Arts Integration Coach
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NORWALK, Connecticut, United States
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Elizabeth Simmons is currently the Arts Integration Coach for Norwalk Public Schools/Nathan Hale Middle School, as well as a Teaching Artist and Professional Development leader for Hartford Performs, the Kennedy Center and others. She has over 10 years of teaching experience as a K-12 Drama Teacher as well as an Arts Administrator. As a professional actor she has acted in numerous NYC and regional productions, favorite theatre credits include To Kill a Mockingbird (Queen’s Theatre in the Park) Boston Marriage (Actors Theatre Washington), The Miracle Worker (Judson Theatre) and the Diary of Anne Frank (Playhouse on Park) She has also served on the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable. (Theatre In Our Schools conference committee ‘17), and holds her M.S in Educational Theatre from the City College of New York. Elizabeth was honored with the Frances Blumenthal Award for Leadership and Excellence in Research.
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5 Arts Integration Strategies Poster
This colorful poster offers quick, useful strategies to incorporate the arts into your lesson plans. Easy descriptions for each strategy plus applications for use. Use this poster to inspire and plan for your own arts integrated lesson!
PreK - 8th
Art, Drama
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RL.K.2
, RL.1.2
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Experience
Elizabeth Simmons is currently the Arts Integration Coach for Norwalk Public Schools/Nathan Hale Middle School, as well as a Teaching Artist and Professional Development leader for Hartford Performs, the Kennedy Center and others. She has over 10 years of teaching experience as a K-12 Drama Teacher as well as an Arts Administrator. As a professional actor she has acted in numerous NYC and regional productions, favorite theatre credits include To Kill a Mockingbird (Queen’s Theatre in the Park) Boston Marriage (Actors Theatre Washington), The Miracle Worker (Judson Theatre) and the Diary of Anne Frank (Playhouse on Park) She has also served on the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable. (Theatre In Our Schools conference committee ‘17), and holds her M.S in Educational Theatre from the City College of New York. Elizabeth was honored with the Frances Blumenthal Award for Leadership and Excellence in Research.
Teaching style
As an Arts Integration Coach, I believe student’s engagement is the first step to learning. I believe that great teaching is a conversation between the teacher and students within a guided framework that challenges and excites. In leading activities for multiple ages, I start with an essential question that focuses my own thoughts and allows open ended discussion and exploration. I strive to allow students’ voices to be heard and honored, and to create an equitable and artistically rich environment. In creating a safe space for self-expression, I work to encourage risk-taking in big ways, and seek to answer the question, what can we take from the rehearsal and creative process and apply to the learning process?
Awards & shining teacher moments
Frances Blumenthal Award for Leadership and Excellence in Research (2013)
Article from The Hour, Norwalk CT
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Norwalk-Nathan-Hale-Middle-School-integrates-the-17217136.php
My own education history
M.S in Educational Theatre from the City College of New York (CUNY)
BA Theatre Arts from Point Park University (Pittsburgh)
CT State Teaching Certification Theatre Arts K-12
Additional biographical information
www.elizabethsimmons.net
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