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MOrning WOrkshops

Fulbright Teaching & Research Abroad with the Arts

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

Fulbright Teaching & Research Abroad with the Arts

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.

Data Visualization Through Art

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

Fulbright Teaching & Research Abroad with the Arts

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!

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

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)

Teacher Evaluation for Arts Integrated Environments

STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformative Life Progressing Experiences

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.

Learning Should Be Loud: Arts Integrated Classrooms

STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures

STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures


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.  



STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures

STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures

STE(A)M: An art +/= science paradigm for radical futures

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.


Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

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.



Yes and: Improvisation with SEL in the Classroom

Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

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. 



Beignets in the Bayou!

Activate ARTivism to Achieve Social Justice Learning

Beignets in the Bayou!


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!   


Afternoon Workshops

Cross-Curricular Connections in the Visual Arts Classroom

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music

Cross-Curricular Connections in the Visual Arts Classroom


1 - 2:35 pm


Casey Perkins


Come ready to fill your arts integration toolbox! Explore cross-curricular lessons, activities, and strategies to use in the visual arts classroom.  We will engage in practical discussion and hands-on art-making to demonstrate arts integration in the visual arts classroom.  Activities include a step inside artful thinking strategies and designing a fraction quilt collage lesson.

Once Upon A Rhythm

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music

Cross-Curricular Connections in the Visual Arts Classroom


1 - 2:35 pm


Quynn Johnson


Explore how the art form of tap dance and its elements (beat, choreography, and improvisation) can be used as a tool to strengthen literacy and math skills for early learners. Tap dance communicates and expresses meaning. When this dynamic teaching tool is integrated into the classroom, it offers students a deeper learning experience and invites all learners to create physical and personal connections to academic subjects. This workshop will highlight key aspects of tap dance that can be shared with and used by artists and non-artists alike to help drive the success of young learners.the needs of any PreK-12 classroom. 

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music



1 - 3:50 pm

Double Session


Thomas Pierre


Kinesthetic and tactile activities can energize your students’ learning experiences.  Singing, chanting, moving, playing, and creating is what children naturally do. Explore these energetic and interactive ways to help students make strong connections in the classroom. Participants will experience how creative and purposeful movement can be used to teach across the curriculum as well as address diverse learning modalities.  After this high-energy deep dive, participants can apply what they learn immediately in their classrooms.

Learning Should Be Loud: Arts Integrated Classrooms

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

Back By Popular Demand! I Like to Move It: Making More Connections Through Movement and Music

Two Double sessions

(repeated from morning)

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.  

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

2:40 - 3:50 pm


Katherine Lyons


Uncover the Math hidden in books and create active, arts-based experiences that support curriculum standards and engage children in creating and performing as a means of developing math skills. Numbers and Number Sense, Geometry, Measurement, Graphing, Algebra; math is everywhere if you know how to find it!   Discover the math already there in books you love. Learn to look at books in a different way, uncovering the natural math concepts embedded in the story experience.

Using Participatory Theater to Explore our STEAM identity: An Interactive Workshop

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

Math Detectives -Where's the Math? Using Drama to Discover the Math Hidden in Books

2:40 - 3:50 pm


Brian Francoise 

and Sheila Gaskins


Get up on your feet and connect with others in this fun, smart and compelling, participatory theater and storytelling experience.  Examine your life experiences in the context of the core values that drive high quality STEAM projects while simultaneously integrating participatory theater techniques into the session as our investigative tool. Examine 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking) inherent to group learning via STEAM and arts integration. Become curious about ways participatory arts practices can enhance the collaboration, classroom culture and identity development that prepares young people to better engage and prepare for STEAM enrichment activities.Sheila Gaskins

Moving through the Elements of Dance

Moving through the Elements of Dance

Moving through the Elements of Dance

2:40 - 3:50 pm


Lacey Sheppard


Interested in adding more movement activities into your classroom but don’t know where to start? Come explore the Elements of Dance through various games and activities that move!  These learning activities will give your students the choreographic tools and vocabulary to make creative choices and communicate effectively through movement. Participants will leave this session with movement games and activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of any PreK-12 classroom. 


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