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 * CS19. Bonny L. Gildin & Carrie Lobman ** – //License to Dream: A Play & Performance Approach to Inner City Youth Development//

May 27 Friday 10:45-12:15 PM HM 152

Through a theatrical performance, we will share a successful model of inner city youth development that builds on and with outside of school play and creativity to produce the social and emotional development needed by youth to become better learners and active in shaping their lives and communities.

Affiliation/Bio: All Stars Project, Inc., Vice President Education Initiatives, bgildin@allstars.org. Throughout her 27-year career, Dr. Gildin has challenged traditional paradigms of learning and education and developed a deep intellectual and personal commitment to developmental afterschool programs. She received her undergraduate degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from Columbia University. She has taught at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. As All Stars Project Vice President/Education Initiatives, Dr. Gildin is advancing the organization's afterschool and education policy initiatives and working to create an Institute for the Study of Play in Newark, NJ to connect the university community to poor and minority young people who are closing "the development gap" through their involvement in afterschool programming.

Co-presenter: Carrie Lobman is an Associate Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University and director of pedagogy at the East Side Institute. She is co-author of //Unscripted Learning: Using Improvisation Across the K-8 Curriculum//, author of numerous articles on play and development, and a frequent presenter at professional conferences on learning, development and play, including meetings of the American Educational Research Association, The Association for the Study of Play and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research. She is the founder of the Institute's Developing Teachers Fellowship Program, a professional development program that trains inner city teachers in a performatory approach to learning and development.