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 taught the first three-credit course, in Rhode Island,
for before and after-school program staff, at Rhode Island
College in 1996, and taught in Spanish the first three-credit
course, in Rhode Island, on Child Growth and Development being
taught in Spanish in 2011.
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 Early
Childhood Education Center, Mt. Hope Day Care Center, Rhode
Island Education Media Association, 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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