Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Kinder Konzerts on the Road.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Lynne Beck: Fundraising, audience development, marketing; Kristi Gaudette: Education, artistic, disabilities specialist, community education; Kathleen Spehar: Artistic, general management, administration; Josh Wise: General management, administration; Hilary Smith: Fundraising, artistic, volunteerism; Justin Christy: Education, general management, administration; Al Onkka: Organizational development, education, audience development, marketing; Kevin Yang: Youth programming, community service, development, artistic; Sai Chang: Volunteerism, fundraising, general administration, youth programming; Caroline Taiwo: Artistic, audience development, marketing, organizational development.
ACHF Arts Education
Quantitative: FRIENDS will continue to work with inner-city Minneapolis Cityview Community School with a professional development session with resources for pre-k, k, and first grade teachers (approximately 190 students- 80% African-American) and bring these students to a Kinder Konzert at Orchestra Hall. Will add a new school to the program -Saint Paul's Linwood Monroe Arts Plus. Residency components include a planning session with teachers, Professional Development session with teachers, 4-day in each classroom workshops for pre-k, k, and first grade students, and in-school concert by members of the Minnesota Orchestra. Qualitative: FRIENDS will help teachers meet their learning goals by providing rich learning experiences with an interdisciplinary focus of connecting music and literacy. We expect gains in vocabulary development and language skills as well as visual discrimination by matching image to a spoken word. All activities are centered around a musical composition tied to book Max Found Two Sticks. FRIENDS will seek written assessments from teachers, specialists and teaching artists on the strengths and challenges of the project including results of pre-and post-testing. Post project reflection discussion with teachers and teaching artists; FRIENDS trained volunteers will observe and visit various classrooms and comment on student interest and engagement during teaching artists workshops and also comment on the skills and activities of the teaching artists.
The teachers in our discussions and surveys gained as much as the children in this residency. Several of the classroom teachers were not comfortable or confident in using music or music terms or rhythms to reinforce other learning, or in even using much music at all, other than very familiar songs. Students enthusiastically participated. (see 1. above).
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