Susan R. Snyder, Ph.D.

Brief Biographical Sketch

Outline

Biographical Sketch
Résumé
  Summary
  Workshop/Consulting
  Video/Media
  Teaching
  Publications/Research
    Educational Texts
    Journals
    Articles
    Research
    Video/Media
  Honors
  Administrative
  Professional
  Service
  Education
  Personal
  References

Sue Snyder is principal member of IDEAS—Inventive Designs for Education and the ArtS, LLC, a company dedicated to facilitating child appropriate educational models and programs. She has taught at all levels, Pre-K - post-graduate, and holds a BS and MA in Music Education, a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, an Orff Master Teachers Certificate, and a Cooperative Learning Trainers' Certificate. Sue has extensively studied specific topics in education including arts education, brain compatible learning, creativity, curriculum design, early childhood, literacy/integrated language arts, learning theory, MI, movement, multicultural education, and special learners.

Sue combines her interests to develop curriculum designs and products that promote activity based, integrated learning. She most recently created and now teaches Total Literacy, a literacy program in, about, and through the arts for emergent and young readers. She continues to develop this program with teachers in urban, suburban, and rural school districts across the United States and Canada. She is an Author of Macmillan/McGraw Hill's Music and You series, Senior Author of Share the Music, Grades K-6, Contributing Author of Glencoe's Choral Connections, and Author/Publisher of Integrate with Integrity, Teaching Music in the Elementary School: A Guide for the Classroom Teacher, and ArtSmart: Arts Activities for the Classroom Teacher. Sue produces and publishes Music Memory for Grades 3-6 in conjunction with the University Interscholastic League (TX), and the Riverside (NY) Symphony Orchestra.

Sue is an internationally respected clinician, and actively teaches and consults at universities, school districts, for teacher groups and media corporations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. She recently completed a two-year appointment as Scholar-in-Residence for the BEST program at the Connecticut State Department of Education, has been involved in development of the HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Schools program for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and works with MACH's (Music and Arts Center for Humanity) Start with Arts program in conjunction with Bridgeport Headstart. She is also involved in development of Mississippi Arts Commission's Whole Schools initiative, the Kaleidoscope program in Michigan City, IN; and development of the Dearborn, MI music initiative.

Résumé of Qualifications

Summary

A multifaceted educator/entrepreneur who has successfully taught at public school and university levels, authored textbooks and position papers, and consulted internationally for school districts, businesses, media organizations, universities and teacher groups. Dr. Snyder is founder and President of arts education IDEAS: Inventive Designs for Education and the ArtS, LLC; a company devoted to excellence and innovation in education. She often works "out of the box."

Currently, Dr. Snyder is:

Developer and Implementation Director for Total Literacy, an arts-infused literacy program for emergent readers in schools and after-school programs nationwide.
Author, producer, and publisher of quality educational materials, and open-ended educational tools, and toys.
Consultant and facilitator for Early Childhood and After School programming.
Policy consultant to education and media organizations and agencies.
An advocate for child-centered, brain-based, arts-infused, integrated curriculum change.

Workshop/Consulting Experience

Keynote addresses on educational and arts education topics, and arts advocacy.

Long-term Consultancies

1996	Kaleidoscope grant with Michigan City, IN Schools and the Indiana Department of Education, and Goals 2000 to raise reading and math scores through arts infusion.
1997-99	Scholar-in-Residence with the Connecticut State Department of Education, BEST program, developing a program to provide support and testing of beginning teachers.
1997-	Indiana Department of Education—Music, Movement, Art and Literacy: Process Connections, co-sponsored by the Fine Arts, Physical Education and Prime-Time (Early Childhood) Literacy departments.
1997-	H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) Schools in Connecticut, in conjunction with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut Alliance for Arts in Education, and the Connecticut State Department of Education—steering committee, teacher training, curriculum facilitation, and trainer training.
1999-	Total Literacy courses for teams of music, art, movement, and classroom teachers of emergent readers in Mississippi (Mississippi Arts Commission); Connecticut (3 sites including Western CT State University); Dearborn, MI; Cobb County, GA; Toronto, Canada; Fort Worth, TX; Fort Wayne, IN; Lawrence Township Public Schools; Hartford, CT Public Schools; Bridgeport, CT Public Schools.

