Meet Dick Piazza
Richard “Dick” Piazza is the creator of the AWAKENINGS workshops has worked in public education for forty years. His passion for learning has been the central driving force of his professional career.
He has taught on the elementary, middle, high school and college levels. His area of specialty is English Literature, with a heavy emphasis on Shakespeare, James Joyce and writing. During his years in the high school he created “The Writer’s Workshop,” which became a popular elective. In 1971, he spent a year at England’s Oxford University. During this time he also taught in three Oxfordshire primary and intermediate schools that were using a child-centered and interdisciplinary approach. This experience became the foundation for the work he would later do in his Brain-Compatible Learning Workshops.