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South Florida (West Palm Beach) Program KRAVIS CENTER for the PERFORMING ARTS

Cohen Education Pavilion

Saturday, March 16, 2013

8:30 – 8:55 am: Registration and Coffee - 2nd Floor: Cohen Pavilion

Welcome Music: Calypso Cats from Panther Run Elementary School Director: Anna Karabensh, The School District of Palm Beach County

Cohen Pavilion Entrance

Flute Quartet, West Boca Raton Community High School Director: Lawrence Shane, The School District of Palm Beach County

Cohen Education Pavilion – 2nd Floor 9:00 – 9:45 am: OPENING GENERAL SESSION:

Welcome from FAAE: Dr. Tom Pearson, President, FAAE Board of Directors; Arts Administrator, The School District of Palm Beach County

ARTS MOMENT: Flute Quartet, West Boca Raton Community High School Director: Lawrence Shane, The School District of Palm Beach County

Welcome from the Kravis Center: Dr. Barbara Golden, Chair, Kravis Center Education Advisory Committee; Member, Kravis Center Board of Directors.

What IS Arts Integration: Dr. Mary Palmer, FAAE Arts Integration Program Director

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

David Spangler, Ph.D. Program Administrator and Artistic Director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Master’s Program, Nova Southeastern University Director of Education, Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale

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smARTISTIC Tendencies Triage in the Classroom

Triage is defined as “a process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for, or likely benefit from immediate attention or treatment” – the second definition is “a system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.” This is what our classrooms have become - the injured people are our students and teachers, the commodity is art. How could an educational system built by so many talented educated people become so ineffective and disengaging? Let’s take an honest look at the failure of “No Child Left Behind” and discuss how to rebuild on a solid foundation. Call it reform, call it a revolution, but change is in the air, and a call-to-action is what’s needed to take our schools and students forward into a brighter future. 9:50 – 10:30 AM: CHOICE SESSION #1: PFAAP, NGSSS, CCS, Oh My!

A look at how the Performing Fine Arts Assessment Project, its connection to the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and Common Core Standards all work together in creating the curriculum for performing fine arts courses.

Mary Grace Gordon, Program Manager, Florida Performing Fine Arts Assessment Project, Polk County Schools Underwater World-Arts Integration & Inclusion Strategies

Join Multidisciplinary Teaching Artist Nzingah for an arts journey to an “Underwater World.” In this arts integrated approach, you’ll develop understandings of marine biology through visual arts, movement, and drama. Successful classroom practices to meet the needs of students with varying exceptionalities will be included. This hands-on workshop will take you through a six to eight week lesson plan that can be used with preschool aged children up to 3rd graders. Activities include a variety of visual arts techniques that can be applied to other subject matters.

Nzingah Oniwosan, FAAE Arts Integration Teaching Artist, Multidisciplinary Teaching Artist, Fort Lauderdale

Bringing Literature to Life through the Arts

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Explore new ways to connect powerful arts experiences in the reading/language arts classroom. Ideas shared will be directly applicable, ready-to-use activities designed to enhance and enrich essential reading skills and comprehension adaptable to various grade levels, genres, and units of study. All ideas shared have been developed and used in reading classrooms throughout Berkshire Elementary over 6 years of arts integration programming.

Kari Ratka, Visual Art Specialist; Lori Cabrera, Music Specialist; and Loren Foster, Dance/ Creative Movement Specialist, Berkshire Elementary School, Palm Beach County

Florida Folk Music: An Interdisciplinary music unit for 4th Grade

This unit is designed to link arts education with community arts resources, especially those resources that have statewide significance. This curriculum explores Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales, a unique collection of folktales, and music listening exercises that identify diverse people, places, and events from different time periods in Florida.

Cynthia Turner, Music Teacher, Indian River Elementary School, Volusia County

Art With a Voice: Through the Creative Empowerment Model "Art With a Voice," anchored in the 'Creative Empowerment Model" and inspired by the Lovewell Method, is a persuasive solution in the challenge of school violence. Applicable at all developmental levels, the program was developed to assist youth express themselves artistically, courageously and safely. Providing expressive tools through the arts can be realized at any grade level and through any discipline.

Participants will gain a greater understanding of the power of the arts to empower youth while building positive school culture. Providing arts-based venues in which youth explore themselves, their connection to community and worldviews through the creative process will be discussed. In addition, practical applications will be shared.

Teri Triguba Williams, Ph.D., Project Bridge-Project Manager Diversity, Cultural Outreach and Prevention, Broward County Public Schools 10:35 – 11:05: CHOICE SESSION #2 The Greatest Show on Earth!

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Visual Arts can easily incorporate core curriculum. The problem of how to tackle this is to focus on what you are comfortable with and then jump in! This session will show you how to plan a performance that will involve every grade level in your school. A shoestring budget, some preparation time and lots of eager students are all that is required! Try your hand at making a simple prop and see how much fun your students will be in for.

Wendi Librach, Art Specialist, Flamingo Elementary School, Broward County

STORIES THAT SING: Teaching students to read -- a song at a time

Engage your students with interactive stories that integrate music with literacy skills. Learn how to select a picture book and create your own music integration lesson to build vocabulary and comprehension skills, while working on essential literacy skills. This hands-on workshop for primary teachers takes the fear out of using your inner musician to create fabulous lessons to keep your students connected.

