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Table of Contents
My commitment to excellence in teaching and my belief that the arts inspire students to learn and experience the world more creatively are evidenced in the work I present to you in the teachers and parents pages of the Monarch Publishers web site. Dr. Crystal Ball O'Connor Meet the ExpertsMeet Gina Silver Varat: Gina has over 15 years in education and curriculum development. A graduate of Winthrop College (BA), Western Carolina University (BSEd) and Furman University (MA), Gina has taught in public and private schools in North Carolina, Mississippi and South Carolina. She was a teacher and the director of the Furman Child Development Center for 11 years and remains an adjunct instructor for the Graduate School at Furman. Most recently, Gina developed the education program and curriculum for the Upcountry History Museum in Greenville. Meet Sharon Kazee: Sharon is the Dean/Vice President for Arts and Academics for the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She has a vast background in education, having served in a variety of teaching and administrative roles for ages pre-K through college. This experience includes teaching kindergarten, general music, choral music, and instrumental music at the elementary and secondary levels, as a Lead Teacher, an Assistant Principal at Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, and as the Performing Arts Specialist with Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools. Sharon is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Ben Craig First Union Outstanding Educator and the Harris Award for Educators in Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools. Meet Crystal Ball O’Connor, Ph.D: Crystal is a children’s book author and educator whose outstanding school performances include staff development and weaving together literature and the arts to the delight of children and adults! She received her doctorate in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt University and served eight years on the Greenville County School Board as an advocate for early childhood literacy and arts across the curriculum. Dr. O'Connor is a highly regarded educator presenting at conferences including SCASL, SCIRA, SCATA, SC2, Hands-on Minds-on Edventure Science Center supported by the State Department of Education, and South Carolina Teachers of English. Meet Heather Magruder: Heather is a freelance writer and teaching artist. Heather’s fiction, poetry, journalism and creative nonfiction work is published in a variety of periodicals. Heather’s feature articles earned 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Women in Communications Matrix Awards; her fiction was selected as one of the winners of the 2004 and 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open contests. For the past five years, Heather has been heavily involved in SmartARTS, a partnership between the Metropolitan Arts Council and Greenville County Schools that brings arts integration to Title I schools. In addition to her work in the classroom, Heather is a mentor and lead trainer for SmartARTS.
The Resources for Extended Learning section was created by Gina Silver Varat and Crystal Ball O’Connor, Ph.D., with additional contributions from Dean Sharon Kazee, and Heather MaGruder.
If you have ideas that work well with Katherine's Quilt Made for Dreaming and would like to share them with other teachers, please email them to us for possible publication on our web site. Please send us your name and the name and location of your school as that we can give you proper credit for your work at sharethefun@monarchpublishers.com.
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