art at Auke Rec Beach

Something for everyone!

Three ARTS INSTITUTES, One WORKSHOP

This summer AAEC is offering for educators from all levels:

3 two-week, 4-credit, intensive Institutes in different locations

and a unique, two-week workshop  for educators as part of the Fairbanks Summer Arts festival.

• Learn how to integrate the arts (visual, drama, music & Native cultural arts) into  school curriculum
• Understand the impact of the arts on student performance, motivation and achievement
• Learn about current  brain research regarding the importance of the arts and learning
• Experience the production, criticism & appreciation of art
• Form a cadre of teachers in the arts across Alaska
• Personally experience new art forms

Anchorage, Basic Institute: May 25 – June 4 Read about it & apply March 4 (in partnership with the Anchorage School District Summer Academy)

Fairbanks, Basic Institute: June 7 – 19 Read about it & apply NOW (in partnership with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, National Writing Project, & Native Education Project)

Juneau, Basic Institute: July 25 – August 6 Read about it & apply NOW (in partnership with the LKSD Pilinguaq Project: Student Success through literacy & arts, University of Alaska Southeast, & AASB)

Fairbanks, Developing Minds : July 19 – 30 Read about it & apply in March (in partnership with the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival)

Inspire Your Heart With Art Day is always January 31st and celebrates art and the effect it can have on your heart. Art is valued and appreciated for all sorts of reasons (and many believe the benefits extend to keeping your heart healthy, too!)

Make a point to do some art yourself on this day. Even better, do art with a child. Look at a piece of art and ask yourself: What is is telling me? How does it make me feel? What emotions is it evoking (if any) within me?

Journey, tempra paint

Origin of Inspire Your Heart With Art Day:

Our research has yet to find the creator, or the origin of this day.

ARTS INTEGRATION SCHOOLS: WHAT, WHY, AND HOW April 7-10, 2010 Registration through February 19, 2010. This conference shares a decade of Kennedy Center’s experience in 20 Washington, D.C. area schools aimed at building a school- wide philosophy for and practice of arts integration. The program, Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA), is a school reform effort realized through ongoing, in-depth professional learning for teachers.

WHAT and WHY

• Examine a definition and rationale for arts integration

• Explore the key features of the Kennedy Center’s school-based arts integration program

• Visit a Kennedy Center CETA school to see arts integration in practice

HOW

• Examine and apply a process for creating an arts integration school

• Participate in guided team planning

• Enjoy an evening with the arts: attend Terrence McNally’s Master Class, the Tony-award winning play which depicts opera diva Maria Callas as she reflect on the glories, triumphs, and tragedies of her own life and career.

Full Attendance Option (April 7-10): $350 per team member (includes conference, 200-page resource binder, meals, and a Master Class)

Partial Attendance Option (April 7-8): $225 per person (includes conference and meals)

http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/ceta/conference.html

Amy L. Duma, Director, Teacher and School Programs,The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

(202) 416-8812  (202) 416-8802 (Fax)

The Power of Art: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

The Lab School of Washington in Washington, DC will host its 17th annual workshop The Power of Art: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities this spring. The Power of Art is a national competition which celebrates excellence in art education and innovative teaching methods. The Power of Art is held in conjunction with and generously sponsored by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

The one day workshop provides art teachers with a better understanding of learning disabilities, original ways to teach, and how art can be used to teach academic skills. The Rauschenberg Foundation kindly provides hotel accommodations and limited travel funds. Because the late Robert Rauschenberg, Master of Modern Art, was not diagnosed until adulthood with dyslexia, he wanted to iterate the importance and value of art education in the classroom, especially those students with learning disabilities. His son, Chris Rauschenberg an artist and photographer will attend the workshop and meet with the teachers. This is a fantastic once in a life time opportunity for art teachers nation-wide who have a large or small population of learning disabled students.

