Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference Logistics Packet

Inaugural

Woodruff Arts Center

Educator confErEncE

June 3-5, 2014

8:30am

8:45am

9am

9:15am

9:30am

9:45am

10am

10:15am

10:30am

10:45am

11am

11:15am

11:30am

11:45am

12pm

12:15pm

12:30pm

12:45pm

1pm

1:15pm

1:30pm

1:45pm

2pm

2:15pm

2:30pm

2:45pm

3pm

3:15pm

Energizer Speaker (9-9:45am) - Barry Stewart Mann

Energizer Speaker (9-9:45am) - Katherine Kelbaugh

Sessions from 10am - 12pm throughout the Arts Center

Sessions from 10am - 12pm throughout the Arts Center

Sessions from 1 - 3pm throughout the Arts Center

Sessions from 1 - 3pm throughout the Arts Center

Alliance Theatre and High Museum of Art

Preview Session

Alternate groups between previewing productions and browsing the galleries of

the High.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Young

Audiences Preview Session

Alternate groups between an open

Symphony Rehearsal and Young Audiences Teaching Artist performances.

Reflection and Closing (3-3:30pm) - Dave

Holland

Reflection and Closing (3-3:30pm) - Teri

Holbrook

Reflection and Closing (3-3:30pm) -

Virginia Hepner

Lunch (12-1pm) - Community Canvas

*Alliance Institute Teachers Specific LunchLunch (12-1pm) - Community Canvas

Lunch (12-1pm) - Community Canvas

School Administration Invited Roundtable

Luncheon

Logisitics and Questions (15 minutes)

Break/Head to Sessions Break/Head to Sessions Break/Head to Sessions

Energizer Speaker (9-9:30am) - Susan

Booth

Check in Check in Check in

June 3, 2014 June 4, 2014 June 5, 2014

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Sessions during Lunch! 12:00-1:00pm

Grade Session Title Presenter Day

ALL Grades Community Canvas Lunch

Karin Mervis Tuesday, Wednes-day, & Thursday

ALL Grades - Closed session for Current Alliance Theatre Partner Teachers

Alliance Theatre In-stitute for Educa-tors & Teaching Art-ists Lunch

Institute for Educa-tors & Teaching Art-ists Staff

Tuesday Only

Sessions on Wednesday, June 4th, 10am-12pm by Grade Level

Grade Session Title Presenter Focus Area

K-2 Designing My Dream Car Courtney Bry-ant

STEAM

3rd - 5th The iPad Comes Alive!: Aug-mented Reality and You

Jennifer Heyser STEAM

3rd - 5th Story Power: Strategies for Inte-grating Storytelling

Barry Stewart Mann

Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 Assess Reading Comprehension in the Classroom Using Drama Strategies

Jessica Espinoza

Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 Learning through Drama for the English Language Learner: Based on Best Practices from Georgia Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts

Kim Baran Differentiated Learning

K-5 Un-Common Core: Teaching Liter-acy Standards Through Visual Art

Drew Brown & Lauren Phillips

Literacy/Social Studies

6th-8th Redefining Craft in the Classroom Shannon Mulkey

Literacy/Social Studies

6th-8th No Mistakes! Tapping into a Child's Development throught the Playful Improvisation

Dave Holland Differentiated Learning

9th-12th Bookmaking 101: Summative As-sessments Never Looked So Good

Debi West Literacy/Social Studies

9th-12th Material Rescue: Using Design to Teach Lifecycle Analysis and Con-servation

Raja Schaar & Catherine Mul-ler

STEAM

Sessions on Wednesday, June 4th 1-3pm by Grade Level

Grade Session Title Presenter Focus Area

K - 2 "Yes, Let's!" . . . Active Engage-ment Strategies for the Class-room

Barry Stewart Mann & Jaehn Clare

Any Connec-tions

3rd - 5th Using Drama to Explore Key Sci-ence Concepts

Jessica Espinoza STEAM

3rd - 5th STEAM TEAMS: Working To-gether to Make the Connections/STEAM Using Design

