ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special Thanks

to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for their generous support of this handbook


Many thanks

to the following for their insight, suggestions and contributions to this handbook:

AIE Consortium
Young Audiences NJ
Laurence Capo, Executive Director
Maureen Heffernan, Director of YA Institute
Michele Russo, Senior Education Associate
Arts Horizons
Elizabeth Halverstam, Acting Executive Director
John Devol, Founder
Jenifer Simon, Director, New Jersey Programs,
Partnerships & the Artist/Teacher Institute
Michele Renaud, Program Coordinator, New Jersey
Programs, Partnerships & the Artist/Teacher Institute
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Robin Middleman, Senior Program Officer, Arts Education
Shelley Benaroya, AIE Arts Education Administrator
Contributors
Amanda Newman-Godfrey, former NJSCA Arts Education Associate
Anndee Hochman, Author and NJSCA Teaching Artist
Peter Murphy, Poet, former Teacher, and NJSCA Teaching Artist
JC Todd, Poet and NJSCA Teaching Artist
Dominique Cieri, Playwright, Director and NJSCA Teaching Artist
Maggie Hunter, former Education Director, Arts Horizons
Jaymie Stein, former Community Programs Coordinator, Young Audiences NJ