Schedule
Morning Schedule:
7:30am-8:00am: Breakfast and Registration (Lecture Hall Room C202)
8:00am-8:40am: Full Arts Educator Meeting and Civic Engagement Toolkit Presentation (Lecture Hall)
8:45am-10:50am: Morning Workshop Series:
Afternoon Schedule:
12:15pm-1:00pm: Catered Lunch (Cafeteria E400)
1:10-2:15: Respect the Process: Examining Our Social Justice Perspectives with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
1:10-3:10: Music Composition in the General Music Classroom with Dr. Michele Kaschub (B224 and B225)
2:15-3:15: Bringing Civic Engagement into Context with the Museum of Fine Arts Education Department (Art Room D213)
2:15-3:15: Theatre Curriculum Meeting (Auditorium A300)
2:15-3:15: Dance Workshop Part II (Gym)
3:15-3:30: Wrap-Up, Exit Ticket for PD Points, and Raffle (Lecture Hall)
3:30-4:30: Special Bonus Session with Dr. Bettina Love: GET FREE: Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Joy (Lecture Hall)
Session Descriptions
Keynote with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Creativity, Civics & Abolitionist Teaching
Dr. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, civic mindedness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system where all students are thriving, not simply surviving.
Statue of Liberty Project: Civic Art in Action! with James Hobin (Art Room)
Civic Art Activity - Presentation of a collaborative artwork created by 140 immigrant student-artists as part of Diversity and Democracy Day, a special day of civic programming at Boston International High School Newcomers Academy.
Students painted murals of the Statue of Liberty: (9) murals total; each mural measures (4 x8 feet); each mural comprises (20) sections; each section measures (12 x 18 inch); each section painted by different student. Overview for mural project details includes, schedule, set-up, materials and process, networking, installation and observation. “From Her Beacon” a tribute to the Statue of Liberty is currently on display at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. At the end of the session, attendees will engage in exercises for civic art muscle building fun.
Introduction to Japanese Taiko Drumming with Karen Susan Young (Lecture Hall)
Taiko is a dynamic art-form based on traditional Japanese drumming practiced all over the world. Historically in US, taiko has deep roots in Japanese and Asian American activism particularly giving visibility to the injustice of the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWll as well the establishment of the first Asian American studies programs. This session is designed to provide an introduction to kumidaiko (ensemble drumming), the fundamentals of taiko technique (how to stand and hold your bachi/drumsticks), awareness of ki (energy), taiko history and context, as well as teach the basic patterns of a song. You will use your body, your voice, and engage with others. Be prepared to have a good time!
Composing Compassionate Citizens: Engaging your Ensembles in Student-Driven Composition with Christopher Schroeder (Music Room)
Student-driven composition projects increase engagement, inclusion, and creativity in any classroom. It also provides an opportunity to engage in thoughtful discussions around social issues and equip your students with tools to express their emotions and raise awareness around issues that are important to them. This 90-minute interactive session provides music educators, classroom teachers, and curriculum designers with tips for demystifying the music creation process, ideas for incorporating academic learning, and tools and technology that teachers can implement in their classrooms right away. Participants are encouraged to bring their own instrument, including iPads, Laptops and the human voice.
Brain Compatible Dance Education with Dionne Kamara (Gym)
The methodology of Anne Green Gilbert’s BrainDance warm up, five-part conceptual lesson plan and the brain-compatible approach to teaching dance is
the foundation for this workshop. Understanding and implementing the principles of brain-compatible dance education in one’s teaching will support the
development of dancers into “skilled technicians, critical thinkers, successful collaborators and innovative creators” (Anne Green Gilbert). We will review a
variety of ways of doing the BrainDance, experience sample lessons, explore the use of props and learn strategies and tools for teaching dance in a holistic
learning environment that enable each and every student to develop to their highest potential.
Creating Improv Scenes with ComedySportz Boston (Auditorium)
ComedySportz Boston will lead theatre teachers through a session focusing on advanced approaches to improv comedy and performance. We will move beyond basic skills into show structures that can be tailored for your students’ level of experience. You will also learn ComedySportz guidelines for best practices for team building.