Jeff Mather &Courtney Bryant

STEAM

3rd - 12th Dramaturgy by Students Across the Woodruff Arts Center

Kim Baran Any Connec-tions

K-5 Listening, Making Inferences, and Storytelling Through Col-laborative Composition

Janice Crews Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 Redefining Craft in the Class-room

Shannon Mulkey Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 No Mistakes! Tapping into a Child's Development throught the Playful Improvisation

Dave Holland Differentiated Learning

6th-8th Voices in Motion: Using Poetry and Dance in the Classroom

Theresa Davis/Lauren T.

Literacy/Social Studies

9th-12th Artifact-Based Learning in Sec-ondary Social Studies: How to let objects do the teaching

Esther Smith Literacy/Social Studies

6th-12th The iPad Comes Alive!: Aug-mented Reality and You

Jennifer Heyser STEAM

Sessions on Thursday, June 5th 10am-12pm by Grade Level

Grade Session Title Presenter Focus Area

K-2 Using Drama to Explore Key Jessica Espinoza STEAM

K - 5 Artful Reflections Darby Jones/Michele Mummert

Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 Collaboration in Music: Simple Games, Strategies, and Skill Development

Janice Crews Literacy/Social Studies

K-5 Un-Common Core: Teaching Literacy Standards Through Vis-

Drew Brown and Lau-ren Phillips

Literacy/Social Studies

K - 5 Drumming UP Cognition! Dave Holland Differentiated

K - 12 Reaching All Our Students Jaehn Clare Differentiated

3rd - 12th From the Stage to the Page: Us-ing Drama to Move Students Through an Exploration of Writ-ing

Ebony Tucker/Emily Yewell Volin

Any Connec-tions

6th-8th The Beautiful Enemy: Shape, Color, and Form of Cell Design

Ellen Mitchell STEAM

6th-8th Arts Bots: Integrating STEAM into the Classroom

Shannon Mulkey STEAM

6th-8th STEAM and Design Thinking Barry Stewart Mann, Jeff Mather, & Tafee

STEAM

6th-12th Collisions with Dance, Music, Visual Arts… Take Your Pick

Valetta Anderson Literacy/Social Studies

6th-12th Digital Storytelling John Doyle & Daryl Funn

Literacy/Social Studies

Sessions on Thursday, June 5th 1-3pm by Grade Level

Grade Session Title Presenter Focus Area

K - 2 Georgia Wolf Trap Story Basket: Bringing the Story to Life

Kim Baran Literacy/Social Studies

3rd - 5th We’re All in This Together: Cre-ating Meaning in Visual and Ver-bal Texts

Jennifer Heyser & Esther Smith

Literacy/Social Studies

3rd - 5th Peering into Paint: The Close Reading of Images

Teri Holbrook & Nicole Pourchier

Literacy/Social Studies

3rd - 5th STEAM and Design Thinking Barry Stewart Mann, Jeff Mather, & Tafee Patterson

STEAM

K - 5 Drumming UP Cognition! Dave Holland Differentiated

K-5 Collaboration in Music: Simple Games, Strategies, and Skill De-velopment

Janice Crews Literacy/Social Studies

6th-8th Arts Bots: Integrating STEAM into the Classroom

Shannon Mulkey STEAM

6th-8th Assess Reading Comprehension in the Classroom Using Drama Strategies

Jessica Espinoza Literacy/Social Studies

6th-12th Artifacts, Field books, and In-stallations--Investigating the world Through Artistic Eyes/ Science and Aesthetics

Ellen Mitchell STEAM

6th-12th Artful Reflections Darby Jones/Michele Mummert

Literacy/Social Studies

We will have more detailed maps when we release the spaces for each session, so

stay tuned! If you have any questions about anything you’ve seen please email

[email protected]. We look forward to learning with you.

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #WACEdConf2014 when you join us this summer!