Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The Conception, Design, and Evolution of a Head Start Theatre-in-Education Program

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This research was supported in part by a Head Start Research Scholars Dissertation Grant. I'd like to thank Lynda Zimmerman for granting me permission to conduct research on the Creative Arts Team's Early Learning Through the Arts: New York City Wolf Trap Program. I would also like express my appreciation to the members of the Creative Arts Team who agreed to be interviewed for this study: Chris Vine, Karina Naumer, Max Ryan, Helen Wheelock, Daniel Berlfein, Zina Camblin, Steve Elm, Trina Fischer, Ginger Legon, and Karim Sekou. I would also like to thank Barbara Alexander Pan, Catherine E. Snow, Paul L. Harris, and Terrence Tivnan, whose advice and support guided my dissertation study on which this article is based. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Mary Rose McCudden and Tara L. Edelschick whose feedback on drafts of this article was invaluable.

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¹This study refers to members of CAT by their first names to reflect the way that they are addressed within the culture of the CAT organization.