Arts for All Teaching Artist Training Program -

Arts for All Teaching Artist Training Program - Application deadline is Wednesday, November 4, 2009

2010 Application
Due Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Presented by Arts for All<http://lacountyarts.org/artseducation.html>, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Armory Center for the Arts, the Music Center, and Culver City Unified School District

The Arts for All Teaching Artist Training Program is a comprehensive professional development program in Los Angeles County that prepares teaching artists to provide standards-based curriculum to schools and gives arts administrators the tools to assess the quality of their teaching artists. This hands-on, interactive program provides artists and arts administrators the opportunity to learn, practice and deepen their knowledge of arts education in a laboratory setting in Culver City Unified School District. Currently in its 8th year, the program has trained over 300 teaching artists and arts administrators.

OVERVIEW
Arts for All's Teaching Artist Training Program annually accepts 16 professional artists, 4 per discipline in music, dance, theater, and visual arts, and up to 6 arts education administrators to participate in a 21-week course culminating in the presentation of sequential lessons in Culver City Unified School District K-8 classrooms. Participants receive a Professional Designation in Arts Education certificate upon the successful completion of this training program.

This course occurs on Thursday afternoons from January 7 through June 3, 2010.

Please click here<http://www.laartsed.org/docs/2010TATP_announcement.pdf> to download 2010 application announcement.
Please click here<http://www.laartsed.org/docs/2010TATP_application.pdf> to download 2010 application.

Application deadline is Wednesday, November 4, 2009 (emailed, postmarked or faxed).
Registration fee is $175.00* (includes fingerprinting fees, resource notebook, and refreshments).
Actual per person cost of $3,600 is generously subsidized by the Dana Foundation.
*due upon acceptance into the program

Participants will:
* Acquire in-depth knowledge of the California Content Standards, including Visual and Performing Arts Standards;
* Acquire knowledge of child development;
* Explore various teaching strategies and models;
* Acquire classroom management techniques;
* Explore interdisciplinary models;
* Develop an understanding of different assessment and evaluation methods

Eligibility Requirements:
* Prior experience teaching youth in the arts or working as an arts administrator;
* A commitment to improving oneself as a teaching artist or arts administrator;
* An interest in the artistic process, critical thinking and school relationships;
* A desire to work in groups and to give and receive critical peer feedback;
* Availability to participate in all program activities throughout the course of 6 months.

2010 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

PART I: LAYING THE FOUNDATION Thursdays, January 7 - February 11, 2010
In this 6 week (18 hours) workshop series, participants will receive in-depth training emphasizing the California Content Standards including Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards; acquire knowledge of child development issues; explore various teaching strategies and models; acquire classroom management techniques; integrate interdisciplinary models; and develop an understanding of different assessment methods. The coursework lays the foundation for teaching artist to craft their own six sequential lesson plans, which they will deliver to K-8 students in Part III and it prepares arts administrators to support teaching artists through observation, assessment and coaching.

PART II: OBSERVATION & PEER PRESENTATIONS Thursdays, February 18 - April 8, 2010
During this 8 week series (23 hours), teaching artists will be mentored by a master teaching artist from the Music Center and arts administrators will be mentored by program partners. In four arts discipline-based groups, participants will observe a master teaching artist teach a six-week residency in classrooms in the Culver City Unified School District. Participants will join in the classroom teacher/teaching artist planning meeting and observe the master teaching artist's sequential lessons. After each classroom lesson, participants will spend an hour with their mentor to break-down and discuss the lesson they observed. In addition, teaching artists will receive guidance from their mentor on the six sequential lessons that they are preparing on their own time while administrators will focus on observing and assessing high quality lesson planning and implementation. In preparation for Part III, teaching artists will conduct a teacher planning meeting and participate in two days of peer presentations to rehearse lessons and receive feedback from their mentors and peers, during which time administrators will observe strategies for peer review and techniques for eliciting constructive criticism.

PART III: PRACTICAL APPLICATION Thursdays April 15 - May 27, 2010
This 6 week series (12 hours), opens the classrooms of Culver City Unified School District to participants as their laboratory. Using the knowledge and skills learned over the past fifteen sessions, teaching artists will deliver six sequential lessons to a K-8 classroom and arts administrators put into practice observation, assessment and coaching skills. Each week, a mentor will observe the class and meet with participants following to reflect on the session and offer feedback.

CLOSING CLASS - Sharing and evaluation Thursday, June 3, 2010
This final session brings participants together with their fellow course participants, the mentor artists, program partners and the classroom teachers to share your experiences and to reflect on next steps. Future opportunities for training, employment, and inclusion on www.LAArtsEd.org<http://www.laartsed.org/> will be presented.

