Patrick Cerria

Patrick Cerria earned a dual BA in music and the humanities from William Paterson University in New Jersey. He was awarded the Dalcroze Elementary Certificate from The Juilliard School. In 2019 he was accepted into the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon University to begin his Licensure work.Patrick has spent the last fifteen years teaching varied populations of students — including a self contained school for autistic children, and another for students with physical and/or developmental disabilities. He has also worked extensively in urban education teaching grades kindergarten through high school. This includes two alternative high schools for inner-city students: one for students classified as at-risk, and the second for students with behavioral classifications.Patrick also provides staff development workshops to educators and administrators to help create movement based classroom management strategies so they can better accommodate the varied learners they must now teach.