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Cambridge Public School System is an urban school system adjacent to Boston, MA. The system consists of fourteen K-8 schools and one high school.

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Studebaker Theater is a performing and teaching company with a 24-year history of arts-in-the-classroom programming and professional development in the arts with teachers. Studebaker will provide the project's co-director and artists to lead the professional development workshops, make follow-up visits to classrooms, and attend focus group meetings. Studebaker will also provide a financial manager who will oversee all fiscal aspects of the project. Studebaker will participate in all aspects of planning and serve on all governing committees.

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Wheelock Family Theatre is an Equity theatre with a 21-year track record of creating quality performances and education programs in the context of inclusion and outreach. WFT's education staff will work closely with the other partners in designing the content of all education activities and will attend all of these events. WFT will also provide additional artists for professional development workshops. WFT's three professional productions per season will provide a live theatre focus for educational activities framing attendance at these productions by each and every Cambridge teacher and their students involved in the CPSDC. These include master study guides, pre-performance visits, partner buttons, and post-performance Q&A's with the casts of each production.

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Wheelock College's primary mission is to educate current and future teachers to meet the contemporary needs of our schools. The College will provide pedagogical expertise; resources such as 6 free graduate courses; arts interns to work with CPS K-5 teachers; access to current research regarding drama and education; and an expert to develop project assessment instruments and rubrics. College faculty and representatives will co-plan and co-present at some of the professional development workshops and focus groups. They will also participate in all aspects of planning and serve on all governing committees.

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CPSDC directors 

Judith Contrucci has been active in the theater arts and education fields for several decades. During her tenure as Coordinator of the Cambridge Public Schools Department of Drama and Dance she has led numerous arts initiatives, the most recent being the creation of the Cambridge Middle Schools Drama Collaborative.

William Endslow came to the Cambridge Public Schools in 2001 as Staff Developer in Theater Arts. He had previously worked as a theater director, set designer, art teacher and theater teacher.

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CPSDC artists

Lesley Bannatyne co-directs the Studebaker Theater and Invisible Cities Group. She has been an artist in the schools since 1982, where she conducted residencies in schools ranging from Boxford, Massachusetts to Leysin, Switzerland. Lesley joined the CPSDC project as one of the founding artists in 1995 and has played an active role ever since. In addition to her work with CPSDC, she has provided the playwriting residency for the Cambridge Public Schools Playwriting Festival since 1986.

Marianne Adams is a teaching artist who specializes in working with teachers to develop arts-integrated, multi-disciplinary lessons and curriculums. A graduate of U Mass Boston and the Creative Arts in Learning Program at Lesley University, she has spent 19 years working with urban schools to bring the arts into education.She is also a part-time instructor in the arts at Wheelock College.

Lisa Troy Lisa Troy has been acting, teaching, and directing theatre for the last 15 years. She has worked in dozens of public schools in Boston and on the South Shore, where she has taught basic theatre skills to students in addition to creating/directing curriculum-based final performances. She offers a wide variety of theatre classes for children every summer at the Arts for Youth multi-arts camp in Bridgewater, MA., where she also serves as Assistant Director. Recently a Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College, Lisa continues to develop and offer workshops on Drama Infusion in the Classroom for teachers on the South Shore.

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CPSDC teachers

The following teachers are currently involved with CPSDC:

 

Catherine Brennan, Stephanie Burgess, Teresa Champion, Joanne Cleary, Christine Colbath, Danielle Conway, Julie Craven, Mary Cusack, Karen Daniels, Andrea Devine, Barbara Fox, Linda Fuccillo, Robert Garrison, Margaret Giacoppo, Kathy Greeley, Angela Green, Laura Groff, Catherine Hepner, Sharon Hester, Aleida Inglis, Jacy Ippolito, Phyllis Kalowski, Neal Klinman, Leslie Kramer, Karen Kosko, Nancy Lange, Joanne Lowre, Quilda Macedo, Maria Moloney, Catherine Murray, Maureen Nistal, Nancy Paratore, Michael Punzak, Karen Rudgis, Joanne Schiano, Linda Schwetz, Anna Spera, Olukemi Tuyo, Helena Villarroel, Joanne Walcott, Susan Weiner

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