Susan Creighton

I am a retired professional archivist who has worked in a variety of settings, most recently at Vermont Folklife as their Associate Archivist. In my former career, I was a classroom teacher in Maine and Massachusetts, and later a researcher and teacher-trainer with Education Development Center in the Boston area. I have been involved in folk music and dance ever since one of my high school friends discovered Ted Sannella's monthly dance in Concord, Massachusetts in 1978. Since then, I've been a contra and English dancer, a Morris dancer, and a contradance and English dance musician. When the opportunity arose to create the CDSS Archiving Toolkit, it was the perfect blend of my experience and skills applied to the folk dance world that I love, and I dove in enthusiastically. I hope you like the results.

I try to balance theory with application. So I'll aim to provide a just-right mix of background information applied to your own experience and situation.

I believe discussion is essential to making sense of new information. So you'll be taking in new information through videos and readings outside of class sessions, then we'll use our time together in discussion to make sense of what you've been learning about.

I try to reach all different types of learners. So I'll aim to help you make sense of the information in a variety of ways: visual, auditory, discussion, and writing. And we'll accommodate folks who need time to think before they speak as well as those who prefer to talk to help them think.