Marianne Smith

Manager and educator, technology resource and publicist experienced in developing and coordinating educational and arts-related programs, preparing proposals and public relations materials.

Educational and Arts Program Manager and Event Coordinator

Managed Graduate-level Professional Development programs of 120 courses for 900+ educators per year including staff supervision, fiscal reporting, planning and overall program maintenance;

Designed program, developed audience for Family Theater series which attracted over 8,000 children and families to live professional drama in Rockland County;

Organized cultural trips for 570 teachers to NYC ballet, museum and theater events;

Managed program which trained annually over 450 young people in visual arts and theater techniques (including students from at-risk homes) and which required writing grants, keeping up with program reports and hiring, training, overseeing and evaluating a staff of 22

Originated organized publicized and supervised Arts-in-Education Showcase which annually networked 75 artists with 150 representatives of schools, libraries and organizations responsible for hiring artists and selecting programs.

Directed Theater Workshop Day and Science and Technology events at local college for youth.

Coordinated programs with Adelphi University, CCNY, New York Institute of Technology, LIU, Teacher Education Institute, IRI, Rockland BOCES, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Arts Council of Rockland, Historical Society of Rockland, Youth Bureau of Rockland County, Stony Point Conference Center, Parent Teacher Associations and area churches and youth organizations.

Publicist and Technology Resource

Designed, staffed and managed drop-in center for educational technology resources

Adept at use of computer technology for telecommunications, teaching, data management, desktop publishing, distance learning, Internet and communication techniques, with special expertise in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, FileMaker Pro, PageMaker, Quark and Adobe Illustrator.

Created database for tracking and projecting finances, resources and needs for graduate Professional Development program involving 6 universities and 4000 annual participants

Increased public awareness and financial support of Teachers’ Resource Center and programs through overseeing design and production of public relations materials, including press releases, fliers, newsletters, brochures with distribution of over 10,000.

Professional Honors and Highlights

Successful Grantwriting: Legislative Funding for NYS Teacher Resource Center; NY Foundation for the Arts TAP Grants; Drug Abuse Prevention Grants from the Rockland County Executive Office and Rockland Community Partnership; Arts Council of Rockland NYSCA Decentralization Grants

Community Workshop Presenter, NYS Inservice Conference, NYS Arts in Education Workshop

Rockland County Executive Award Nominee for Special Contributions to the Arts

Member of ROCKSpra, Rockland County School Public Relations Association, Cornell Cooperative Extension Advisory Board, Arts Council of Rockland Educational Advisory Board

Experience

Assistant Director, Rockland Teachers’ Center
1986 to Present

Program Coordinator, Rockland Community College
1984 to 1986

Prior to 1985:

Business Owner

French Language Teacher

Educational Background
Master of Science in Instructional Technology, NY Institute of Technology, 1992

Bachelor of Arts, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri

Permanent Certification, State of New Jersey, Secondary School French and Spanish Teacher

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