Workshops

Arts are Core 2020 Conference

Angela Rosales Challis - Keynote

Samskara: Strength in Shared Experiences

Samskara is a dance and film project that features nine individuals performing their traditional dances in nine locations across the state of Utah. In this keynote presentation the director will share the ideas behind the film and how this project celebrates and brings cultures together. As an immigrant herself, Angela will address what it means to be a foreigner and how you can help your immigrant students feel included and celebrated.

Angela Rosales Challis

Their Story, Animated

As an extension of the keynote presentation, attendees will view several animated shorts based on personal stories from the Samskara cast and crew. In this session participants will learn how to guide their students into making a fun and easy animation that tells their own story. Your students will refine their writing, art making, and digital media skills. Most importantly, they will dive deep into one of the most important subjects, themselves!

Analisa Smith

What if...
Creative Movement Workshop

What if you could dream a way to choreograph a rich, authentic, diverse classroom for learners to engage and for dreamers to bring color to their vision? Dreaming in black and white signifies that you have the opportunity for a new beginning. Let’s begin with dance. Understanding dance as a form of expression can bring light and knowledge to a community. We will dance the imaginable, and dream of the unimaginable while harnessing HOPE as our guide. With “Dreamers” by Yuyi Morales as a springboard, our emotional intelligence will be the medium for our dance story. Please dress for movement and be prepared with enough space to actively participate in this session.

Jen Terry

Artful Thinking

Learn strategies and ideas to help your students with heads (critical), hands (creative) and hearts (intuitive) to build imaginative, innovative and deep understanding using the arts as a means to build 21st century thinkers. Gather hands-on creative ideas from children's literature to use in your classroom. Learn how to think and be inspired like an artist!

Jill DeVilbiss

Around the World in 180 Days
Music Workshop

Join us to discover how interacting with music can lower the gates and open the doors to diversity, helping students to understand and appreciate differences and similarities in people and cultures. We’ll discuss how you can integrate music into other core subjects to increase understanding and to provide alternative ways for students to show understanding. Prepare to be actively involved, even though the workshop is virtual, and grow in your own understanding of music and cultures.

Laura Reina

Mapping the Standards Workshop I: Navigating the Art and Content Journey

The content curriculum can be overwhelming, particularly when combined with art curriculum for many grades. A clear and focused map will guide you on this journey. This workshop will provide you tools and instruction to tackle and strengthen curriculum through integration. We will learn to utilize, engage, and understand the curriculum to create stronger instruction with less stress! Come and create a map to guide you through your arts journey.

Mapping the Standards Workshop II: From Journey to Practice

A clear understanding of the journey and the curriculum that drives our route can still be a challenge when teaching methods change. In this workshop we will travel through the curriculum and learn new ways of integrating through technology. We will learn various tools and methods for engaging digitally while connecting the content to the arts.

Lisa Saunderson

Dreamers Dare
Visual Art Workshop

Storytelling is vital to connecting people and creating understanding. Various forms of puppetry can help us dare to express who we are, what we have experienced, and what we have learned. In our workshop, we will look at ways to inspire students, either from home or at school, to tell their stories through personalized puppets, objects, and images. Extensive resources are provided through the interactive slide show, as well as two Mini Me art projects. In our discussion group we will share additional ways to use this art form to integrate, collaborate, and exchange ideas for engagement this fall.

Meagan Velez

Empowering EL’s Through the Arts: The Power of Dramatic Storytelling by Meagan Velez
Drama Workshop

Part I: In this workshop, attendees will experience the first half of the Dramatic Storytelling Workshop. They will be taken through a theater-based warm-up to understand ways to find the “why,” then apply this to a learning objective. Attendees will use their “why’s” to create stories, characterize content, and create a tagline that drives home the learning objective.

Part II: In this session, attendees will experience the second half of Empowering EL’s Through the Arts. Attendees will engage in transforming a story into a script based on specific learning objectives, exploring how to move the scene to action. Additional examples of the scene in action will be provided to ensure participant understanding.

Ryan Hourigan

The Arts and Universal Design for Learning: Strategies for Reaching Students with Exceptionalities

This session will focus on the principles of Universal Design for Learning with the aim of providing a positive learning environment for students in music, theatre, dance and visual art. Specifically, those students who have disabilities. Strategies will include multiple ideas for engagement, representation, and expression through the four art forms. Specific lesson examples will be provided as well as ways to manage behavior and classroom atmosphere.

Sarah Braden, Courtnie Jensen

Supporting Multilingual and Multicultural Students through the Arts

In this workshop teachers will view and practice two arts-based methods for working with multilingual (English Language Learner & Bilingual) and multicultural students. These methods work for integrating arts into the curriculum to support all students! The workshop will introduce how to use the arts to enact culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogies and model two methods that teachers can directly apply in their classrooms. It will also offer examples of student work, and demonstrate how teachers can use students' artwork to inform their language arts, science, and social studies curricula at different grade levels.

William Estrada

Stitching Our Dreams: Soft Sculptures as Tools for Empowerment and Emotional Support
Visual Art Workshop

In this workshop we will explore honoring the work of women who have used sewing circles as resistance, community building, and emotional supports. By using sewing techniques and found fabric, we will create soft sculptures that amplify personal stories of dreams and fears as tools for healing. Creating a plushie with a personalized heart and secret messages, we will make direct connections to “Dreamers” by Yuyi Morales and other stories. Focusing on how artists can work with communities and use art as a tool for healing and empathy, participants will have the opportunity to scaffold this project, make connections to contemporary artists, and center students personal and communal stories to document the complexity of people’s experiences.

Live Panel Presentation

In this session, a panel consisting of two classroom teachers and one art teacher from different school districts will share student engagement strategies and online teaching tools that kept their students motivated during remote learning. Shannon Rhodes (4th grade teacher), Angela Hawkins (2nd grade teacher), and William Estrada (Pre-K-8th grade art teacher) will share examples of how integrating the arts engaged students during remote learning. Engage in a live Q & A after the session with the teacher panel.