Hundreds of workshops and consultations with teachers, administrators, parents, and early care providers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia relating to education, including the following topics:
- Arts Advocacy
- Arts-Infused Curriculum
- Arts for Classroom Teachers
- Cooperative Learning
- Curriculum Development
- Early Childhood and Elementary Music, Arts, and Literacy
- Emergent and Early Literacy
- Family Learning
- Higher Order Thinking Through the Arts
- Integrated Language Arts, Integrated Arts
- Integrating Across the Curriculum
- Learning Theory and Application to Practice
- Literacy In, About, and Through Music and Movement
- Multicultural Education and Multicultural Music Education
- Multiple Intelligences/ Multiple Ways of Knowing
- "Music and You"
- Orff-Schulwerk
- School Readiness
- Sequence and Creativity in the Classroom
- "Share the Music"
- Special Learners in the Classroom
- Teacher as Researcher
- Wolf Trap early childhood arts
Workshops and master classes with children in schools and after school settings across the United States.

Video and Media Consulting

1991	Videotape Celebrating Reading With Music, produced by Macmillan/ McGraw -Hill School Division, N. Y., N. Y.
1993	Educational Consultant to NYNEX, "Listening to Your Children," taped public service announcements.
1993	Videotaped series for Fort Worth Independent School public television, In the Music Room with Sue Snyder, a series of six sequential programs for classroom teachers on using music in the classroom.
1994	Project consultant, Share the Music videos, a series of videotapes for elementary children, with teacher guides, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Division. "Instruments of the Orchestra"—exploring sound production, cultural links "Music and Movement"—exploring movement, cultural differences "Musical Expression"—Midori and Josh Redman discuss interpretation "Creating Musical Moods"—Wendy Blackstone in her studio "Sounds of Percussion"—African, Latin and other—kids performing "Blending Musical Styles"—styles created by fusion "Making a Music Video"—a 'how to' for upper grades "The Mariachi Tradition"—Campanas Americas, Grammy nominees "Signing, K-2"—Poetic sign for songs, with Terri Burdette "Signing, 3-6"—Poetic sign for songs, with Terri Burdette
1994-95	ITVS, Advisory Panel for "Children's Programming Initiative."
1996	Reviewer, "Wood, Clay Glass" CD-ROM, Tape House Interactive
1996	Educational Consultant, PBS early childhood pilot.
1996	"Teaching Music in the Elementary School," Videos I, II and III: a series of 18 videotaped model lessons (approx. 6 hours).
1997	Reviewer, Disney Channel Early Childhood Programming Pilots
2000-02	Children's Television Workshop, arts consultant to "Sesame Street" seasons 32 and 33.
2004	Total Literacy Video Suite, 18 videotape training series for Total Literacy approach to emergent and early literacy; producer and teacher.
2004	"Kid Einstein," (Disney) arts consultant to pilot.
2005	USDOE/PBS "Ready to Learn" Summit, A Child's Life: Learning, Literacy and the Role of Media;" Advisor, consultant and invited presenter.

Teaching Experience

1970-90	Elementary and Middle School Terryville, Connecticut Ringwood, New Jersey Bergenfield, New Jersey Greenwich, Connecticut
1994-96	Hunter College, City University of New York
1997-99	Scholar in Residence, CT State Department of Education, BEST program
1970-	University Teaching—graduate and undergraduate courses in education sponsored at the following locations: C. W. Post Central Connecticut State University Colorado State University East Carolina State University Fairleigh Dickinson University Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford Hunter College, City University of New York Indiana State Department of Education Jersey City State College Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR Lowell State College, MA Marywood College, PA Montclair State College Montana State University Rockford, Illinois Public School District St. John, V. I. School of the Arts Teacher's College, Columbia University, NY Texas Christian University Trinity College, HOT Schools Institute University of Alaska, Fairbanks University of Connecticut University of Minnesota University of South Florida Vandercook College Volusia County Public Schools, Volusia County, Florida West Chester State University, PA Wichita State University William Paterson University of New Jersey
	Undergraduate and Graduate Course topics (alphabetical listing): Cooperative Learning Early Childhood Early Childhood Music Integrate with Integrity: Music Across the Curriculum Improving Student Learning in Music Linking Language and Music for Literacy Literacy through Music and Movement Movement and Dance in Elementary Education Music, Movement and Emergent Literacy—an Intervention Approach Orff-Schulwerk, Levels I, II, III Orff Schulwerk: Applications to Literacy (Levels I and II) Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze Fusion Practicum in Teaching Reading in the Elementary School Sequence and Creativity in the Elementary Curriculum Sequence Through the Seasons—An Interdisciplinary Approach Sharing Cultural Diversity in the Classroom Teaching Music in the Elementary School