Jeanette Shorey, Music Teacher, Welleby Elementary School, Broward County

JazzSLAM (Jazz Supports Language Arts and Math) JazzSLAM is a fun, interactive program that teaches academics, including critical thinking and test taking strategies, through jazz! The clinic will offer a ten-minute DVD demo of an actual JazzSLAM presentation. Attendees will view all the PPT slides from the live presentation and there will be an opportunity for lively discussion about how students respond to JazzSLAM and are engaged through multiple intelligences. Our goal is always to inspire and empower AND to motivate students into lifelong learning through the arts.

Mari Mennel-Bell, Director, JazzSLAM, part of Gold Coast Jazz Society, Broward County Going to the (Un-Common) Core… in Ways that Really Matter! Bring your wi-fi enabled laptop, iPad, or phone to connect with iTunesU and learn how to fully engage students in state-required instruction via an arts-integrated “walk through history” and into the future. You’ll have a launch pad of primary and secondary sources for students’ earnest dialogue, inquiry, creative writing, analysis, reading, and learning for transfer! Linda Lovins, Director, Linda Lovins & Associates, Tallahassee

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Kids, Currents, and Rubber Ducks! What happens when 28,000 rubber ducks are lost at sea? They mapped the ocean's currents, that's what! With an emphasis on STEAM, and a gigantic hand painted map of the world, Janeen Mason brings her latest book to life. "Ocean Commotion: Caught in the Currents" (Pelican Pub, Fall 2012) as readers' theater is the perfect vehicle to help students figure out how these bathtub toys accidentally accomplished something science could never prove. Join us as we experience the story together teaching across the curriculum. Lucky Ducks! Janeen Mason, National Award Winning Author/Illustrator and Speaker, Martin County 11:15 – 11:55AM: CHOICE SESSION #3

Animate the Core! Using Animation Across the Curriculum Bluffton (S.C.) Elementary School's Animate Me, supported by Toon Boom animation software, provides an exciting avenue for students to demonstrate understanding of grade-level curriculum content through the use of visual arts animation. Students connect their artistic capabilities to classroom learning to deepen their understanding of subject matter content. The program serves as an ultimate example of integrated technology across all content areas. Animate Me was named the Arts Schools Network 2011 Arts Innovation Award recipient. Join us to experience the synergy between animation and Common Core Curriculum. You will receive a free personal use copy of Toon Boom's award winning software, Animate Learning.

Mark MacLellan, Education Market Development, Toon Boom Animation, Inc., Sarasota

Brainstorming through Images

This session is designed to have students generate ideas around a major abstract concept through image-making and game playing. Three simple scaffolded techniques will get you from bringing the energy into the room to connecting personal lives to literature to generating a list of ideas around a central concept. The ideas on this list may be used throughout the reading and post-reading process. The three techniques you can use IMMEDIATELY are: -Stop, Go, Clap, Jump: to get energy in the room. -Cross the Room if... : to connect student lives to text concerns. -Make images in groups with bodies then deconstruct: to critically think major ideas at the heart of your text.

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Julia Perlowski, Ambassador to the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.; Director of Theatre Programs for Pompano Beach High School, Broward County

A Passion for the Arts and Literacy

Ignite a passion for reading in young children focusing on their natural sense of curiosity and play through the arts. Inspiration from a variety of children’s literature promoting inquiry, active engagement, critical thinking, linguistic, and arts-based learning is presented.

Susannah Brown, Associate Professor of Art Education, Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach

The Power of Observation through the Visual Arts for Middle/High School Students

How do we make deeper connections from what we observe? How has visual culture impacted our middle and high school age children? Connections will be made on how the habits of mind are shared between the rigorous study of reading a work of art, visualization through text and the scholarly study and application of other disciplines. Design thinking for the 21st century … with hand- outs and hands-on materials provided.

Mary Cavaioli, NBCT, Arts Integration Specialist, Palm Beach Schools

CLOSING GENERAL SESSION:

VSA Florida: Nzingah Oniwosan, VSA Teaching Artist, Broward County

Keynote Speaker: Beth Ravitz, Public Artist, Public Art Consultant, Art Professor, Past Gallery director, Sculptor, Fine Artist, Art Lecturer. Public Art, Sculpture, Contemporary Paintings & Mixed Media, Broward County Beth is a practicing artist who believes in education. She works on a wide variety of art projects with students of all ages as well as with parents, teachers, staff, and local communities. Her installations are seen throughout Florida and around the country.

Special THANKS to our Local Committee!!!

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Dr. Tom Pearson: Arts Education Administrator, The School District of Palm Beach County Tracy C. Butler: Director of Education, Kravis Center Mary Cavaioli: Arts Integration Specialist, The School District of Palm Beach County Keena Gumbinner: Education Associate, Kravis Center

Susan Hyatt: Arts Integration Project Manager. The School District of Palm Beach County

Dr. Edrick Rhodes: Music Integration Specialist, The School District of Palm Beach County