FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Susan Duffy
Liberal Studies
(805) 756-2327
Cal Poly Central Coast Center for Arts Education
To Present
Summer Institutes for Teachers
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s Central Coast Center for Arts
Education
will host two summer professional development institutes for K-12
teachers interested in learning new ways to integrate the arts into
their classrooms.
Organized by the university’s Liberal Studies Department, the workshops
will be led by experienced professionals and some of the nation’s
top
educators.
The first institute, Arts and Literacy, will be June 28-July 1. It will
provide instruction and materials to help K-6 teachers integrate the
arts in the Open Court and Houghton Mifflin scripted reading programs
used by local schools, according to Liberal Arts Professor Susan Duffy.
“Teachers will participate in day-long standards-based workshops
in
dance, music, visual arts and theater. Assistance with specific
integration in scripted K-6 reading programs will be provided, along
with lesson extensions and evaluation rubrics.”
Workshops in the first institute will be led by Marilyn Berrett,
nationally recognized dance educator from Brigham Young University;
Steve Venz, K-12 music advisor for the Los Angeles Unified School
District; and award-winning educators Art Sherwyn and Judi Garratt.
Berrett is the author of “Dance and Its Extension into Children's
Literature,” which appeared in the proceedings of the Dance and
the
Child International Conference. She is the driving force behind the
creative dance lesson-plan program “Dance is B.E.S.T.,” used
throughout
elementary schools in Utah.
Venz served as the music facilitator for the California Arts Project
workshop “Pathways to Literacy” and has performed and recorded
with such
artists as B.B. King, Russell Malone, Adam Makowicz, Terence Blanchard,
Boyz-II-Men, Paul Overstreet and the Gatlin Brothers, as well as the
U.S. Air Force Band. He has also composed musical scores, arranged and
produced music for such movies and television shows as “JAG,”
“Girlfriends” “Wasteland,” Star Trek: Voyager”
and “Paycheck.”
Sherwyn has received the prestigious American Disney Teacher Award, the
California High School Art Educator of the Year award in 1997-98, and
the National Art Education of the Year Award for the Pacific Region in
1999-2000.
Garratt is known throughout Southern California as a theater director,
producer, educator, professional mime and workshop leader. She is a
recipient of the Professional Artists in Schools Lifetime Achievement
Award, and has worked with Performing Tree of Los Angeles for
21 years. She has appeared in television commercials, Disney television
specials, and in film.
Registration for the workshop is $75 and includes lunch each day.
Support for the institute has been provided by the California Post
Secondary Commission.
The second institute is titled “Feast Your Eyes” and is part
of the
Agricultural Literacy and the Arts program. The two-day program on Aug.
14 and 15 is designed for teachers in grades 4-12 and will examine rare
fruit crops in California with an emphasis on their production,
marketing and use in restaurants.
“The hands-on workshop is designed from an interdisciplinary perspective
and will open new paths for teaching agriculture and getting students
to
view agriculture in new ways,” Duffy said. “The activities
are aimed at
the ‘art novice’ working in real classroom situations.”
Background materials and complete standards-based lesson plans for both
art and agriculture will be provided so that teachers can apply what
they learned beginning in the fall.
Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Joseph Sabol will be a featured speaker and
will discuss several rare fruits grown on the Central Coast.
“Participants will learn to discuss symbolism in still-life paintings
featuring rare and exotic foods and will learn simple techniques to
achieve realistic results in drawing their own still-life pictures,”
Duffy said.
On the second day, teachers will paint bisque-fired plates, then travel
by bus to the Culinary Arts Academy in Paso Robles, where they will
learn design elements and theories used by chefs and culinary institutes
to craft new approaches to food preparation and presentation.
A buffet lunch will be prepared by Culinary Arts Academy staff members.
Participants will have an opportunity to test their own skills in
applying design principles to food preparation.
Registration for the August workshop is $50 and includes lunch both days
and all materials. The institute is supported by the Kellogg Foundation
and the California Food and Fiber Futures Project.
Both the July and August arts education institutes will be held from
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Cal Poly’s Chumash Auditorium in the
University Union.
For more information and a registration form, call (805) 756-2935.
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