Oakland Community After School Alliance

GET SMART WITH ART:

The Bay Area Writing Project / de Young Museum
SUMMER MINI-INSTITUTE
July 29-August 8, 2008
9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Located at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

This mini-institute brings together the resources of the de Young Museum instructors Hector Lee, Meredith Pike-Baky, Charlene Kalagian and UC Berkeley’s Bay Area Writing Project to provide (K-8) teachers with an opportunity to develop confidence in working with the museum’s art collections as a teaching and learning resource and expand your understanding of the multiple roles writing can play in students’ learning.  In collaborative sessions, designed to encourage the free exchange of ideas and questions, you will work with museum staff and BAWP teacher consultants to:

• Engage in Visual Teaching Strategies as a foundational experience to demonstrate the multiplicity of meanings generated by the museum experience
• Interact with museum curators to gain deeper understanding of the collections
• Shadow conservators for a behind-the-scenes look at how collections are cared for, restored, documented and displayed
• Further observation skills through guidance by a master artist
• Use writing as a tool for analysis, reflection and learning

You will have the opportunity to develop thematic lessons directly related to your students’ grade level and the museum’s collections.  BAWP teacher consultants and the museum’s education staff will serve as coaches to support your professional growth.

As a bonus, BAWP and the museum will offer a follow up Saturday during the school year, and the museum will arrange school visits and other additional support for you!

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The Principal Leadership Institute
presents an evening of performance and exhibitions by the
Bravo! Project

“Leadership as a Redemptive Act”
Friday, June 6th, 6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
Tolman Hall, 2nd Floor Lobby
University of California, Berkeley 

The Bravo! Project is an arts education project that employs critical pedagogy, critical race scholarship, and artistic methods to examine hard questions and find a way to heal as we together confront, confound and collaborate in a learning community.

Leading Bay Area artists (performance, beatbox/spoken word, theater, digital storytelling, and printmaking) have worked with the Principal Leadership Institute students and graduates during the Spring 2008 semester to represent the racial and school segregation history of California.

Artists Include:

Carlos Aguirre and Tommy Shepherd

Victor Cartagena

Center for Digital Storytelling

Ellen Sebastian Chang

Erika Chong Shuch

The deadline to register has been extended to May 12th for 2nd Annual Teaching Artist Institute. 

NEW! Special $25 discount for members of Theatre Bay Area and Dancers Group.
PLUS! Half-price discount for students. 
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 “Yes Child, No Child, Whose Child, Every Child”
May 15, 16 & 17 from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

A dynamic learning, networking and professional development opportunity for teaching artists and community artists interested in teaching in schools.

Topics Include:

• How can Teaching Artists use arts learning to address historical inequities in the classroom?
• How do flexible frameworks help Teaching Artists organize integrated arts learning for multicultural classrooms?
• How can Teaching Artists leverage state and national education standards for visual and performing arts in grades pre-K thru 12?

Cost:  $95 includes all workshops, materials, and a performance of “No Child. . .,”   a play by Nilaja Sun presented by Berkeley Rep Theatre.

Registration: Registration closes May 12.  Register NOW to save your spot!

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Reinvigorating Arts Education in California Public Schools: What’s the Story?
April 21-22, 2008
Embassy Suites, Sacramento, CA

This conference, presented by the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association Arts Initiative and California Alliance for Arts Education, will showcase discipline-specific and integrated arts instruction, new resources for strengthening and expanding K-12 arts education in school districts, advocacy strategies, and new ideas for professional development and curriculum development.  A plenary presentation by Oakland Unified arts teachers with Arnie Aprill will be featured!

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