She is also a classroom teacher in the early childhood program at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been an early childhood teacher for over fifteen years, working with young children from infancy to age seven in diverse, urban settings in Boston and in New York City. Dana has a particular background in rethinking creativity and artistic practice with young children; she uses this perspective in the constantly evolving curricula in her emergent, child-centered classroom.