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EDUCATION
- A.B. University of Chicago 1959
Social Sciences.
- M.A. Teachers College, Columbia 1969
Early Childhood Education
&
Supervision.
Experienced Teacher Fellow.
- 34 assorted graduate credits in
education from, variously, Atlanta University, Bank Street
College, CCNY, and NYU
- Additional Training
from WestEd, as Infant-Toddler
Trainer (I didn't finish this training) and as CDA Representative,
at San Francisco State University. Also trained as NAEYC
Accreditation Validator.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I speak fluent, but ungrammatical,
Spanish
CREDENTIALS
- California Early Childhood Teacher
Credential; Clear, Life.
- California Community College Nursery
Education Credential, Life.
- Child Development Associate Credential,
awarded June, 1982.
- New York State Permanent Certificate
to teach Nursery, Kindergarten and Grades 1-6.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Association for the Education
of Young Children
- Co-Chair NAEYC Interest Forum on
Children of Incarcerated Parents (CHIPS) Inaugurated at National
Conference 2004
- Member since 1982
- Consulting Editor, Young
Children , Journal of the NAEYC, 1988-91, 1992-95
- Co-Chair, Interest forum
for Children of Incarcerated Parents (CHIPS) 2004-
- Public Policy Chair,
San Francisco AEYC , 1986-1988
- Validator NAEYC Center
Accreditation Project, 1985-
Professional Organizations
- Pasadena City Commission
on Children, Youth and Families,
Commissioner,
1991-1992
- White House Conference on
the Family
Delegate,
[Los Angeles] 1980
- San Francisco Classroom
Teachers Association
Field
Representative, (Full time) 1976
- San Francisco Children's
Council,
Board
Member, 1973-75
- San Francisco Bay Area Reggio
Learning Group
member
since 1999 (beginning of organization)
- Child Development Associate
Consortium,
National
Representative, Infant-Toddler and Preschool, 1976-1992
- Pittsburgh Children's Museum
Consultant,
2001
- SCRAP (Scrounger's Center
for Recycled Art Parts)
Board
Member, 1998- 2002
- ECEOL-L web page Editor,
1996-98
At the moment I sit on only
one board ... the information is below. I'd love to sit on one or
two more boards, so please consider me for yours.
- Early Childhood Research
and Practice Online Journal:
Consulting
Editor, 1999-
APPOINTMENTS
Instructor, part-time, New College
of California, 2005- 2006
Teaching one of only two classes in the United States on the subject
of Children of Incarcerated Parents.
- Extension Faculty, U.C. Davis, 2001
Teaching their workshop
on Children of Incarcerated Parents.
- Loma Prieta Independent Home Schooling
Program, 1998-99
Consultant, part-time, writing a California School Charter
- San Francisco Head Start
Child Development Associate
Trainer,
part-time consultant 1996-98
- Workshop provider and consultant,
San Francisco Head Start, 1993
- Founder, Principal and Teacher, San
Francisco Charter Early Childhood School, 1993-95
- Extension Faculty, Associate Professor,
Fresno State University, Sonoma State
University, San Francisco State University, 1985-90
- Instructor, part-time, Child Development
Department, Merritt College, Oakland, 1981
FULL TIME,
LONG TERM TEACHING POSITIONS
- Teacher, San Francisco Unified School
District Pre-kindergarten and Children's Centers 1972-83
- Co-founder and Director, Discovery
Room for Children, New York City, 1969-71
- Teacher, New York City Public Schools,
Grades 7, 5, 4, 1 and Kindergarten, 1962-67
- Full time Faculty, Pacific
Oaks College, 1988-1992
CONSULTING AND
VOLUNTEERING
At the moment I sit on only one board
... the information is below. I'd love to sit on one or two more
boards, so please consider me for yours.
- Early Childhood Research and Practice
Online Journal: Consulting Editor, 1999-
- Co-Chair NAEYC Interest Forum on
Children of Incarcerated Parents (CHIPS) Inaugurated at National
Conference 2004
- Educational Consultant, Daisy Child
Development Center, Oakland, CA, 1998-
- Community Representative, Glen Park
Branch Library Community Artist Selection Panel, 2002
SUMMERCAMP
Since my home is full of books,
files, documentation, audio- and video-tapes about the subjects
I know (Ashton-Warner and Key Vocabulary, Reggio Emilia and Arts
Education, Children of Incarcerated Parents and the other hard subjects
like death and dying, divorce, or helping children through crises)
and writing about children and teaching, I've invented SummerCamp.
