Through a combination of spoken word, participatory theatre, singing, sculpting and quilting, Nives Wetzel De Cediel, Emery Arts Coordinator, explores with you new possibilities and techniques for integration to deepen understanding of core concepts across disciplines and create positive classroom culture.
CREATING EQUITY: Personal Explorations in Arts Integration for Social Justice NEW THIS YEAR!
Explore our personal and collective understandings of educational equity and transformation utilizing the power of art making through theater and the visual arts. Facilitated by Jayeesha Dutta, Arzu Mistry and Evan Hastings. We will be transparently utilizing “a palette of possibilities” (a.k.a. set of effective and dynamic teaching and learning frameworks). An open mind and heart is the only prerequisite, although an interest in learning about arts-based tools and frameworks is desirable.
DANCE
Dance offers an active, joy-filled exploration of the body moving through space, force and time. You will experience a variety of creative, standards-based dance activities promised to enliven you and your curriculum. No previous dance experience is necessary. The workshop is co-taught by Nancy Ng, professional development lead for Luna Kids Dance, and Sean McMahon, choreographer and dance educator. Luna Kids Dance is a dance education organization with a national reputation in professional development for teachers in creative dance.
MUSIC: Let Us Hear Your Voice
Joyful song, rhythmic chant, vocal care, and children’s singing games, as well as basic percussion accompaniment. This workshop employs the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music teaching, which imaginatively integrates music, language, and movement. You will learn basic and powerful rhythmic and vocal skills for your own musical self, and focus as well on how to artistically integrate music into your classroom life. Geared for K-5 teachers. Presented by Sarah Willner, certified Orff instructor and music teacher at ASCEND school in Oakland, and legendary Bay Area vocal performer and teacher, Bryan Dyer.
THEATER & POETRY: You Are An Artist
Discover your own expressive artist while learning drama and poetry strategies for the classroom. You don’t have to be an experienced actor or poet in order to have fun creating our group’s performance piece, and you will come away excited about being an artist who teaches, and a teacher who is an artist. This workshop is taught by Susannah Wood of Opera Piccola.
THEATRE’S LIVELY SKILLS
From games to improvisation, pantomime to basic staging - engage and enhance learning across the curriculum. This workshop is led by Eric Engdahl, Ph.D., from CSU East Bay, and Michelle Roderick, MA in Theatre Education. You will learn standards-based theatre skills that meet the different ways students learn and methods to heighten instruction in language arts and social studies.
VISUAL ART - CULTURAL ARTS: ArtEsteem
A multi-disciplinary curriculum takes individuals through a journey of self-exploration, family and cultural research, societal assessment and the aesthetic tools of artistic creation. ArtEsteem will provide the “Self as Super Hero” curriculum which produces a recreated version of self that embodies super being powers that create a more respectful and fair world. The curriculum incorporates art, culture, literacy, and the Principles of Attitudinal Healing. This is combined with drumming in a cultural and language rich environment that incorporates phonics, the twin concepts of rhythm and sound, and cultural codes of conduct.
**CLOSED!** VISUAL ARTS: The Alphabet of Art
A hands-on workshop that presents line, shape, texture, color, space, the basics you need to teach visual arts in the classroom. You will create work in a variety of media and cultural perspectives. This workshop is taught by MOCHA Director of Education, Arlene Shmaeff and Lisa Ostapinski, MOCHA Coordinator of Professional Development.
