New Art Teacher Orientation
Saturday 10/22
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Introductions
Housekeeping
Saturday's Agenda
Parking Lot
Ordering Supplies
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Young Artists
May 2023
Annual Citywide Art Exhibition
Mandatory Participation
Great Art Advocacy Tool
Awards:
Visual Arts Resources
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Supporting English Language Learners
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Classroom Management
Assessment Tools
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PSD Lesson Planning
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Contemporary Art
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District Policies
Equity & Curriculum
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Lockdown and Fire drill procedures
SIS / Infinite Campus
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Art education can build and strengthen student relationships, encourage social encounters, while simultaneously students are investigating their position within multicultural society (develop empathy/compassion). Educators fit into this by developing curriculum that de-centers the Euro-centric view of history while also valuing the importance of self-identification through student self-discovery; students tap into curiosity and openness in order to incorporate personal histories into learning.
Art teachers have a huge opportunity to elevate the educational experience of our students by using art as a lens to explore their identities and the many different aspects of those identities. Art teachers across the US should more deeply explore the interconnections of self-identification, art, culture, and ethnicity.“
Executive Director, Dr. Frank Machos
Director of Music, Nathan Wesner
Director of Visual Art, Dance, & Theater, Lynette Brown- Edwards
Maddie Muth, Program Coordinator
Jackie Nevitt, Secretary
Our Mission: The Mission of The Office of The Arts & Creative Learning is to ensure that all students are provided access to high quality, culturally relevant and responsive arts instruction that promotes artistic expression, creativity, design thinking, and cultural awareness. Universal access to arts education begins in the elementary grades with a foundation of sequential instruction taught by certified arts educators, enriched through a “shared delivery” framework for collaboration with arts partners and integration in general subject classes, leading to experiential learning and ensembles in the middle grades, and college and career readiness through majors, electives, and arts & humanities in high school.
GOAL 1
All K-12 students experience quality, sequential arts education with a focus on college and career readiness.
GOAL 2
All K-8 students experience arts-integrated instruction across subjects and in support of students reading at grade level, through a “Shared Delivery” collaboration between certified arts educators, certified non-arts educators, and community partner teaching artists.
GOAL 3
All principals and teachers (aspiring and current) receive relevant, job-embedded professional development to ensure successful arts and arts integration outcomes.
GOAL 4
All teachers and principals have adequate human and physical resources for arts learning.
Our agenda must drive systemic change and dismantle racist practices in a system that far too often has gone unfunded and unchanged. This also means focusing our priorities on student learning and ensuring every child has the resources they need to thrive in our classrooms…. Authentic engagement and community building.
Culturally Inclusive teaching, environments, resources, and experiences.
GRADE 4-12
Novels & Art Connections
A Selection of Curated Works of Art to Accompany the ELA Curriculum
2022-2023 Academic Year: Cycle 2
Save Me a Seat by Gita Varadarajan and Sarah Weeks -Grade 4
Why might artist Sarasvathy TK create large paintings of traditional Indian food? What message do you think she is making about her culture? How does Ravi show pride in his culture?
About The Work: From early times, artists have always used food as a source of inspiration in their paintings. Sarasvathy TK paints hyper-realistic still life from her native India and beyond. She became passionate about depicting traditional foods from different regions of India. Sarasvathy TK believe traditional cuisine carries fragments of memories, culture and identity.
Artist, Indian American artist Sarasvathy TK
Source: http://www.foleygallery.com/shows/sarasvathy-tk
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Refugee by Alan Gratz- Grade 7
Let’s look closely. What message do you think each artist conveying is with their work?
Installation, Konzerthaus Berlin Opera House by Ai Weiwei
About The Work: The installation is a tribute to the refugees that died at sea in an attempt to escape war and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa. The bright orange life jackets, are wrapped around the columns of the Konzerthaus music venue.
Source: Getty Images
Holocaust #10 by Murray Zimiles |
About The Work: Murray Zimiles presents a grim but realistic picture of the treatment of the dead during the Holocaust or Shoah, the systematic genocidal murder of six million European Jews—two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population—by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945. In this image, soldiers confiscate the belongings of Jews and herd them away, most likely to a ghetto or concentration camp. From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
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Curation of Diverse Art Resources
Additional Resources