Prepare commission to approach and guide a community-based strategic planning process conducted by outside consultants. Facilitate final approval of strategic plan.
Facilitate public meetings with extended community to address unresolved tensions following major transition. Create customized process for strategic planning, including dialogue with staff, faculty, students, volunteers, board and others. Produce strategic plan with clear goals and supporting implementation strategies with Interim Executive Director.
Youth Enrichment Strategies - Executive Director and Board of Directors. 2009-2010
Design and facilitate strategic planning process including Creating Public Value community meetings, focused group conversations, research, and analysis. Facilitate board retreat to define mission and set long-term strategic objectives.
Contra Costa County Family Physicians Leadership Group 2008-2009
With group leaders, design and facilitate process for group decision-making, including protocols for identifying and following through with competing priorities. Through facilitate dialog and workshops, create strategic plan with clear mission and actionable goals.
Livermore Arts Commission - Newly created commission with newly appointed commissioners
Design and facilitate process to create mission statement and strategic objectives. Ensure consensus building and sufficient exploration of potentially divisive issues. Prepare commission to approach and guide a community-based strategic planning process conducted by outside consultants. Facilitate final approval of strategic plan.
Leadership coaching and research
Each One Reach One - founder, executive director of established nonprofit working with the juvenile justice system. Building staff, achieving work-life balance, budgeting, prioritizing, management issues. Primary contact: Robin Sohnen.
StageWrite - founder for start-up organization teaching literacy through playwrighting in San Francisco elementary schools. Growth strategies, business planning, trouble-shooting, training procedures, budgeting. Primary contact: Elana Lagerquist.
Opera Piccola Board of Directors - transitional board confronting significant staff turnover and internal administrative challenges. Create processes and protocols to re-organize and prioritize opportunities. Lead process for recruiting and hiring an Interim Executive Director and support IED through transition to the organization's first executive director.