INSTRUCTORS

Kathleen Gould Lundy has been a teacher, consultant and coordinator for over 30 years in the Toronto District School Board. Presently she is the Coordinator of Destination Arts at York University, a joint venture of both the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts that fosters partnerships amongst artists, educators and the community as they design programs of enrichment and educational opportunities to support arts education initiatives in Ontario and beyond. She has extensive experience working in literacy, equity and arts education in urban, rural and suburban schools and is very interested in teaching those hard-to-reach students who keep parents and teachers awake at night. She has championed several innovative projects in Canada including Architecture of the Imagination, Looking at the Overlooked and Imagine a school... All of these programs have encouraged marginalized youth to find their voices and have made a difference in powerful and creative ways. Kathy teaches both undergraduate students and pre-service teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts at York. She has been publicly appointed to serve on the Minister's Curriculum Council for the Ontario government.

Arwyn Carpenter is in her second year as a teacher with the TDSB. She graduated from University of Toronto's OISE in 2010 and won the overall Excellence in Elementary Teaching Award. Before this, Arwyn was a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She created more than twenty works of choreography for the Canadian Children's Dance Theatre and taught for five years at Canada's National Ballet School. She holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She also taught for five years in the Dance program at York University

Heather Miller, also known as the Crayola Lady, is a former Arts Coordinator with the York Region District School Board. An artist and author, she has taught all grades K-12 and been an administrator in both elementary and secondary schools. A popular presenter at conferences across Canada, Heather currently teaches in the Faculty of Education, York University, is the Coordinator of the Artist in Residence (Education) program for the York Region District School Board and is a member of the Crayola, Canada Education team.

Catherine West recently completed a four-year term as Instructional Leader in music with the TDSB, and is currently a K-8 music specialist at Swansea Public School. She is the Coordinator of AQ music courses for OISE/UofT, the Coordinator of AQ Programs at the Royal Conservatory of Music, an Orff instructor at the RCM and across Canada, the editor of Ostinato, the national journal of Carl Orff Canada, and a senior associate with Connexionarts (an arts-in-education consulting company). She has an international reputation as an author, workshop clinician, and course instructor, and has worked with clients such as the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the GRAMMY's Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Opera Lyra (Ottawa), the Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association (Australia), the American Orff Schulwerk Association, many school districts, and the Ontario Ministry of Education. Her most recent book, When I First Came to this Land, is published by Mayfair Books.