Qualifications
Laura
Mason Zeisler, M.Ed., is the Executive Director of Explorations
Unlimited, LLC, an education consulting firm specializing
in training, technical assistance and resource evaluation
and development. Explorations Unlimited was established in
1990. Ms. Zeisler has provided training and technical assistance
in Spanish since 1994. She has taught in a wide variety of
environments for more than thirty-five years, teaching children
age 2 through grade 6. Classroom environments included: dual-language
immersion, public school, Montessori, Head Start, bilingual
(English and Spanish), and in private for-profit and non-profit
centers.
Her administrative experience includes education director
in an early childhood education center-based program, director
of a school-age care program in a laboratory school, and acting
director and head teacher in a bilingual center-based program.
She taught the first three-credit course, in Rhode Island,
for before and after-school program staff, at Rhode Island
College in 1996, and taught in Spanish the first three-credit
course, in Rhode Island, on Child Growth and Development being
taught in Spanish in 2011 and again in 2012.
She also has provided professional development for teachers,
college students, media specialists and social service workers
through college courses, pre-service and in-service training
and at conferences around the U.S.
She has been actively involved in a number of early care
and education and school-age care professional organizations,
and has served as President of the Rhode Island Association
for the Education of Young Children and as Chair of the Diversity
Council of the New England Association for the Education of
Young Children. She co-authored Gender Equity in Children's
Literature, and has had several articles published in
professional journals and newsletters.
Her
clients include: Ready to Learn Providence, Beautiful Beginnings,
Smith Hill Early Learning Center, Quincy Community Action
Programs,Inc, Lourdes V. Pichardo, Consultant, Carrusel at
Progreso Latino, Brown/Foxpoint Early Childhood Education
Center, Mt. Hope Day Care Center, Rhode Island Education Media
Association, Central Falls Even Start, Providence School Department,
Childspan, Rhode Island Department of Education, Reading is
Fundamental, DS Robinson Associates, Ready to Learn Providence,
Henry Barnard School Explorations, East Bay Head Start, Reservoir
Avenue School, Polaroid Education Program, Albany YMCA, Killingly
Public Schools, Tritown Head Start, Providence Head Start,
Family Resources, Mulberry Child Care Center, Buttonwoods
School for Young Children, Bellingham Early Childhood Program
Christopher Rhodes School, and North Smithfield School Department,
Pennsylvania State University, Caring for Connecticut's Kids,
Anti-Defamation League/World of Difference Program, Project
Connect, Sunrise Academy, Learning Tree Store, East Hartford/Glastonbury
Magnet School, Massachusetts Family Day Care System, Rhode
Island Education Media Association, and Manchester Memorial
Hospital.
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