Dr. Jennifer Masone has over twenty years of experience working with children of all ages and is passionate about improving outcomes for all children. She currently serves as the Principal of Cranbury Elementary School. Prior to that she served as the Interim Principal of Nathan Hale Middle School in Norwalk, Connecticutand Principal of Wolfpit Elementary School in the same district. She has experience in both urban and suburban school districts, where she was administrator and teacher. She is passionate about all art forms and their ability to bridge pedagogy and content by engaging students while transcending language, socio-economic status, and other barriers that may typically hinder the educational process. She also has an extensive aquatics background and a keen interest in saving children’s lives and changing the way society approaches educating children on water safety awareness. She has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. Dr. Masone is also the Co-Director of Immersive Arts Integration, an arts-based school improvement model.
How do we make school improvement efforts impactful and lasting? Traditionally, school improvement efforts only address academic improvement and fall short in impacting the whole school. Alternately, the arts are […]
When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.
Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music
My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.
Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film
Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.
La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.