| Literacies | Bridging the Literacy Gap: Finding Shared Practicies in Arts-Infused Learning |
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Arts Impact is in its eleventh year of training classroom teachers in holistic instruction through arts integration integrating literacies in dance, theatre, visual art, reading, and writing. Recipient of three U.S. Department of Education Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination grants, and recipient of a U.S. Department of Education Professional Development for Arts Educators grant, Arts Impact strives to work collaboratively with other organizations to identify shared findings and uses in arts education across the country. Group discussion will tap the recent and current work of the Forum participants. There are developing patterns in practices across the country. Rather than tout individual programs, this session endeavors to find synthesis across the work of the group to identify trends and findings common to successful arts teaching within specific questions that address the literacies students use to learn, live, and work in their environment. |
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Sibyl Barnum is the director of Arts Impact, a professional development program of the Puget Sound Educational Service District that trains teachers to integrate visual and performing arts into the core curriculum. Arts Impact, serves schools in King and Pierce Counties in Washington, and is the most comprehensive arts professional development program in the state. The program has grown from a small non-profit operating in Pierce County to a nationally known model for arts education and has been awarded four U.S. Department of Education (DoEd) arts in education grants. Before joining Arts Impact, Sibyl served as Education Director for Eugene Ballet Company and Eugene Opera in Oregon. She was a teaching artist in K-12 schools throughout the state of Oregon for a Kennedy Center model program, Arts Unlimited and has taught teacher-training workshops for Arts Unlimited and the Lane County Educational Service District. In addition Sibyl maintained a private piano studio as well as teaching piano at the University of Oregon and Northwest Christian College. Sibyl holds a Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Oregon. |
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Susy Watts consults on strategic planning, evaluation, and arts and museum education. She has been the Teaching and Learning consultant for Arts Impact in Renton, WA since 1999. Current Arts Impact projects include Core I and Core II Training Teachers in the Arts for classroom teachers; two U.S. Department of Education Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grants: 2006-10 – Arts Impact/Arts Leadership in Bethel School District and Tacoma Public Schools, and 2008-12 – Math as Artistic Pathways in Tacoma Public Middle Schools; U.S. DoE Professional Development in Arts Education grant 2008-10 – Training Teachers: Arts as Literacy with Seattle Public Schools. She speaks nationally and internationally on teaching and learning. Current and recent evaluation projects include: Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s LACMA On-site countywide arts education programs in libraries and schools; Washington State Arts Commission Arts Education Resources Initiative II, a project for statewide evaluation of art education, Olympia, WA; Honolulu Academy of Arts, strategic planning, Honolulu, HI; Idaho State Historical Society, strategic planning, Boise, ID; Japanese Gardens, teacher training programs, Portland, OR; Center for Wooden Boats education and at-risk youth programs, Seattle, WA. Other recent evaluation projects include case studies of art education and arts curricula in segments of Chicago Public Schools for OMG, Philadelphia, PA and education program evaluation for the Portland Art Museum, OR. |
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