Leadership Team

Episode # 14

At Lusher Elementary School in New Orleans, principal Kathleen Hurstell Riedlinger works closely with a Leadership Team of classroom and arts teachers. The team
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Three Leaders at Arts-Based Schools

Episode # 13

Three administrators provide instructional leadership and solve day–to–day challenges at arts–based schools serving diverse student populations. In Brooklyn, principal Martha Rodriguez–Torres describes her role as "politician, social worker, parent, and police officer," and says that her primary responsibility is to "provide teachers the resources they need to fulfill the program." In Georgia, principal Sandra McGary–Ervin encourages use of the arts to achieve the school
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Borrowing from the Arts to Enhance Learning

Episode # 12

To add vitality and context to day–to–day learning experiences, three teachers use techniques drawn from the arts that engage their students
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Students Create A Multi-Arts Performance

Episode # 11

A team of arts specialists and classroom teachers at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans guides kindergarten and fourth–grade students in creating an original work based on Cirque du Soleil
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Bringing Artists to Your Community

Episode # 10

Successful collaborations between classroom teachers and artists who come for a residency enrich the curriculum of this rural school in Idalia, Colorado. A visiting actor brings story–telling and vocabulary to life for kindergarten and fourth–grade students and their teachers, while a musician engages first– and third–grade students in writing songs that relate to subjects they are studying.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Collaborating with a Cultural Resource

Episode # 9

A fourth–grade teacher and a museum educator in New Orleans collaborate to develop a unit of study with ties to language arts, social studies, and visual art. Students explore the work of a well–known artist, visit an exhibition of his work, meet for a drawing lesson alongside the Mississippi River, and create poems and pictures that they proudly display to their parents.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Working with Local Artists

Episode # 8

Students and teachers at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, benefit from the school
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Developing An Arts-Based Unit

Episode # 7

A team of first– and second–grade teachers at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans plans a year–end project that will let students show what they have learned in science, math, and English. The students write and perform an original play, using a painting by Breughel and an opera by Stravinsky as their starting points.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Teaching Visual Art

Episode # 6

Two visual art specialist teachers use contrasting interpretations of the human face to explore inquiry–based instruction and various techniques in visual art. Pamela Mancini, the visual art teacher at Helen Street School in Hamden, Connecticut, uses portraits to foster inquiry and self-expression with a class of fifth-graders. At Ridgeway Elementary School in White Plains, New York, MaryFrances Perkins introduces mask–making to a second–grade art class. In making their own masks, students examine the concept of symmetry, study the vocabulary word for the day, and learn that masks are found in cultures throughout the world.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Teaching Theatre

Episode # 5

Two specialists work on basic theatre skills with children of various ages, and use theatre education as a gateway to other kinds of learning. At Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans, Amanda Newberry
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Teaching Music

Episode # 4

Two music specialists from arts–based schools demonstrate different approaches to serving diverse student populations. At Harmony Leland Elementary School in Mableton, Georgia, all 500 students study the violin. Their classes with Barrett Jackson become lessons in character and discipline. At Smith Renaissance School of the Arts in Denver, Sylvia Bookhardt and a class of fifth–graders explore the Renaissance through choral singing.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Teaching Dance

Episode # 3

Two teachers with contrasting training and approaches to teaching bring rich dance experiences to students at their arts–based schools. Kathy DeJean, the dance specialist at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans, promotes inquiry and self-expression in a multi-grade dance class. Scott Pivnik, a former physical education teacher at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, uses African dance as a gateway to geography, writing, and personal growth for a class of second–graders.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Expanding The Role of the Arts Specialist

Episode # 2

Three arts teachers work with colleagues around their schools, using collaborative techniques that go beyond the traditional work of arts specialists. Kathy DeJean is a dance artist at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans; Mary Perkerson is the visual art teacher at Harmony Leland Elementary School in Mableton, Georgia; and Amanda Newberry is the theatre specialist at Lusher.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Introducing Arts Education

Episode # 1

This program includes three segments: What Is Arts Education? (14 minutes) shows a montage of insights from teachers and administrators, plus examples of successful arts instruction in classrooms across America. What Are the Arts? (5 minutes) presents teachers, administrators, students, and parents who offer thoughtful and sometimes humorous comments on what the arts mean to them. In How Do You Know They
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 22 min
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