Inglese Dinamico
Who we are
Nancy Steinbock, M.A. CCC-SPL - Director/Project Design and Facilitation
Nancy Rose Steinbock, M.A., CCC-SLP is the creator and director of Inglese Dinamico, Venice, Italy. Trained in America as a speech/language pathologist after completing her first degree in English and British Literature, Ms. Steinbock worked for many years as a diagnostician and therapist with learning-disabled children. She specialized in speaking, reading and writing disorders in older children. Her expertise extended to diagnosis and treatment of at-risk children in toddlerhood. She was recognized for her work in identifying and treating difficult to diagnose students who were experiencing academic difficulties in regular classrooms settings. Her particular interest in dyslexia and its causes led her into the area of phonology/morphology and its critical importance as a culprit in reading failure. She became a champion of early diagnosis and treatment in preschool children to prevent academic failure.
In 2003 she began to divide her time between Venice, Italy and America, Italy to begin a project to develop more effective teaching methodology for English language acquisition based upon the approach she had developed as a language-learning specialist. Her program has received funding to provide experimental projects based upon her ‘language intervention' techniques. She has written a number of articles on applying her techniques to students from pre-school through adulthood. She consults on and develops bilingual education curriculum and presents her work regularly at national and international conferences.
In America, she lives in Edgartown, Massachusetts (Martha’s Vineyard) where she collaborates with Island professionals for the summer program, In Step with the World, and teacher-training institutes.
Giulia Girardello, Visual Arts, indipendent curator
After graduating in Literature and Art History (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), she specialized in Visual Arts at the IUAV (Venice), with a thesis on the artist Artur Zmijewski. She attended a postgraduate specialisation programme in Local Participation and Urban Sustainable Development where she studied forms and methodologies of participation and interaction, with the purpose of improving her critical skills of artistic practicies that cross social, political and environmental spheres.
Since 1997 she has been assistant curator at Museo Casabianca, Malo (Vicenza), contributing to the planning and production of catalogues and other publications.
In 2009 she was entrusted with Contemporary Art promotion at the Direction of Cultural Heritage of Veneto Region.
She studied and practised in the field of Contemporary Art conservation, restoration and analytic cataloguing.
At the moment she works as an independent curator, being involved particularly in projects that deal with archives, on one hand, and with the boundaries of the Art System, on the other hand, in the pursuit of the belief that an essential aim of art is constantly rethinking and questioning itself.
She is also keen on writing and in 2011 she won the City of Venice Special Prize for Subway Letteratura, a national contest for young authors of short novels.
In 2011 she started a new important collaboration with Nancy Rose Steinbock - Partnerships for Learning and Teaching (PLAT)/Inglese Dinamico, Venice - developing bilingual educational programs that are designed to spread positive cultural values and exchange based upon dialogue, respect, improvement of understanding diversity and social activism through creativity and artistic expression.
Our American collaborators, Martha's Vineyard
Pamela Benjamin
Director
Sense of Wonder Creations
Felix Neck Audubon Camp
Massachusetts Audubon Society
M.J. Bruder
Director
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
Felicia Cheney
Director
Edgartown Public Library
Justen Walker
Naturalist
Yoga Instructor
Eleanor Hubbard
American Artist
Our national and international collaborators
Salman Amjad, M.A., TEFL/TESL, ESL/Literacy Specialist at Saudi Aramco Schools, Udhailiyah campus
Salman Amjad is currently the ESL/Literacy Specialist at Saudi Aramco Schools, Udhailiyah campus. Of Pakistani origin, he is from Canada, and has taught in Japan, Russia and Canada and travelled extensively. He speaks 6 languages. He has a Masters degree in TEFL/TESL from Birmingham University in UK, and has presented at numerous International conferences in over 15 countries on topics ranging from Linguistics, Pedagogy, Differentiated Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Inclusive Education, and Literacy development in both L1 and L2. This is his 13th year teaching, and he has taught Elementary classroom, French, Spanish, Humanities, ESL, and Middle School Math. Contact: salman.amjad@aramco.com
Inés Delgado, Técnico Especialista en Educación Infantil (Early Years Specialist)
Inés Delgado-Echagüe Sell is responsible for The CLIL Phonics Programme, Madrid, Spain. Mrs.Delgado-Echagüe worked for many years as a teacher for British schools in Spain. In 2001 she joined the MECD/British Council Bilingual Project as language advisor, in Castilla y León. She specialized in CLIL, focusing on the relationship between a well built literacy proficiency and academic success. Her expertise extended to the use of synthetic phonics in order to teach reading and writing to very young children.
She has lectured about Content Language Integrated Learning in a variety of Teacher-Training Programmes funded by The British Council and the Spanish Ministry of Education. She has also given courses and talks for the British Council, the British Council/MEC Bilingual Project and for local government Teacher Training departments in many of the Autonomous Regions of Spain.
Since 2008 she is based back in Madrid working on a project that expands more effective teaching methodology for English language acquisition by means of the approach she had developed as a language advisor. She has presented her method in several papers and articles and is regularly guest speaker at conventions and workshops. She is a consultant on bilingual education curriculum both for schools and educational publishing houses. Contact: inesdesell@gmail.com
Brandie Lynn Silva, B.A., Post-grad Journalism, TEFL.
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario and Centennial College, and working as a Journalist in her native Canada, Brandie started working as an EFL instructor. After 8 years in Italy, she has specialized in English for special purposes with a concentration in the area of dyslexia. She is certified for Level 2 Screening and Awareness by the British Dyslexia Society and has been working with Language Point as a Curriculum Developer and Project Leader. Language Point Milan services clients of all languages, ages and sectors and concentrates on multi-lateral projects and teacher training as well as being advocates of Inclusive Education and Cross-Cultural programming. Brandie has a strong base of professional experience having trained both children and adults and is currently working with Language Point’s network, canSpeak International, developing and facilitating research, planning and teacher training. brandie.silva@languagepoint.eu
Our partners and suggested links:
- Language Point
- Clil Phonics
- Educators Publishing Service
- Lexia Learning
- Observatory Atrium Linguarum (OAL). First Prize 'European Label 2006'
Institute for Education Sciences. University of Santiago de Compostela
www.atriumlinguarum.org
Special thanks:
Fabio Visintin for the logo
Tiziano Bolpin, artist and archivist for his expertise in graphic design for program materials.
Christina Malfer, graphic designer of program publicity materials.
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