Amanda Grumet
Dr. Amanda Grumet is an experienced performer and educator. She was an opera singer educated at the Oberlin and New England Conservatories with a PhD from the University of Arizona. A Literacy Consultant since 2005, Dr. Grumet has brought her considerable arts experience to instructing teachers how to effectively integrate the arts to invigorate standard curriculum. She specializes in the Teacher’s College protocols. She has worked with every grade level from K-University and has done extensive professional development for teachers and administrators throughout the United States. Amanda uses multiple-modality techniques to enable her participants to open up to multi-cultural experience.
Dr. Grumet joined the faculty of Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Master’s Degree Program in 2005 and created her own course demonstrating how teachers can use music to teach standard curriculum. Amanda was a Teaching Artist in Music and Theater for the Lincoln Center Institute in Partnership Schools and the Higher Ed Collaborative from 1997-2009 and a Teaching Artist in the American Place Theater’s Literature to Life Program from 2003-2008. An adjunct faculty member at Hunter College, she pioneered a course with David Dik from the Metropolitan Opera. Dr. Grumet was a guest lecturer in operatic repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and wrote the radio Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz for teenagers for the first three years of its existence.
Amanda knows how to create a safe environment for teachers to take risks and try new things because she has taken plenty of risks herself as a performer.
In 1997 she became a stand-up comic following Chris Rock in her first appearance and continues as a managed comic and actor on the road and on TV and web appearances. She has written comedy for celebrities and for awards shows including the International Emmy Awards. She is a Meisner trained actor with off-Broadway credits and is a member of the unions Actor’s Equity, SAG and AFTRA. Amanda speaks conversational French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish and specializes in tailoring curriculum for ELL, Special Ed and pre-college preparation. She particularly enjoys comedic and dramatic memoir writing, both with teachers themselves and with students at all levels. She is available for classroom demos and professional development in the San Francisco Bay area.
Making Meaning through Integrated Arts
In her experiential workshops, Dr. Amanda Grumet uses movement, music, theatre, and visual arts to create captivating and exciting classroom experiences that empower teachers. Her multiple-modality techniques enable her participants to open up to multicultural experience. Dr. Grumet grounds her activities with pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, making her workshops both entertaining and substantive. Dr. Grumet particularly enjoys teaching teachers how to use the arts to invigorate the Lucy Calkins writing protocols in elementary school and working with both comedic and dramatic memoir writing, both with teachers themselves and with students at all levels.
Dr. Grumet joined the faculty of Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Master’s Degree Program in 2005 and created her own course demonstrating how teachers can use music to teach standard curriculum. Amanda was a Teaching Artist in Music and Theater for the Lincoln Center Institute in Partnership Schools and the Higher Ed Collaborative from 1997-2009 and a Teaching Artist in the American Place Theater’s Literature to Life Program from 2003-2008. An adjunct faculty member at Hunter College, she pioneered a course with David Dik from the Metropolitan Opera. Dr. Grumet was a guest lecturer in operatic repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and wrote the radio Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz for teenagers for the first three years of its existence.
Amanda knows how to create a safe environment for teachers to take risks and try new things because she has taken plenty of risks herself as a performer.
In 1997 she became a stand-up comic following Chris Rock in her first appearance and continues as a managed comic and actor on the road and on TV and web appearances. She has written comedy for celebrities and for awards shows including the International Emmy Awards. She is a Meisner trained actor with off-Broadway credits and is a member of the unions Actor’s Equity, SAG and AFTRA. Amanda speaks conversational French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish and specializes in tailoring curriculum for ELL, Special Ed and pre-college preparation. She particularly enjoys comedic and dramatic memoir writing, both with teachers themselves and with students at all levels. She is available for classroom demos and professional development in the San Francisco Bay area.
Making Meaning through Integrated Arts
In her experiential workshops, Dr. Amanda Grumet uses movement, music, theatre, and visual arts to create captivating and exciting classroom experiences that empower teachers. Her multiple-modality techniques enable her participants to open up to multicultural experience. Dr. Grumet grounds her activities with pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, making her workshops both entertaining and substantive. Dr. Grumet particularly enjoys teaching teachers how to use the arts to invigorate the Lucy Calkins writing protocols in elementary school and working with both comedic and dramatic memoir writing, both with teachers themselves and with students at all levels.