Deer Isle-Stonington Schools: launching lifelong learners and
responsible citizens able to keep our island vital.
The Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program
Join us for our third season of professional development events! Opera House Arts and the Deer Isle-Stonington school district were proud to have been named, in 2007, one of 14 new national partners--the only ones in Maine. We know that teachers are dynamic figures in students' experiences in school. Their influence on learning and attitutes is profound. Our partnership is devoted to building on our area's unique creative heritage by using teaching artists to help teachers: enhancing professional opportunities to assist teachers in understanding the beauty, depth, and range of the arts; and to integrate artistic skills and practices into the curriculum; thereby working toward a model for the sustainability of small, rural schools.
2009-10 Schedule
of professional development events for teachers
- For more information on arts integration in our schools, click here
- Kennedy Center Partners in Education
- Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School
Sean Layne, Living Pictures: Deepening Comprehension and Assessment Through Drama, March 15-16, 2010
KENNEDY CENTER MASTER TEACHING ARTIST SEAN LAYNE focuses on a creative, controlled, low-risk drama technique known as tableau. Sean's teaching strategies can be used in the classroom to help students apply and expand their knowledge and understanding in subjects across the curriculum through the creation of physical "living pictures;" as well as for classroom management and building teamwork. Participants learn how to build students' vocabulary, focus, and concentration; and how to use text that students are required to read as a springboard to create living pictures. These tableaus help students examine the meaning of the text passages and provide teachers with instant assessment of student comprehension of specific facts, concepts, or big ideas. The engaging process deepens reading comprehension, models differentiated instruction, and motivates all types of learners. Layne is an actor, director, and the founder of Focus 5 Inc, a national arts education consulting company. He leads residencies and designs and presents workshops for teachers nationwide for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has worked in the field of arts integration for over 20 years. WORKSHOP HELD AT THE STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE ON DEER ISLE, AND DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Partial funding provided by the Maine Arts Commission.
Rosalind Flynn, Dramatizing the Content: Curriculum-based Readers Theater, October 27-29, 2009
Dr. Rosalind Flynn's CRBT Readers Theatre is a rehearsed group presentation of a script that is read aloud rather than memorized. This workshop’s activities involve teachers in the planning, writing, rehearsing, staging, and assessing of CRBT scripts. Learn to work with your students to create and present short scripts that inform about a curriculum topic and engage students in the excitement of learning and presentation.Repeatedly reading and rehearsing scripts based on curriculum content increase the likelihood that students will practice fluent reading, retain information, and perform better on assessments. These activities merges drama, theater, writing, reading, speaking, listening, and content learning. Books and workshop packets, including samples of scripts, guidelines, assessment criteria and tools, and other resources, are included in fee. This workshop addresses all curriculum areas and many national and state standards of learning, and includes strategies for Math and Science teachers! WORKSHOP HELD AT THE STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE ON DEER ISLE, AND DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Partial funding provided by the Maine Arts Commission.
Register by calling 207-367-2788, e-mail, or through our on-line ticket sales.
Swapping Fish Tales, Alaska to Maine
The Deer Isle-Stonington and Juneau, Alaska KC partnership teams applied for and received a project grant to collaborate over the next two years in a classroom-based, professional development project focused on integrated arts learning.
"Swapping Fish Tales" links theater, music, creative writing and visual/media arts to science and technology themes and standards. The project will include a series of two, stipended, two and a half-day weekend Arts Retreats, lead by experienced local Teaching Artists; and inclassroom mentoring and support from Teaching Artists.
The credit workshops/retreats will involve participants in experiential learning in creative interviewing processes, whereby they and students interview local fisherman and scientists about the industry, marine ecosystems and the future; digital communications, so that teachers are better equipped and confident in the use of programs including but not limited to Google Sites; Blogger; Facebook; Twitter; collaborative gaming software; iMovie and Garage Band; theater and/or media arts, set design and musical composition, with the goal of producing a theater and/or video piece in each location that includes music and visual/digital components reflecting and communicating out what they have learned in their investigations and interviews.
call 207-367-2788 for more information.
