The Find Your Voice methodology offers a dynamic intersection of art, language, communication, and personal development. As a result of this training, I now see my one-on-one time with students as the essence, the gift, the moment. Educators need more encounters with finding-your-voice opportunities like this.<br /> - Dr. Emily White, Leadership Center, Bank Street College

If you care about kids, buy this book. If you want to remember why you became a teacher, buy this book; it will reenergize your passion for educating. Read it, underline it, and dog-ear it, but don't pass it on, you'll want to read it again and again. And buy a copy for a friend, it's as much a self-help book as a guide for good teaching. <br /> - Lucy Matos, Cofounder Central Park East Elementary

This methodology makes kids feel powerful, special, worthwhile. It shows them that they have something to say and teaches them to say it well. Everybody I knew during the years that I studied in the program emerged from the training stronger and more vocal.<br /> - Robert Lopez, Tony Award-Winning Composer/Lyricist, Avenue Q, Find Your Voice training participant

Every school in our country has identified literacy as its number one challenge; now Gail Noppe-Brandon offers a different way of looking at the subject. For the past twenty years she has successfully trained a broad range of teenagers, college students, and teachers of all subjects in her literacy-through-theatre methodology. In Find Your Voice, she clearly describes how everyone can be helped to communicate more effectively and better receive the communication of others.</p>

Find Your Voice demonstrates Noppe-Brandon's unique, relationship-based coaching style, an approach which has enabled even the shyest people to conquer their fear of written or oral public sharing. The book presents a specific sequence of exercises and activities that can improve anyone's reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. And with sample classroom applications for various age levels, Find Your Voice helps those who may never have considered re-acting or re-writing a play, and seasoned artists who have been practicing their craft for years.</p>

Click here to download a , which will allow you to try your hand at implementing some of the skills outlined in the book.</p>