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Teaching 21st Century skills of creativity, innovation, and integrated thinking will involve different ways of assessing student learning. The standardized test will not provide insight in the student's progress in these skills. Join us in a looking at student work (visual art and writing) using Looking at Student Work protocol for evidence of student understanding and learning. This protocol developed by Steve Seidel (Project Zero) works in multiple contexts. |
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Dr. Nancy Andrzejczak has directed two Department of Education Arts Education grant projects: Arts LINC (2006-2010) and Project RAISE 2001-2004. In addition she is an adjunct lecturer for the University of California, Irvine in arts education. In 2005, she was named Visual Art Educator of the Year by the California Art Association and in 2006, Pacific Region Art Education of year (NAEA). She was the 1998-99 California McAuliffe Fellow and worked with the California Department of Education on arts assessment. She has published in both peer and non-peer reviewed publications and presented at numerous national conferences. |
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Monique Poldberg is a generalist teacher in Lake Elsinore, CA with over a decade of experience in arts integration in the elementary classroom, professional development, and research settings. She has helped direct both Arts LINC and Project RAISE and is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was a recipient of a Toyota Tapestry Large Grant with a project integrating visual art, science and literacy. In 2009 she was one of 25 educators selected from around the country to participate in “Picturing Early America” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This month-long study was an exemplary model of quality integration of art, history and English language arts in support of the National Endowment of the Humanities’ Picturing America Program. |
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Dr. Jean Detlefsen is a lecturer of art education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently the State Director for Project Arts LINC in Nebraska. She has worked in art education in Nebraska as the Coordinator of the Mentors Program and member of the National Curriculum Committee for the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge Getty-Annenberg Grant, as leadership throughout the Prairie Vision Consortium, and as the Coordinator of the Nebraska Visual and Performing Art Frameworks project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation. Jean’s work has been recognized by the Nebraska Art Education Association as Art Educator of the year, Higher Education Award, Supervisor of the Year Award, and Roscoe Shield Service Award, as well as community awards such as Columbus’ Outstanding Educator Award and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce National Athena Award. Jean has taught in K-16 classrooms, worked in staff development, and currently teaches future art educators at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
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