About this ebook
Every good educator has asked themselves how they can reach their students most effectively. Gail Baker grapples this question from the perspective of both student and teacher in her memoir as she reflects on her 45-year-long career in the field of education, offering that it is the integration of arts within teaching that carries the solution.
In Vision and Values, she revisits the experiences that have shaped her in her personal and professional life, including the journey she underwent as a student that led her to become a teacher herself. Then, using stories from her prolific career, she paints a picture of the lessons she has learned of using storytelling, visual arts, drama, music and dance to connect with students of all ages and abilities. Her hope as an educator, like many, is to create a more just and equitable world—one which the arts can assist.
Informative and reflective, Vision and Values is more than a memoir: it is also proof that the arts can change our lives, no matter what stage of life we’re in, by allowing us to imagine and create.
In Vision and Values, she revisits the experiences that have shaped her in her personal and professional life, including the journey she underwent as a student that led her to become a teacher herself. Then, using stories from her prolific career, she paints a picture of the lessons she has learned of using storytelling, visual arts, drama, music and dance to connect with students of all ages and abilities. Her hope as an educator, like many, is to create a more just and equitable world—one which the arts can assist.
Informative and reflective, Vision and Values is more than a memoir: it is also proof that the arts can change our lives, no matter what stage of life we’re in, by allowing us to imagine and create.
About the author
Gail Baker is a teacher, writer, administrator, and workshop leader. She has been working in education for over 45 years and continues her work in bringing the importance of arts-based learning in different aspects of her professional life. In 1996, she cofounded The Toronto Heschel School, an arts-based Jewish day school where she served as its head for over a decade. Gail has also cofounded the Intergenerational Classroom, a program that creates collaborative integrated arts learning opportunities for students and senior citizens.
Her writing accolades include cowriting an ongoing column for Think: the Lola Stein Institute Journal called “Good Books.” She has also coauthored Ancient Civilizations with Otto Baruch Rand, as well as an article published in the Jewish Educational Leadership journal entitled “Transformative Jewish Education through the Arts” with Judith Leitner and Pam Medjuck Stein.
Gail currently lives in Toronto with her husband. They have raised three sons and enjoy the company of their friends, children and grandchildren.
Her writing accolades include cowriting an ongoing column for Think: the Lola Stein Institute Journal called “Good Books.” She has also coauthored Ancient Civilizations with Otto Baruch Rand, as well as an article published in the Jewish Educational Leadership journal entitled “Transformative Jewish Education through the Arts” with Judith Leitner and Pam Medjuck Stein.
Gail currently lives in Toronto with her husband. They have raised three sons and enjoy the company of their friends, children and grandchildren.
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