Past Summer Arts Institutes
2025 Haines Place-Based Learning and the Arts Institute
The Alaska Arts Education Consortium’s 2025 Haines Institute ran from June 1-6 . The theme, Place-Based Learning and the Arts, encouraged participants to explore creative strategies to connect curriculum with the rich cultural, historical, and environmental resources of our communities.
Our dynamic lineup of Teacher Leaders included:
Laura Davies, a talented filmmaker and multimedia artist
Misty Holler, a visual artist with expertise in Special Education
All led by the incomparable Lorrie Heagy, an expert on arts integration, the brain, and music
Through hands-on workshops, inspiring lessons, and collaborative projects, participants gained powerful tools to deepen student engagement and enhance their teaching practices. This Institute offered fresh ideas and strategies for arts educators to take back to their classrooms.
Credits: Participants had the option to earn three 500 level credits.
Venue:Â The Institute was held at the Haines K-12 School, 604 Haines Highway, Haines, Alaska
This Institute offers an opportunity to refresh your teaching practices, learning creative ways to integrate puppetry, music, movement and cultural arts into your classroom curriculum. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and (more…) Join us for an invigorating week of arts and culture education. Participants will learn to integrate science and the arts into their classrooms, as a venue through which to promote literacy and language development. Daily sessions with three expert teacher- leaders will include theory, movement, visual arts, and cultural arts. Each day will start with (more…) 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…) Please complete this simple registration form to help us make the Administrator Arts Workshop just what you need. The first 15 registrants from off Kodiak Island will have their lodging covered by the KIBSD Munartet Program. (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…)
June 10, 2024 - June 14, 2024
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
June 3, 2024 - June 7, 2024
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
July 31, 2023 - August 4, 2023
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
June 12, 2023 - June 16, 2023
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
June 5, 2023 - June 9, 2023
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
March 30, 2023 - March 31, 2023
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
August 1, 2022 - August 5, 2022
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
July 25, 2022 - July 29, 2022
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
June 6, 2022 - June 10, 2022
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
May 24, 2022 - June 4, 2022
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
