As a founding member of ETC, I have been involved since 1998 in creating arts education programs for students, K-12, any time and place we can--summer camps, school residencies, teacher workshops--the company has always prided itself on extreme flexibility and range.  ETC is devoted to nothing less than ‘Changing Lives through the Arts;‘   not only the lives of our students are changed through contact with ETC, though. but the lives of our artists, theater professionals transformed by ETC’s training program into professional educators: teaching artists as we call them.

In Fall 2009, I proposed and was granted approval to bring all ETC professional development activities under one roof, now known as ‘etcu.’  Activities will eventually include training 1st year teachers (mentoring, counseling, observation & feedback); continuing professional development for continuing and veteran teachers (peer mentoring, lesson plan swapping); workshops (in-house experts, outside experts, peer lesson swap nights, attended by both ETC and school teachers); and development of an online lesson plan forum.  Watch this space for links!

I will also continue to develop ETC’s video offerings, both in the summer and during the school year.  It’s an exciting time to be back with the company.