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With a background in early childhood education combined with experience as an improvisational actor and facilitator, Tamara enjoys engaging audiences, both young and old, to inspire their imaginations and deepen their understanding of the world.
While pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with a minor in Early Childhood Education from Boston College, Tamara spent summers teaching at The Ted DiRenzo Montessori school, which was founded by her grandfather. It was there that she developed a love for education.
Tamara started at Bubbles Academy in its opening month. Since 2003 she has led the Bubbles Academy team of 30 educators in designing class curriculums, afterschool programs, interactive multimedia experiences, operational systems and hiring practices. Today she remains at Bubbles Academy part-time where serves as their Director of New Business and acts as an educational consultant.
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Click here to see my education blog. Click here to see my kids music blog.
Click here to see a wacky video I made. Click here to see another!
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While not working with children under the age of five, Tamara is a communication skills trainer. She has taught improvisation at The Second City Training Center, and is a training facilitator at ComedySportz Chicago, where she completed her Instructional Systems Design for Applied Improvisation Applications (ISDAIA) training. Through Improv Creatives her clients have included The Medill School of Journalism Alumni Club and The MBA Career Services for Working Professionals Alliance, and MBA students at the Kellogg School of Management.
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Tamara has written and performed in 4 sketch reviews, taught improv at The Second City and currently can be seen hosting at ComedySportz Chicago.
Improv Experience
ComedySportz Ensemble Member (since 2006)
Ensemble Member (since 2004)
Second City House Musical Improv Ensemble (2009 - 2010)
Summer 2008 Ensemble 
iO Theater Harold Team Quincy (2004 - 2006)
iO Theater : Del Tones (sit-in)
Sketch Experience
Johnny's Regret: Writer/Ensemble Member
• Lazy Susan (2008)
• Upside of Down (2007)
• See Daddy Naked (2006)
• Greater Than or Equal To (2005)
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Posts
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, “Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves.” In the Buddhist context, such laziness makes you feel that it’s pointless even trying, you’ll never attain any spiritual realization. Discouragement makes you prefer not even to begin making any effort. And the third kind… is to waste your life on tasks of secondary importance, without ever getting down to what’s most essential. You spend all your time trying to resolve minor problems, one after another in an endless sequence, like ripples on the surface of a lake. You tell yourself that once you’ve finished this or that project you’ll start giving some meaning to your life.
Matthieu Ricard, in his book of conversations with his philosopher father, “The Monk and the Philosopher”
An excerpt from the post The Three Kinds of Laziness by Gary Tan.
(via jonathanmoore)
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.
miw:
A fascinating fight is brewing over MOOCs.
Federal data released for the first time shows the wildly different amounts hospitals are charging Medicare to perform the same procedure.
See how hospitals near you are charging with this New York Times interactive.
This chart from the Washington Post lets you compare the highest and lowest averages in your state.
We’ve got some corrections over here at Fox & Friends:
Kentucky Derby losers are not turned into Ikea meatballs.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not accidentally blow up vowels in his own name.
The chupacabra does not deliver presents on Cinco de Mayo.
President Obama does not want to take away T-shirt guns.
Most women have only two breasts.
The Memphis Grizzlies are not a gay blues band.
Scientology was not founded by I Ron Man.
Bangladesh is not an 80s metal band.
Peeking at ladies’ butts is not a background check.
Actual crows do have feet.
Pot pie is legal in every state.
The California wildfires are not a soccer team.
Jason Collins was not turned gay by a Washington Wizard.
The NRA is not a branch of government.
Foreign visas do not let Russian students go on shopping sprees.
Rick Moranis was never put on death row for shrinking his children.
New York exists outside the mind of Billy Joel.
A French press is not lifting weights with your tongue out.
Lena Dunham is not a girl ventriloquist.
Number 2 pencils are not sad that they lost.
Plan B birth control is not masturbating.
Justin Bieber and Anne Frank were not an item.
President Obama did not just wake up in Mexico.
F.A.A. does not stand for “Fart A**, A**”
Croquettes are not female crocodiles.
Kanye West is not an African American vacation destination.
Syria is not Arabic for “serious.”
Rice and beans are edible. Ricin beans are not.
Casual Friday is not in the Bill of Rights.
Sam Adams was not too drunk to sign the Constitution.
The Gitmo prisoners are not working on their bodies.
Force feeding is not how Jedi’s eat.
Kevin Costner does not live in Watertown.
Smurfs are not elected.
Smurfs are not appointed.
Smurfs are cartoons.
Aretha Franklin and Patti Labelle have been in the same room together.
Anytime minutes don’t let you call the future.
4 and 3 are not basically the same thing.
Rock beats scissors.
Zach Braff is not the sound a trumpet makes.
“Going to Facebook has become the equivalent of opening the fridge & starting inside, even though you’re not hungry.”- @nickbilton
“My parents were missionaries, so I grew up all over. I’ve lived in New York, Los Angeles, Budapest, and Moscow. And most of my friends were from missionary families, so they’ve moved on. My home is on Facebook now because it’s hard for me to go home— if that makes sense. Because my home was not a place. My home was a time, and a place.”
(Seen at Facebook HQ)
“My home is on Facebook now”
In fact the art of writers, producers, directors, still photographers, and artists (or ‘content creators’ as we are now ubiquitously called), has become somewhat devalued in this age and ease of digital data gathering resulting in more often than not, poorly made, dumbed down content creation
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EDUCATION
KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Northwestern University
MBACompleted August 2012
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Management and OrganizationBOSTON COLLEGE
BS in Philosophy; Minor in Early Childhood EducationCompleted May 2003Honors: Cum Laude, Golden Key International Honor Society