Publications and Research

Educational Texts

1988	Author, Grades K, 1 and 4; contributing author Grade 2, contributor Grades 3, 5 and 6, cooperative learning consultant Grades K-8; Music and You , Macmillan Publishing Company, N. Y., N. Y. (pupil texts, teachers editions, recordings and ancillary materials)
1991	Author, Music and You revision, Macmillan Publishing Company, N. Y., N. Y.
1991	Music Consultant, A New View, Grades K-6, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, N. Y., N. Y.
1995	Coordinating author, Grades K-6; Share the Music, Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, N. Y., N. Y. (pupil texts, teachers editions, recordings and ancillary materials including videos and software)
1996	Contributing Author and editor, Choral Connections, four middle school and four high school texts, Glencoe Publishing, Mission Hills, CA. (pupil texts, teachers editions, recordings, ancillary materials)
1996	Author and publisher, Teaching Music in the Elementary School: A Guide for Elementary Educators, (text with songbook and videos), IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT.
1996	Author and publisher, Integrate with Integrity: Music Across the Curriculum, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (See review, General Music Today, Spring 1997)
1997	Co-Author and publisher, ArtSmart: Arts Activities for Classroom Teachers, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT.
1998	Publisher and Editor, Classical Moves, by Barbara Stevanson. IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT.
1998	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory Program, Grades 5/6 and 3/ 4 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, posters, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League.
1998	Author, in A Guide to Program Development in Early Childhood, The Arts in Early Childhood; CT Board of Education, Hartford, CT.
1998	Author, in HOT Schools Handbook, Becoming H.O.T.; CT Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT.
1999	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory Millennium Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League.
1999	Author and publisher, Total Literacy, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT.
1999	Author and publisher, Interactive Arts for Total Literacy, with Linda Worsley, Allison Abucewicz, Sharon Berndt, and Jan Wenzel. IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (text with 9 thematic units on literacy themes, CD, fine arts prints)
2000	Executive producer and publisher, Science Through Song, by Jim Walters, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (15 songs with lessons, CD, science/music correlations to national standards)
2000	Executive producer and publisher, BIRDS, by Nancy Lafferty and Elaine Larson, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (6 week thematic unit on Birds, Alaska emphasis, lesson plans for music, movement, visual art, and language arts)
2000	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory 2000-01 Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League and Riverside (NY) Symphony.
2001	Publisher and Editor, Write a Song, by Linda Worsley, IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (book, reproducible resource masters, CD)
2001	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory 2001-02 Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League and Riverside (NY) Symphony.
2001	Author and publisher, Interactive Arts for Total Literacy Volume II, Book 1: DETAILS. with Alison Kenney-Gardhouse, Peg McCaughey, Allison Abucewicz. IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT. (text with arts-based, six-week, thematic unit for language arts, music, movement, visual art; CD, fine arts prints)
2002	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory 2002-03 Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League and Riverside (NY) Symphony.
2002	Kaleidoscope Training Manual, Kaleidoscope Program, Michigan City Area Schools, Michigan City, IN.
2003	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory 2003-04 Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League and Riverside (NY) Symphony.
2003	Children's Arabic Songs, with the Dearborn, MI Public Schools and the Dearborn Arabic Community. Arts education IDEAS, Norwalk, CT. (book, CD, Video)
2003	Arts Based Literacy for Emergent Readers: Total Literacy as enrichment for SFA, with Allison Abucewicz, arts education IDEAS, Norwalk, CT.
2004	Coordinating author, Grades pre-K-8; Spotlight on Music, Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, N. Y., N. Y. (pupil texts, teachers editions, recordings and ancillary materials including videos and software).
2004	Executive Producer and Senior Editor, Music Memory 2004-05 Edition, Grades 3-6 (teacher texts, CDs, resource packages, cassette tapes, transparencies, software, portraits). IDEAS Press, Norwalk, CT, in conjunction with the Texas University Interscholastic League and Riverside (NY) Symphony.
2004	Author and publisher, Total Literacy: An Arts-Based Guide to Building Early Literacy Skills for Parents, Homeschool, and Early Childhood, arts education IDEAS, Norwalk, CT.

