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Jan Maher

Co-coodinator & Board Member

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“The joy of seeing connections and patterns is physiological, documented by neuroscience.  Our brains love to make connections and patterns out of things, much more than they love listening to somebody else lecture about it. I think we sometimes miss the boat as teachers, in that we forget that the real thrill—and the lasting learning—for our students is in the discovery. My goal as a director, educator, and workshop leader is to create conditions in which people can experience the deep pleasure of discovery, and connect that new learning to what matters most to them.”

Jan is Project Director for Most Dangerous Women.

She presents the following workshops for K-12 and college level educators:

  • Acting for Teachers
  • All the Classroom’s a Stage
  • Creating Readers’ Theater
  • Putting the Fun back in Functional
  • Inhabiting History & Literature
  • Teachers Build Characters
  • Town Meetings
View Jan’s resume
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Jan’s Books

The Persistence of Memory and Other Stories

Coming out 2/19/20

Heaven, Indiana

Amazon paperback • Amazon Kindle • Barnes & Noble • Apple Books • Ratuken Kobo

Earth As It Is

IndieBound.org • Amazon.com • Barnes & Noble • Indiana University Press • Apple Books

History in the Present Tense

Heinemann • Amazon

Most Dangerous Women

Heinemann • Amazon

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324 Main Street
Greenfield, MA

(btwn TD Bank & Pushkin)

Mondays: 11am-2pm
Wednesdays: 11am-2pm
Thursdays: 5-8pm
Saturdays: noon-3pm
+ special events

The LAVA Center

The LAVA Center is a community arts space, arts incubator, and black box theater in downtown Greenfield, MA. We are focused on making The LAVA Center a space where all artists, including marginalized communities and individuals, can have their voices heard.

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