MOrning WOrkshops

10:30 - 11:15 am

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Want to take your arts and education practice abroad? Join this interactive session to examine Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program opportunities available to educators and artists. The workshop will highlight application tips and will highlight examples of successful projects.  Fulbright Ambassador, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor will share her experience as Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Mexico. This workshop is great for educators in a range of fields, educators with M.F.A., MED-TESOL or other terminal masters degrees, those holding doctoral degrees, and others who would like to invite international scholars to visit in the U.S. to work with your learning community.

10:30 - 11:15 am

Colby Tofel-Gerhl

Make Data Count!  Discover creative ways to display and explore data by adding engaging art.  Learn how to make computational circuits by coding and use storybooks as a reference.  Teachers will be introduced to coding and how to use the program makeCode. Participants will work in pairs to construct timeline circuits that visually represent story books.  Bring a Chromebook if available.

Colby was our Keynote speaker in 2020!

10:30 - 11:15 am 

Carolina Cambronero Varela, Argie Agelarakis, and Guest Artivists

This workshop will delve into transferable examples of community building through arts projects that can be applied to academic subjects for social transformation. Participants will be inspired by this session to incorporate art in their own practices to nurture confidence in their students, creating a mindset pertaining to inclusiveness and diversity for a more just and dignified society. Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional global initiative generating a movement with committed social artivists in response to historic global concerns that embrace the power of art to transform and inspire.  

Guest Presenters via Zoom:

Dr. Stephanie Lake, Director of the Criminal Justice Program, Adelphi University, Melissa Leaym-Fernandez (Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University), Garyfalia Terizaki  (Preschool Educator, Head of the Children's Section, Trifylia Library, Greece), and Tereza Buskova (Artist and Educator, UK)

10:30 - 11:15 am

Dr. Julian Lazarus

Does the Danielson teacher evaluation score rise or fall when Arts Integration is incorporated in your lessons? Gain new insights on how to effectively approach teacher evaluations.  Get research-based suggestions to empower instructional practices. Learn and receive new resources that will enhance the teacher evaluation system for Arts Integrated environments.

Two Double sessions

10:30 am - 12 pm AND

1 - 3:50 pm

Nina Lattimore, Principal & Team of Teachers

Explore innovative and meaningful ways to bring the arts into your classroom!  Participants will learn new ways to integrate the arts across required curriculum and build a culture of empowered learners by discovering new resources. The team of presenters will elaborate on ways they have successfully integrated the arts and share artifacts.  Participants will create an art integrated project that aligns a specific art and the state standards.  

Artist: Manzel Bowman Digital Artist MB Studios

11:15 am - 12 pm

Morna McNulty

Explore how and why the A in STEAM should involve arts-based practices that include a transformation of our theories of knowledge, pedagogy, curriculum, and history.  Learn about increasing non-Eurocentric representations of “art” in the science, technology, and engineering fields.  Engage in small groups with various art works and share creative responses to the examples, and brainstorm how you can bring artists from the Radical Black Imaginary movement into your own curriculum.

11:15 am - 12 pm

Eileen Cave

Activate ARTivism through arts integration strategies. Learn how to integrate the Social Justice framework anchors of Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action with NCCAS visual art standards, by critiquing the artwork of a diverse selection of Master Artists. Participants will use a creative learning activity to apply arts integration strategies with an overview of the Global Competencies that also support these integration strategies. There will be hands-on art making activity and reflection.

11:15 am - 12 pm

Aubree Slavik

Arts Integration provides a unique lens to express our thoughts and emotions through improv. Learn engaging exercises designed to role-play responses to diverse situations;  role-playing can help us practice our responses to tough situations. Learn how “Yes…and” can be used to listen to other people and respond more effectively. See how body language and facial expression play a big part in showing emotion in a real-life situation. This session will cover the core tenets of a successful improv scene, creating age-appropriate boundaries for having fun, and provide go-to activities for participants to use in the classroom or with teams. 

11:15 am - 12 pm

Karen Campbell Kuebler

Bring your voices and dancin’ shoes! We’re goin’ down the Bayou and celebratin’ with beignets, music, dance, and more! Enjoy this historical and cultural journey with numerous activities for elementary and middle school students. From Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, and Ruby Bridges to Mardi Gras and Le Hoogie-Boogie to Café Du Monde, we will Laissez les bons temps rouler!