Qualifications
Laura
Mason Zeisler, M.Ed., is the Executive Director of EXPLORATIONS
UNLIMITED, an education consulting firm specializing in training,
technical assistance and resource evaluation and development.
Explorations Unlimited was established in 1990. Ms. Zeisler
has provided training and technical assistance in Spanish
since 1994.She has taught in a wide variety of environments
for more than thirty-five years, teaching children age 2 through
grade 6. Classroom environments included: dual-language immersion,
public school, Montessori, Head Start, bilingual (English
and Spanish), and in private for-profit and non-profit centers.
Her administrative experience includes education director
in an early childhood education center-based program, director
of a school-age care program in a laboratory school, and acting
director and head teacher in a bilingual center-based program.
She also has provided professional development for teachers,
college students, media specialists and social service workers
through college courses, pre-service and in-service training
and at conferences around the U.S.
She has been actively involved in a number of early care
and education and school-age care professional organizations,
and has served as President of the Rhode Island Association
for the Education of Young Children and as Chair of the Diversity
Council of the New England Association for the Education of
Young Children. She co-authored Gender Equity in Children's
Literature, and has had several articles published in
professional journals and newsletters.
Her clients
include: Carrusel at Progreso Latino, Brown/Foxpoint Earlychildhood
Education Center, Mt. Hope Day Care Center, Central Falls
Even Start, Providence School Department, Childspan, Rhode
Island Department of Education, Reading is Fundamental, DS
Robinson Associates, Ready to Learn Providence, Henry Barnard
School Explorations, East Bay Head Start, Reservoir Avenue
School, Polaroid Education Program, Albany YMCA, Killingly
Public Schools, Tritown Head Start, Providence Head Start,
Family Resources, Mulberry Child Care Center, Buttonwoods
School for Young Children, Bellingham Early Childhood Program
Christopher Rhodes School, and North Smithfield School Department,
Pennsylvania State University, Caring for Connecticut's Kids,
Anti-Defamation League/World of Difference Program, Project
Connect, Sunrise Academy, Learning Tree Store, East Hartford/Glastonbury
Magnet School, Massachusetts Family Day Care System, Rhode
Island Eudcation Media Association, and Manchester Memorial
Hospital.
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