About Abby Remer

Innovative education services for organizations nationwide—program development, curricula, professional development, media projects, community collaborations, evaluation and assessment, career development internships, and the production of engaging written materials for audiences of all ages.

Ongoing FOUNDING DIRECTOR/Career Internship Network (CIN)—a professional

development organization offering participatory workshops around burning issues in the field, collegial site-visits, potential funding/refunding possibilities, relevant resources, and networking and collaborative opportunities (Youth Development Institute, The Clark Foundation, The Pinkerton Foundation, Altman Foundation)

the American Museum of Natural History. Initiate and direct pilot program for under-served New York City junior and senior high school students in which they experience the Museum from “behind-the-scenes” and work one-on-one with staff mentors.

1999- CURRICULUM WRITER — Extensive curriculum writing for teachers and students

present of all ages, developing lessons related to culture, science, social studies, history, language arts, civics, journalism, mathematics, and technology (Simon and Schuster Inc., Davis Art Publications, New York Times Learning Network Inc., Kaplan Educational Centers, Brown Publications, Newbridge Publications)

1988 - ADJUNCT PROFESSOR/New York University — Arts Administration Program.

1990 PROJECT DIRECTOR — Arts and Education Policy Task Force/NYC Board of Education & The Alliance for the Arts — administered Task Force investigating the status of arts and education in New York City public schools. Representatives from the education and arts fields developed recommendations and strategies for the institutionalization of quality arts education for New York City students.

1989-90 AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS — ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM — coordinated the National Coalition for Education in the Arts—a committee of national cultural institutions, arts education, and education agencies that develop policies concerning arts education in K—12 education. Administered the ACA Arts Education Public Awareness Campaign—a national project to increase concern and support for arts education in the schools.

1985-87 DIRECTOR OF ART EDUCATION/Art Administration Unit, Chemical Bank — initiated an extensive, long–range art education program with Chemical Bank's Art Collection for employees, clients, and the general public. Responsible for various curatorial, administrative, and registrarial aspects of the general art program. Developed ongoing internship program for graduate students.

1987 Master of Science in Education, Bank Street College Graduate School, New York

• The 20-Minute Learning Connection: A Practical Guide for Parents Who Want to Help Their Children Succeed in School (authored 250 hands-on activities for the twelve-book series) Simon & Schuster/Kaplan, Inc, Fall 2001

• Enduring Visions of the New: Women’s Artistic Heritage Around the World Davis Publications, Inc., Winter 2001

• Pioneering Spirits: The Lives and Times of Remarkable Women Artists in Western History, Davis Publications, Inc., Spring 1997

• Discovering Art History, Davis Publications, Inc., contributing editor to student & teacher editions, Winter 1996

• A Reflective Manual: Enriching, Invigorating, & Refining Career Development Internship Programs, 2006

• "The Emergence of Art Education in the Workplace: Chemical Bank's Program," Arts Education Beyond the Classroom, edited by Judith H. Balfe and Joni Cherbo Heine (American Council for the Arts: New York: l988)

• CORPORATE ART EDUCATION: THE IMPERATIVE NEXT STEP—Corporate Art Collections and the Emergence of Art Education in the Workplace, May l987

• "Every Picture Tells a Story: Teenagers Interview Larry Rivers." Producer. October 1990

• National Teleconference "The Thinking Teacher's Guide to the Visual Arts," February 24, 1994, Great Plains International

• Financial News Network/ Art Market Report "Corporate Art Collections," October l988

• "Guided Insights for Educators Using Behind the Scenes Educational Program," National Instructional Television Utilization Conference, June, 1993.

• "An Educational Consortium Makes It Work: An Education Program for the Larry Rivers Exhibition," Museums and Life Long Learning, New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Conference, April 19, 1991.

• "Corporate Art and Communication," International Association of Business Communicators Seminar, New York City, December 14, l989.

• "Education and Corporate Art Collections," New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER), New York City, December l988.

• "The Emergence of Art Education in the Workplace—The Critical Next Step," Arts Education Beyond the Classroom, American Council for the Arts Research Seminar, New York City, March 5, l987

Advisory Board Member: Doing Art Together, Inc., & The Children’s Movement for Creative

Past Steering Committee Member: New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER),

SELECTED CONSULTING SERVICES

• Reflection: Helping facilitators learn how to cultivate authentic reflection, the vital mechanism that transfers "outside" knowledge into interior "understanding." Gaining skills in creating successful reflection journal stems (reflection sentence starters) and ways to create deep reflection verbally in group discussions.

• Sound Evaluation and Assessment: Assisting organizations and programs in planning and executing a manageable evaluation and/or assessment endeavor that provides sound results that can be used to refine programs and/or report to funders on how the organization/program is doing.

• Curriculum Activities Development: Actualizing program's/organization's goals through engaging, participatory, and multi-dimensional set of lessons.

• Program Development Planning, Revision, Expansion: Establishing and/or examining and identifying short and long-range plans, amending practices, expanding range of services, creation of a plan of action.

