Michelle Gram Giesen (she/her/hers)
Michelle Gram Giesen has worked at the Toronto District School Board in Canada for 18 years, as an elementary teacher, drama specialist, integrated arts teacher, librarian, and presently as an Arts Teacher Mentor with the board. She is an actor, puppeteer, voice actor, and the founder of Story Drama Suite, providing drama education workshops, consulting, presentations, classes, and parties for educators, children, and theatre practitioners. Michelle holds a BFA Honours from York University’s Creative Ensemble/ Devised Theatre Program, and a B.Ed. from OISE/UofT. She has studied various drama techniques and teaching styles and facilitated conference sessions centered on using Story Drama in Canada, the USA, Europe, and New Zealand. Participants in this workshop will explore the picture book “The Lost Drop” by Gregoire Laforce and will receive a detailed unit plan, music suggestions and assessment templates connected to drama, language, and science.
2026 Sessions
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Exploring Water Through Story Drama
In this workshop, educators will participate in a story drama session, exactly as their students would, using the book “The Lost Drop” by Grégoire Laforce… Read More →
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Poetry in Motion: Integrating drama, movement, and music into language learning
This interactive workshop explores how integrating drama, movement, music, and poetry can enhance students’ literacy skills while supporting social-emotional development. Grounded in research on multimodal… Read More →