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AUTHOR:
BOOKS
AUTHOR:
ARTICLES
-
Painting A Tragedy:
Three to Five-Year-Old Children Process the Events of September
11
Written by Toni Gross and me and published
in the May, 2002 issue of
YOUNG CHILDREN, (the journal of the National Association for
the Education of Young
Children.) You can click on the link
and print the article if you like. Please let me know you've done
so, send an e-mail to
sydney
-at- eceteacher.org
- Free to be a Teacher
in Focus, Bulletin of WVA.
AEYC, February, 1987.
- A
Dr. Martin Luther King Curriculum: Playing the Dream in
Young Children,
Vol. 43 No. 2, January, 1988.
(Young Children is
the journal of the National Association for the Education of
Young Children.)
- Naming the Pictures in our Hearts:
Sylvia Ashton-Warner & the Key Vocabulary. In Claremont
Reading Conference Yearbook, 1990.
This paper is available as
a Pacific Oaks Occasional Paper from Pacific Oaks College Bookstore,
Pasadena, CA
- Art
in the Classroom: Making Every Day Special
in Young Children,
Vol. 46. No. 2, January, 1991.
- Column, Ask Sydney
in San Francisco Head Start Newsletter,
1993-4 (4 issues)
-
Editing, Permission to Start Wrong
Early Childhood Research
and Practice, an
electronic journal of ERIC-ECE. Volume 1, Number 1, Spring,
1999.
- Discussing
the News with 3-7-Year-Olds, What to Do? [Also Available
in French]
in ERIC-ECE Early
Years are Learning Years, 1999.
- Why We Should Repeat Field Trips
With Young Children
Beginnings Workshop Child
Care Information Exchange, May, 2001
- I participated in the final
editing of
The Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents
(663KB PDF file)
AUTHOR: BOOK
REVIEWS
- The Good Preschool Teacher: Six
Teachers Reflect,
by William Ayers. Young
Children, May, 1990
- The Real Ebonics Debate,
by Theresa Perry. Childhood
Education, Spring 1999.
- Circle of Love
by Amy C. Baker and Lynn
Manfredi/Petit.
- Teaching with Love
by Lisa S. Goldstein. Childhood
Education Fall, 1998
- That's Not Fair: A Teacher's
Guide to Activism With Young Children
by Ann Pelo and Fran Davidson.
Canadian Children (CAYC), Montreal, Canada. Fall 2000 Issue
Vol.25 no.2, pp39-40 .
- The Art of Awareness: How Observation
Can Transform Your Teaching
by Deb Curtis and Margie
Carter. Canadian Children (CAYC), Montreal, Canada.
Spring 2001 Issue Vol.26 no.1, pp.43-44.
KEYNOTE
SPEECHES
(partial listing):
- Jardin de los Ninos, Las
Cruces, NM.
