Past Institutes

Join us for a week of vibrant, inciteful and collegial learning. During this 5-day event, participants will learn to use science and the arts as a venue through which to promote literacy and language development. Participants will attend sessions with three highly qualified teacher-leaders that are experts in their fields, including movement, visual/media arts, and cultural (more…)

This Arts, Culture, and Technology Institute is designed to support teachers in maintaining culturally responsive instruction through arts and innovative technology. The focus of this Institute will be Alaska Culture and their arts, blended with technology, designed to enhance the technological skills for a range of teachers from elementary through high school, and from tech (more…)

Literacy is the ability to communicate effectively and make sense of the world. We will use the arts to bolster learning in reading and writing, but also expand the definition of literacy to include different ways people make meaning. At the Institute we will explore using media, movement, and sound through visual, cultural and technological (more…)

Registration is closed due to high numbers.  If you are a teacher from Nome, please contact Barbara Short (barbshort@gmail.com) or Lisa Leeper (lleeper@nomeschools.org for permission to register.   This 5-day Culturally Responsive Arts Institute builds on the role teachers can play in classrooms to help develop culturally inclusive attitudes and values necessary for a democratic (more…)

  This event is closed and thus full.  (If you have an ASD scholarship and not yet registered please contact Barbara Short at barbshort@gmail.com.) The AAEC Inaugural Institute is designed by Alaska Native Educators for Alaska Native Educators. This event will strive to take a deeper dive into the cultural practices, values, language, and arts (more…)

The Alaska Arts Education Consortium may have to cancel this institute but will hold off until May 6th to decide…   Arts education is SEL education. Through the arts we recognize our: feelings & thoughts strengths and limitations uniquesness and that of others resiliency when learning The arts can have a profound impact on the (more…)

This Arts, Culture, and Technology Institute is a new endeavor from AAEC. When Sitka expressed an interest in partnering on this event it was a perfect match. SSD has an ACT Curriculum -designed to support teachers in maintaining culturally responsive instruction through arts and innovative technology. The focus of this Institute will be SE Alaska (more…)