Susan Griss is an educator, dancer and choreographer who teaches creative movement to explore elementary core curriculum.

Her book, Minds in Motion: A Kinesthetic Approach to Teaching Elementary Curriculum, was published by Heinemann in 1998.

She is is on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education in New York and Lesley University in Massachusetts, and is a guest lecturer at colleges, public schools, teacher institutes and art centers around the country.

Ms. Griss has taught workshops at Columbia Teachers College, Smith, Vassar, Skidmore, Sarah Lawrence, the American Dance Guild, and other educational and arts institutes throughout the Northeast. She has also been an educational consultant for the Arts Education Office of the NYC Board of Education, training teachers in the public schools.

Since 1984, Ms. Griss has been an Artist-in-Residence working with children in public schools. Since its inception in 1998, she has been a teaching artist for the Empire State Partnerships Projects in New York State. Ms. Griss has also taught movement workshops to train children in mediation and conflict resolution, and created special dance projects for children who are deaf. A graduate of Smith College with a Master's Degree from New York University, she has danced with the Laura Dean Dance Co., the Vanaver Caravan and her own Triangle Fire Dance Co.

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