Arts for Educators Workshops
Our engaging professional development programs are designed to give classroom teachers and specialist teachers tools to enhance their lessons through arts integration. Depending on your goals, participants can learn:
- ways to integrate arts activities across the curriculum
- tips to accommodate different learning styles and motivate learners
- arts activities to supplement specific units of study
Our Arts for Educators Workshops are also great for:
- staff retreats and team-building activities
- PTO/PTA meetings
Tell us what you need and we will help you create an effective and popular event. For more information or to schedule a workshop, contact Julie Johnson at (314) 289-4120.
Arts for Educators Events
Arts Expo is an after school event to help educators plan arts programming for the next school year. Join us on March 3, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm at the 560 Music Building in University City, to preview new programs and discuss possible classroom experiences with our teaching artists and Springboard staff members. Click here for more information. (928 KB PDF)
The Connections Institute (233 KB PDF) is an annual two day conference that focuses on arts integration. This year, Springboard is partnering with the Center for Character and Citizenship and the theme will be arts integration & character education. The keynote presenter will be Peter Yarrow, entertainer extraordinaire of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. He is also the founder of Operation Respect (OR), an educational non-profit dedicated to creating safe, respectful, compassionate climates of learning for children. Participants work with speakers and facilitators to create lessons and learn innovative ways to incorporate the arts in their curriculum. Springboard invites K-8 teachers to join us for the 2010 Connections Institute on June 24-25 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. For more information or to apply to be a presenter, contact Kate Pitman at (314) 289-4120 or click here to register online today!
