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Gary Dulabaum is an author, educator, poet, songwriter and recording artist of children’s music and he understands first-hand the power of music and the performing arts as teaching tools in the everyday classroom. In fact, in a perfect world, Gary believes music would be integrated into the whole curriculum. Personal creativity, emotional development, self-expression, good decision making, and the development of the whole child/student would be just as important as any test score.

In this perfect world, language arts instruction would include reading, writing, music, movement, drama, dance, performance poetry, the visual arts, and the study of rhythm and how rhythm affects and relates to language. These subjects are all celebrations of language and are the true tools that people need to be able to clearly and creatively communicate throughout their lives.

Gary has been called an innovative educator who knows how to put the arts back into the language arts. Through the years he has seen the joy that music and the performing arts bring to the classroom and how it levels the playing/learning field for all students. As a performing arts-based educator Gary likes to refer to Dr. Elliot Eisner’s “Ten Lessons That the Arts Teach.” The following three lessons are his favorites:

*The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.,

*The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

*The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Whether it be a song/movement activity for preschoolers and kindergartners to help them make the link from oral to printed language; or a second grade class writing a song about their favorite book that they’ll later take from the page to the stage; or maybe some fifth graders singing historical songs about subjects they are studying with the intent on re-writing and updating with a more modern message and presentation; music, rhythm, performance poetry and songwriting are Gary’s main teaching tools.

As an educational Consultant, author and performing artist, Gary has visited several thousand schools across the nation and beyond and has keynoted, presented and entertained at many local, state, regional and national conferences. He has been a regular presenter for the International Reading Association since 1993.

Gary was a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for 12 years teaching a series of classes for pre-service and practicing teachers that included using music and the arts not only to expand, enhance and further develop fluency and comprehension skills but to also demonstrate how music is an effective everyday teaching tool that can be used across the curriculum

He is author of professional teaching guide My Teacher Rides a Harley: Enhancing K-5 Literacy through Songwriting and has released six recordings of his original music. Gary also has two of his songs in Nile Stanley’s book, Creating Readers with Poetry.

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