SAS Educational Programs

Celebrations…..

K-12 Visual Arts faculty celebrates SAS art facilities, student and teacher access to materials (including online resources), the use of student visual arts journals, and the support they enjoy from their colleagues.

Here Ellen Levenhagen, ceramicist and Puxi HS art teacher works with one of her students.

Announcements and reminders

PD Opportunities:

· Critical Friends Coach’s Institute is coming Sept. 25 - 27:Thursday through Saturday and Sept. 29 - 30: Monday and Tuesday (3 PSU credits). Highly recommended by faculty who have taken it! Pop me an email if you are interested.

· Ask your principal or contact me about taking the Understanding by Design unit planning online course (PSU 3 credits)

· Don’t forget to contact Karen Campbell if you are interested in presenting at EARCOS!

· And while we are on the topic of artistic expression, our own Ginny Sampson and Kate Thornburn will be offering a weekend workshop in November on the creative process. More information to follow.

· Julie Lindsay and Sepi Johnson will conduct leadership training for elementary teacher leaders this Friday, Sept 5.

Links to Look At:

Help kids become LITERATE individuals who can communicate articulately through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and artistic expression . . .

http://www.nga.gov/kids/

The National Gallery of Art’s interactive website invites kids to the art zone to make art online. It currently features still life for kids and the BRUSHster, an interactive online painting machine. Try out the online jungle or the Dutch doll house: you’ll find a myriad of resources and ideas including information about specific artists or works of art that you can tie into lessons in social studies, language arts and English, as well as visual arts.

http://www.teachers.tv/subject Films on a variety of topics ranging from high school-aged Iraqi refugees discussing their future to Exploring the design and construction of cantilever bridges, How the BBC rates films, and Gardner speaking about his new thinking in Five Minds of the Future.

http://www.teachers.tv/artanddesign?order=transmitted&page=0 From the same teachers.tv folks come some 37 15-minute videos filled with ideas, resources for teachers and students in a variety of arts topics including photography, animation, writing opera, and using great paintings across the curriculum.

http://redstudio.moma.org/ The Museum of Modern Art site for teens, and http://www.moma.org/destination/# their site for young students both offer interactive activities for students. The home site, http://www.moma.org/ will lead you to MoMA youtube videos, and invite you to join MoMA on Facebook. It is worth exploring.

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