Create Your Own Concert! with Armando Castellano of Quinteto Latino

With the goal of learning the elements of a classical music concert - composer, performer, and audience - as a model for the classroom, teachers will master a series of fun, engaging, group-based activities that teach students to compose a piece of music by making sounds with their body, performing for their classmates, and being actively engaged audience members. Suggested for teachers of grades K-5, great for music or generalist teachers!

Sowing Creativity: Visualizing Math with Art! with Alysia Caryl, Greg Brown, & Kathryn Peck

Explore one of the 25 S.T.E.A.M. lessons developed by the San Jose Museum of Art for their signature program, Sowing Creativity intended to "Sow" creativity across disciplines. Learn how SJMA artists have helped hundreds of students to think more creatively, observe more deeply, and gain creative confidence across subjects.

Concepts Come Alive! with Karen Altree-Piemme of Red Ladder Theatre Co.

This workshop lets educators explore how to make classroom content Concepts Come Alive through the art form of improvisational theatre. Participants will engage in (and ultimately create) a variety of lessons that integrate interactive theatre activities with other core curriculum.

Designing Empathy for All with Tech Staff

How do you teach visual arts and empathy in the classroom? How can arts and empathy play a role in collaboration among students? In this workshop, educators will experience Design For All, a Tech for Global Good Innovation Lab, to explore how to create and reinforce empathy in their learning environment.

Participants will discuss a design-based approach and techniques to modify their classrooms into ones that foster and reinforce the importance of empathy. We will design and draw a playground to express various personas.

Learning by Heart with Saki Tamao and Tandy Beal of Tandy Beal Dance Co.

Connecting the mind, body and heart is central to our work, especially working in schools (with English often as a 2nd language). This connection is a valuable tool, not only for unique ways to illuminate curriculum, but to bring back wonder, excitement and success in learning and reveal central life issues such as how to live in one's body, to work and to communicate with others.

The Recipe of Me: Exploring Culture Through Creativity with CDM Staff

Participants will explore cultural identity through creative play and identifying various components of culture. A dialogue about culture will begin by using colored and scented play-dough with a variety of cultural culinary tools (e.g. tortilla press, moon-cake press, etc.). Additional activities will incorporate sharing each individual’s cultural identity and personal experiences while creating an identity “recipe” book.

The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates new ideas, stimulates creativity, and inspires connection with every visit. Welcoming and thought provoking, the Museum delights visitors with it’s surprising and playful perspective on the art and artists of our time.

SJMA serves 100,000 people a year, including some 40,000 school children: SJMA is the largest provider of arts education in Santa Clara County. Initiatives such as the award-winning school program Let’s Look at Art Program and SJMA’s participatory activity stations in the galleries further distinguish the Museum as an innovator in museum education.

The Tech Museum of Innovation is a family-friendly interactive science and technology center located in the heart of downtown San Jose, California. It has become a landmark for visitors seeking a glimpse of the most inventive place on Earth — Silicon Valley.

Thanks to the vision of this institution’s leadership and unwavering support from staff members, volunteers, donors and patrons, The Tech has grown to be far more than just a museum. It is a valued community resource for education and innovation, one that in 2015 was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the highest honor a United States museum can achieve.

Since opening in June 1990, Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose has welcomed over 8.3 million visitors. Our striking 52,000 sq.ft. purple building, designed by Mexico City-based architect Ricardo Legorreta, signals the Museum’s purpose: to serve the needs of children, families and schools as a center for learning and discovery. Recent expansion outdoors adds another half-acre filled with activities designed to be a bridge to nature for our community’s children and families.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) is a community-based arts organization and has been identified by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley as Santa Clara County’s “most practiced and mature site of cultural-citizenship-building through participatory arts.” More than 30,000 children, youth, young adults, families and community residents participate in the 50 programs MACLA produces each year in four core program tracts: visual arts; performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through the arts.

MACLA is committed to emerging Latino artists and audiences and has an exemplary record of collaboration with other organizations and community partners. Many of these collaborations go beyond arts programming to promote the well-being of the Latino community as a vital force in society.