How to Help Children Better Express Themselves and Deal with Stress,
April, 2005
- New Hampshire Association for Infant
Mental Health
Helping Children Cope With Hard Times: Death, Divorce, September
11th, etc. 2004
- ABAEYC (NJ) Helping Children
Mind, 2004
- Big Island AEYC [HI] Caring
for the Spiritual Well-Being of a Child,
(Ka malama 'ana i na mana'o o ke keiki) 2004
- Las Cruces [NM] Reggio Institute
The Image of the Child, 2004
- South Australian Reggio
Emilia Interest Group, [Adelaide] Documentation, 2003
- Darwin, Australia
Northern Territory Children's Services Conference, A rich arts
program supports the children in your ece classroom, 2003
- Australian Curriculum Studies
Association, [Adelaide] Opening panel:
A vision for education and what we must do to achieve it,
2003
- Southwest Human Development Co. (Phoenix,
AZ, Head Start)
Young Children Develop Resilience through their Daily Art Explorations,
2002
- Hawai'i AEYC, Big Island Chapter,
Sowing the Seeds for Success Conference,
Creativity Gets Children Through The Hard Times, 2002
- Kenosha County, WI Resource and Referral
Conference,
The Enchanted Child in the Real World: Children and the Arts,
2001
- South Bend, IN, Young Learners Conference,
The Enchanted Child in the Real World: Children and the
Arts, 2001
- East Central Illinois AEYC, Children
Bring Their Own Agendas, 2000
- Ohio Association for the Education
of Young Children,
The Many Languages in Which Children & Adults Tell Our Stories,
1999
- Associated Colleges of Central Kansas,
Introduction to Reggio Emilia, 1998
- Ohio University Kennedy Visitor's
Lecture, Creativity
and Children,
1998
- Reading [PA]
Quest for Quality Early Childhood Conference, Child-Centered
Teaching,
1998
- Virginia Association of Independent
Schools, Introduction to
Reggio Emilia,
1997
- Binghamton AEYC [NY] Parents,
Teachers & Children Making
Fantasy & Stories:
Lessons from Gianni Rodari,
1997
- Durham Day Care Council [NC],
Introduction to Reggio Emilia, 1997
- UCLA [CA] Childcare Staffs Children
and Creativity, 1997
- Ithaca, NY Early Childhood Professional
Day Hot Cognition:
Lessons from
Reggio Emilia,
Vivian Gussin Paley, &
Sylvia Ashton-Warner,
1996.
- New Hampshire AEYC, Keene
State College & Head Start & Child & Family Services,
Children and Creativity, 1996.
- Bangor, [ME] AEYC. Lessons from
Reggio Emilia, 1996
- Bluegrass ACUS [TN] Saying Goodbye
and Other Scary Times, 1991
- Honolulu AEYC [HI] Helping Children
Mind, 1990
- Tucson AEYC [AZ] Holidays, Celebrations,
and Rituals, 1990
- Oklahoma ACUS Children Bring Their
Own Agendas, 1990
- Tennessee AEYC Helping Children
Overcome Life's Blows, 1989
- Texas AEYC Respectful Cross-Cultural
Teaching, 1988
- Hoa 'Aina O'Makaha [HI] Workshop
on Alternative Schools, 1988
- Louisiana ACUS Personal Courage
for Teachers, 1987
- Florida ACUS Child-Centered Teaching,
1986
- Alachua County [FL] Childcare Coordinating
Council
Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. & The Child
of the Day, 1986
- West Virginia AEYC Free to Be
a Teacher, Free to Be a Child, 1986
- Temple Univ. Dept. of Afro-American
Studies [PA] Black Children in
White Schools: What They Need & What They Get,
1986
- Tucson AEYC [AZ] Saying Goodbye
and Other Scary Times, 1985
SERMON
- Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist
Church, Montgomery [AL]
Our Institutions and Our Children,
1984
GUEST
LECTURER & WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
- Mid-Pacific Institute Community Conference:
Honolulu, HI, So -- What's the Point of Documenting? With
Leslie Gleim, 2007
- Ohio Early Care & Education Conference:
Columbus, OH, Children of Incarcerated Parents, 2007
- O'ahu Association for the Education
of Young Children, HI, The Reggio Emilia Image of the Child,
2007
- Kamehameha Schools Early Childhood
Education Division: Wai'anae, HI, Children and Creativity,
2007
- Harbor House Child Care
Program, San Francisco: Children of Incarcerated Parents:
They do time, too!, 2006
- San Francisco Head Start
Social Work Team: Children of Incarcerated Parents: They do
time, too!, 2005
- San Francisco Child Care
Providers Association: Children of Incarcerated Parents: They
do time, too!, 2005
- Malcolm X Elementary School
faculty meeting guest speaker: Supporting Children of Incarcerated
Parents, 2004
- Friends Outside, California State
workshop, Using the Arts with children of prisoners, 2003
- University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee:
Clay and Creativity in the lives of Children, 2003
