Professional Development for SY 21-22
Arts Better the Lives of Everyone (ABLE) Assembly
Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs
Virtual Event | Apr 9th and 10th, 2022 I 12-5:30 PM
Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs
Virtual Event | Apr 9th and 10th, 2022 I 12-5:30 PM
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The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs (BIAESN) is delighted to announce the reimagined 2022 Arts Better the Lives of Everyone (ABLE) Assembly conference, which will be held online on April 9th and 10th from 12pm to 5:30pm EST.
BIAESN is partnering with Creative Generation to offer the conference, which will include live, synchronous keynote presentations; recorded breakout sessions; performances by artists with disabilities; and live panel discussions. The ABLE Assembly is an exceptional professional development opportunity in the field of arts education and special needs, bringing together educators, artists, researchers, policymakers, school administrators, program administrators, and students to share best practices, engage in hands-on experiences, explore new research, and learn from each other. |
Making Something Out of Everything
Corey DePina, Boston Rapper and Workshop Leader
Mar 16th, 2022 | 7-8:30 PM | Via Zoom
Corey DePina, Boston Rapper and Workshop Leader
Mar 16th, 2022 | 7-8:30 PM | Via Zoom
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We're excited to host Corey DePina on Wednesday, March 16th (7pm-8:30pm) via Zoom as he presents a history of hip hop and strategies for applying this learning for student-facing classroom projects. From its origins in Latin, African, funk, and soul music, hip hop has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. But did you know that it all started in one neighborhood in the South Bronx? Corey will take educators through the early history of hip hop and its four elements – MC-ing, DJ-ing, breakdancing and graffiti – to inspire them with the possibilities of creating something positive out of everything. Attendees will receive 1.5 PD hours via TeachPoint/Vector.
REMOTE ADAPTATION: Corey tells the history of hip hop live online via your remote learning platform, with the aid of pre recorded videos. Objectives:
Corey DePina is a skilled rapper and workshop leader who hosts Boston’s largest and longest running all age open one mic event: Critical Breakdown. His work as a facilitator for local and national non profits and community centers has earned him numerous awards, including: the 2008 Good Neighbor Award from East Boston’s NOAH, the 2008 Community Leadership Award from Jamaica Plain's Hyde Square Task Force, the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and the 2014 Best Initiative, Best Youth Worker of the Year. In 2020, Corey received the Black Excellence on the Hill award from the Massachusetts Black and Latino Caucus. |
Opera Creation Through Arts Integration
Boston Lyric Opera and BPS Visual & Performing Arts Department
8 Weekly Sessions from Mar 2nd through Apr 27th, 2022 | 4:30-8 PM
Boston Lyric Opera and BPS Visual & Performing Arts Department
8 Weekly Sessions from Mar 2nd through Apr 27th, 2022 | 4:30-8 PM
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Presented by Boston Lyric Opera and the BPS Visual and Performing Arts Department, this innovative and fun workshop is open to all classroom and arts teachers (highly recommended for school-based teams). Teachers will learn a procedure for creating short original theatre pieces with their students, which may emulate Opera (nearly all words are sung); Musical Theatre (dialogue with song); or Theatre with Music. No musical experience is necessary! Teachers are encouraged to include students' cultural heritage, interests, and aptitudes when selecting material for story creation.
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Let’s Talk Black History 2 - The PD Session
Maria A. Ellis, Owner of Girl Conductor LLC
Feb 2nd, 2022 I 7-8:30 PM
Maria A. Ellis, Owner of Girl Conductor LLC
Feb 2nd, 2022 I 7-8:30 PM
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What will I learn?
Maria A. Ellis is a passionate educator and conductor. She is the owner of Girl Conductor LLC, a company that creates diverse music education resources and currently serves as the Director of The Sheldon’s City of Music All-Star Chorus and Choral Instructor at Sumner High School. Maria is an active clinician, adjudicator and presenter throughout the United States and abroad. She holds a B.M. in Music Education emphasis on Voice (K-12 Certified) Degree from the University of Missouri- St. Louis. She has served as the Arts and Administrative Fellow for The St. Louis Symphony and has served as the Community Engagement Manager for The St. Louis Children’s Choirs. Maria is the host of the Award Winning Show Bach and Beyoncé on Classic 107.3 The Voice for the Arts in St. Louis and is a host for the St. Louis Symphony "Live at Powell" broadcast. Maria is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association of Music Educators, Missouri Alliance for Arts Education, where she is chair of the RIDE (Race, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity) Committee and holds Level 3 Certification from the CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education. Maria is the wife of Marion Ellis and the mother of Aria, Kendal and Noah Ellis. |
BPS Arts Annual PD Day: "All Hands On Deck!"
