Deborah Moore

AP Arts Director

• Deborah has been associated with the O'Donnell Foundation and AP Strategies™ since 1997 and became the APS Arts Director in July 2006. She has taught Pre-AP® Art II, AP® Drawing, 2-D Design, and Art History and served for four years as a Studio Art College Board Reader for the AP® art portfolio exam.
• Ms. Moore earned a Masters in Educational Leadership at SMU in 2011. She has 21 years of teaching experience in three Texas school districts: Houston ISD, Wharton ISD, and Plano ISD. While teaching in Plano ISD, Deborah served in various roles of leadership: fine arts department chair, art department team leader, facilitator for the teacher mentor program, member of three schools' Site Based Improvement Committee, East Cluster art team leader and PISD high school art team leader.
• As an active member of Texas Art Education Association and the National Art Education Association, Deborah has presented at both state and national levels. She served as the Region 10 Director in the TAEA Visual Arts Scholastic Event in 2005-2006 and won the TAEA National Art Honor Society Sponsor award in 2004.
• In 2002, Deborah was one of 100 teachers across the United States to be selected as a scholarship recipient of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art (TICA) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Ms. Moore's art students have received numerous awards on both the national and state level including: National Foundation of Advancement of the Arts National Merit Award; Scholastic Arts and Writing National Silver Portfolio and Gold Key Award; TAEA Youth Art Month State Capital Finalist, Governor's Award and State VASE Gold Seal Award; DMA Young Masters Exhibition: Best of Show, 1st place, 2nd place and honorable mention; U.S. Congressional Art Capitol Exhibition Award; Texas Commission of the Arts Young Masters Scholarship Award.
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Lauren LaRocca

Assistant Arts Director

• Lauren joined AP Strategies as a graduate intern in August 2008 for the AP Arts and Music Incentive Programs.
• She received her MA in Art History and graduate certification in museum education from the University of North Texas in 2009.
• From 2006-2007 she was selected to be a McDermott Intern at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Family Programs department.
• Lauren earned her BA in Art History from Texas State University-San Marcos in 2006.
• Lauren is a Dallas native and participated in the AP Art History course as a senior in high school.
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