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Michael Irwin-- PROJECT DIRECTOR <br /> Chapel Hill High School Home <br /> 1709 High School Rd. 8519 Pickards Meadow <br /> Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 <br /> 919-929-2106, ext. 1212 Cell: 919-357-7443 <br /> mirwin@chccs.kl2.nc.us willowandi@gmail.com <br /> Education: <br /> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 94-98 <br /> • B.A. in English Education <br /> • Student Environmental Action Coalition <br /> • Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention <br /> • Carolina Club Soccer Player <br /> Teaching Experience: <br /> Chapel Hill High School, 1998-present <br /> • Classroom teacher-plan and teach daily instruction in English II World <br /> Literature and English N British Literature <br /> • Implement daily activities to teach reading analysis,research and creative <br /> writing,video production,public speaking,media literacy,and social oppression <br /> awareness <br /> Professional Activities: <br /> Chapel Hill High School Arts Academy,Director, 2007—present <br /> • Design program offerings and initiatives with cultural arts committee <br /> • Recruit diverse students for inclusion in full immersion arts curriculum <br /> • Form community partnerships to bring artists into the classrooms <br /> UNITY Project,Director, 2000—present <br /> • Create collaborative community service projects with NC Outward Bound <br /> • Recruit diverse youth for summer wilderness course <br /> • Oversee implementation of 2 community service projects each year <br /> Scene & Heard Productions,Founder and Artistic Director,2003—present <br /> • Social justice youth multimedia theater company <br /> • Lead workshops in large scale puppetry production, script writing, spoken word <br /> writing,artistic and documentary film production, musical collaboration,and <br /> creative dance and movement <br /> • Direct casts and produce shows that address historical and contemporary <br /> injustices based on the works of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and <br /> Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed <br /> • Write grants for the production of the following shows-The Purple Light of <br /> Hope, Twice Upon a Time,A Slave to Wonder, Echoes of the Silenced, The Roots <br /> of Reflection <br /> Wilderness Excursions,Co-founder and Wilderness Guide,2002—present <br /> • Full immersion youth wilderness education organization <br /> • Lead 3 — 15 day hiking and kayaking trips in US and Costa Rica <br />