Fine Arts Communities
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Purpose:
Building on this year’s Enrichment Core Curriculum Community success, we are excited to share our expanded community offerings for the 2023-2024 school year. These targeted communities will provide Enrichment Core teachers the ability to collaborate with other like professionals (ie, middle school band, high school media arts, musical theater director) from across the region to take part in collaborative conversation, learning, sharing, and creation. These communities will provide focused support to those teachers that are often “on an island” and provide them with collaborative learning opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
Dates:
Communities will meet 3 times a year. We design the communities to be flexible as we know the life of a Enrichment Core educator and the changes that happen during the different seasons of the year. Community dates will take place late September-October, January-February, April-beginning of May.
Fine Arts Leadership Community
Continuing the work this community started in 2022-23. This community focuses on work towards advocacy, program design, and other important factors that affect the fine art departments UPK-12. This community further encourages the growth and conversations regarding building strong Fine Arts programming from the Fine Arts Director/Teacher Leaders' voices.
The community focuses on the collaboration and needs of elementary art teachers from across the region. Specific attention to topics surrounding standard design, lesson share, demo instruction, classroom techniques and strategies, collaborative support, materials and more.
The community focuses on the collaboration and needs of the middle school art teachers from across the region. Specific attention to topics surrounding standard design, lesson share, demo instruction, classroom techniques and strategies, collaborative support, materials and more.
This community is for teachers across the region looking towards implementation of the new standards for Media Arts and designing curricular work in Media arts. Focus based towards the growth of digital design and technology. Areas include graphic design, photography, digital photography, videography, film, cinema, and more. Conversation about portfolio creation/assessment, lesson share, demo, technique, and more included.
Community focuses on all aspects of teachers connecting 2D design in schools across the region such as drawing, paintings, observational drawing, landscape, figure drawing, watercolor. Conversations about portfolio creation/assessment, lesson share, demo technique, and more included.
Community focuses on all aspects of teachers connecting from across the region on 3D design such as ceramics, pottery, sculpture, woodworking, metal design, jewelry making, and other industrial materials. Conversations about portfolio creation/assessment, lesson share, demo technique, and more included.
Community focuses on the development of theater/stage craft in schools across the region. Conversations around character development, staging, blocking, producing, choreography, lighting, sound design, recruitment/ retention, directing, and more.
Developing Instrumental Community (4-8)
This community looks to the development of the beginning stages of instrumental students in orchestra and band across the region. Focuses of these communities will look to help lead and facilitate the sharing of techniques for beginners, lesson design, literature selections, recruitment and retention, sequencing of instruction, and more. Teachers will get to collaborate with instrumental teachers (i.e. strings with strings, wind/brass with wind/brass).
Secondary Instrumental Community (9-12)
This community looks to the development of the continuation of instrumental studies for students in orchestra and band across the region. Focuses of these communities will look to help lead and facilitate the sharing of lesson design, techniques, literature selections, recruitment and retention, sequencing of instruction, and more. Teachers will get to collaborate with like instrumental teachers (i.e. strings with strings, wind/brass with wind/ brass).
Elementary General Music Community (K-6)
This community is an extension of the Elementary Music Collaborative that will foster elementary music opportunities for teachers to have the ability to come together and connect with teachers from across the region to share lesson ideas, music childhood development, song share, instructional practices, and more. Community time will also review applications of instruction from the EMC guest clinicians.
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Secondary General Music Community (7-12)
This community looks to enhance the instruction and re-imagination of the general music classroom in the 21st century with teachers from across the region. Conversations of popular music making, technology, no-traditional ensemble, composition, and design will be focused on with connection to the standards. Community will focus on collaboration on creation of curriculum that meets our students with new ways of onboarding students into music programs who may not be the traditional ensemble student.
Developing Choral Community (4-8)
This community looks to the development of the beginning stages of chorus education across the region. Focuses of these communities will look to help lead and facilitate the sharing of techniques for beginning voices, vocal changes, lesson design, literature selections, recruitment and retention, sequencing of instruction, and more.
Secondary Choral Community (9-12)
This community looks to the development of the continuation of chorus education across the region. Focuses of these communities will look to help lead and facilitate the sharing of techniques for maturing voices, vocal changes, lesson design, literature selections, recruitment and retention, sequencing of instruction, and more.
This community looks to develop conversations around sequencing and instruction based on how students learn music and the best practices for enhancing literacy skills within the classroom. Framework design looks at pedagogical creation from Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly, and Music Learning Theory. This community’s development is based on the request of teachers K-12 with creating foundations from the most current research in music literacy and educational knowledge.
This community will focus on the creation and development of curriculum writing and design towards vertically aligning Physical Education departments UPK-12 based on the newest NYSED Physical Education standards. The group will partake in dialogue surrounding the wellness needs of their schools/community and how a robust Physical Education program can work to address some of those issues. This community will provide collaborative space to encourage the growth and leadership of its participants, so we can build strong Physical Education programming from the teachers’ voices.
