March is Arts Education Month in California and an excellent time to share the power of arts education with others. Whether you choose to do this through email, a newsletter, website, social media post, or any other means, Arts Empower San Diego has put together a toolkit on the Arts Empower website to make this task easier. A new set of weekly social media posts for newsletters and other forms of communication, as well as a short paragraph supporting arts education are posted at the start of each month. Share the social media posts using #ArtsEmpowerSD and #theArtsMatter, and encourage your community to do the same! Visit the Arts Empower website today for the monthly toolkit. For more information about supporting arts education in your community, contact pauline.crooks@sdcoe.net.
Arts Empower San Diego is pleased to announce the return of the Arts Empower Ovation Awards! These awards recognize and honor individuals and organizations that are working to ensure every student in San Diego County is engaged in a personally relevant, equitable, standards-based arts education. This is the third of five regions to be recognized since February 2020 with plans to continue this honor for the remaining regions in the 2022-23 school year.
The Arts Empower Ovation Awards will be awarded through a social media celebration throughout the month of May recognizing districts in South San Diego County, Region 1: Chula Vista Elementary, Coronado Unified, National, San Ysidro, South Bay Union, and Sweetwater Union High. Nominations for Region 1 will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. March 25.
Awards will be given in the following categories: Creative Leader, Creative Student Leader, Artful Advocate, Artful Visionary, Creative Connector, Enduring Artful Learner, and Youth-Artist Transformation. Read the description and criteria for each award on the call for nominations website.
Everyone, including students, may nominate a student, parent, teacher, school leader, or community arts organization. Nominees will be selected for individual awards based on the narratives submitted in the application. Please share this information and the nomination links with your school community.
Please remember, I am here as a resource for you. You can reach out with your questions via email or phone, and if I don’t have the answers, I will do my best to connect you with someone who does.
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VAPA Coordinator, San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE)
858-295-8881
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Introduction to Arts Integration
Building an awareness of how to use theatre strategies to integrate arts can activate your curriculum in any content area. Introduction to Arts Integration is a free, online, asynchronous course developed by La Jolla Playhouse to guide educators through a deep understanding of the value of standards-based arts integration, how to develop an ensemble mindset in the classroom, assessment through the arts, and ways to connect community arts organizations to schools. The course includes example lesson plans, teacher testimony, and resources to guide arts integration into standards-based curriculum.
This course was designed through the Kennedy Center Partners in Education partnership between the La Jolla Playhouse, the Chula Vista Elementary School District, and SDCOE with funding provided by the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative. Visit this page to register for the course.
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La Jolla Playhouse Tech Theatre Intensive for Educators
Join the professionals from the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse for a fun-filled and action-packed three days of professional learning in technical theatre. This opportunity offers hands-on activities for the new theatre teacher who needs additional support to safely teach tech theatre as a course or the veteran theatre teacher who wants to reacquaint themselves with tech theatre best practices. Your three-day experience will be facilitated by veteran high school theatre teachers and La Jolla Playhouse Teaching Artists Julie Benitez and Kirsten Giard, experienced educators with nearly 60 years of teaching combined. You will also interact with professional artists and technicians working on La Jolla Playhouse productions. For more information, visit the La Jolla Playhouse website.
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Supporting Students with Events in Ukraine
Some students may have been following events in Ukraine or have overheard conversations and are curious about the cause and the impacts that this may have both globally and locally. To help students better understand this event and to place it in a broader context, SDCOE has created a guide for educators and families with history-social science, mental health, and social and emotional learning resources. These resources are not meant to be exhaustive, nor are they an endorsement of a particular political viewpoint.
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GROFF 2022
The Advanced High School art exhibition will be on view May 9-22 at San Diego City College Gallery and the call for entries is open until March 18. It is a juried show with up to six submissions allowed per teacher. The closing awards ceremony will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. May 22. Reach out to Elizabeth Wepsic wepsice@bishops.com with any questions and visit the 2022 GROFF Exhibition website to learn more.