Experiencing Music Composition K-5 with Dr. Michele Kaschub (Music Room)
Composition offers students an opportunity to draw all of their musical skills and understandings together as they explore the experience of being human through the medium of music. This workshop will focus on how teachers can use the concept of compositional capacities to reframe the relationships between feeling, body-based cognitive perception, and the skills of music craftsmanship to enhance each student’s experience of meaning making in music. Five ready-to-use projects will be shared and will serve as a point of departure for exploring the Experiencing Music Composition approach to teaching and learning.
Bringing Civic Engagement into Context with the Museum of Fine Arts' Emily Scheinberg, Head of School Programs and Teacher Resources (Art Room)
In this workshop, participants will engage in collaborative discourse to analyze works of art and how they intersect with the many facets of civics engagement. It provides an opportunity to engage in thoughtful discussions around social issues and equip your students to express their thoughts, opinions, and emotions and raise awareness around issues that are important to them -- using art as a catalyst. Practical applications for art programs will be discussed for immediate use.
GET FREE: Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Joy with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
Dr. Love will discuss how Hip Hop Civics Ed, when linked to the framework of intersectionality creates a space where Black lives matter and analytic sensibilities are nurtured to engage youth in the work of fighting for visibility, inclusion, and justice. Her work expose youth to the possibilities that come with envisioning a world built on joy, creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Respect the Process: Examining Our Social Justice Perspectives with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
Through interactive activities, this workshop will help participants examine their own perspectives of their social justice work and ideas about diversity, privilege, and intersectionality. Participants will gain a better understanding of how institutional power that reproduces injustice, social exclusion, and oppression, despite our best efforts, is embedded in our social justice work.
7:30am-8:00am: Breakfast and Registration (Lecture Hall Room C202)
8:00am-8:40am: Full Arts Educator Meeting and Civic Engagement Toolkit Presentation (Lecture Hall)
8:45am-10:50am: Morning Workshop Series:
- General Music Taiko Workshop with Karen Young (Lecture Hall)
- Dance with Dionne Kamara (Gym)
- Concert Band with Chris Schroeder (Rooms B224 and B225)
- Visual Arts Statue of Liberty Project with James Hobin (Art Room D213)
- Theatre Improv with ComedySportz Boston(Auditorium A300)
Afternoon Schedule:
12:15pm-1:00pm: Catered Lunch (Cafeteria E400)
1:10-2:15: Respect the Process: Examining Our Social Justice Perspectives with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
1:10-3:10: Music Composition in the General Music Classroom with Dr. Michele Kaschub (B224 and B225)
2:15-3:15: Bringing Civic Engagement into Context with the Museum of Fine Arts Education Department (Art Room D213)
2:15-3:15: Theatre Curriculum Meeting (Auditorium A300)
2:15-3:15: Dance Workshop Part II (Gym)
3:15-3:30: Wrap-Up, Exit Ticket for PD Points, and Raffle (Lecture Hall)
3:30-4:30: Special Bonus Session with Dr. Bettina Love: GET FREE: Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Joy (Lecture Hall)
Session Descriptions
Keynote with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Creativity, Civics & Abolitionist Teaching
Dr. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, civic mindedness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system where all students are thriving, not simply surviving.
Statue of Liberty Project: Civic Art in Action! with James Hobin (Art Room)
Civic Art Activity - Presentation of a collaborative artwork created by 140 immigrant student-artists as part of Diversity and Democracy Day, a special day of civic programming at Boston International High School Newcomers Academy.
Students painted murals of the Statue of Liberty: (9) murals total; each mural measures (4 x8 feet); each mural comprises (20) sections; each section measures (12 x 18 inch); each section painted by different student. Overview for mural project details includes, schedule, set-up, materials and process, networking, installation and observation. “From Her Beacon” a tribute to the Statue of Liberty is currently on display at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. At the end of the session, attendees will engage in exercises for civic art muscle building fun.
