Thank you for your interest in the Student Voices Campaign
The Student Voices Campaign (SVC) invites students to make videos that communicate
their creativity and passion for the arts and share them with their local school board by
April 1, 2016. This fall, the California Alliance for Arts Education will release a Teacher’s
guide so that the campaign can be used as a project-based learning opportunity in
classrooms.
We are looking for teachers to pilot the guide in their classrooms between January 1 –
April 1, 2016. We are seeking teachers from a variety of subject areas (Media Arts,
Theater, Art, Music, History/Social Study, CTE and English) grades 7-12 to participate.
Sign up below to pilot the guide in your classroom.
About the guide: With support from the California Arts Council, the Alliance is
developing a classroom guide that will:
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Offer several tracks from a very simple process that takes just 6 classroom
periods to a longer engagement that goes more deeply into art-making and civic
engagement
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Use California Social Studies Standards and National Core Media Arts Standards
to guide process, outcomes and assessment; other Arts and Common Core
Standards will also be referenced as appropriate.
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Provide a pathway for students to participate in community discussions and
planning related to district’s Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs)
Pilot the Guide: We are looking for 5-10 public school teachers to pilot the guide, offer
feedback, and provide documentation of their experience for a stipend of $275. In
addition, these teachers will be eligible for a travel scholarship to attend and bring one
student to the Student Voices Screen & Digital Empowerment event in May 2016 in San
Francisco.
Here’s the feedback and documentation we require pilot teachers to submit:
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Surveys: Teachers and students complete surveys at the start and end of the
project.
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Written documentation: Teachers provide 500 words of written feedback on
one of several topics that will be published on the campaign site line with credit.
Topics might include (Tips to help other teachers succeed, What innovations did
you try? Overcoming obstacles, Ah ha moments). We also ask teacher’s to share
any materials they created or used for the project (Specific warm up exercises for
Anticipatory sets, sample handouts or Powerpoints presentations)
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Documentation: Help us promote your project and the benefits of arts learning!
We ask that you/your students provide a total of 3-4 short videos (30 seconds to
2 minutes each) that document the project. Documentation can include:
o Student(s) offering one tip to other students doing the project
o Student(s) speaking to other students about what they got out of the
project
o Teacher speaking about one benefit of the project
o Teacher offering one tip to other teachers who use the guide
Pilot teachers will be invited to participate in check in calls and webinars to support their
work throughout the year.
Apply to be a pilot teacher: To apply to be a pilot teacher, please fill out the
information below and return it to Sibyl O’Malley at sibyl@artsed411.org by September
6, 2015. Our goal is to assemble a diverse cohort of teachers from a variety of subject
areas, grades levels and parts of the state and whose classrooms together represent
California demographics.
1. Your name, email and mailing address and phone number:
2. Name of school district where you teach:
3. Name of school:
4. Grade(s) you teach:
5. Subject(s) you teach:
6. How many classroom students will participate?
7. Are you willing to partner with another teacher in your school? What subject do
they teach?
8. Briefly describe the size and demographics of the school where you teach
including ethnicity and economic background.
9. Who in your school community might be interested in this project and help
promote the Student Voices Campaign?
10. What kind of video equipment do your student have access to school? (Camera
equipment? Editing software? Youtube access? WeVideo access? ipads or
tablets that students can use outside of class?)
11. Anything else you would like us to know? (optional)