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The Galef Institute's
Arts in Education Team
Kimberleigh Aarn, Senior Arts Educator: Dance and Drama
Kimberleigh Aarn is an experienced professional development designer and trainer for teachers in drama, movement, voice, and ceramics, specializing in integrating the arts in core content with a focus on literacy. She is the theatre mentor and teaching artist, levels K-8, at PS Arts/Crossroads Community Foundation, Santa Monica, California. She has been drama specialist at Crossroad Arts & Science (K-1) and at New Roads Middle School (6-8), and Teaching Artist with Inner City Arts (K-5) for the Mark Taper Foundation. Her professional acting background consists of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, film, and television, and she received dance training from Lar Lubovitch, Jose Limón, and the Baltimore Dance Company under the direction of Eva Anderson. She received a B.F.A. in Dramatic Arts from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
Anastasia Betts, Arts Educator: Music
Anastasia Betts was Director of Instruction at Cornerstone Prep Charter School, where she served as coordinator of curriculum, assessment, staff development, and music. Previously she served California public school districts as elementary school teacher, curriculum facilitator, GATE facilitator, music specialist, curriculum design, and choir director. She is the recipient of the American Association of University Women Scholarship, National University Leadership Scholarship, and the National University Collegiate Honor Scholarship. Her short stories have been published in The Writer's Journal , The Ensign , and National University's literary anthology, The GNU . She received a B. A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and an M.A. in Education in Cross-Cultural Teaching from National University in La Jolla, California.
Karolynne A. Gee, Senior Vice President; Director, Arts Coaches Course of Study, Visual Arts Specialist
Karolynne Gee, a visual artist by training and disposition, has been a national
education consultant specializing in the arts and interdisciplinary instruction,
clinical supervision, team teaching, and coaching; a provider of professional
development to school systems and workshops for parents and professional organizations;
a demonstration teacher in multiage classrooms and coordinator of the visual and
discursive arts programs at Seeds University Elementary School of the University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she worked with John Goodlad; and an instructor
in the visual arts and integrated learning at the UCLA Teacher Education Lab,
UCLA Extension. She is the author of Visual Arts as a Way of Knowing,
part of the Galef Institute's Strategies for Teaching and Learning Professional
Library (The Galef Institute/Stenhouse Publishers, 2000).
Toni Lee Hanson, Director, Professional Development
Toni Lee Hanson has over twenty-seven years' experience in education. She has
served as classroom teacher, grades K-9; acting director of the University of
Southern California (USC) Center to Advance Pre-college Science Education; co-director
of the California Science Project; a faculty member of the California State University.
She is the author of teacher guides, curriculum, and National Public Radio's "Science
Friday Kid's Connection." She is also the recipient of Rockwell International's
Science Teacher of the Year Award, an Earthwatch Expedition scholarship, the Shiny
Apple Award for teaching excellence, and an Excellence in Education Award from
the Clark County School District.
Wendy Iscove, Arts Educator: Dance and Visual Arts
Wendy Iscove has eleven years' experience as a professional dancer in theater, film, and television. A former assemblage artist (life sculpture), she has designed movement, music, and art programs for children in K-5 Los Angeles county schools, with special emphasis for children with special needs; has taught pre-school; and has prepared art and dance presentations for the Very Special Arts Festival, Los Angeles. She received a BScN in Science and Nursing from the University of Toronto; Intermediate Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dance, London; and has attended Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles and University of California, Los Angeles Art School.
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