Journals

1996-99	Department Editor—Arts. Early Childhood Education Journal.
1998-99	Co-Editor, RETA News and Views, newsletter of Reading Excellence Through the Arts, a special interest group of the International Reading Association.
2001	Editor-in-chief: IDEAS newsletter, Winter, 2001; Spring 2002; Summer 2003

Articles

1984	"Are the Gifted Creative?" Spring, 1984 Orff Echo.
1987	"Solve the Mystery Melody," in Structuring Cooperative Learning, Johnson, Johnson and Holubec eds., Interaction Book Co., Edina, MN.
1990	"Question Upon Question: A Quest for Orff-Schulwerk," The Orff Echo, Summer, 1990.
1991	"Cooperative Learning: Building Lifelong Skills," with Steve Leinwand, in "Mathematical Viewpoints," published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, N. Y., NY.
1993	Article, "Language, Music and Learning Process Connections," in Ostinato, Music pour enfants, Carl Orff, Canada, Volume 19, Number 3, April, 1993.
1994	"Language, Music and Movement—Process Connections," in General Music Today, Music Educators National Conference, Spring, 1994.
1995	"Integrate With Integrity: Music Across the Curriculum," in Proceedings from the Third Mountain Lakes Colloquium for Teachers of Elementary Music Methods (1995 copyright)
1995	"Is Music Important? How Do You Know?" Feature article in Counterpoint, Newsjournal of the Victorian Schools' Music Association, Victoria, Australia, October, 1995.
1996	"Integrate With Integrity: Music Across the Curriculum," Feature article in Counterpoint, Newsjournal of the Victorian Schools' Music Association, Victoria, Australia, February, 1995.
1996	"Constructing an Integrated Thematic Unit: You Can Do!" Feature article in Counterpoint, Newsjournal of the Victorian Schools' Music Association, Victoria, Australia, Spring, 1995.
1996	"Weavers and Weaving: A Thematic Unit with Many Learning Options," in Celebrating the Orff Centenary, Schott, London, summer of 1996.
1996	The Process Program: Integrating the Arts into the Elementary Classroom, unpublished manuscript.
1997	"Early Childhood Lessons from Mr. Holland's Opus," in Early Childhood Education Journal, winter 1997.
1997	"Developing the Musical Intelligence," in Early Childhood Education Journal, spring 1997.
1997	"Point-Counterpoint" in Music Educator's Journal, Spring, 1997.
1997	"Kaleidoscope: Building an Arts Infused Elementary Curriculum," with Dr. J. Radford and Dr. N. Carlotta Parr, in Early Childhood Education Journal, fall 1997.
2000	"Connection, Correlation, and Integration," in Music Educator's Journal, Spring 2001.
2003	"Weaving the Strands of Literacy Through Orff-Schulwerk," in Orff Echo, Summer 2003.

Research

1986	Doctoral Dissertation: "Children's Ability to Communicate Interpretive Aspects of Music Through Movement," University of Connecticut.
1988	Research collaboration: "A Comparative Study Between the Creative Musical Compositions of Second Grade Gifted and Talented Students and Average Second Grade Students Utilizing the Orff-Schulwerk Music Education Method and the Xylophone Instrumentarium," Karen Tinkham-Robinson, State University of New York, College at Buffalo.
1990-1995	Collaborative Research Project with Munsen, Sylvia and Wang, Cecilia. Funded by the AOSA Research Committee, this ongoing research is designed to provide a definition of Orff-Schulwerk teaching, based on current practice and perception, which can be utilized in future research.
1997-	"Music and Movement Intervention with Unsuccessful Emergent Readers," Lyman School, CT Commission on the Arts. (unpublished)
1998	"A Comparison of Urban and Suburban Teacher Performance on Portfolio Assessment of Beginning Teachers: Findings, Implications and Recommendations," BEST Program, Connecticut State Department of Education.
2000	Effects of Total Literacy Instruction on Teachers, Students, and Community at West Vine Elementary School," with Arlene Militello. (unpublished)
2000	"A Survey of Arts-Infused Curriculum Models at the Secondary (Middle and High School) Level," conducted for Central Connecticut State University Center for Social Research, in conjunction with the Bushnell and Plainville, CT Public Schools. (unpublished)
2001	"Total Literacy: The First Year of Implementation," a synthesis of evidence from the 1999-2000 school year (unpublished).
2002	"The Social/Emotional Curriculum: ABCD Headstart Program and the Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Bridgeport, CT."
2003	"McDonough School Total Literacy/SFA Pilot: A Case Study" (unpublished)
2004	"Total Literacy: Arts-Based Literacy Program Raises Reading Scores in Urban Elementary School," (unpublished)

