Rick Agran Email & Phone Number

Montpelier, Vt, Us

E. Montpelier, Vermont

Teach, care, and advocate for young learners in 3rd to 6th grade. Help coordinate daily well-being services and educational interventions. Facilitate independence of and self-initiation in neurodiverse learners in social emotional learning, perspective taking, and self regulation. Co-regulation as needed. Organizational behavior and scaffolding in reading, writing, and mathematics. Independence and self-advocacy coaching in preparation for transition to 7th grade.

Wgdr 91.1 Fm – Plainfield, Vt. & Wgdh 91.7 Fm – Hardwick, Vt. & Wgdr.Org

Host and produce Bon Mot, a weekly program of poetry, the spoken word, the literary arts, and all things word-inspired. Interview, archive, document, and curate conversations and performances by poets, writers, storytellers, historians, social commentators, and assorted creative writers as share the literary and performative fine arts. Indy Kingdom Youth Radio Project Coordinator teaches young people (and the allies who facilitate their education) radio production, interviewing, and community inquiry and brings their voices to the airwaves.

Montpelier; Central & Northern Vermont

Poetry and Image Making; Arts Integration across the Curriculum; Poetry Out Loud; Arts Connect Fellow

New Hampshire

Poetry, Creativity, and Image Making; Arts Integration across the Curriculum

Central Vermont; Northern New Hampshire

Writing Process in Picture Books; Poetry and Image Making in service of literacy in small, rural schools

Johnson, Vermont

Teach College Writing, Exposition and Analysis, Introduction to Literature and Introductory Photojournalism. Professional Writing Coach in the Humanities at JSC Academic Support office. Assistant Poetry editor at Green Mountains Review. TRiO Writing /Life Skills Coach encouraging self-advocacy and fully-engaged academic support service participation. Tutored, coached and counseled JSC students (many low income and first generation college students, new Americans, and ELL students) in academic writing in journalism, writing, literature, history, art, social sciences, biological science, business, independent studies and self-designed majors. Supported high schoolers in Dual Enrollment, Jump Start, and TRiO Upward Bound Summer Bridge learners in university on-boarding.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

English Department

Missouri School Of Journalism

Introduction to Multimedia Journalism Faculty–Taught students the basics of still photography, audio recording, video recording, website portfolio building. Mentored students in basic editing of images, sound and video. Guided students in weekly readings of journalistic best practices and the ethics of multi-platform, multimedia storytelling. Introduce students to theory and practice of visual and audio reporting, including budgeting, sourcing, script writing, recording and editing stories for web, broadcast and print. Introduced students to mobile reporting with smart phones. Introduce students to writing and publishing social media and cloud-based platforms for multimedia journalism, including WordPress, SoundCloud, Tumblr, BlogSpot, and Twitter. Facilitated and edited beat reporting and group projects culminating in published WordPress websites.

Department Of English And Journalism - Jefferson City, Missouri

Concord, Manchester And Rochester, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire

Administered Humanities To Go and What is New Hampshire Reading programs. Lead program evaluations teams. Coached grant applicants and served the grant-making BoD's process.

Manchester, New Hampshire

Founding Chair of Liberal Arts. Co-author of teacher education Arts in Education curriculum. Faculty supervision and evaluation for 35. NEASC and NASAD accreditation team. Teacher of writing and humanities courses.

Master Of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, English

Master Of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Poetry/Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts, Cum Laude, English, Psychology Minor