PARTNERS
PART I is taught by Lorraine Cleary Dale, Director of Professional Development at the Armory Center for the Arts. Since her position was created in 1996, Lorraine has trained artists, students, and pre- and in-service classroom teachers. She is an accomplished educator, national presenter, exhibiting artist, and arts education consultant. Lorraine served as a curriculum evaluator for the primary adoption of the Visual and Performing Arts instructional material for the California Department of Education. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Otis College of Art and Design in the Liberal Arts department.

PART II & III are coordinated by the Music Center's Director of Curriculum and Teaching Artist Training, Susan Cambigue-Tracey and Sandy Seufert, Music Center's Manager of Curriculum and Teaching Artist Development. Susan has been a nationally recognized dance educator as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in Schools Dance Program, performer, dance writer, and arts education consultant for 44 years. During this time she has also served as a teaching artist for The California Arts Project (TCAP) Open and Leadership Institutes, part-time dance faculty for LMU, and a dance education consultant/writer/workshop leader for Performing Tree and the Galef Institute. Sandy is a professional cellist and folk fiddler. She has played cello in the Bakersfield Symphony and the West Hollywood Orchestra and currently performs with the Culver City Symphony, where she is starting her 12th season. Most recently, Sandy was the Curriculum and Education Manager at LA Opera and prior to that was the Music Education Manager for The Da Camera Society, which presents the popular "Chamber Music in Historic Sites." Sandy also worked for over ten years in special education for Los Angeles Unified School District.

Now entering its fifth year as host district, Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD), is a vanguard Arts for All district. Inez S. Bush, MAEx, CCUSD Arts Consultant and Co-Chair of the CCUSD Arts for All Community Arts Team, implements and oversees district arts programs and initiatives; provides professional development to teachers; as well as guides teams of teaching professionals through the development of integrated arts curricula. In addition, she is a trained facilitator and co-founder, CEO and Creative Director of Gramercy Partners, Inc, a marketing communications and design firm.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This program is a key strategy of the Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, the County's strategic plan providing a series of policy changes and educational initiatives to restore K-12 education in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts, based on the California Visual and Performing Arts Standards, in each of the County's 81 school districts. To learn more about Arts for All please visit www.lacountyarts.org<http://www.lacountyarts.org/>.

Primary Funding provided by The Dana Foundation.

QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please contact Elisha Wilson Beach, Implementation Coordinator, Arts for All: LA County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education at artsforall@arts.lacounty.govlacounty.gov> or 213-202-5936.

Acclaimed Choir Director and Religious Music Scholar Comes to UCR

Acclaimed Choir Director and Religious Music Scholar Comes to UCR

On Thursday October 29, 2009, the Black Voice News will host a lecture and book signing with distinguished religious music scholar and choral director James Abbington. Co-sponsored by the Gospel Music History Project and the University of California, Riverside’s Department of Ethnic Studies and African Student Programs, the special engagement will take place at UCR’s new Highlander Union Building (HUB) in Room 302 South at 7pm. An Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Abbington is also the Executive Editor of GIA Publishers’ African American Church Music Series and has served as the musical co-director of the legendary Hampton University Ministers’ and Musicians’ Conference since 2000. According to Dr. Daniel E. Walker, Founding Director of the Gospel Music History Project and Research Associate at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, “Dr. Abbington is a real heavyweight when it comes to the study and performance of Black Sacred Music.” Added Dr. Dylan Rodriguez, chair of UCR’s Department of Ethnic Studies, “I hope we can keep co-sponsoring and endorsing this type of work. It is vital and inspiring.” The former National Director of Music for both the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the NAACP, Dr. Abbington holds an undergraduate degree in Music from Morehouse College and a Masters of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. An acclaimed performer, recording artist, and passionate presenter, his skills as an organist, conductor, arranger, and educator are unparalleled. As Rickerby Hinds, Associate Professor of Playwriting at UCR, comments, “It is very seldom that you get someone of Dr. Abbington’s status who makes the connection between theory and practice. He not only teaches it, he lives it.” Previously a Professor of Music in the Department of Fine Arts at Morgan State University, Dr. Abbington was also the former Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Among his publications include; Let Mt. Zion Rejoice! Music in the African American Church (Judson Press) and Readings in African American Church Music and Worship (GIA). He is also an associate editor for the best-selling African American Heritage Hymnal (GIA). During his visit to UCR Dr. Abbington will be speaking on his new work Let the Church Sing On: Reflections on Black Sacred Music. The book explores “TheSpiritual”, “Pioneering and Contemporary Hymn Writers”, and “Pastoral Considerations and Worship Resources.” In the words of Kenneth Simons, Director of African Student Programs, “Get ready to be educated and inspired!” For more information contact the African Student Programs Office at (951) 827-4576.