Jan 3rd, 2022 | 8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Jan 3rd, 2022 | 8:30 AM-2:30 PM
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Keynote Speakers
Jelani Remy, Simba in the Lion King Ryan Vasquez, Hamilton/Burr/Washington in Hamilton Jelani Remy is pure joy and a triple threat performer! He is currently serenading audiences starring as Eddie Kendricks in Ain’t Too Proud on Broadway, and previously made his Broadway debut as Simba in Disney’s The Lion King. Talk about what is it like being a long-standing member of the Disney AND Temptations families on Broadway! Ryan Vasquez has the singular distinction of having performed ALL the major male roles in Hamilton — Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson! He also appears on the Original Cast Album of Waitress as part of the original cast, and is an “alumnus” of Shiz University, having made his Broadway debut in Wicked. Ryan received a 2020 Drama Desk nomination for originating the role of The Man in Black in The Wrong Man. He’s also appeared on television in Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Code, and The Good Fight. Ryan loves connecting with fans for virtual concerts, meet-and-greets, and more. Connect with Ryan to learn about your favorite role in Hamilton – he’s played it! |
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Breakout Sessions
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Justice Choir
Ahmed Fernando Anzaldúa and Arianne Abela Website Learn more about the transformative power of communal singing for positive social change using the newly-composed repertoire from the Justice Choir Songbook. Arianne Abela and Ahmed Anzaldúa will introduce the Justice Choir mission and how the songs can be used to spark dialogue on race, diversity, privilege, community, empathy, and social consciousness. We’ll sing together in Songbook selections, while learning how to teach the repertoire to singers and non-singers alike. Attendees will be able to keep the Songbook, free for all non-profit use in your communities. Ahmed Anzaldúa is a Mexican choral conductor, classical pianist, and music educator of Egyptian descent. He is an active musician, performing in Mexico and the United States frequently as a soloist and conductor with choirs, orchestras, in recitals, and as a collaborative pianist. He currently lives in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and is the director and founder of Border CrosSing, an organization dedicated to integrating historically-segregated audiences, repertoire, and musicians through the performance of choral music. He is also a co-editor of the Justice Choir songbook and director of music ministries at Unity Church Unitarian in St. Paul. Arianne Abela is Director of Choral Activities at Amherst College and is founder and artistic director of Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble, professional 9-voice ensemble focused on early and new music with dedication to the intersection of racial, ethnic and gender diversity, and the intersection of arts and social justice. Kaleidoscope will perform as a headliner at ACDA, Podium in Canada, and other renowned festivals and conferences in 2022. Abela recently served on conducting faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and is founder and director of the Detroit Women's Chorus and Detroit Justice Choir, ensembles dedicated to social-justice and community empowerment. Focusing her efforts on community building through song, Abela founded The House of Clouds and has worked closely with Musicians Take a Stand to organize over a dozen benefit concerts for charities and various causes across the country. In 2012, Abela was featured conducting on NBC's Today Show and was a semi-finalist in Season 8 of America's Got Talent as director of Connecticut-based 3 Penny Chorus and Orchestra. The ensemble later recorded for the soundtrack of Hollywood film Walk of Shame starring Elizabeth Banks. Abela holds degrees from University of Michigan, Yale University and Smith College. Abela sings professionally in ensembles across the United States and Canada such as Yale Choral Artists, sounding light, Etherea Vocal Ensemble, Arkora, and Audivi. Originally from the San Francisco bay area, she sang with the San Francisco Girls Chorus for many years. |
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Unschooling the Body: Moving Dance Education into a Liberation Practice
Aysha Upchurch | Lecturer on Education, Artist in Residence | Harvard Graduate School of Education What are we unconsciously teaching when we are introducing movement steps and techniques? Is our dance pedagogy solely rooted in skill mastery or are we valuing helping students feel fully present and liberated in their moving bodies? In this workshop, Aysha Upchurch will work with BPS Dance Instructors to identify mindsets and practices that are ripe for a remix so that students are experiencing a dance education that helps them feel empowered in their bodies and identities. We will discuss, we will play, we will choreograph pathways to a truly liberating dance education practice. Aysha Upchurch, the Dancing Diplomat, is an award-winning artist, passionate educator, and sought-after consultant who creates, facilitates, and