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Arts Education Resource Organization (AERO) Arts Pack
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Arts Education Curriculum Units
Whether you are looking for new units to use with your students, plans to share with a substitute, or curriculum for students in quarantine due to COVID-19, you will want to check out the SDCOE units of study in grades K-12. Focused on grade-level essential learnings in each content area, these units were purposefully designed to integrate content (including the arts), and provide flexibility and choice. These open-source units are available in Google to ensure maximum flexibility for teachers to use them with their district’s preferred instructional platform.
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The Virtual Launch of the new Arts Education Framework was held on March 1 to kick off Arts Education Month in California. This event provided an opportunity to interact with members of the arts education community around California while learning about the purpose and development of the framework, experiencing highlights from each of the chapters, and gaining an understanding of how the framework assists us in supporting all learners. Whatever our role in the arts education community, this powerful document can guide us in designing and implementing a relevant, student-centered, standards-based arts education for all students.
The virtual launch event was recorded for everyone, whether you were able to attend the virtual launch and would like to revisit the content or had other commitments that did not allow you to attend. You will be able to watch the entire event or view one of three video segments based on your needs. You can find the videos and additional resources on the CalArtsEd Framework website, and the new Arts Education Framework can be found by visiting the California Department of Education website.
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Alice in Wonderland Virtual Field Trip
The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland, an original adaptation based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Produced by Poway OnStage, this virtual field trip includes pre-show learning modules and extension activities. Visit the Poway OnStage website for more information.
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FREE Virtual STEAM Orchestra Concert: ART + SCIENCE = VIOLIN
For the first time ever, our award-winning original educational orchestra program will be recorded and broadcast via YouTube for K-6 students to view safely from their classrooms!
Join the Classics Philharmonic Orchestra and Conductor Dana Zimbric in an engaging STEAM concert with Special Guest Keri Jhaveri from Arts Education Connection San Diego. Be “wowed” by the history, physics, culture, and versatility of the violin, and learn how art + science = violin. This concert will be filmed at the historic Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego.
The 40-minute recording can be viewed at your convenience on YouTube from April 4 to May 3. For any teachers with problems streaming YouTube into their classrooms, the recording will be broadcast via Zoom at 10 a.m., April 8, 15, 22, and 29. Registration required.
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La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour 2022: HOOPLA!
The 5th-grade talent show is approaching, and everyone is abuzz at Baldwin Elementary. Winston wants to win the talent show with his cheerleading routine to prove to others that he’s more than the unfriendly “Fishboy” nickname they call him. Introverted artist Gina wants nothing to do with the talent show, and she knows that the overzealous (and generally unpleasant) twin sensations, Randy and Brandy, are probably going to win it all anyway. But with the persistence of Elliott, the school’s new kid and resident rebel, these unlikely friends form Hoopla, a dazzling hula hooping trio, and help each other navigate through the pressures of being a kid. POP Tour is traveling around San Diego County Schools in April. Book POP Tour today!
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Connect Kids With Classical Music
La Jolla Music Society (LJMS) offers schools a variety of free education events to expose students to classical music. The LJMS Discovery Series program for schools allows students to learn about and connect with exciting young artists. The artists currently being highlighted include award-winning pianist Conrad Tao, tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher, and bassist and composer Xavier Foley. Learn more about this offering and other opportunities, including their complimentary education ticket program, by visiting the LJMS schools page.
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Registration Open for iVIE Festival
Student filmmakers can submit their creative entries to the 21st annual Innovative Video in Education Awards and Student Film Festival, better known as iVIE. The K-12 student video competition and festival is scheduled to take place in person June 4.
SDG&E, as a presenting sponsor, encourages students to submit videos about electric vehicles. Additionally, there are several new categories this year including animation, a music-centric genre, and using TikTok to make a positive impact. Submitted videos are judged by media professionals and educators curated by Media Arts Center San Diego and prizes are awarded to top categories. See complete details at the submissions webpage. The deadline for submissions is April 11.
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