Vitae

EDUCATION

M.A., Art,  San Francisco State University

Ryan Act Lifetime Teaching Credential, Art, San Francisco State University

B.A., Art, University of California, Davis, California

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Professional License in Educational Therapy,

Association of Educational Therapists

Certificate, Educational Therapist Professional,

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Orton Gillingham

Lindamood Bell: LIPS, Visualize/Verbalize

Making Math Real: All levels

Harvard University: Project Zero

Lincoln Center: Summer Forum

All Kinds of  Minds and Schools Attuned

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2004 – Private Practice in Educational Therapy

2021 Work with children and adolescents with mild to moderate learning disabilities

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1989 - Cathedral School for Boys, San Francisco

2021 Head, Art Department

Upper School Art Teacher

1982 - San Francisco Community College

1989. Professor, Textile Arts

1982 Visiting Professor, Textile Art Department, San Francisco State University

HONORS AND AWARDS

“Power of Art Award” Recipient, Lab School of Washington D.C.

Honored for developing a language arts program that integrates

lessons in the visual arts with compensatory strategies for extended writing

Superior Court of California, San Francisco Unified Family Court

Children’s Art Task Force

Appointed to develop a program to place children’s art from public and

private schools into the corridors and offices of Family Court.

Art Teacher of the Year

SFUSD Annual Youth Arts Festival, De Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

San Francisco Foundation Grant Recipient

Artist-in-Residence at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies,

Tiburon, California