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Rachel Hamilton holds degrees from Arizona State University and Texas Woman's University. Currently, she works with Thinkery, a children's museum in Austin, Texas, as the vice president of guest experience. Hamilton creates welcoming, inclusive, inquiry-based, STEAM programs and museum experiences for learners from birth through age eleven. Before moving to Texas, she ran the theatre division at Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation and was the associate director of education at Nashville Children's Theatre. She is a recipient of the National Arts Strategies'; Creative Communities Fellowship and was a member of the Metro Nashville Arts Commission's Racial Equity in Arts Leadership cadre. Her work focuses on community building, storytelling and facilitating opportunities for students to use their innate creativity to shape the world into a more vibrant and equitable place.
Participants in these sessions will learn how to create and use original stories to help develop and enhance the communication skills and social intelligence of their students, while incorporating standard-based objectives in their classrooms. Practical modes of incorporating storytelling into everyday curricula will be shared and practiced together.
Rachel Hamilton will share quick and easy ways to incorporate kinesthetic learning and imagination play into story times to make the most out of on-the-fly storybook adaptations in the classroom and beyond.
During this session, Rachel Hamilton will be in her virtual classroom ready to answer specific questions and to provide one-on-one time with participants who desire additional information about theatre related issues or arts education concerns.
During this session, Rachel Hamilton will be in her virtual classroom ready to answer specific questions and to provide one-on-one time with participants who desire additional information about theatre related issues or arts education concerns.
Rachel Hamilton will share quick and easy ways to incorporate kinesthetic learning and imagination play into story times to make the most out of on-the-fly storybook adaptations in the classroom and beyond.
