ALAN SCOFIELD    Founding Director of Young Imaginations

Young Imaginations

To learn more about Young Imaginations and our programs

please visit their website at  www.youngimaginations.org         

Or

contact the San Rafael, CA office at 415-472-7338

Young Imaginations is a nonprofit agency founded in 1987, which offers multicultural music and dance classes to approximately 10, 000 children in the San Francisco Bay Area each year.

Young Imaginations’ mission is to improve education by placing the arts within the core of the educational process.

Programs include:

● music and dance for children pre-school through 8^th grade

● professional development for classroom teachers

● music specialists and movement educators

● action research on the effects of the arts on academic learning

● somatic arts and the development of children’s minds

Alan Scofield co-founded Young Imaginations in 1987 and has helped create a variety of model arts education projects in Northern California public schools.  Alan has touched the lives of a generation of public school children with his programs that involve creative energy, dance and somatic awareness. As an arts educator with Young Imaginations, he opens the way for classroom teachers, teachers in training and parents to experience the joy and wonder of creative expression in movement.

As his teaching  progressed, he incorporated historical perspectives in many of his teaching residencies, such as the "Dance Through the Decades" program in the Mill Valley Schools, located in Northern California. His dance program for kindergarteners taught in rhyming couplets, movement and storytelling narratives successfully allows children to become focused and engaged with what they are learning. 

Young Imaginations and Alan Scofield

“ When we became aware that so many young people wanted to become involved in the arts it seemed so natural and obvious to provide this in the schools as a curricular subject, so we did and it has been a success ever since.”

Channel 50 called 

Young Imaginations’, Alan Scofield

“The Danny Kaye of the North Bay”.

Alan teaching

Photo by Jock Sturges