Professional Development Series

Arts Education: The Key to Unlocking Creativity in Your Students
Professional development designed to enhance your ability to teach in and through the arts. Choose from a variety of programs to suit your needs. SB-CEUs oered to meet professional credentialing requirements.

This season the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Professional Development Series will focus on Advancing Literacy Through the Arts. For more information read about the different sessions below, contact Wendy Robinson by phone at 517-244-1281 or email at wrobinso@inghamisd.org or by downloading the 2010-2011 Professional Development Series Brochure.

2010-2011 Workshops

ARTS INTEGRATION 101 AND BEYOND

Audience: Returning teams from 2009/10 & new teams also welcome

Russell Granet, president of Arts Education Resource in NYC (www.cae-nyc.org), facilitates a workshop for teams of teachers (classroom and arts specialist) who seek the benefits of a community of learners integrating an art form (your choice) and grade level, curriculum standards. This PD series builds on the work of 30 teams of teachers who have thoughtfully fused an art form with a subject area for the purpose of engaging students, solving curriculum and instructional dilemmas, taking learning deeper by introducing students to the creative process.

Dates: October 26, 2010 & April 27, 2011 (with implementation work in between)
Times: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Cost: $125 per team (team = one arts specialist and one classroom teacher)
Credit: 1.0 SB-CEU, pending MDE approval
Contact: Wendy Robinson, 517-244-1281, wrobinso@inghamisd.org

All registrations are through Ingham ISD, Clicking the Register Now button will take you to the Ingham ISD registration system.

Literacy and Movement

Audience: General and special education classroom teachers of grades K-12 (special invitation to music, theatre and dance teachers)

All registrations are through Ingham ISD, clicking the Register Now button will take you to the Ingham ISD registration system.

Gotta read, gotta move – and some students need one to activate the other. Happendance, our regional dance company directed by Diane Newman, will provide a workshop crammed with ideas and techniques to support literacy instruction through movement. Through the coupling of movement with grammar, literature and vocabulary, students can expand their knowledge of language and bring more excitement to language study. Beth Post, Williamston Community Schools, contributes to this workshop as co-author of Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance: 101 Moventures. Research tells us that our kinesthetic learners must move to learn. This workshop engages teachers through active demonstration of many techniques to apply in the literacy block or at higher grades as students engage in conceptual understanding of complex text and build necessary background knowledge through acquisition of vocabulary.

Dates: November 17, 2010
Times: 4:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Cost: $75 (includes text Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance: 101 Moventures with DVD of music)
Credit: 0.3 SB-CEU, pending MDE approval
Contact: Wendy Robinson, 517-244-1281, wrobinso@inghamisd.org

All registrations are through Ingham ISD. clicking the Register Now button will take you to the Ingham ISD registration system.

INFUSING CREATIVITY AND ARTS IN A 21^ST CENTURY EDUCATION: ADVOCACY BREAKFAST

Audience: School district leadership (central office, principals, boards of education, parents, teacher leaders) and community leaders

A Kennedy Center partnership between the MSU Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts & Creativity at Wharton Center and Ingham ISD is providing arts-related and arts-integrated professional development for faculty in this region. Administrators and classroom teachers are discovering that the higher order thinking skills and dispositions demanded of 21st century learners live in the arts. This event will identify the benefits and applications of arts curriculum, highlight outstanding practices and examples from local schools and in the region. Our guest artist for the morning is Glenis Redmond, performer, award winner, and author of Backbone and Under the Sun. Ms. Redmond will perform some of her poetry, discuss her work as both an artist and teaching artist and reflect on her personal journey as an artist.

Dates: December 1, 2010
Times: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Location: Wharton Center for Performing Arts - Jackson Lounge
Cost: Complimentary
Contact: Wendy Robinson, 517-244-1281, wrobinso@inghamisd.org

All registrations are through Ingham ISD, clicking the Register Now button will take you to the Ingham ISD registration system.

PERFORMANCE POETRY

Audience: All subject areas, general education and special education of grades 5-12

A note to arts specialists; Poetry is a superb writing genre to integrate with a second art form
(visual art, music, dance, theatre).

Glenis Redmond (glenisredmond.com) award-winning poet, author of Backbone and Under the Sun and a Kennedy Center teaching artist, will conduct a writing workshop for teachers sharing techniques to make the genre of poetry accessible to students. Ms. Redmond will infuse the workshop with examples and exercises teachers can use in the classroom to take the written word from page to stage. Participants will learn writing and performance techniques and will apply these techniques to their original work, generated during the workshop. Redmond explores the use of metaphor, simile, the texture of language and utilizes the Praise Poem Form. Poetry is meant to be spoken and performed; it is the genre that demands higher level thinking through an economical selection of words. Join us for a high energy and thought provoking workshop.

Dates: December 1, 2010
Times: 4:00 - 7:30 a.m.
Location: Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Cost: $40
Credit: 0.3 SB-CEUs, pending MDE approval
Contact: Wendy Robinson, 517-244-1281, wrobinso@inghamisd.org

All registrations are through Ingham ISD, clicking the Register Now button will take you to the Ingham ISD registration system.

PLAYWRIGHT AND PRODUCER:
THE INSIDE STORY ON THEORY OF MIND

Audience: Teachers of grades 7-12. Of particular interest to faculty who work with students on the ASD spectrum

A note to arts specialists; Poetry is a superb writing genre to integrate with a second art form
(visual art, music, dance, theatre).

Ken LaZebnikâ€™s play, Theory of Mind, tells the story of two teenagers. Bill has Aspergerâ€™s Syndrome and while socially awkward he wants nothing more than to have a relationship and fit in with his peers. His encounter with a young woman named Hilo forces both of them to explore the tugs and twists on the autism spectrum as well as the challenges awaiting their uncertain futures. The play will be performed as part of Wharton Centerâ€™s Act One School Series and will tour Michigan March 21-26, 2011. Playwright Ken LaZebnik and MSU Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts & Creativity director, Bert Goldstein, will lead a workshop on the play. Through a series of exercises and interactions, teachers will gain insights into the craft of playwrighting and the tools to help prepare their students to see the play. For ticket information to see Theory of Mind, see our School Series page.

Dates: February 8, 2011
Times: 4:00 - 7:30 a.m.
Location: Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Cost: $40
Credit: 0.3 SB-CEUs, pending MDE approval
Contact: Wendy Robinson, 517-244-1281, wrobinso@inghamisd.org