Arts Integration Strategies

Maureen Creegan-Quinquis is department chair for the STEAM programs in the Graduate School of Education. She is also the director of the Master of Education in Teacher of Visual Arts licensure programs and the arts in education programs. She works in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and digital. Her work appears on the covers of "Sites," a French journal published by Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Maureen exhibits at a variety of galleries. Most recent exhibits include Boston Drawing Collaborative at the Bernard Toale Gallery and Ward Nasse Gallery in New York.

July 2017: Presenter at Creativity at the Core Summer Institute, California County Superintendents Education Services Association. Exploring Text through Visual Arts and Poetry

Maureen weighs in on how to prevent bullying in schools.

Education

PhD, Lesley University
MFA, Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
M.Ed., Endicott College

During his post-graduate teacher training for his Postgraduate Certificate in Education from University of Leeds, UK, Michael Kemeh, known as Shabaash, taught in British secondary schools and colleges, and has taught at the University of Ghana, where he had coordinated numerous theatre for development outreach projects connected with issues on health, adult literacy, teen pregnancy, and women's socio-economic improvement.

Shabaash loves sharing his expertise in integrating drama into classroom curriculum with educators. He also has great passion for using "theatre for development" for education, mobilization, and improvement of the lives of people in marginalized communities. He successfully adapted this theatre technique to address multicultural and social issues through workshops in elementary, middle, and high schools in the states of Washington, Arizona, and Kansas. 

PhD, Kansas State University

Marianne is with the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, where she works with director Martha McKenna to offer professional development opportunities for educators and others.

Marianne has also been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley in the arts in education programs since 2002. 

As a teaching artist whose primary interest is the integration of the arts into all aspects of children’s lives, Marianne has worked for 30 years as an artist in residence, traveling to schools all over Massachusetts as a drama teacher, storyteller, and program developer. She has also served as an Arts Specialist and Humanities Teacher in the Boston Public Schools and as a member of the Cambridge Public Schools Drama Collaborative.

Education

BA, University of Massachusetts (Theater Arts)
M.Ed., Lesley University (Creative Arts in Learning)

Louise Pascale became professor emerita in 2020, after many years as the director of the Integrated Teaching through the Arts program at Lesley University. A musician and music educator, she worked in the field of arts in education for over 25 years as an artist-educator and classroom teacher. 

Louise served for eight years as education director for VSA arts Massachusetts, an organization that develops arts-based teaching strategies so students with and without disabilities can learn together more effectively. She is also the founder of the non-profit The Children’s Afghan Songbook & Literacy Project, an organization that strives to preserve and redistribute traditional Afghan children’s songs and folktales that were almost completely eradicated due to the devastation that has afflicted Afghanistan over the past 30 years. To date, over 50,000 copies of two songbooks made up of traditional children’s songs and accompanying teacher’s guides, Qu Qu Qu Barg-e-Chinaar and Awasana See Sa, have been distributed to elementary schools and orphanages across Afghanistan. 

Recently, a new book of traditional Afghan children’s folktales, Bood Nabood (Once Upon a Time) was published and is currently being distributed to schools, orphanages and mobile libraries in 15 Provinces in Afghanistan, with the help of Afghan educational organizations. In 2014 Louise presented a TEDx talk, “Returning Music to the Children of Afghanistan” detailing the story and cultural significance of this project.  Louise’s work is internationally recognized and has been featured on BBC and NPR.

She has presented keynotes and professional development workshops for teachers and administrators across the United States and abroad on the topic of the arts and education. Her latest book, Integrating the Arts across Content Areas, which she co-authored with Lisa Donovan, provides a practical guide for educators to implement arts-based strategies to engage students and enhance their learning across the content areas. 

Education

BA, University of California
M.Ed., Lesley University
PhD, Lesley University

Martha Barry McKenna is University Professor and director of Lesley University's Creativity Commons, where she provides creative leadership in the arts and innovation in teaching and learning across the university. She is also director of the Graduate School of Education's Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS).

Martha also oversees the Cambridge Creativity Commons for teachers and students of the Cambridge Public Schools. Previously, she held the post of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Dean of the Division of Liberal Studies and Adult Learning, and Director of the Adult Baccalaureate Program. She began her career as a high school teacher of music and the arts.

A Fulbright Scholar Specialist, Martha served as a Visiting Scholar at the American University of Paris. She sits on various boards and committees of organizations that include the Arts Education Partnership, Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion Initiative, Arts/Learning, VSA of Massachusetts, the Worcester Art Museum and Cambridge Community Foundation. In fall of 2018, she was appointed by the Cambridge Mayor's Office to the Mayor's Arts Task Force. 

Education

BA, Music History and Theory, Emmanuel College
Music History and Voice, Royal Academy of Music, London
American and European Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MA, Vocal Music Education, Ed.M., Administration and Supervision of Music and the Arts;
Ed.D., Music, the Arts, and Humanities, Teachers College Columbia University, New York.