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Arts are Exceptional:  Special Education and the Arts (4 days)

Anchorage, Anchorage School District  •  May 28 – June 1

2 Ed 590 Credits available

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This four-day AAEC Special Topics Arts Institute is an opportunity for educators, teaching artists, and para-professionals from all regions of Alaska to learn how to increase participation in the arts for students with disabilities through readings and discussions, hands-on arts activities and multi-media presentations.

During the AAEC ‘Arts are Exceptional’ Institute, participants will attend sessions with three highly-qualified teacher-leaders that are experts in their fields, including visual arts, music, movement and special education.  In order to understand current theory and strategies, attendees will explore ways to teach arts with accommodations for students with cognitive and physical disabilities and learn techniques for strengthening learning for all students through arts integration.  This Institute is intended for arts specialists, K-8 classroom teachers, and special education staff.  Participants will begin work on a lesson plan or a personal plan of action (PPA) that will be submitted as a final project on June 8th.

“Art can level the playing field for students with disabilities.”  (Participant, Fairbanks Arts are Exceptional Institute, 2016, photo above)

Teacher-leaders for this Institute are:

  • Debbie Piper, Visual Arts and Literacy   Debbie has over thirty years of elementary classroom and visual arts teaching experience. Integrating art into all content areas with a focus on literacy is her passion. She has been the Visual Arts Leader for numerous Basic and Advanced Art Institutes and has taught classes in art integration for UAA, UAF and the Kenai Peninsula College. As teaching artist, she conducts Artist in the School Residencies through the Alaska State Council through the Arts Artist in Schools Program. In 2010 Debbie was presented the “Art Educator of the Year Award” by Homer Council on the Arts and in 2011 received a “BP Teacher of Excellence Award.” Debbie holds a Master’s degree in Education and an Art Endorsement on her Alaska Teaching Certificate.
  • Lorrie Heagy, PhD Educational Innovation, Music and Movement, Brain research    Lorrie is a music teacher and a librarian in the Juneau School District where she teaches general music, band, vioiin recorders and library skills for all students in a Title I elementary school.   She has been trained in multiple music theories including Suzuki, Orff, Waldorf, New World Drumming and more. Lorrie launched an El Sistema inspired program called JAMM (Juneau, Alaska Music Matters) to support early and consist music instruction for all studetns. Lorrie has received many awards for her inspirational work in the arts, and was named Alaska Teacher of the Year in 2011. Lorrie will be awarded her PhD in Education in May 2018. She has worked for AAEC since it’s first institute in 2004, often taking the lead on the theoretical plenaries as well as integrating music with movement and language.
  • Kelley DeCleene, PhD Special Education and the Arts, Visual Arts   Kelley is an experienced master teacher in Art Education and Special Education with a history of dynamic professional development presentations regionally and nationally. Passionate about the power of the arts in engaging diverse learners and providing alternate pathways to knowing, learning and doing. Excited to collaborate in cross-departmental research and programming on the challenges of curriculum development, instructional delivery, and assessment practices for academically, culturally, and physically diverse learners. Advocate for the use of innovative programming in bridging cultural and learning differences. Passionate about creating authentic systems of measurement that work across diverse populations. Excited about serving both the field of education and the community by mentoring other teachers through the challenges and rewards of educating the next generation of young people in innovative ways.

This institute is presented by the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and is being held in conjunction with the Anchorage School District Summer Academy.  A grant from the Kennedy Center VSA Program will help support this event.

Anchorage teachers should register with a $50 deposit option. Actual Institute cost will be determined by the amount of district support we receive.

If you have questions about the Institute, please leave a message in the comments section below or email barbshort@gmail.com

  • Anchorage Arts are Exceptional Institute
     May 29, 2018 - June 1, 2018
     8:00 am - 4:00 pm

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2909 W 88th Ave, Anchorage, Alaska, 99502, United States

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