• Facilitated arts education workshops and in-service trainings for classroom teachers
Second Grade Classroom Teacher 1989-1991
Hawthorne Elementary School, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA
• Taught full curriculum in self-contained classroom
Painting Instructor 1988-1989
Chabot Community College, Hayward, CA
• Taught landscape painting using various media
Substitute Teacher 1987-1989
Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA
• Taught in elementary school settings
Adult Education Instructor 1986-1990
Albany Adult School, Albany, CA
• Taught watercolor painting classes
Adult Education Instructor in Fine and Applied Arts 1983-1988
Pleasant Valley Adult School / Oakland Unified School District
• Taught painting and drawing to developmentally disabled adults and the elderly
Other Teaching Experience 1979-1985
U.C. Berkeley Extension and the California College of Arts and Crafts Extension
• Painting and picture framing classes and workshops
EDUCATION:
California State University, Hayward, CA 1989-1992
• Multiple Subject Credential Program
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA 1969-1973
• Master of Fine Arts (painting), 1973
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors in painting, 1972
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1967-1969
• Astronomy major
• Full scholarship
LEADERSHIP:
• Arts Development Leader, Arts Cohorts, Oakland Unified School District, 2002-2004
• Member, Arts Education Task Force, Oakland Unified School District, 1997-1999
• Participant, Invitational Institute, The California Arts Project, 1995,1998
• Author, Visual Arts Content Standards, Grades K-5, for Oakland Unified School District, 1997
CREDENTIALS:
• Professional Clear Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, with supplementary authorization in art (expires June 1, 2012)
• Clear Designated Subjects Adult Education Teaching Credential (expires August 1, 2012)
• California Community College Credential (lifetime)
HONORS:
• Outstanding Contributions as an Oakland Arts Educator, Oakland Unified School District, 2004
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS:
Art, Geometry, and the Perfect Shape
• Council of Math and Science Educators of San Mateo County, 2004-2006
• California Math Council Annual Conference (north) 1999-2005
• California Arts Project, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000-2004
• California Math Council Annual Conference (south) 1999
• Bay Area Math Project, 1993, 1994, 1998-2004
• Contra Costa County Association of Science and Math Educators, 1999
The Art of Patterns, Tilings, and Tessellations
• California Math Council Annual Conference (north) 2003-2005
Symmetry and Tessellations with Pattern Blocks
• California Math Council Annual Conference (north) 2000-2002
• Bay Area Math Project, 2000
The Beauty of Geometry
• Bay Area Math Project, 1998
Art, Mathematics, and Literacy Workshop Series
• Oakland Unified School District, Summer of Learning, 1999
Integrating Art into the Curriculum
• Patten College, Oakland, CA, 1993-1997
PUBLICATIONS:
• Art, Geometry, and the Perfect Shape, Communicator, V.27 No. 1, September 2002, California Mathematics Council: Clayton, CA
• The Beauty of Geometry, Geometry and Algebra Across the Grades, K-12, 2002 Special Edition, California Mathematics Council: Clayton, CA
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