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Alan Scofield: Channel 50 called Alan Scofield “The Danny Kaye of the North Bay”. For twenty five years he has touched the lives of a generation of public school children with his programs that involve creative energy, stories and movement for the stage. As an educator with Young Imaginations, he is opening the way for classroom teachers, teachers in training and parents to experience the joy and wonder of creative expression.

2004 marks Alan Scofield's twenty fifth year as a professional educator, master teacher, choreographer and performer. He has performed and choreographed with many local and national modern ballet companies, and was featured as a soloist with The American Dance Machine in New York City. After his stage career in New York, he became nationally known as a master teacher in prominent arts centers, helping communities place the arts in the educational experience of the public schools. In response to this need expressed by so many parents and educators, Scofield co-founded Young Imaginations in 1987 and has been apart of creating a variety of model arts education projects in Northern California public schools.

He is a graduate from the American Conservatory Theater Training Congress in San Francisco and studied at San Francisco State University in the teachers’ college, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Further study at the Library for Performing Arts in New York, as well as mentorship with master teachers of the New York City Ballet, resulted in Scofield’s nationally acclaimed Musicality for Dancers, an inspirational course in the art of performing. Alan was also selected to be a teacher trainer for the Canadian National Arts Council at Les Ballets Jazz du Montreal in Canada, addressing the need to create a sustainable curriculum for the arts.

In 1994 Alan Scofield was invited to St. Marks School to be a storyteller as part of their Faith in Values program, an ongoing series in which moral values are promoted through presentations by community leaders. Each year he has created and presented a story which uniquely portrays the essence of timeless values for young people. As his storytelling legacy grew, he employed stories and life lessons in many of his teaching residencies, such as the "Dance Through the Decades" program in the Mill Valley Schools. His program for kindergarteners taught in rhyming couplets, movement and storytelling narratives successfully teaches children to become fully engaged with what they are learning. Scofield states: “I have seen the power of a story transform a room a thousand times. The true teacher is a storyteller, and a good story teaches.”

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