Sessions
Session Resources Linked Below
Session Resources Linked Below
Arts Integration – Curriculum, Assessment, Empathy, and SEL ~ With Merryl Goldberg Audience: Administrators
This session for administrators will offer the opportunity to harness the power of arts integration for your school community while also providing space to share best and emerging practices.
Session Resources: VTS Presentation, VTS Lesson Plan Handout, VTS Postcard Handout, VTS Writing Form Handout
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) transforms the way students think and learn by providing training and curriculum for teachers to facilitate
discussions of visual art that significantly increase student engagement, performance, and enjoyment of learning. "What's Going On in This Picture?" With
a detailed piece of art and this simple prompt, students are invited to make meaning, practice providing evidence, and practice speaking and listening
skills.
Objective: Participants will receive a basic introduction to VTS, we'll look at philosophies and desired outcomes, then we'll practice, practice, practice!
Teachers will be given scripts and images with which to practice.
Session Resources: AIS Approach to Arts Integration, Session Ideas, Social Emotional Learning ~ It's All Connected Handout
Arts Integration amplifies learning in the classroom by being inclusive of our natural human desire to create, communicate and connect. This is an
overview of approaching Arts Integration in almost all core subject content areas, including opportunities for building self awareness, social
awareness and relationship skills. Specific examples of process with core content and arts standards will be presented, discussed and expanded
with breakout creative sessions for specific content groups.
Objective: Teachers will come away with practical ideas and methods for integrating the arts, thereby creating a more colorful, inclusive, and
engaging experience for all learners - and teachers alike.
~ Workshop presenter: Samantha Jones Audience: K-12 teachers, specifically in subjects where students write, observe, or analyze.
Session Resources: Presentation
Drawing increases content retention and improves vocabulary in student writing- both fiction and non-fiction. It can also support student self-awareness, social awareness and build relationship skills. In this workshop we will briefly discuss the research related to drawing, then we will make 2 drawings: a comic style person using simple shapes and a drawing using a step by step book. I will also provide resources: links to the research studies about drawing, materials I recommend, and suggested drawing books and videos to share with students.
Objective: Increase workshop participants' comfort and confidence in drawing with students through practice and resources. Outcomes: Participants will draw a person using simple shapes and draw from step by step drawing books.
Session Resources: Instant Improv Lesson Plan
Workshop participants will PLAY & DO a series of theatre arts warm-ups, Improv exercises, and games they can bring back to their classrooms to improve communication, to develop confidence in relationship skills & build teamwork. This workshop is very interactive, focusing on keen Social Emotional elements like self-awareness vs. social awareness and responsible decision making. Theatre arts and Improv help foster SAFE SPACE and a place for creativity in ANY subject.
Objective: The workshop objectives are to provide teachers INSTANT theatre arts and real life IMPROV as a means to build confidence, spark creativity, deepen learning, and increase capacity for skilled communication through warm ups, activities, and games. Teachers will leave with a list of games and how to use them in class.
Session Resources: Blackout Poetry Presentation, Blackout Poetry Lesson Plan
In this workshop, participants will learn about "Blackout Poetry", where a poem is "found" in an existing text. After viewing a short presentation of both artist
and student examples, participants will create their own blackout poetry, decorated with collage, enhanced with color art media, or simply graphic. Blackout poetry can be used in language arts integration at any grade level.
Objective: Participants will learn what blackout poetry is, and experience the process of creating a blackout poem. Participants will leave with their own
poem.
Session Resources: Fun With Fossils Lesson Plan
Using a photograph students will design a 3-D model of the original organism that later on turned into a fossil. They will use their observation to
determine what type of environment the organism lived in based on their observation.
Objective: Utilize the Visual Arts to understand the importance of Fossils when reconstructing organisms and environments based on factual observations and scientific inferences. At the end of this workshop, we will have recreated a 3-D sculpture of an organism based on observations provided from images of recovered fossils.
Lunch Provided from 11:25 to 12:20
Student Performances & Theater in the Classroom Demo (by Becky Browning)
Session Resources: Integrating Music in the Classroom Presentation
Whether or not you are a musician, you can integrate music into your curriculum. Come find out the ways, and have hands-on fun while learning how.
Session Resources: Pine Nut Necklace Lesson
Learn how to use art as a catalyst for understanding authentic representation of tribal history & current day issues of the local Nevada City Rancheria
Nisenan Tribe. Explore our region's native history through this workshop's topics and art lessons. Activities include pine nut bead making and the art of
actively engaging in a lively relationship building conversation.
Objective: Participants will leave with an understanding of best practices when educating students about the Tribe and learn about Tribal activities to
engage students in a deeper understanding. An additional outcome is igniting a community relationship between educators and the Nevada City Rancheria
Nisenan Tribe.
Session Resources: Session Presentation, Folder to All Session Resources
This activity integrates art into core subject matters while also incorporating Universal Design for Learning (multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression) and Social Emotional Learning (self-awareness, self-management, and responsible decision-making). Students become expert
learners and are given the opportunity to express their understanding through art using a "One Pager," a versatile product that can be implemented at any
grade level, for any subject area, and with any unit as either a formative or summative assessment. Based on clearly identified goals, students synthesize and share their learnings.
Objective: Participants will understand how one-pagers connect art, core subject areas, UDL, and SEL. During the workshop, teachers will design a one-
pager activity and related single-point rubric for use in the classroom.
Session Resources: Presentation on Cross Curricular Arts-based Units, Planning Handout
Participants will create their own arts-integrated, cross-curricular unit for students of their preferred age group/grade. Teachers will find a theme within literature, math, science, and/or social studies and create artistic ways for students to engage with material, including art, music, dance, and theater. The goals are to increase student engagement, provide a variety of means for students to express their knowledge, and increase the strength of synapses through multisensory experiences. This is an ideal session for main classroom teachers grades TK-8th.
Objective: The objective of the workshop is to break down the creation of an arts-integrated cross-curricular unit into manageable pieces, and then piece them together to create a comprehensive unit plan. The final product will be a finished or working unit plan that can then be utilized. Participants will be provided an example of this and guided through a step-by-step process in creating their own. Various guides, resources, and worksheets will be provided to aide in this process.
Have you ever had a unit or concept that you wanted your students to illustrate, but couldn't find the right method? Learn how visual images using Canva enhance the ways students demonstrate their knowledge & understanding about abstract concepts. Participants should come with a unit or concept to work with, along with a computer, and be ready to create! This workshop will be geared toward English Language Arts AND can be used in any subject. This workshop will empower you to use this method with Canva or any another means of visual expression. You will need a computer for this workshop.
Objective: Participants will walk away with an understanding of how visual images can be a means by which students show their understanding using Canva. .
Session Resources: Mini Books Handout
Artist Books are a form of visual art that have evolved over the years. The participants will engage in a "hands-on" creative activity and learn by making a
mini publishable book which can be used in several core curriculum areas. This simple activity of creating one's own mini book from a single sheet of paper
can be used in many content areas as a way to share ideas, express understanding, or tell a story, and it is just plain fun.
Objective: Each participant will create a unique mini book related to their core area to take home.