designs for radical change. She holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and an Ed.M from Harvard University and has been a US State Department Cultural Envoy. She has shared her experience and expertise about artfully designing equitable and culturally relevant classrooms, the importance of dance and movement in education, and embracing Hip Hop as a powerful literacy and lens in schooling at national conferences and most recently at TedxUConn. Currently she is a Lecturer and Artist-in-Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she teaches courses on Hip Hop pedagogy and embodied learning, and directs HipHopEX - an intergenerational lab-classroom that designs programming to experience, explore, and experiment with Hop Hop arts in education. As an artist, Aysha considers herself a storyteller who leans on African diasporic movement to create stories of joy, connection, and liberation on the stage that stir up that which is stagnant in order to bring performers and audiences into closer dialogue with each other and themselves. As a teacher and consultant, she considers herself a DJ whose mission is to responsively and responsibly design the learning community as a cypher where everyone can build knowledge with each other. Whether on the stage or in a classroom, Aysha is committed to always be D.Ø.P.E. - dismantling oppression and pushing education. |
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Tapping Into Latin America
Sadie Soto Applegate | Dance Teacher | Mildred Avenue K-8 School We will look at a few tap pioneers like Sammy Davis Jr. & Savion Glover and their influence on the dance world. Warm-up to some basic tap steps and learn a short tap combination. To keep everyone on their toes we will explore one of the many styles danced in Latin America and a combo which you will be able to take to your school and teach to your students the very next day. Mrs. Sadie Soto currently works at Mildred Ave. K-8. She attended a performing arts high school in Rhode Island, earned her BFA in Dance from the Boston Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater and her Masters from Lesley University. She has performed in the New England area and NY.C. Mrs. Soto has taught master classes in various K-12 schools in Massachusetts & Rhode Island as well as a few local colleges and universities. She currently lives on the south shore with her husband, their two boys and daughter. |
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Classroom Ceramics Studio Setup
Steve Harris | Visual Art Teacher | Boston Latin School This session is designed to assist teachers with managing and setting up a classroom ceramics program. Emphasis will be placed on studio maintenance, Kiln operation, and student project options. Demonstrations will be given on wedging clay, throwing on the potter’s wheel, slab construction, pinch pots, coiling, and press molds. BPS Arts will be purchasing a kiln for Campbell Resource Center so that those schools without kilns can use it starting in Fall 2022. Stephen has taught in the BPS visual arts program since 2001. His classes have ranged from 7th, 8th,11th, and 12th grades. He currently teaches Foundations of Visual Art and AP Studio Art Classes for 11th and 12th grade students, at the Boston Latin School. Outside of school, Stephen operates a small business harriscustomdesign.com focusing on ornamental mold making and casting. |
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Band Listening Session: Diversifying Your Repertoire
Jared Cassedy | K-12 Performing Arts Coordinator | Lexington Public Schools Diversifying our repertoire can be an exciting, but also a very intimidating process to undertake. During this session, we will come together to read through a variety of pieces written by underrepresented composers and review music centered on social justice themes. We will also have the opportunity to talk about how to use such repertoire as a means of opening up conversations with your students about race, identity, and belonging in a way that is done authentically and genuinely. Jared Cassedy is the K-12 Performing Arts Coordinator and conductor of the LHS Wind Ensemble for Lexington Public Schools and is also the director of the Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble at The New England Conservatory of Music. Jared is the recipient of the 2015 GRAMMY Music Educator Award furnished by the GRAMMY Foundation and Recording Academy and has conducted a myriad of honor bands across the nation, given a variety of lectures on leadership and best practices in teaching, and has participated in TEDx talking about his journey and philosophies through education. Most recently Jared presented at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra clinic in a session titled, "Fine Tuning Ensemble Culture and Why it Matters: Intentionally Creating a Positive Community through Conversation and Collaboration." Previous to his work in Massachusetts, Jared worked as a high school band director and the K-12 Fine and Performing Arts Director for both the Windham, NH and Salem, NH School Districts. He is an active member of the NAfME, MMEA, NBA, and Pi Lambda Theta. |
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Classroom Printmaking Studio Setup
