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Troubadour Artists

Victor Cockburn
Executive Director of Troubadour, Inc.

A producer, songwriter, performer and teacher Victor has worked as an Artist Educator since 1972. He has been presenting his programs in schools and other institutions since 1974. His work in schools brings the richness and variety of folk music from many different cultures into the classroom as a learning and teaching tool, working in partnership with teachers supporting and enhancing on-going curriculum. In the classroom workshops, students are exposed to and explore the processes used in composing a lyrical folk song. The students use classroom curriculum as well as everyday experiences and observations as sources of material. Victor has worked extensively with Special Needs and Bi-lingual populations in public, private and residential settings. For his family performances Victor was awarded the Boston Parents' Paper Entertainer of the Year Award. His article "The Use of Folk Song and Songwriting in the Classroom" is published in the Harvard Educational Review (Vol. 61 No. 1 Feb. 1991). Victor produced 60 segments of a weekly multi-cultural arts program series, Try It!, on Brookline Access Television.

Victor currently has ten recordings of children's songs and poems produced in collaboration with Judith Steinbergh. Their multicultural curriculum CD and book set, Where I Come From! Songs and Poems From Many Cultures won a 1992 Parents Choice Award for Best Children's Recording as well as an award from the Early Childhood Educator. Their CD set, Get Ready for Boston! Exploring Boston and its Neighborhoods in Songs, Poems and Songs also won a 1996 Parents Choice Award.

Judith Steinbergh
Vice President of Troubadour, Inc.

A poet, lyricist, performer and teacher. Judith has worked as Poet-in-the-Schools since 1971, teaching poetry to students in Grades K-12 and training teachers. Judith was Enrichment Specialist with the Brookline Public Schools from 1985-2006. She has published a book of poems for children, Marshmallow Worlds; four books of poems for adults: Lillian Bloom: A Separation, Motherwriter, and A Living Anytime and Writing My Will; and three textbooks on teaching poetry writing to children: Beyond Words; Writing Poems with Children. (co-authored with Elizabeth McKim), Reading and Writing Poetry, Grades K-4 (Scholastic Books), and Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers (Walsh Publishers, co-authored with Fredric Lown). She has researched the developmental stages of teaching poetry and developed extensive curriculum in: Writing About Family, Integrating Science and Poetry, and Integrating Poetry into High School Literature Classes. Her article, "Poetry, Language Development and Culture," is published in the Harvard Educational Review (Vol 61 No 1 February 1991). As a Bunting Fellow in 1997, Judith pursued her research on Poetry and the Developing Child, and has published articles related to teaching in the NCTE Language Arts Journal, Reading Teacher (March 2003), among other professional journals.

Brian Amador, composer, singer/songwriter,
Sol y Canto

Jessie Brown, poet, visiting writer

Cathy Desjardins, reading/writing specialist

Fran Friedman, singer/songwriter
for young children and families

Regie Gibson, writer, performance poet

Danielle Legros Georges, poet,
Lesley University faculty

Andy Holiner, singer/songwriter,
leader of Wildest Dreams

Elizabeth McKim, poet, performer,
visiting writer, Lesley University faculty

Ilene Miller, writing consultant

Louise Pascale, music education,
Lesley University faculty

Barbara Scotto, reading, writing, library consultant

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