For more information about The Power of Art or to receive an application please visit The Lab School’s website http://www.labschool.org/content/powerart or E-Mail emily.marchetti@labschool.org. The Power of Art application is available for you to download at http://www.labschool.org/content/powerart

Lorrie Heagy

Lorrie Heagy, a Juneau music teacher won a 2009 Yale Music Teacher Award and is now an Abreu Fellow working for a year in Boston and Venezuela. You can follow her work and learn about the exciting activities at her blog. She says, “Every week we have an incredible roster of presenters who share their expertise in music, leadership and social change.  I’ve been keeping a weekly blog about what I’ve learned about El Sistema and TED has just updated their website with a wonderful video highlighting the semester, including short interviews from each of us.  I’ve embedded the video on my blog and hope you have a chance to watch it over the holidays. Here’s the link  http://juneaumusicmatters.blogspot.com/

Lorrie is one of our outstanding Teacher Leaders who has taught for six years at the summer Basic Arts Institute in Juneau. She received the Yale School of Music award for her outstanding work in bringing music into the classroom and her school. She has been instrumental in developing a school-wide program called Art is Elementary at Glacier Valley School. One of the major purposes of the program is to provide data showing the arts not only motivate students but can affect a school culture and students’ approach to their academics. Lorrie will be teaching in Juneau in 2010 at the Basic Arts Institute, July 25 – August 6, 2010.  Scholarships are available to teachers from member districts. Sign up after February 1, 2010.

Teachers! The National Museum of the American Indian is offering a new Educator Membership with annual dues of just $25. Benefits include: teaching posters, 10% discounts at Smithsonian and NMAI and subscriptions to Insight newsletter and American Indian Magazine. Email NMAImember@si.edu or Member Services (202) 633-6984

The Bilingual Multicultural Education Equity Conference  is soliciting workshop presenters for the 36th BMEEC to be held at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel, April 21-23, 2010.

There will be a focus on the Arts in Education: Enhancing Language and Culture Development. We are looking for school or after school programs which are helping students to develop language and culture skills.

We are also looking for workshop presentations on SIOP, RTI and other differentiated instructional practices. We will also have a student strand for Future Teachers of Alaska.

Please go to WWW.BMEEC.NET for further information and presentation forms.

With funding from the Rasmuson Foundation, the Arts in Education Program of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, offers grants to encourage Visual & Performing Arts Teachers K-12 reconnect with their art discipline so that, new energy, creativity and ideas may infuse Alaskan classrooms.  The Arts Educators Grants provide funds to certified, permanently assigned full and part-time K-12 teachers instructing in all artistic disciplines to immerse themselves in their own creative work, interact with professional artists, and stay current with new practices.  Awards may be used to defray the costs of tuition, fees, room and board, travel and other costs associated with advanced arts study or residences; purchase of materials and equipment to create a new body of work. The grant awards are up to $3,000 for K-12 visual & performing arts educators whose primary responsibility is arts instruction, have been teaching a minimum of 3 years, & are permanently assigned full or part time in an Alaskan school. Applications must be postmarked or hand delivered to the ASCA offices by February 15.

The guidelines, instructions and applications are available on line beginning January 1 at the Arts Council’s web site: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/aksca/. Follow the links on the Arts in Education pages to Cultural Collaborations grants.  Make sure you read the guidelines and instructions carefully. If you have any questions please call or email the Arts in Education staff: ruth.glenn@alaska.gov; 907-269-6682 or toll free in Alaska 1-888-278-7424.

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Do you know a school that has a really great arts program with Imaginative Learning, Parental Involvement, Community Connections?

The Alaska Arts Education Consortium, in partnership with the Kennedy Center for the Arts, is seeking nominations of art rich schools for the Schools of Excellence in Arts Education Award. Parents, teachers, administrators, students, and community members are encouraged to nominate a school for recognition. All Alaska K-12 schools are eligible: elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Information Brochure Brochure Schools of Excellence (42)

Guidelines and application for Nominations Application Schools of Excellence 2010 (52)

Complete application DUE March 31,2010 to AAEC, c/o Debbie Harris, 51289 Sea Quest Dr., Kenai, AK 99611 (907) 283-7663