Introduction to Japanese Taiko Drumming with Karen Susan Young (Lecture Hall)
Taiko is a dynamic art-form based on traditional Japanese drumming practiced all over the world. Historically in US, taiko has deep roots in Japanese and Asian American activism particularly giving visibility to the injustice of the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWll as well the establishment of the first Asian American studies programs. This session is designed to provide an introduction to kumidaiko (ensemble drumming), the fundamentals of taiko technique (how to stand and hold your bachi/drumsticks), awareness of ki (energy), taiko history and context, as well as teach the basic patterns of a song. You will use your body, your voice, and engage with others. Be prepared to have a good time!
Composing Compassionate Citizens: Engaging your Ensembles in Student-Driven Composition with Christopher Schroeder (Music Room)
Student-driven composition projects increase engagement, inclusion, and creativity in any classroom. It also provides an opportunity to engage in thoughtful discussions around social issues and equip your students with tools to express their emotions and raise awareness around issues that are important to them. This 90-minute interactive session provides music educators, classroom teachers, and curriculum designers with tips for demystifying the music creation process, ideas for incorporating academic learning, and tools and technology that teachers can implement in their classrooms right away. Participants are encouraged to bring their own instrument, including iPads, Laptops and the human voice.
Brain Compatible Dance Education with Dionne Kamara (Gym)
The methodology of Anne Green Gilbert’s BrainDance warm up, five-part conceptual lesson plan and the brain-compatible approach to teaching dance is
the foundation for this workshop. Understanding and implementing the principles of brain-compatible dance education in one’s teaching will support the
development of dancers into “skilled technicians, critical thinkers, successful collaborators and innovative creators” (Anne Green Gilbert). We will review a
variety of ways of doing the BrainDance, experience sample lessons, explore the use of props and learn strategies and tools for teaching dance in a holistic
learning environment that enable each and every student to develop to their highest potential.
Creating Improv Scenes with ComedySportz Boston (Auditorium)
ComedySportz Boston will lead theatre teachers through a session focusing on advanced approaches to improv comedy and performance. We will move beyond basic skills into show structures that can be tailored for your students’ level of experience. You will also learn ComedySportz guidelines for best practices for team building.
Experiencing Music Composition K-5 with Dr. Michele Kaschub (Music Room)
Composition offers students an opportunity to draw all of their musical skills and understandings together as they explore the experience of being human through the medium of music. This workshop will focus on how teachers can use the concept of compositional capacities to reframe the relationships between feeling, body-based cognitive perception, and the skills of music craftsmanship to enhance each student’s experience of meaning making in music. Five ready-to-use projects will be shared and will serve as a point of departure for exploring the Experiencing Music Composition approach to teaching and learning.
Bringing Civic Engagement into Context with the Museum of Fine Arts' Emily Scheinberg, Head of School Programs and Teacher Resources (Art Room)
In this workshop, participants will engage in collaborative discourse to analyze works of art and how they intersect with the many facets of civics engagement. It provides an opportunity to engage in thoughtful discussions around social issues and equip your students to express their thoughts, opinions, and emotions and raise awareness around issues that are important to them -- using art as a catalyst. Practical applications for art programs will be discussed for immediate use.
GET FREE: Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality, & Joy with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
Dr. Love will discuss how Hip Hop Civics Ed, when linked to the framework of intersectionality creates a space where Black lives matter and analytic sensibilities are nurtured to engage youth in the work of fighting for visibility, inclusion, and justice. Her work expose youth to the possibilities that come with envisioning a world built on joy, creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Respect the Process: Examining Our Social Justice Perspectives with Dr. Bettina Love (Lecture Hall)
Through interactive activities, this workshop will help participants examine their own perspectives of their social justice work and ideas about diversity, privilege, and intersectionality. Participants will gain a better understanding of how institutional power that reproduces injustice, social exclusion, and oppression, despite our best efforts, is embedded in our social justice work.