Honors and Panels

1985	Selected as one of four model US music educators to model teach for representative of Orff Institute, Salzburg, Austria.
1988	Panel, "The Role of Research in the Future of Music Education," AOSA National Conference, Detroit.
1988	Recipient, Gunild Keetman Scholarship—to study oral history methodology
1989	Research Strand Facilitator, AOSA National Conference, Atlanta, GA. "The Doctor is In," "Teacher as Researcher," and "Celebrating Differences: Collecting Oral Histories."
1990	Opened St. John School for the Arts, St. John, U. S. Virgin Islands.
1991-	Guest Conductor, World's Largest Concert, Fort Worth ISD, Texas.
1991	Invited Paper, "Multicultural Music Education: A Practioner's View," The Suncoast Music Education Forum on Curriculum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
1992	Invited Lecturer and presenter, "Arts Attack," sponsored by the New Mexico Arts Alliance to build support for the arts and arts education amongst the legislature and populace of New Mexico.
1993	Presenter—Second Mountain Lakes Colloquium for Teachers of Elementary Music Methods, Mountain Lakes, Va.
1993-4	Reviewer—National Music Standards.
1994	Invited Presenter, Tennessee Arts Academy, sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Education
1994	Guest Conductor, "Encounters With Music Festival," Loveland, Colorado
1994	Presenter, Texas State Music Hearing, Austin, Texas
1995	Invited presenter—The Arts and Literacy Institute, International Reading Association, Anaheim, CA
1995	Presenter—Third Mountain Lakes Colloquium for Teachers of Elementary Music Methods, Mountain Lakes, VA.
1995	Invited Presenter—Orff 100 International Conference; Melbourne, Australia.
1995	Invited Headliner—"Symposium: Music Education for a New Generation." West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania
1995	Cited in Who's Who in American Education, 5th Edition, Providence, N. J.
1996	Clinician/Guest Conductor—Georgia Music Educator's Association District XII 1996 Honor Chorus
1996	Invited key focus session presenter: "Integrate with Integrity: Theory and Models" at the MENC Music is Key Biennial National Conference, Kansas City.
1996	Clinician/ Educational Consultant—"Reinforcing the National Music Standards in Early Childhood: It Can Be Fun!", with Bob McGrath (Bob from Sesame Street), MENC Music is Key Biennial National Conference, Kansas City, MO.
1996	Keynote speaker, opening day of school, Berlin Public Schools, CT.
1997	Invited headliner, XANCOS—10th Australian National Orff Conference.
1997	Keynote speaker and moderator—Arts Education Works—a community dialogue sponsored by CARE (Citizens Action to Restore Education), Fairfield, CT.
1997	Invited presenter and educational artist-in-residence, HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Schools, Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
1997	Keynote speaker, Young Audiences of Indiana Summer Arts Education Institute, Indianapolis, IN.
1997	Invited headline lecturer, American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education, Summer workshops in Druskininkai and Alanta, Lithuania.
1997	Participant in the Arts Education Assessment Consortium for SCASS (State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards), sponsored by CCSSO (The Council of Chief State School Officers
1998	Keynote Presenter, HOT Schools Institute: "HOT Schools: The Vision, The Reality, and the Challenge."
1998	Keynote Presenter, Catch the Rainbow conference, York, Canada Region Primary Association: "Teaching and Learning in the New Renaissance."
1998	Appointed to the SCASS Arts Assessment Development team, sponsored by the Council of Chief State Schools Officers (CCSSO), and consortium of 19 states.
1999	Conversation Facilitator: "Implementing Arts-Infused Curriculum: Rationale, Visions, and Issues." In Praise of Education conference, sponsored by the John I. Goodlad Institute for Educational Inquiry; Bellevue, Washington.
1999	Invited speaker, Fairchild Lecture series, University of Southern Mississippi.
2000	Invited presenter on arts curriculum in early childhood, "Sesame Street," Children's Television Workshop.
2002	Invited Keynote Presenter, Music for All Children: Focus on Rural and Urban Schools, symposium sponsored by TMEC and MENC, Dallas, TX.
2004	Invited Presenter: Urban Music Educators National Conference, MENC, Newark, NJ.