Bedelyn Dabel | ArtWard Bound Mentor, Artist | MassArt Linoleum carving and printmaking intro to materials and demo. Bedelyn Dabel is an industrial designer, local sneaker connoisseur, designer toy collector, and enthusiastic art lover. Bedelyn notes, “If I am not sketching, I’m either in line or headed to a raffle spot for the latest sneaker drop. I like to bring fun into my design process; I believe the creative side of me has a way of sneaking out and giving my designs a life of their own!” |
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Mask Making and Performance with Gunstwork
Michael Gunst | Actor and Educator | Gunstwork Puppet Mask Theater Mask performance is a thrilling and often-ignored genre of theater. The goal of this workshop is to nurture the value of mask theater in theater teachers and their students— in particular, the benefits that mask theater provides in terms of physical work on the stage (physical awareness, confidence and facility). When students don well-rendered theatrical masks, a surprising new creativity emerges almost magically. This workshop focuses on the considerations for what constitutes an effective theatrical mask (the techniques involved in sculpting a face that has specific emotional content that will project clearly from all angles); and provides instruction for how to interpret a mask, to “take it into one’s body” to create theater with little or no spoken language. We will build a “movement vocabulary” and cultivate a fertile and accessible imagination. The mask making portion of the workshop is designed to provide participants with a hands-on experience for the art of sculpting and creating a mask from imagination or from a researched character. Participants will leave the workshop with a working knowledge for making and using effective theatrical masks with their students. Michael Gunst is an actor, director and mask maker. He has performed locally in the Denver Metro/Boulder region of Colorado at the Germinal Stage, Nomad Theater, Denver Civic Theater, with Band of Toughs, Theatre 13, Giving Voice Productions and Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Living Shakespeare. For over 22 years Michael has been a member of Faustwork Mask Theatre of Toronto, Canada. He has performed with the International Pantomime Company of New England in Mexico and toured with the Pocket Mime Theater Company of Boston. For 8 years Michael co- created 5 new movement theater shows with Studebaker Movement Theatre in Massachusetts. Studebaker toured, taught and performed both internationally and nationally across North America and in Scotland, England, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Michael has an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University's Professional Actor Training Program, and has performed in New York City in Off & Off Off Broadway, regionally at the Asolo Theatre, FL, Castle Hill Festival, MA, The Big Apple Clown Care Unit, NYC, and with Circus Flora, MO. "Four Wishes" was created for the 2007 Boulder International Fringe Festival and was a "Winner of the Encore Performance.” |
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Creating a Drumline as a Non-Percussionist
Paul Pitts | Emeritus Director of Fine Arts | Boston Latin School Oftentimes band methods books are not sequenced to adequately teach percussion fundamentals. This session will focus on how to create a beginner drumline (elementary through high school). Participants will receive a pdf of tried and true warm-ups that build both technique and dexterity along with cadence repertoire resources. Examples from the BPS Summer Drumline will highlight the success of these curriculum resources. Paul Pitts was born in 1956 in Boston, MA. He attended St. Thomas Grammar School and the Boston Latin School graduating in 1973. After that he attended Boston University graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1980. Paul is married to his wife, Mary and they have three children Megan, Paul and Matthew. He lives in Jamaica Plain in the house that he was raised in. He has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra , Boston Opera Company, Rhode Island Philharmonic, New Hampshire Symphony and the Nashua Symphony Orchestra. He has been active in music education for the last forty years serving as Massachusetts Association of Jazz Educators State President 1999 -2002 and 2015-2019, MMEA Eastern District Festival Host 2008-2019, All-State Jazz Band Manager in 1993 and 1997, All – State Concert Band Manager in 2003, South east District Jazz Band Manager in 1992. He has guest conducted the All Cape jazz Ensemble (2005), Central District Junior Jazz Ensemble 2002, Connecticut C.M.E.A. Eastern Region Junior High Jazz Band 1996, Mass Lions All-State Jazz Band 1993 and 2012, S.E.M.S.B.A High School Festival Orchestra 1990. In addition to Boston University he has studied at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Fitchburg State College and the Berklee College of Music. Paul is also an active adjudicator in the world of the marching arts. |
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Light Board Operation: ETC Ion Xe 20
