Artful Learning Summer Session 2014

Artful Learning

July 15-18, 2014 • Napa, CA

Summer Session

Learn how to integrate this stunning arts-alignment framework into your everyday teaching.

Artful Learning is a transformative learning model employing interdisciplinary curriculum units, magnified by arts-based strategies that deepen engagement, learning and understanding. The four main elements - Experience, Inquire, Create and Reflect - encourage and support arts-alignment, best teaching practices to improve student learning; all drawing from an overarching Concept, a Significant Question and a Masterwork. Student assessment is based on a variety of measures to include dierentiation, content and performance standards.

Create high levels of student engagement and achievement Learn how to connect the Common Core with the Arts Experience engaging arts and digital media workshops Design an interdisciplinary unit of study that uses the Arts to demonstrate student understanding across the curriculum Work at a demonstration site where leadership, collaboration and infrastructure continue to transform the school with community support Receive one-year of remote professional support after the summer session

Initiated 23 years ago by American music icon, Leonard Bernstein - this teaching and learning model has provided thousands of educators a pathway to integrate the arts across the curriculum.

snapshot why Because this is the era of progressive thinking and action for education. Our belief is the Arts are a pathway for student engagement, response and understanding.

Session participants will learn all aspects of how to use the Artful Learning framework while incorporating their respective Common Core State Standards along with every site/district initiative required for providing instruction to students.

Emphasis will also include 21st Century Skills with unit design and leadership. Participants will receive on-going support via phone and web-based communication platforms throughout the upcoming academic year to successfully deploy their Artful Learning Unit of Study. Daily instruction and on-going mentoring will be provided from Artful Learning Master Trainers and practitioners of the model.

when Session Dates: Tuesday, July 15 through Friday, July 18, 2014

snapshot who Oered for PreK - 12 educators and leaders desiring to learn the framework and any Artful Learning School currently using the model with new teachers to train.

Encouraging two educators from a school or district to participate together as collaboration is integral to unit development.

where Session will be held at Salvador School - one of the premiere Artful Learning Schools in the nation situated in the beautiful Napa Valley of California. In addition to the inspirational school site, the region is populated with picturesque wineries, artisan restaurants and a unique, entrepreneurial culture.

Learn more about Salvador School at our website link.

session highlights Making Curricular Connections with Arts-Based Skills & Strategies Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, Movement and Digital Media strategies will be be demonstrated during highly interactive workshops for participants to first experience and then make relevant connections to their curriculum for immediate use in the classroom.

Educators use literature, social studies and visual arts disciplines to create a music soundscape.

session highlights

Scientific understanding of The Periodic Table of Elements is conveyed through a theatre strategy.

The same theatre strategy used across the curriculum, in this instance portraying a current event that will be used for a creative writing prompt.

Artful Learning: Exploration of Experience, Inquire Create & Reflect In-depth exploration of the elegant and evocative framework will reveal how to use the power of arts-alignment to engage student learning.

Examples from across the country will showcase how the framework of Experience, Inquire, Create & Reflect links academic rigor, creativity and achievement.

Experience

Inquire

Create

Reflect

session highlights Creating a Unit of Study Using the Artful Learning Framework Learn how the framework anchors of Concept, Significant Question, Masterwork Experience, Inquiry Centers, Original Creation and Deepening Questions are used to build incredible units of study and empower student learning. Participants leave the session with a fantastic start to a unit that will continue to evolve over the next several months, aided by remote professional support.

Students from national Artful Learning Schools immersed in Units of Study. (Clockwise) Concept Exploration of Perspective, an Inquiry Center focused on Interdependence and metaphoric Original Creations come alive depicting Conflict.

session highlights The Artistic Process • An Intimate & Evocative Conversation with Jamie Bernstein & Alexander Bernstein Global ambassadors for education and music, The Bernstein Family provides incredible insights and perspectives about their father - Leonard Bernstein and his artistic process.

Artful Learning Summer Session is delighted to host a conversation with noted author and performer Jamie Bernstein. Modeled after the Leonard Bernstein Young People’s Concerts, she is creator of the Bernstein Beat education concert series. Audience members around the world have been thrilled to learn about the iconic orchestral music written by her father and other composers.

Alexander Bernstein serves as President of the Artful Learning Board of Directors and charged with preserving his father’s education legacy. As an educator and activist, he has witnessed the power of his father’s philosophical beliefs put into practice across the country and all over the world.

A rare opportunity to delve inside their personal experiences, along with colorful commentary, about living with and preserving the legacy of a creative genius. Participants will be inspired to continue their own work in classrooms as artists, teachers and scholars.

