Partners
The following universities and organizations are currently partnering with Habla both in México and in their home countries:
Architects
The architects are international leaders in their fields who are helping to build Habla from the ground up. They share Habla’s vision for an educational world where students in community and school settings have space to sharpen their voice through both languages and the arts. They also believe that we can make our boldest advances in the field of education by partnering across fields and borders. The architects meet annually in Mérida to exchange ideas and design new experiences and events.
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Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University. Based at Harvard University, Cultural Agents brings together artists, educators, and community leaders in innovative collaborations that revitalize civic life both locally and internationally. Their activities feature workshops, conferences, TV programs, performances, exhibitions, and scholarly publications. HABLA is pleased to partner with Cultural Agents on a series of workshops and lectures.
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The ArtsLiteracy Project, Brown University. Many of the ideas behind HABLA were originally conceived in the Education Department at Brown University. ArtsLit is dedicated to developing the literacy and language of youth through the performing and visual arts.
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Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education. CAPE supports partnerships between educators and artists to integrate the arts into the curriculum. Supported by a national network of arts partnership programs, CAPE impacts local, national, and international education policy.
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SmART Schools.Based in the Education Development Center (EDC) in Newton, Massachusetts, SmART Schools promotes whole school reform through the arts. The SmART Schools and Habla partnership conducts ongoing professional development for teachers, designed and facilitated by Habla's co-founders and co-directors Kurt Wootton and Maria del Mar Patron-Vazquez, and SmART Schools founder and director, Eileen Mackin. This professional development is offered to participating SmART Schools arts educators, classroom teachers, administrators, and program master teaching artists, on both the East and West coasts of the United States.
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Arnold Aprill. Arnold Aprill, the Founding and Creative Director of CAPE, comes from a background in professional theater as an award-winning director, producer and playwright. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is one of the co-editors of Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning. He consults nationally and internationally on the role of the arts in effective school improvement. He has been recognized for exceptional leadership by the Chicago Community Trust and by the Leadership for a Changing World initiative supported by the Ford Foundation. aaprill@capeweb.org
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Gail Burnaford. Dr. Gail Burnaford holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Georgia State University. Since 2003, she has been Professor of Teacher Education at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches doctoral course work in program evaluation and instructional practices. Prior to this, she was Director of Undergraduate Teacher Education at Northwestern University, with a focus on teacher development, arts education, and program evaluation. burnafor@fau.edu
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Richard Deasy. Richard J. Deasy is the director of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a coalition of over 100 education, arts, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work. Under his leadership AEP has published seminal research studies and reports that are credited with major advances in arts education in the United States. Mr. Deasy has been a senior state education official in Maryland and Pennsylvania, president and CEO of the National Council for International Visitors, and a prize-winning reporter on politics and government in Philadelphia and the surrounding metropolitan area. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on slum housing conditions in suburban Philadelphia. DickD@ccsso.org
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Donald King. Donald King is the artistic and founding director of the Providence Black Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University, teaching courses on theater and hip-hop. donald@blackrep.org
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James McLaughlin. Dr. H. James McLaughlin is a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry at Florida Atlantic University. His scholarly interests revolve around action research, program evaluation, teachers’ work with Latino immigrant students and families, international professional development experiences, and life in Mexican rural schools. For the last 10 years, he has developed study abroad experiences for US students and practicing teachers, exchange programs, and research projects in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Yucatán. Dr. McLaughlin also works on evaluation teams for arts integration programs in Chicago and South Florida. jmclau17@fau.edu
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Nick Rabkin. Nick Rabkin directs the Teaching Artist Research Project at the University of Chicago. His work, broadly, is about understanding how the arts can best contribute to the development of a genuinely democratic society and rich community life. In his writing (Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century), he has linked the pioneering work of artists in education with new learning theory and research to construct a new kind of case for the arts in the education of all children. He has worked in arts philanthropy, as deputy commissioner of cultural affairs for Chicago in the Harold Washington administration, and as a theater producer. nrabkin@yahoo.com
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Angela Richardson. Angela Richardson is Executive Director of P.S. ARTS, an arts education organization that provides instruction in arts for 12,000 students across Los Angeles county and California's Central Valley. Prior to joining PS ARTS, Ms. Richardson was the Managing Director of the ArtsLiteracy Project in the Education Department at Brown University. Angela has vast experience in the design and implementation of partnerships between arts organizations and culturally diverse urban school districts, and a proven track record of successful program development and strategic planning for small to mid-sized arts organizations. angela.richardson52@gmail.com
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Daniel Soares. Daniel Soares is a pioneer of both literature and second language learning instruction. He is currently the director of teacher education programs at the University of Goias, Brazil, and the founder and director OLY in Inhumas, Brazil. OLY is a language school that incorporates ArtsLiteracy practices into language development. Daniel has won several national awards in Brazil for his approach to teacher education. danialdo10@yahoo.com.br
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Patricia Sobral. After having taught at Harvard University for five years in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Patricia Sobral currently teaches at Brown University in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and she is the coordinator of the Language Program. She has articles published on contemporary Brazilian literature and second language acquisition. She is co-author of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language, a first-year language textbook published by Prentice-Hall. At Brown she teaches students in Portuguese including the course Performing Brazil: Language, Theater & Culture which functions as both a language and culture course and a platform for students to develop a solid foundation in education through the arts. Patricia Sobral was educated in Brazil and in the United States and holds a B.A. in Russian with a minor in French and an M.A. in Comparative Literature both from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and a Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University.
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Doris Sommer. Doris Sommer is the Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University. Her research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more general pursuit of the constructive work in rights and resources that the arts and the humanities contribute to developing societies. dsommer@fas.harvard.edu
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Lauren Stevenson. As the senior associate for research at the national Arts Education Partnership (AEP), Lauren Stevenson led the organization’s research activities, including a three-year study of arts education and school change culminating in the book, Third Space: When Learning Matters. She also co-authored You Want to Be a Part of Everything: The Arts, Community, and Learning, a report exploring the connections between arts education and youth and community development. Lauren served as the assistant editor of AEP’s Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a compendium synthesizing and analyzing recent research on arts education, and led a task force with the American Educational Research Association to develop an agenda for future arts education research. AEP published this agenda as Arts Education: New Opportunities for Research. Lauren is a doctoral candidate at the Stanford University School of Education.
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Cynthia Weiss. Cynthia is an award-winning public artist, painter, and educator. She directs the Arts Integration Mentorship Project, Project AIM, at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago. Cynthia is co-editor with Amanda Lichtenstein of a new Columbia College publication, AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning; and co-editor with Gail Burnaford and Arnold Aprill of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education CAPE book, Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning, 2001. Cynthia received her MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cynthia is fluent in Spanish, and always inspired by translations across art forms, language and culture.cynweiss@gmail.com
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Sam Seidel is the author of Hip Hop Genius and the Editor-in-Chief of The Husslington Post website. He is a Community Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design, a teacher at the Rhode Island Training School (the state’s juvenile prison) through the AS220 Broad Street Studio and an education consultant. Sam has previously served as the Director of Partnerships and Annual Reviews for the Association for High School Innovation and as the Director of the AS220 Broad Street Studio. sam@husslingtonpost.com
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