Meet the team.
The Let’s Read 2022 project is a partnership between The University of Texas at
Austin, Lincoln Center Theater in NYC, and the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo. The project development team consists of six K-16 educators, or Arts Integrated Teaching Fellows, and U.S. experts who have worked together to co-design lesson plans, online resources, and trainings which use Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street to explore issues of identity and home through English and arts literacy.
Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
JU Gimnazija" Edhem Mulabdić" Maglaj, JU Mješovita srednja škola Maglaj
"Drama-based strategies add flavor and interest in my language classes offering my students an entertaining way to express their thoughts and feelings verbally and physically. They allow students to get actively involved, become more comfortable with their peers, and promote skills such as empathy, self-awareness, and curiosity."
Adisa Begic
Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
JU Gimnazija" Edhem Mulabdić" Maglaj, JU Mješovita srednja škola Maglaj
"Drama-based strategies add flavor and interest in my language classes offering my students an entertaining way to express their thoughts and feelings verbally and physically. They allow students to get actively involved, become more comfortable with their peers, and promote skills such as empathy, self-awareness, and curiosity."
Lejla Begovic
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Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
English Department, Faculty of Philology, the University of Banja Luka
"I fell in love with DBP back in 2018 when the first workshop in my country took place. For me, DBP represents a sense of belonging, self-improvement, professional development, fun, and engagement in the classroom. It means being a member of an amazing network of creative educators all over the world. It makes me step out of my comfort zone and test my self-confidence, and at the same time, it reminds me why being a teacher is the most awesome profession in the world!"
Milica Jošić-Milinović
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Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
Assistant professor at the University of Bihać, Faculty of Pedagogy
"Implementing DBP strategies in the syllabus leads to creating an immersive classroom with many different learning opportunities, focusing on affective, academic, and artistic growth. Using these strategies with my students, I have witnessed firsthand just how versatile DBP strategies really are. This is just one of the reasons why I am very excited to be part of this project, and I hope to see more DBP strategies used in classes in BiH."
Alma Pehlivanović
Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
Serbian Language and Literature Teacher, High School ’’Filip Višnjić’’ Bijeljina
"Let’s Read project is an artistic bridge that will connect students from different parts of BiH. I am happy and excited to be one of the architects because I truly believe in the power of the arts. Let’s read and let’s change!"
Valentina Vidaković
Arts Integrated Teaching Fellow
University of Sarajevo, Department of English Language and Literature
"DBP has given me the chance to reinvent myself as a teacher and to explore multimodal and multisensory approaches in my classroom. The DBP teaching community in BiH is growing with every new initiative, allowing us to collaborate and share creative ideas, practices, and challenges. The Let's Read project offers local teachers a unique opportunity to create lesson plans on youth literature addressing critical questions with our students around the topics of home and belonging, family and friendship, identity, gender, and self-expression."
Alma Zero
U.S. Educators
Alice Brandenburg
Project Coordinator & Website Creator
Second-year M.A. student in the Community Arts Education program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Katie Dawson
Project Co-Director
Associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The
University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Drama for Schools program.
Gabrielle Lewis
Graduate Research Assistant
Second year M.F.A. student in the Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Kati Koerner
Project Co-Director
Hiltz Director of Education at Lincoln Center Theater (LCT) in New York City.
Previous Partnerships and Projects
Check out past projects and arts integration resources created for BiH educators!