- Racine/Kenosha Childcare Resource
Referral Agency (WI): Helping Children of Incarcerated Parents,
2002
- Big Island, Maui, O'ahu and Kau'ai
chapters of Hawai'i AEYC, workshops: Children & teachers
making stories fantasy: Gianni Rodari's Reggio Emilia Lectures
& Their Meaning for us, 2002
- Muskingum, (OH) week long seminar:
The Reggio Emily Approach: Thoughtful Work with Young Children,
2001
- Susanville (CA) Helping Children
of Incarcerated Parents, 2001
- Milwaukee (WI) University Child Care
Center Staff Retreat Facilitator, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Consultant and workshop facilitator,
Tucson (AZ) Unified School District Prekindergarten program, Documentation
Work from Reggio Emilia, 2000-2001
- Shippensburg University (PA) Extension
Class: Lessons From Reggio Emilia, 2000
- Pittsburgh (PA) Jewish Education
Institute: Lessons From Reggio Emilia, 2000, Documentation
workshop, 2001
- Preschool Discoveries, Inc, McLean
VA, Making Fantasy Stories with Children, 2000
- Bloomington, IL Children's Literature;
The Enchanted Child in the Real World, 2000
- Ohio Association for the Education
of Young Children, Helping Children
Create Fantasy Stories (a technique from Reggio Emilia) 1999
- Preschool Discoveries, Inc., McLean
VA, Lessons From Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1999
- San Jose Children's Museum Early
Childhood Workshop, Documenting Your Work With
Children , 1999
- Reading the World Conferences: Multicultural
Literature for Children, University of San Francisco, 1998,
1999 & 2000:
Teachers & Children Making Fantasy & Stories:
Lessons from Gianni Rodari
- California Kindergarten Association
1995: Authentic Practice with Dee Epps-Miller.
- San Francisco Head Start, 1993-98:
19 workshops including: Children Bring their Own Agendas;
Using Literature with Children; Visiting (and later
discussing) the Hundred Languages of Children Exhibit;
Documentation; Making The HS Performance Standards
Come Alive;
& Diversity Among
Your Children (the last
two jointly with Dee Epps-Miller)
- Adjunct Instructor, Napa Valley Coll.,
A Beautiful Way to Teach Beginning Reading, 1996
- Orange County AEYC [CA] 1991 Life
in Abundance: Teaching Lively & Preventing Burnout
- Association for Childhood Education
International [Pittsburgh], 1990: Children
Bring Their
Own Agendas
- Auckland [N.Z.] College of Education,
Racism and Child- Centered Teaching, 1990
- Paso del Norte AEYC [NM], 1989, Multi-cultural
Education in the Early Years
- Highlander Center [TN], 1989, Playing
the Dream: Raising Strong, Ethical Children in Difficult
Times with Victoria Dimidjian
- Portland [OR] Pacific Oaks College
Outreach Lecture: 1988, Children's Play and Language
Development with Betty Jones
- Auckland, New Zealand Kg Teachers
Assn., 1988, Saying Goodbye & Other Scary Times
- Graytown New Zealand Rotary, 1988,
Childcare: Prepaid or Postpaid, a Public Policy Choice
- Auckland New Zealand, Dept of Education,
1988, Helping Children Confront the Hard Parts of Living
- Head Start Assn 1987 [New Orleans]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & The Child of the
Day
- Extension Instructor, Stephen F.
Austin University, Nacogdoches [TX], Personal
Courage for
Teachers
, 1987
- Extension Instructor, UC Berkeley
Childcare Center, Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Organic Reading
and Writing, 1985.
- Bellingham [WA] AEYC, Peace Education
for Young Children, 1985
- Institute for the Advanced Study
of Human Sexuality [SF], 1985, Teaching
Children about Sex: A Matter of Values Clarification
& Communication
- Adjunct Instructor, Lone Mountain
College, [San Francisco], Cultural Diversity, 1978
- Inservice Instructor, San Francisco
USD Children's Centers, 37 workshops including: Math, Reading,
Infant School Practices, Language Arts, Sensory
Modalities , 1972-82
- Field Faculty, Goddard College MA
Program Early Childhood Education, 1970-73
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION
OF YOUNG CHILDREN
- 2004 [Anaheim] Collaborative
Reflective Practice: A diverse group of teachers meeting monthly
to support each other's growth (with 5 other members of our San
Francisco Reggio Emilia study group: Eva Baharona, Melissa Bowen,
Carolee Fucigna, Toni Gross, Mark Mabry, and Yuko Marshall)
- 2002 [New York City] Violence
through the eyes of children: What we can learn from 9/11 about
understanding and responding to the needs of children in turbulent
times (with Toni Gross and Diane Levin.)