Dan Jentzen | Founder, Director of Programs | Brighter Boston In this workshop, teachers will learn the basic operations of the ETC Ion Xe 20 lighting board. If you plan to incorporate lighting technology into your theatre arts curriculum, and/or if you are looking to upgrade lighting capabilities and production values for your productions, this workshop is for you! The ETC Ion Xe 20 is an American-made product, and runs on the same software as all Broadway productions-- on a scale that is manageable for educational theatre applications. There will be an ETC Ion lighting board and lights available to borrow from the arts department this spring. Daniel H. Jentzen is a Lighting Designer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher. He has created lighting for over 700 plays, musicals, concerts, and special events including Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Hawking, LL Cool J, Alison Krauss, Chaka Khan, Aziz Ansari, Conan O’Brien, En Vogue, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Vice Media, Google, and the Walt Disney Corporation. Daniel also conducts research in multisensory perception, exploring the unique power of the arts in the human mind. He teaches lighting design at Boston Arts Academy. He founded Brighter Boston in May 2013 to give teenagers something they weren't getting anywhere else: a sense of belonging in the real world. Daniel holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon and an Ed.M in Educational Neuroscience from Harvard University. |
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Composition Starters in Upper Elementary/Middle School General Music
Ruth Debrot | Lecturer in Music Education | Boston University All students have the potential to be creators of music. Composition involves thoughtful and creative musical behaviors such as listening, improvisation, exploration, divergent thinking, and critical problem-solving. During this session, I will share some lessons that have proven successful with middle schoolers. Ruth A. Debrot espouses a joyful approach to music-making. Presently, she is the coordinator of music teacher licensure and lecturer in music education at Boston University. Her journal publications include Frontiers in Psychology, The Journal of Popular Music Education, The Arkansas Segue, The Orff Echo, MENC’s Spotlight on General Music, and the Massachusetts Music Educators Journal. She contributed a book chapter to Living Song: Singing, Spirituality, and Wellbeing. Research presentations include the Desert Skies Research Symposium, the Mayday Colloquium, and the Maryland and Massachusetts Music Educators Association. Debrot is a featured clinician on the NAfME Academy: A Professional Development Webinar Series. Academic and teaching honors include Pi Kappa Lambda, the Lowell Mason Award, the SGMM Award for Excellence in General Music and The MMEA Distinguished Service Award. Prior to her appointment at Boston University, Ruth enjoyed a highly successful career as a middle- school music educator. |
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Cardboard Construction: Designing Play Spaces with Contemporary Art
Dr. Louisa Penfold, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Education and Adjunct Lecturer
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dec 1, 2021 | 4:30-5:30 PM | via Zoom
Dr. Louisa Penfold, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Education and Adjunct Lecturer
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dec 1, 2021 | 4:30-5:30 PM | via Zoom
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In this workshop, participants learn about teaching strategies for integrating contemporary art into early childhood and elementary art classrooms. We look at the work of various contemporary artists and discuss how their creative experimentation can be used to support children’s learning with cardboard. Tips for collecting art materials, storage, and reflection on learning are provided. Teachers also have lots of opportunity to discuss and brainstorm how these teaching strategies can be integrated into their classroom environment.
Dr Louisa Penfold is a visual art and early childhood specialist currently working as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her PhD research, run in partnership with Tate Modern (London), looked at the design of children's play spaces in modern art museums. She has worked on the children's programs at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Australia and at the Serpentine in London. Louisa runs the blog Art Play Children Learning. |
Race and Art Education
Dr. Joni Boyd Acuff, PhD,
Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy
The Ohio State University
Nov 29, 2021 | 7-8:30 PM | via Zoom
Dr. Joni Boyd Acuff, PhD,
Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy
The Ohio State University
Nov 29, 2021 | 7-8:30 PM | via Zoom
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Session Description: Understanding the complexities of race in our culture, especially as it relates to educating students of all backgrounds in rural, suburban, and urban school settings, is crucial. Race is clearly an issue in our society and one that impacts much of what we do as educators. We need knowledge, language, and strategies to assist us as we attempt to address it in our day-to-day professional lives.
