Jefferson Parish Schools
The Jefferson Parish Schools Office of Innovative Programs partnered with the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts to provide provide professional development in arts integration for the faculties of two arts-based elementary schools, John Clancy Elementary and Lincoln Elementary.
SCEA Directors of Dance, Theatre, Visual Art, and Music Education traveled to New Orleans and presented a weeklong intensive workshop in June 2008. During the 2008-09 school year, SCEA and the two Jefferson Parish Schools worked together to implement a comprehensive, site-specific approach to professional development to train faculty members and strengthen their work in arts integration. During the year faculty members gained expertise in arts education and integration through participation in workshop, mentoring activities, and art-form based cohort groups.
Among the many school-reform initiatives taking hold in post-Katrina New Orleans, arts integration provided a unique vehicle for educating a diverse community of learners through active engagement, creative problem solving, and multiple intelligences. SCEA is pleased to be have been invited to contribute to the rebuilding of the New Orleans school community through our work in arts integration professional development.
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