ELIGIBLE: ALL RI PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ARTS EDUCATORS (AND PARTNER TEACHERS)
The Rhode Island Arts Learning Network is accepting applications from high school arts educators for ARTS PASSPORT.
PURPOSE:
- to develop equal access to professional arts experiences for all Rhode Island high school students, especially as they work toward meeting the arts graduation requirement and Arts Grade Span Expectations
- to encourage arts educators and their students to find interdisciplinary ways to work on PBGR requirements with other subject areas
Professional arts experiences available include music, visual arts, dance, and theatre at participating organizations such as Trinity Rep, RIC Performing arts series, RISD Museum, First Works, Gamm Theatre, Second Story Theatre, RI Philharmonic, FusionWorks, Festival Ballet and many more. Participating teachers and students may attend events/exhibits in any artistic discipline.
We are looking for arts educators who are creatively exploring how to meet the arts graduation requirement and Arts GSEs, and who are teaching at least one class of juniors or seniors. We are also looking for arts educators who are willing to partner with an ELA teacher on the "responding" component of the arts requirement. Additional subject area partners in the humanities are also considered, since effective student curriculum, exhibitions, senior projects, and portfolios are often interdisciplinary in nature.
PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
- Free student/teacher admission to participating RI professional arts organizations' and college/university REGULAR programming, primarily evenings and weekends
- Teaming with ELA and humanities teachers whenever possible, to help them understand how the arts relate to writing and other non-arts aspects of the graduation requirement (writing a critique of a performance as a common assignment for English/theatre, for example)
- Opportunities for students to share work across districts with each other on-line through a new component of the Arts Learning Network website
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