- 2001 [Anaheim] Collaborative Reflective
Practice: Teachers meeting monthly to support each
other's growth (with 5 other members of our San Francisco
Reggio Emilia study group: Melissa Bowen, Carolee Fucigna, Toni
Gross, Yuko Marshall and Eva Baharona)
- 1997 [Anaheim] Teachers
& Children Making Fantasy & Stories: Lessons from
Gianni Rodari & Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- 1992 [New Orleans] Reggio Emilia,
What is Important and What Can Be Imported with Claudia
Rose
- 1991 [Denver] Changing Minds,
Ours and Others': Reflections on Women's Ways of Knowing
& Embracing Contraries with Betty Jones and Donna Couchenour
- 1989 [Atlanta] and 1990 [Wash., DC]
Children Bring Their Own Agendas with Betty Jones
- 1988 [Anaheim] Black Teacher,
White Teacher with Deborah Owens
- 1986 [Washington, DC] Defusing
the Impulse to Kill: Sylvia Ashton-Warner on Peace
Education
- 1985 [New Orleans] Sylvia Ashton-Warner,
1908-1984, Pioneer of Multiculture and
Organic Language
- 1984 [Los Angeles] Saying Goodbye
and Other Scary Times
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION
OF YOUNG CHILDREN :
- 2004 [San Diego]
The Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents
(663KB PDF file)
- 1989 [San Diego] Young Child
as Emergent Writer & Reader, with Betty Jones & Gretchen
Reynolds
- 1987 [Fresno] Supporting
Both Children and Parents: A Search for the Third
Alternative
- 1985 [San Diego] Saying Goodbye
and Other Scary Times
- 1982 [Sacramento] Appropriate
Intervention
MORE REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH WORKSHOPS:
- Burnett Children's Center (San Francisco
Unified School Dist.) 1998, Documentation.
- Manito Coop Parents Evening [WA]
1998, Children & Teachers Making Stories
& Fantasy: Gianni Rodari's Reggio Emilia Lectures & Their
Meaning for Us
- Childcare Directors Meeting, Ohio
University, [Athens] Documentation
- Reading Area [PA] ECE Conference,
1998, Children & Teachers Making Stories &
Fantasy: Gianni Rodari's
Reggio Emilia Lectures & Their
Meaning for Us
- Summit School, Winston-Salem, NC
1997, Telling Stories with Children
- Save the Children Family Childcare
Provider Conference, 1997, Helping Children Tell Stories
- California Kindergarten Association
1993 and 1994: Ideas from Reggio Emilia,
with Doris Smith and others. (Pre-conference seminar)
Additional Reggio Emilia workshops in
San Francisco, Palo Alto (Stanford), Marin County, Santa Cruz, Los
Angeles, CA; Aspen, CO; Portland and Klamath Falls, OR; Seattle
and Spokane WA; Durham, Winston-Salem and Boone NC; Richmond, VA;
Atlanta, GA; Athens, Youngstown and Cleveland OH; Binghamton and
Ithaca, NY; Pittsburgh and Shippensburg, PA. Also
in Auckland, New Zealand, and Adelaide and Darwin, Australia and
for Head Starts, AEYC branches,
community colleges, 4-year colleges, childcare providers, Jewish
childcare providers, extension classes and gatherings of independent
teachers, 1992-
NOTE: Since 1992 I have been instrumental
in organizing and attending small groups who meet regularly to think
about and process Reggio Emilia ideas. I have traveled twice to
Reggio Emilia, and attended dozens of workshops before and since,
including two Summer Institutes and the California Exchange. I have
visited and studied the exhibit, The Hundred Languages of Children,
in Washington, DC, Marin County, CA, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta,
GA, and Oakland, CA.
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