Dana Gorman, M.Ed is the Educational Director and Fours Teacher at Community Cooperative Nursery School in Connecticut, as well as an independent consultant providing professional development and coaching. She has presented workshops on topics such as the importance of play, process art, loose parts, emergent curriculum and The Project Approach including at the NAEYC National Conference and several local chapter conferences. She is now a Nationally Certified Young Investigators Trainer. One of her projects, The Gong Project, is featured in Judy Helm's book, Becoming Young Thinkers: Deep Project Work in the Classroom. She has been co-investigating projects with her students for more than ten years now. She has also published an article in Teaching Young Children on starting a blog. She has an inspirational educational blog playfullylearning.me.