Carol Aubrey
Carol Aubrey is the founder of Transformational Learning & Coaching, Inc. She is an educator, theater artist, author and program/curriculum developer who specializes in Writing, Language Arts, Higher Order Thinking Skills, and Arts Integration. A resident of Florida for 15 years, she provided professional development for the Florida Dept. of Education and the FL Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and worked as a consultant for the school districts of Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties.
Carol is a Kennedy Center Partners-in-Education educator/artist and a long-time arts integration advocate and practitioner. She has a B.F.A. Degree in Acting from North Carolina School of the Arts, and an M.F.A. Degree in Arts Administration from Brooklyn College, New York. She has taught in the Theatre Departments at Brooklyn College, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and Broward Community College in Ft. Lauderdale. While an Adjunct Professor for Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, she traveled around the country training teachers in Drama as part of their innovative M.Ed Creative Learning Program, a program that specializes in training teachers to use the arts as a strategy to teach the academic core curriculum.
A dynamic and inspiring speaker, Carol’s speaking engagements are diverse, from keynote addresses at arts education conferences to speaking on “Building the Co-Creative Community” at the International Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her first book, Fearless Thinking: Moving Past the Obstacles to Personal & Social Evolution (released in February, 2009), provides a unique outlook on the challenging game-board of life and how we can become powerful, purposeful and intentional players.
Combining her earlier years as an actor and theatre producer in New York with her political activism, Carol produced and directed an annual tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York City during the years leading up to the recognition of his birthday as a national holiday. Assisted in her organizing efforts by Andrew Young and long-time friend of Dr. King, the late Cleveland Robinson of District 65, UAW, Carol’s annual program brought together an eclectic group of well-known speakers and performers to explore and celebrate the themes of peace, non-violence, and social justice.
Carol is the creator and program developer for Storytellers & Writers. She is also the creator of INCITE TO WRITE, the curriculum used in Transformational Learning & Coaching, Inc.’s first program, +Writing & Reading Specialists, an afterschool, federally funded program for struggling students. Her unique and highly successful curriculum development efforts in Language Arts have been recognized and rewarded through the numerous grants she has received. The strategies that comprise the INCITE TO WRITE program were first developed over 20 years ago as a result of Carol’s artist residencies in Palm Beach and Broward County, FL schools over a 5-year period, addressing the need for creative and engaging curriculum that successfully taught students how to write and respond to different writing prompts. At the request of several school principals, Carol compiled her strategies into the INCITE TO WRITE program. Emphasizing critical and creative thinking skills, the fun, drama-based curriculum has been a success from the start, serving thousands of students in both public and private schools. The INCITE TO WRITE curriculum is used in the Storytellers & Writers program to address the academic Common Core Language Arts requirement of the program.