Trouble in Tahiti Music by Leonard Bernstein Directed by Jamie Bernstein Leonard Bernstein’s one-act opera reflects his incredible ability to fuse language and music into this contemporary gem. A hybrid of jazz, contemplative melodies and a libretto as relevant today as it was when premiered in 1952.

Directed by daughter Jamie Bernstein, performed with full orchestra and a gifted cast - this synergy of music, emotion and learning will be thrilling.

Festival del Sole and the entire Napa Valley community have been incredibly supportive of Salvador School and Artful Learning. Be part of this exciting evening of inventive music and legacy.

Artful Learning Summer Session participants receive a discounted ticket price to this coveted event.

Learn more about the festival & schedule of events at: festivaldelsole.org

session highlights Curriculum Mapping with Artful Learning Participants will be coached how to dismantle and reassemble their content areas/required initiatives through the process of curriculum mapping. Demonstrated procedures will be modeled with how to analyze what students must understand, know and do within the context of a prescribed time period. Participants develop and complete a working curriculum map that is arts-aligned and ready for unit design.

Curriculum Mapping sessions empower educators with the skills needed to explore their content areas and find a nexus of standards. Educators collaborate together to examine and discuss how best to integrate and then align all aspects of their curriculum.

How to Integrate the Common Core State Standards into an Arts-Aligned Unit of Study Designed to demonstrate integration of the respective Common Core State Standards into each participant’s unit. Because the standards allow for a wide-range of dierentiation for student responses, the Artful Learning framework is a tremendous platform for incorporation.

session highlights Leadership Strand: How to Lead an Arts-Integration School Schools who fully integrate the arts and focus on creativity are on the cutting edge preparing children for the 21st Century. Learn what it means to be the leader of a school committed to this mission. Work with experienced leaders who have led and lead Artful Learning Schools. In addition, the opportunity to work at and tour Salvador School will demonstrate how vision and commitment can lead to a sustainable, arts-integrated environment.

Learn how shared leadership and sustainability plans connect initiatives using the Artful Learning framework.

These stunning woolen banners were created by the entire student population, teachers and artists to display the color schema of Character Education.

Transform your thinking about what is possible for students. Unlock student understanding at the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Hess Cognitive Matrix. This class Original Creation is just one of many examples participants will learn from.

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Artful Learning Summer Session • July 15 - 18, 2014 • Napa, California For more information about registration or the session, email info@leonardbernstein.com or call 310-383-6647 and a representative will answer questions to walk you through the process of enrolling.

Hurry! Space is limited.

costs & planning costs Session Cost: $1,200.00 per participant

Includes all materials, Educator Notebook, and, one-year of remote technical support through deployment, feedback, and, conclusion of the unit. Upon successful registration, participants will be given an access code for the discounted hotel rate at Embassy Suites.

Associated Costs: Lodging, airfare, meals and ground transport. Estimated average $1,800.00 per person. (Sharing a room and rental car reduces this by almost half). Participants arrange all personal airfare, hotel registration, ground transport, and, are responsible for meals not included with any bundled package.

Traveling to Napa Three major airports provide access to this region of California: San Francisco International (SFO), Oakland International Airport (OAK) and Sacramento International Airport (SMF). Using SFO requires toll bridge fees when transported over the Golden Gate Bridge (toll on return only) or the Bay Bridge (tolls). Drive time range: 90 to 140 minutes. OAK is north of San Francisco and alleviates the iconic bridge travel and tolls, but adds shuttle transport to the remote rental car station. Add one hour to the drive time range of 90 to 140 minutes. SMF is the farthest from the Napa Valley and also adds one hour travel time with a remote rental car station. It does provide the easiest and less congested travel experience.

Drive time range: 90 to 110 minutes.

lodging

Embassy Suites is oering a single occupancy of $227.00 or double occupancy rate for $113.50 per night in the newly renovated property. This number includes all taxes. The listed rate for our group is $199.00 (Sunday through Thursday) and $309.00 (Friday and Saturday) per night.

Located one mile from Downtown Napa and 15 minutes from the training site.

www.embassysuitesnapahotel.com

Each room is a suite with ample space for work and comfort. Free parking, WiFi, in-room refrigerators and microwaves plus dozens of other amenities. Complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast for each guest is included. Indoor and outdoor heated pools, fitness center and picturesque grounds make this a learning and vacation destination. Updated website showcases the refurbished property with the substantial upgrades.

Our team will provide the special group code for participants once registered for the session.