Welcome! 
Welcome to my website ... and
thanks to Thomas Kennedy
for maintaining it.
I hope you'll find everything
you may want to use here: articles, my c.v. (résumé),
sample workshop offerings, information about my books, and more. My contact
information at the top of every page.
Objective
At this time in my life, my objective is to be of maximum
help for teachers, parents, and other caregivers of young children
in two major areas:
1) Creative Arts
First, helping children express themselves freely and joyously in
the arts: music (both instrumental and vocal) dance (of all sorts),
stories (listening to them and telling them) painting, drawing,
sculpting, modeling, working in wire, in collage ...
See this example
...
2) Children Under Stress
Second, helping children through the very hard stresses they must
face: parents in prison, death and dying,
divorce, national horrors (September 11, earthquakes, bombings,
hurricanes, the Challenger explosion, and whatever is coming) and
the smaller stresses as well (first day of school, moving from one
home/community to another, sibling conflict, etc.).
3) Sharing what I’ve learned from the wonderful schools for young children in Reggio Emilia, Italy. My new book, written with Leslie Gleim, is about what we’ve learned from Reggio, and will appear on this web site early in 2012.
The first, second and third areas are deeply connected. We all go through
much stress in our lives and if we have the means to represent our
experiences and express our emotions through the arts, we can often
balance ourselves with wise support from our peers, our parents and our teachers.
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