Jack, Beth, Heather and Bill all attended the Arts in Education grant conference in Bethesda, MD. We would like to thank the teachers, students and administrators at Bates Middle School and Germantown Elementary School for the educational tours they provided.
We also have taken the lead on helping create a Community of Practice forum for sharing assessment tools between the various grants. Thank you to all the teachers who attended our presentation out at Hoopa High School. The weather was beautiful and the participants enthusiastic. The worksheets, images and entire powerpoint presentation is available to you here. Thanks again for a great day. We will be out to visit with you soon.
Heather and Bill were interviewed by Wendy Butler on Humboldt State University's radio station KHSU. The interview is archived and available as the .mp3 file here.
INSPIRE YOUR HEART WITH ART DAY
Always celebrated on January 31st, Inspire Your Heart With Art Day is a day to ponder how art effects your heart. Art is valued and appreciated for all sorts of reasons. This Day’s title does suggest that you inspire “your” heart, however, you may also use it to inspire another person’s heart. You may choose to admire a beautiful masterpiece, go to a special concert, dance, paint, take photographs, create a sculpture, visit a museum or any of the thousands of forms of art. Our area was home to the Humboldt County Region 1 Regional Arts Forum today and it was a great success. Jane Hill provided a thoughtful reflection on her career in education as well as her work with the Eureka Symphony and Dell'Arte International. Bob Bullwinkel gave a whirlwind tour of arts integration techniques and a demonstration unit on ancient Greece.
Lunch was provided by the Arcata High Culinary Class and entertainment by the Fortuna High School Camarada Singers. Six breakout sessions were offered and the one that Heather and Bill presented was attended by a large percentage of the participants. We presented four visual thinking strategies and out presentation can be found here. A second breakout session offered more opportunities for participants to learn about music, dance, art, technology and advocacy. Heather returned from a week of training with the staff at FCOE and had a good impression of their "Arts Every Day" program. We are looking into using their services for three days of the summer institute. Their experience training hundreds of teachers in arts integration could give us a great start in the training of our teachers.
You are receiving this email either as a principal of a school benefiting from the North Coast Arts Integration Project or because you are a potential site leader for one of these schools. Since this is the first update email, please let us know if we have your email in error.
There are 2 important updates in this email. 1) The January 26 Arts Forum is a great chance to see what arts integration is about and an opportunity to get the first hours of the 40 training hours required of our site leaders. The speakers who will be at this event are terrific and Stacy Young says she still has the ability to pay for substitutes through her office. Only 18 slots left for this forum, so register soon! Here is the registration link. http://elearning.humboldt.k12.ca.us/?event=arts-education-regional-forum-2 2) We are tentatively scheduling the summer institute for August 10-14. This allows teachers the chance to enjoy their summer break right after school gets out and also have some time to prepare in their classrooms after the institute before school starts. We hope this is a good choice of dates for everyone. Site leaders are expected to attend all five days and the institute will probably be held at HSU. Save the dates! Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your participation in this important project This week has been filled with networking opportunities.
Heather and Bill had several phone meetings with various arts leaders across the state including Dennis Doyle, Jack Mitchell, and Bob Bullwinkel. They also met with the principals at Hoopa Valley and Trinity Valley elementary schools as well as Winship Middle School. Planning for attendance at several conventions is being discussed. Professional development for the spring is being brainstormed. Humboldt State University will be the location for today's leadership meeting. Agenda topics include sharing information gathered from Bill's trip to the Bay Area and assessment questions to be posed to the HSU scholars.
Bill drove to San Francisco to meet with Dennis Doyle of CoTA and then to Oakland to meet with Art Is Education faculty including Julia Marshall, Louise Music, Chip McNeal and Mariah Landers. Information gathered will be shared at the 12/15/14 leadership meeting.
Prepared and practiced presentation for site principals. Will be visiting Jan Schmidt at Zane Middle School today at 2pm.
Had a conference call today with Richard Cress and other members of the evaluation team in Washington, DC. Conversation centered on K-2 assessment data and the appropriate tools we can use to compare with non-treatment schools.
Sent introduction to Jackie White (Twin Rivers Unified) regarding potential visit and request for teacher professional development resources.
Sent introduction to Dennis Doyle (Collaborations: Teachers and Artists) regarding possible Integrated Learning training. Phone call with Mariah Landers at Art is Education to discuss possible Integrated Learning Specialist Training by their experts in Alameda, CA. Discussed various models and costs. Considering providing our teaching with Course A which is a 30 hour training during the first year of the grant. Possible expansion into Courses B, C and D over future years. Their two trainers can comfortably train up to about 30 teachers at a time.
Over 1500 Humboldt county students attended the Schools to Dance event at the Arkley Center today. Dancers from the Nutcracker ballet visited classrooms earlier and today was the culminating performance and lesson for the students. Bill attended along with Jack Mitchell, Mary Rice and Kristin Sobilo (instructional coach from ECS)
Stacy Young, regional arts curriculum specialist at HCOE sent us this list of links:
One of my fave resources from Kennedy Center: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx V Art lesson plans: http://artspiration.sccoe.org/ Standards: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ CCSS & Arts http://www.incredibleart.org/links/toolbox/commoncore.html http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-resources-lesson-plans#graph2 http://www.crayola.com/for-educators/ccac-landing/free-professional-resources/ccac-resources.aspx Fresno: http://teacharts.org/ Alameda: http://www.artiseducation.org/ San Diego: http://www.artsempowersd.org/ CCSESA: http://www.ccsesaarts.org/content/home.asp CCSESA Arts lessons: http://www.ccsesaarts.org/content/assessmentcompendium.asp Bill Funkhouser, Stacy Young, Anne Bown Crawford, Jack Mitchell and Mary Rice visited Hoopa Valley Elementary School for classroom visitations, Native American dance performance and Arts Integration workshop by Sandy Seufert.
Bill Funkhouser, Heather Gaiera, Anne Bown Crawford (Arcata Arts Institute director) and Stacy Young (Humboldt County Office of Education arts specialist) met with Jack Mitchell (CDE Consultant for Art, Media and Entertainment) and Mary Rice (CDE Elementary Arts and K-12 World Languages)
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