Skip Ploss

Children’s Author & Illustrator | Inspiring Young Artists Through Storytelling , Drawing & Creative Process. Children’s Books & Author Visits | Writing & Storytelling | Illustration & Line Art | SPED | Arts Integration

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Over 30 years experience empowering students and adults in education and the workplace. Skip is about classroom technology to a point. Classroom tech is not just about iPads and Chromebooks. It's about showing teachers and administrators how technology can ease the demands placed on their time. It's about allowing teachers to be excited to explore news ways of leading and coaching empowered, inquisitive and curious students by using tech that's available now and setting them free to explore what's coming next. Specialties: Special Education Education Technology Website Development Graphic Design Social Media Poetry Writing/Illustration

Experience

  • Plossville (21 yrs 10 mos)
    • Author/Illustrator
      Mar 2006 - Present · 20 yrs 4 mos

    • Principal
      Sep 2004 - Present · 21 yrs 10 mos

      I write and illustrate books for children. I have published seven books for children to date; If Picasso Were a Fish, If I had a Gift, Abstracts, Abstracts 2, Holy Mackerel, I Have Two Bunnies and My Brother, My Sister and Me.

  • Director at Wilton Children's Theater
    Aug 2006 - Present · 19 yrs 11 mos

    Fall director of musical with 55 4th through 8th grade actors. Co-created Summerstage Jr. A summer program for 3rd to 6th grade actors. Pushed the use of personal technology into the audition and preproduction process including Google Drive and DropBox. Instigated the implementation of new social media presence. Was integral to moving and adapting beloved programs online during...well...you know

  • Webmaster at Pasquales Osteria
    2005 - Present · 21 yrs 6 mos

    Created this legendary Norwalk Connecticut eatery's primary website. Then we moved Pasquale's web presence over to an easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor called Weebly. We trained the staff how to maintain a living website. ElectricBruin then provided principal photography for the site pages. Created social media accounts and plan. Educated owner and staff on how to use social media.

  • Actor, Director, Designer, Board Member, Executive Producer, President at The Wilton Playshop, Inc
    1991 - Present · 35 yrs 6 mos

    Actor, Designer, Historian, Producer, Director, Board Member, President.

  • Principal at Electricbruin
    Oct 2004 - Present · 21 yrs 9 mos

    A creativity company. Developing websites for small business, providing guidance and support for social media development and graphic design services. Creating books to foster creativity and curiosity in young readers. Promoting poetry in it's many forms Providing theatrical services from direction to design and script writing