The pervasiveness of racism in the United States implores art educators to build a succinct, explicit vocabulary that helps us speak frankly about the way race guides our work in the field (from pedagogy, curriculum, classroom management, parent interactions, institutional interactions, etc). Strategies for sustaining constructive conversations about race can help art teachers dispel stereotypes, and challenge biases and fears of differences in the classroom. Bio: Joni Boyd Acuff, PhD is an Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University. Acuff’s research attends to critical multicultural art education, critical race theory, black feminist theory, culturally responsive teaching, pedagogy and curriculum development. Acuff has taught in both traditional and non-traditional classrooms. She has worked extensively with students with special needs (cognitive and physical), students who identify as LGBTQ and students from varying racial backgrounds and socioeconomic levels. Acuff is the co-editor of the 2014 anthology, Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today, published by Rowman & Littlefield. She is co-author of the 2021 book Race and Art Education, and co-editor of a forthcoming anthology titled Love Letters to “This Bridge Called My Back.” |
Cultural Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation
Dr. Danielle Bainbridge, Asst. Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University
Sept 30, 2021 | 7-8 PM | via Zoom
Dr. Danielle Bainbridge, Asst. Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University
Sept 30, 2021 | 7-8 PM | via Zoom
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Session Description: What are the distinctions between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation? And how can we make this distinction clear in the classroom? This session will focus on the roots of what cultural appropriation is, how it can be avoided, and ways to engage students in open dialogue about culturally sensitive topics. Topics covered will include: how to approach students about diverse subjects, how and why cultural appropriation causes harm in the classroom, and ways to celebrate diverse perspectives in our pedagogy.
Bio: Danielle Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University, where she also holds courtesy appointments in Performance Studies and African American Studies. She was the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies in the 2018-2019 academic year (also at Northwestern University). Her ongoing book project Refinements of Cruelty: Enslavement, Enfreakment, and the Performance Archive examines the lives of African American sideshow and freak show performers who were also enslaved. From 2017-2020 she was the researcher, writer, and host of the PBS Digital Studios web series "The Origin of Everything" which focused on highlighting unusual and under told history and streamed on YouTube and Facebook Watch. In 2020 she served as a host and recurring talent on two 2021 Daytime Emmy Nominated web series: PBS Self-Evident and YouTube Originals “Booktube.” Her essay “The Future Perfect, Autopsy, and Enfreakment on the 19th Century Stage” published in TDR received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research. |
CLSP in the Arts Book Club: Cohort 5
Allyssa Jones, M.M. Music Education, Northern Illinois University
Starts Oct 4 | Register by Sept 20 on TeachPoint/Vector or email [email protected]
Allyssa Jones, M.M. Music Education, Northern Illinois University
Starts Oct 4 | Register by Sept 20 on TeachPoint/Vector or email [email protected]
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Course Description: BPS Arts educators will identify a problem of practice and implement an action plan connected to culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in the arts and creating an anti-racist classroom. Educator growth will be documented through reflections of book readings, podcasts, online conferences with book authors, and an inventory of curriculum materials for instructional bias. Educators will present evidence of their growth through a Google slide deck. This course will be taught on Zoom and managed through Google Classroom.
Bio: Allyssa Jones (M.M. Music Education, Northern Illinois University) is an award-winning musician and educator whose career spans nearly 30 years in the classroom and on stage. Her artistic credits include five solo recordings, a host of theatre productions as a composer and music director. Her conducting credits include decades as a high school and church choir director, as well as appearances with the Boston Children’s Chorus. A prolific presenter, adjudicator and clinician, Ms. Jones currently leads sessions nationally on culturally responsive teaching and has presented sessions on vocal jazz, music and literacy, and creative leadership. Ms. Jones’ served as Program Director for Performing Arts for Boston Public Schools and has held positions with the Institute for Composer Diversity and the NAfME Council for Innovations. She is the Founder of Rising TIde Music Press, and is a member of several professional organizations, including BMI and the African American Jazz Caucus. |
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SPEAC Professional Development Series
Sep 14-Oct 13 | Tues & Wed | 7-8:30 PM 
Supporting the Processing of Experiences through the Arts during Crisis (SPEAC) is a virtual intensive that prepares teaching artists to guide students through online and in-person arts education that effectively supports students to process and express issues like our current health crisis, racial injustice, or other lived experience. Registration link is available on this flyer! |
Hybrid Event: ABLE Conversation Symposium
Nov 20, 2021 | 11 AM-2:30 PM 
The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs (BIAESN) will present the ABLE Conversation Symposium on Anti-Ableism, Representation, and Accessibility in Arts Education! This event will take place BOTH in person and online on Saturday, November 20, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided for in person attendees. The event will feature two amazing keynote speakers:
The event is free, but advance registration is required. You can learn more about the event and register here. Please join, and spread the word! |