Arts Integration Professional Development 2015-16
Workshops at Kenmore
Looking at Art and Writing
Analyzing art is a meaningful experience which helps students to think critically as artists, writers, and
historians. Learn a process for analyzing visual art with students adapted from Melanie Rick. After
analyzing works of art learn how to make visual arts a catalyst for writing in your classroom.
Date: Monday, October 19, 2015, 3:00-6:00 p.m. or Thursday, January 7, 2016, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Documenting Arts Integration Lessons in your Classroom
Each Kenmore teacher is expected to document two of their arts integrated lessons. (One first semester
and one second semester). During this workshop, participants will learn what components a good
documentation has, learn the variety of ways a lesson can be documented and look at several different
examples. A follow up work session will also be offered.
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015, 3-5:00 p.m. or Monday, December 14, 2015, 3-5:00 p.m.
Documentation Work Sessions: February 1, 2016, 1:30-3:30 or February 2, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Kennedy Center Workshops
Register online at kennedy-center.org/workshops
Telling Your Story through the Beat of Jazz
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Immerse your students in the rich history of jazz as you trace it roots and influences through African
traditional chants, work songs, spirituals, ragtime and the blues. Then learn strategies aligned with the
Writer’s Workshop, to engage your students in writing their won blues songs that express their
emotions. $32.00 (includes CD)
Traveling to the Past: Trick Photography for Historians
Date: Monday, January 11, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Step into the past through “trick photography” a process where students use free Web 2.0 technology
to place posed photographs of themselves into historical settings. This easy-to-learn technique helps
the “selfie” generation empathize with historical figures and everyday people from past generations in
order to write from various historical perspectives. Bring your laptop and a camera or smartphone for
this exciting workshop. $20
Hip-Hop Poetry: Teaching Content through Songwriting
Date: Monday, March 14, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
The exciting world of hip-hop songwriting can be a hook for engaging students in the writing process. In
this workshop, learn to help students deepen their understanding of other content areas by writing hiphop songs using graphic organizers and creative techniques. $20
Climatic Consequences: Thinking Critically Through Drama and Science
Date: Monday, February 22, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Integrating drama and science can engage students in thinking critically about big ideas that have reallife applications. In this workshop, learn ways to use drama strategies to guide students in imaging
themselves as scientists in order to critically examine the causes and effects of the 1930s Dustbowl
disaster and propose theoretical solutions. This process can then transfer to students investigating
other real-world issues. $20
STEAM Poetry: Understanding Science through Metaphor
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
From tiny atoms to vast galaxies, scientists try to explain things that cannot be seen. In this workshop,
learn strategies to guide students in creating effective metaphors to explain scientific phenomena and
writing poetry to demonstrate their understanding of scientific content. Experience the “Consultation
Station” a strategy for coaching students to reach their potential as poets of the scientific world. $20
Digital Books and Movies that Matter: Using Media Tools to Support Behavioral Goals
Date: March 10, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Meeting individualized social and behavioral goals for students with disabilities can be overwhelming. In
this workshop, learn how to help students meet these goals by creating their own social stories and
video models using apps for iPads while drawing on principles of digital design. iPads will be provided
for use during the workshop. $20
From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Decoding Heightened Language
Date: Thursday, January 7, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Although many students find Shakespeare’s language challenging they already possess the skills to
interpret his words. Students decipher heightened language every time they listen to the lyrics of rap
and hip-hop. In this workshop, explore ways to help students apply their interpretive language skills to
make the study of Shakespeare engaging as well as productive. $20
Wide-eyed wonder: Art, Architecture, and Innovation
Date: Thursday, December 3, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Nine contemporary American artists have transformed the newly renovated Renwick Gallery (reopening
to the public on November 13) into an immersive “cabinet of wonders”, creating installations that
respond to the building’s historical architecture. In this special evening for educations, be some of the
first to wander through these art installations and wonder at how artists use unique materials,
innovative technology, and meticulous labor to inspire aw and excitement, helping use see spaces and
ideas in new ways. Spend the evening touring the galleries, hearing from curator Nicholas Bell and
enjoying a reception in the Grand Salon. $25
Smithsonian American Museum of Art
Register online at: http://americanart.si.edu/education/dev/
American Experience in the Classroom (Launch Party)
October 3, 2015 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
The American Experience in the Classroom is a new online resource that features artworks from
the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection that bring to life selected key moments in
our nation's history, from the emergence of our nation to contemporary life. Primary sources,
media, and related artworks enrich the dialogue between artworks and historical eras. Explore
common threads that link artworks across time periods in American history and take home
resources that will help start the school year.
Location: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's MacMillan Education Center
Fee: FREE (includes refreshments and resources)
Spark Student Writing with American Art and Portraiture
Presented with the National Portrait Gallery
November 7, 2015
9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
How can analyzing art inspire student writers and engage critical thinking skills? Explore the
connections among social studies, English language arts, and visual arts in this session with the
National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Teachers will discuss
artworks from each museum and participate in object-focused activities with educators who
model effective teaching strategies and link to standards. During a collaborative reflection and
planning period, teachers will design art-related writing prompts that link to the Common Core
State Standards.
Location: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's MacMillan Education Center
Free
Show, Don't Tell: Improving Narrative Nonfiction at the Renwick Gallery
January 23, 2016
9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
As students are increasingly required to write nonfiction texts across the curriculum, how can
they write about their world both accurately and creatively? The Renwick's wonder-filled,
immersive gallery environments provide the background for a workshop focused on addressing
the challenges of establishing and maintaining the line between fact and fiction while using the
writer's palette evocatively. Take home classroom-ready writing strategies as well as your own
writings.
