Rhoda Trooboff
Rhoda Trooboff is an American educator, publisher, and author.
Education
Trooboff studied at Wellesley College where she earned an undergraduate degree in English. She got a MAT degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.Career
Trooboff worked as a teacher in Arlington, VA public schools. She was the head of the English department at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She also serves as a child protection mediator in the DC Superior Courts and volunteered as a reader at Learning Ally, an organization that records and reads books for the blind and dyslexic.Publications
In 2005, she founded Tenley Circle Press, a micro-publishing house in Washington, DC for children's books.Her writings include:
Ben, The Bells and the Peacocks
A Book for Elie
Punkinhead's Veggie Adventure and the Strange Contraption in the Kitchen
In 2010, Trooboff edited We Grew It: Let's Eat It,'' and was interviewed by NPR about her educational gardening work.
In 2014, Trooboff wrote her first novel, Correspondence Course: The Bathsua Project.
Her books were the only publications featured in the 2020 Seymour Art festival of the Garrett County Arts Council & Simon Pearce Partnership.