• Inquiry Based Looking and Discussion: Acquiring skills in facilitating discussions that avoid lecturing and pedantic presentations but rather place learners, through questions and ruminations, in the center of their own learning.

• Brainstorming and Problem Solving to Address Challenges: Examining and dissecting challenges and inventing unusual ways to approach issues in new and interesting ways, for staff and/or learner audience.

• Identifying, Documenting, and Disseminating Organization's/Program's Best Practices: Determining what your good at and how to capture it in a clear, concise snapshot in order to share it with others.

• What Could I Possibly Be? A series of creative lessons that take learners through multiple steps in which they explore themselves, a wide range of careers and jobs, and a process for investigating any career that may appeal to them.

• Career Development Mentoring Programs: Conceiving, planning, and implementing an internship program for youth in which they engage in authentic work and explore the daily lives and career journey of their mentor. Reflection mechanism woven throughout deepens and ingrains the rich learning experience.

Offerings are tailored to client's individual needs. Additional services and products available on request.

SAMPLE PUBLISHED MATERIALS

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• Author of Enduring Visions: Women Artistic Heritage Around the World, as well as Pioneering Spirits: The Lives and Times of Remarkable Women Artists Throughout Western History & Discovering Native American Art. Contributing editor to both the student & teacher editions of Discovering Art History. Innovative texts that explore art and its cultural context. (Davis Publications, Inc.)

• Reflective Manual: Enriching, Invigorating, & Refining Career Development Internship Programs Extensive practical guide to developing internships of substance spanning from inception to evaluation to dissemination of best practices. Major focus is the use of reflection woven throughout the program as the primary learning mechanism that helps learners transfer outside knowledge into "owned" inner understanding. (To be published)

• The 20-Minute Learning Connection, co-authored a 12-part series, developing 250 hands-on activities per book for parents and children (elementary and middle school) to pursue together that directly support individual state learning standards in math, English, science and social studies. (Simon and Schuster/Kaplan, Inc.)

• New York Times Learning Network, curriculum writer of cross-disciplinary lesson plans relating to daily New York Times articles

(http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html)

• Yellow Magic: The Story of Penicillin Illustrated Teachers' Curriculum presenting the development of penicillin in the 1940s in a multidisciplinary manner, using history, science, art, and the language arts. (Brooklyn Historical Society)

• Multi-session high school curriculum, Why Write? Exploring the History of Writing at the Morgan Library. Ancient Near Eastern seals, medieval illustrated manuscripts, early printed books, and handwritten letters from American history help students explore and construct ideas about the development and significance of writing throughout time. (The Morgan Library)

• Global Shoes Education Kit with cross–cultural, multi–disciplinary school and museum activities relating to Global Shoes, an exhibition that introduces children to the idea of the world as a global community through shoes. (Brooklyn Children’s Museum)

• Four-color curriculum packages for the videotape series Behind the Scenes. This ten-part project explores various artistic disciplines and aired nationally on PBS in the fall of 1992. The five teachers' guides focus on the arts with additional cross-curricula activities. (Learning Designs/WNET)

• It’s All in the Details: Dance and Movement City Center’s Study Guide for its Young People’s Dance Series is an in-depth resource for classroom teachers and dance specialists. The guide fosters students’ ability to identify, compare, reflect upon, and create movement. The materials provide extensive opportunities to tie the dance experiences to academic classroom content. (City Center)

• Assorted educational materials and programs for Art of the Himalayas, an exhibition of sacred Buddhist and Hindu art; The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity; Picturing History: American History Painting 1770—1930 and Larry Rivers Retrospective (American Federation of Arts)

SELECTED CLIENT LIST

Alliance for the Arts (New York, NY)

American Council for the Arts (New York, NY)

American Federation of Arts (New York, NY)

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)

AT & T (New York/New Jersey)

Ballet Hispanico of New York (New York, NY)

Barnum Museum (Bridgeport, CT)

British Petroleum America (Cleveland, OH)

Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Brooklyn, NY)

Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, NY)

Children's Museum of Art (New York, NY)

City Center (New York, NY)

The Dahesh Museum (New York, NY)

Davis Publications, Inc. (Worcester MA)

Doing Art Together (New York, NY)

Forbes Magazine (New York, NY)

Fraunces Tavern Museum (New York, NY)

Eldridge Street Synagogue (New York, NY)

Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY)

International Business Machine, Inc. (New York, NY)

Queens Botanical Gardens (New York, NY)

Learning Designs, Inc./WNET (New York, NY)

Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NY)

Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York, NY)

Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY)

New Orchestra of Westchester (Hartsdale, NY)

New York City Opera (New York, NY)

New York Times Learning Network (New York, NY)

Newark Museum of Art (Newark, NJ)

Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY)

P.S. 1 Museum/Institute of Contemporary Art (Long Island City, NY)

Rocking the Boat Career Development Internship Program (New York, NY)

Simon & Schuster (New York, NY)

Youth Development Institute/Fund for the City of New York (New York, NY)