Location: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. (at 17th Street), Washington, D.C.
Fee: $10 (includes refreshments)
Engaging Students in Design Thinking
Presented with the National Portrait Gallery
March 5, 2016
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Artists can raise our awareness of issues of the past and present and help us imagine alternatives
for the future. In this workshop, museum educators will use artworks as a springboard for
engaging participants in the design thinking process: discovery, interpretation, ideation,
experimentation, and evolution. Teachers will consider how to integrate design thinking into
lessons that challenge students to identify and address problems that may challenge scientists,
historians, and writers.
Location: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's MacMillan Education Center
Fee: $10 (includes refreshments)
Perspectives on History: Designing Change
Presented with the National Postal Museum
April 2, 2016
9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Artists express powerful opinions about defining moments and movements in American history.
Their images may help raise public awareness or call the viewer to action. Zoom in on postage
stamps and stand back from wall-sized murals to see how design, social issues, and persuasion
come together in meaningful ways. Take home strategies for engaging students in evidencebased reasoning, argumentation, and persuasive writing.
Location: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's MacMillan Education Center
Fee: $10 (includes refreshments)
National Gallery of Art
Register online at: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/teacherworkshops.html
Thinking Routines to Integrate Art and Support Literacy
Two-part program: Wednesdays, November 4 and December 2, 2015
4:00–6:30 p.m.
Learn to integrate art into your curriculum to support literacy and a culture of thinking in your
classroom. Engaging works of art as visual “texts,” participants will practice careful
observation, evidence-based responses, and purposeful speaking and listening. This two-part
workshop introduces and deepens understanding of thinking routines: short, easy-to-learn
structures designed by Harvard Project Zero. Instructional tools will be linked to Common Core
State Standards. An assignment to do between sessions will encourage practice of and reflection
upon the pedagogies taught.
Artful Orchestra
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Repeat date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
4:00–6:30 p.m.
How does one’s understanding of a work of art develop? This workshop will consider the power
of careful observation, attentive listening, imagination and collaboration in exploring a work of
art. Using thinking routines and creative storytelling techniques that bring a work to life through
sound, the workshop will model ways to cultivate the dispositions of observation and
description, interpretation, and curiosity. We will conclude with time to reflect on the experience
and consider how these approaches might support learning across disciplines. (No music
experience required).
Art and Remembrance
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Repeat date: Saturday, March 12, 2016
10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
This cross-disciplinary workshop focuses on Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Shaw Memorial,
commissioned in the early 1880s and dedicated as a monument on Boston Common in 1897.
This iconic sculpture commemorates Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th
Massachusetts, the first Civil War regiment of African Americans enlisted in the North.
Activities will explore the historical significance of the troop by examining primary sources and
creative tributes in poetry and music inspired by these men and the monument to their bravery
and sacrifice.
National Portrait Gallery
Register on-line:
http://npg.si.edu/education/teachprog.html?utm_source=TD+September+16%2C+2015&utm_ca
mpaign=TD+September+16%2C+2015&utm_medium=email
Using Portraiture to Teach a Socratic Seminar
Saturday, October 24, 2015
9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
The Portrait Gallery has teamed up with an eighth-grade U.S. history
teacher to consider the Socratic seminar in the context of portraiture. The
Socratic method involves a shared dialogue between teacher and students—
the teacher leads by posing thought-provoking questions, and students
engage by asking questions of their own. In this workshop, facilitators will
model the method, considering text, both visual and written, from
nineteenth-century U.S. history. Participants will then participate in a
Socratic seminar, and finally time will be given for participants to create
their own seminar . . . all through the lens of portraiture!
Sparking Student Writing with American Art and Portraiture
Presented with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saturday, November 7, 2015
9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
How can analyzing art inspire readers and writers across the
humanities while also engaging critical thinking skills? Explore
the connections among social studies, English language arts, and
visual arts in this session with the National Portrait Gallery and
the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Teachers will discuss
artworks from each museum and participate in object-focused
activities with educators who model effective teaching strategies
and link to standards. During a collaborative reflection and
planning period, teachers will use these objects as writing
prompts and to teach the Common Core State Standards.
Portraiture and Math
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
5:00–8:00 p.m.
Did you know that the eyes mark the halfway point on the human head? The
average head is three eyes wide? And the lips are halfway between the nose
and the chin? There’s a lot of math in creating a portrait or drawing the
figure. Artists use fractions and geometric shapes to measure out the figure
and the face to make sure everything stays in proportion. In this workshop,
we’ll take a look at the math behind the creative process. Using figure
drawing to teach math gives students a new context for learning their
fractions and geometric shapes.
Engaging Students in Design Thinking
Presented with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saturday, March 5, 2016
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Artists can raise our awareness of issues of the past and present and help us imagine alternatives for the
future. In this workshop, museum educators will use artworks as a springboard for engaging participants
in the design thinking process: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, and evolution.
Teachers will then consider how to integrate design thinking into lessons that challenge students to
identify and address problems that scientists, historians, and writers have been grappling with
throughout American history.
Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
5:00–8:00 p.m.
“Eye Pop” examines twenty-first-century celebrity and achievement in the
context of portrait-making. The concept of achievement is a traditional
American idea, but how do we measure it today, when everything is reduced
to online popularity? From surfers to scientists, athletes to actors, “Eye Pop”
uses the National Portrait Gallery’s recent acquisitions to survey the
landscape of American culture and question celebrity and peel back its
layers. Who will be in the limelight five years from now? Asma Naeem,
assistant curator for prints and drawings, will guide participants through the
exhibition. Participants will brainstorm ways to integrate this exhibition into
classroom instruction.