Meet Enicia
Fisher,
Director and Lead Teacher
Enicia has enjoyed teaching children in a variety of contexts
for over ten years. She home-schools her own two children, ages
nine and five, and enjoys meeting people who share her
passion for music, dance, art, literature, gardening, and learning.
Enicia completed a Master's
Degree in Education at the University of Kansas in 1992, and since
then she has taught elementary and middle school special education,
Children's Literature and Writing at Principia College in Elsah, IL,
and a variety of literature, movement, and music-based enrichment
classes in the community.
In recent years, Enicia
discovered the Orff-Schulwerk process of teaching music and movement
and completed Orff-Schulwerk Teacher Training through Chapman
University. She loves teaching music "the Orff way" because it
invites everyone's participation in playing and creating beautiful music from
the very beginning.
This past year Enicia has
collaborated with modern dancer and choreographer Rory Scofield, of
St. Marys, Canada, to learn her unique method of teaching dance to
children. Enicia is helping Rory, along with chiropractor Richard Omel,
to co-author a book which explores the many educational benefits of
movement and aims to help children preserve their ideal posture and
natural freedom of movement throughout life.
In 2005 Enicia completed a
training course through YogaKids International and has offered yoga
classes at community centers and in her home studio.
Enicia is an avid reader and
collector of
children's literature and has written a number
of "Young Readers" book reviews published in the Christian Science
Monitor over the years. She and her children enjoy writing children's story books,
and Enicia also writes articles for the
Arts for Education
Newsletter. In her spare time, Enicia edits for Family Trust
Publishing (her mom's company) and other authors.
Enicia plays the piano and
accordion and is learning to play the recorder. She loves to hike
the nearby Santa Rosa Plateau, grow edibles and water-wise flowers
in her garden, read poetry while sipping tea, and dance at home with
her family (they keep the disco ball up
year-round).
Creative Learning
Circle