Administrative Experience

1976-79	Coordinator, Orff Levels I, II and III, University of Connecticut
1975-80	Founder and President, Northern N. J. AOSA
1973-86	Director, Ridgewood Orff Summer Workshops, Teachers College, Columbia University
1985-90	Program Team Chairperson, Hamilton Avenue School, Greenwich, CT. (Integrated Arts Project, Oral History Project)
1987-92	Research Advisory Review Panel, AOSA
1993	Coordinator, Arts Advocacy Day, CT Alliance for Arts in Education
1991-	Coordinating Author, Share the Music, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
1995-	Founder and president, IDEAS: Inventive Designs for Education and the ArtS.
1997-	Co-Chair, Reading Excellence Through the Arts (RETA) SIG, International Reading Association
1996-98	Arts Editor, Early Childhood Education Journal
1997-	Co-Director, Consortium for Arts in Education
1997-	Steering committee, H.O. T. (Higher Order Thinking) Schools, CT
1999-	Founding and Principal Member, IDEAS: Inventive Designs for Education and the ArtS, LLC.
2000-	Founding Director, ECHO Consortium, Inc.: Educational and Corporate Human Resource Options.
2001	Team Leader, Research project and report on arts-infused middle and high school programs, for Center for Social Research, Central Connecticut State University.
2001-	Board of Directors, Program Chair. MACH: Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Bridgeport, CT.

Professional Organizations

American Educational Research Association
AEYC
AOSA, NJAOSA, CAOSA
Arts Education Partnership
Association for Childhood Education International
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Connecticut Alliance for Arts Education
Consortium for Arts & Education
International Reading Association
International Society of Music Educators
MENC, NJMEA, CMEA
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Council of Teachers of English
Pi Lambda Theta
RETA: Reading Excellence Through the Arts, special interest group (IRA)—co-chair
APPLE: American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education
MACH: Music and Arts Center for Humanity (Board of Directors, Program Chair)

Service to Larger Community

Volunteer teaching in NY City and CT public schools.
Sue Snyder scholarship to International Mariachi Festival, San Antonio, TX.
CT Alliance for Arts in Education, coordinator of State Arts Advocacy Day, 1995.
A portion of every IDEAS presentation and book sale is applied to scholarships and/or arts education advocacy.

Education

BS/MA in Music Education, University of Connecticut '70/ Montclair State College '76
Ph.D., University of Connecticut '86, Storrs, CT.: Curriculum and Instruction
Professional Certificates: Cooperative Learning Trainer's Certificate, Orff-Schulwerk Master Teacher Certification

Special Topics Study

Aesthetics
Arts-Infused Curriculum Design
Assessment
Brain-Based Teaching/Learning
Cooperative Learning
Creativity/ Thinking Skills
Curriculum Design
Dalcroze
Differentiated Instruction
Early Childhood
Gifted and Talented Education
Integrated Curriculum
Integrated Language Arts
Kodaly
Effective Teaching/ Learning
Media and Young Children
Multicultural Education
Oral History
Orff-Schulwerk
Portfolio Assessment of Beginning Teachers
Reading/Literacy
Reflective Practitioner
Special Learners
Storytelling
Writing Process

Personal

Date of Birth: January 25, 1949
Married, one child: Aaron, born 1979

References Upon Request

Dr. Susan R. Snyder
38 Tory Hill Lane
Rowayton, CT 06853
(203) 229-0411
fax: (203) 847-0613