January 2022
SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS NEWSLETTER
Dear Educators,

Happy New Year!! DC Collaborative is wishing you and your students an enriching, smooth, and healthy 2022! As we begin our winter education programs, we wanted to announce to we are keeping the Distance Learning Resource Database open throughout the entire winter cycle. This will allow you more autonomy to register and utilize resources on your own timing this cycle as we understand that routines and schedules are constantly changing.

In this January 2022 School Partnership Newsletter, you will also find information o the Teaching for Change Black Lives Matter Curriculum Fair and other PD opportunities for teachers.

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DC Collaborative Announcements
Stay Involved with DC Collaborative
YOUR VOICE MATTERS &
WE WANT TO HEAR IT!!

Have you been wanting to become more involved with the work of The DC Collaborative? Do you have opinions and suggestions that would improve our model to help serve you and your students better? Below you will find some ways to connect with us an integral part of the Collaborative process:

1) Complete our School Partner Interest Form! This will give us better insight into where you would like to plug into the work the DC Collaborative is doing and you feel you can best serve not only our students but the larger community of practice. Simply complete the Interest Form at your convenience.

2) Submit Photos, Testimonies, and Blogs: The excitement and level of engagement you observe in your students before, during, and after the arts and humanities programming must be heartwarming. We want to feature you and your students in our Story Bank blog and on our website. If you have pictures, video reactions, or if you are interested in submitting a blog post about your experience using the AHFES programming, please complete the Submission Form. We would be most grateful to see evidence of the transformative power of arts and humanities education.
 
As educators, your voice is ESSENTIAL in shaping and implementing this framework into your classroom, curriculum, and professional development.
Education Programs News
Registration for Asynchronous Education Programs Open through March!!!

DC Collaborative wants to thank you for your participation in our Fall cycle Education programs. To date, 38 DCPS and DCPCS school have requested over 500 education programs and have reached approximately 9,600 students with FREE Arts and Humanities education programming!

DLRD (Distance Learning Resource Database) programs
are VIRTUAL and ASYNCHRONOUS

PD (Professional Development) programs
FEATURED OPPORTUNITIES
Teaching for Change: Virtual Curriculum Fair: Black Lives Matter at School 2022

On Saturday, January 22, 2022 Teaching for Change will host a virtual curriculum fair featuring workshops, a keynote speaker, and time for educators to learn more about the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, taking place January 31-February 4, 2022.
Read about our D.C. area curriculum fair as well as our 2021, 2020, and 2019 curriculum fairs.
Workshops will include:
  • Art as Empathy: How an Ordinary D.C. Hero Invites Us to Discover Beauty Wherever We Are
  • Creating an Antiracist Classroom Library (with Lesson Plans) for YOUR Elementary Classroom
  • Culture as Resistance to Colonization: from 1619 to Today
  • Embodying and Practicing Empathy, Justice & Liberation through Slow Looking at Art
  • Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell
  • Lift Every Voice: The Arts as Social Protest
  • Narratives of Black Heritage in the Science Curriculum: Introduction to Keystone Passage Book Series
  • Voices from the Underground Railroad
Teacher Professional Development Opportunities
Ford's Theatre: The Mountaintop Teacher Preview Workshop

In this interactive workshop, educators will learn about Ford’s production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. On April 3, 1968, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and legacy. Educators will discuss the themes of the play, experience a lesson plan to prepare their students to see the show, and attend a performance after the workshop.

Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Educators
Inspired Child: Naptime U

Naptime U.™ is our professional development program for early childhood teachers. Our workshops, most of which take place during children’s naptime, are taught by master teaching artists and provide teachers with the skills and tools they need to be able to effectively integrate the arts into the classroom. Inspired Child is certified as a professional development provider by DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), and teachers who participate in Naptime U.™

Content Area: Arts (Dance/ Drama/ Music/ Visual Arts), English Language Arts, Math
Grade Level: Early Childhood (0-5), PreK, K Educators
Karen O. Brown: BookMaking for Every Student and Every Subject! (Professional Development)

From Pre-K3 to 12 and Professional Development for staff, bookmaking brings hands-on learning to all. Explore the simple Accordion Book to more complex structures, students learn easy techniques to create handmade books in the subject of your choice. Pick a topic you are working on and take learning to the next level with Teaching Artist Karen O. Brown. Karen inspires creativity and builds confidence in all students (and teachers!) as the classroom curriculum is explored in new ways.

Content Area: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Global Studies/ World Languages, Social Studies
Grade Level: Educators of all Grade Levels
The DRANREF Foundation The Abacus Project - PD for Educators

The Abacus Project invites teachers to explore Asian culture with their students through the world’s oldest calculator called a soroban. Students compare and contrast designs, then build their own using colorful beads and craft sticks. This activity helps develop concentration and promotes critical thinking. The curriculum blends the artistic process with problem solving capability which makes for an engaging experience for everyone.

Content Area: Global Studies/ World Languages, Math
Grade Level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Educators
Student Opportunities
Kennedy Center Education's New Exciting Spring Season

Theater, music, and dance performances have the power to move us deeply—transform us. Explore our programs and performances designed for educators, preK-12 students, families, and audiences of all learning abilities. Virtual Field Trips for school groups are available. Limited in-person school performances for March through May 2022 will be announced in late January. Please email kced@kennedy-center.org with any questions or complete the form below to join our mailing list and receive information on upcoming programs and performances from Kennedy Center Education.
Ways to Give
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DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative

The DC Collaborative is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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The DC Collaborative is a recipient of an FY21 General Operating Support Service Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
The DC Collaborative is proud to receive a grant for its Collective Impact work supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The DC Collaborative is the backbone support organization that leads members of the Any Given Child DC program, part of The John F. Kennedy  Center for the Performing Arts.