November 2021
SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS NEWSLETTER
Dear Educators,

We hope you are excited for the amount of opportunities in this month’s newsletter!

To celebrate this month, we have a great deal of teacher opportunities and news from our Educational Programs. To kick it off, we have ways to get involved with and to support the DC Collaboration. We then have multiple educational shows created by our members, centered around teaching kids about the world through art. 

And lastly, we have many opportunities for teachers to attend programs to help them later benefit children in the classroom. We hope you enjoy these programs, and hope to continue collaborating in the future. Have a thankful November!

Table of Contents:

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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 Program News
Program Assessments

Thank you to all of the educators, administrators, and students who have participated in our Fall 2021 virtual education programs thus far! If you and your students received a program during the month of October, we kindly ask that you submit all of the required assessments by Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Please reach out to Lauren Walker, Education Programs Assistant at lauren@dccollaborative.org if you have any questions regarding assessments.
FEATURED OPPORTUNITIES
National Geographic Society

Join National Geographic on Monday, November 15 at 1 p.m. ET for a Virtual Field Trip! Three storytellers share unique insights from their experiences as Native Americans through maps, photography, and stories. Hear from the creator of the Zuni Map Art project, a photographer from the Flathead Reservation in Montana who uses photojournalism to challenge stereotypes, and a young artist from the Anishinaabe and Onyota’a:ká nations whose artwork embraces his Indigenous heritage and brings attention to issues facing Indigenous people. The Virtual Field Trip is a free 35-minute program and features videos, Q&A segments, and supplementary materials. Register today.
Pulitzer Center

How can you find the underreported news stories that matter to you, and turn your responses into action? In this interactive workshop, participants will identify and summarize news stories they care about, make local connections to global issues, and propose potential solutions. They will then examine how to craft a persuasive letter to an elected representative in order to take civic action. Students who complete this workshop will be well-prepared to enter the Local Letters for Global Change writing contest (deadline: November 13) for the chance to win prizes and publication. More info below:
Teacher Professional Development Opportunities
Race and Representation: Depictions of Native Americans

Race and Representation: Depictions of Native Americans 
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
4:30–5:30 p.m.
 
Celebrate American Indian Heritage Month with us! Together, we will critically examine issues of representation and agency in select portraits of Native Americans from the museum’s collection. Educators will use thinking routines and analysis to discover how portraiture can illuminate complex narratives and offer perspective on who gets to tell the American story. 
The Kennedy Center:
Welcome, educators!
 
The Kennedy Center is focusing on developing digital education resources to ensure that students continue to have access to high quality arts education.
 
Pre-Registration for Schools
 
Three of our new Virtual Field Trips below are only available for a limited time in October through November and require pre-registration. These include:
 

A Wind in the Door
One of literature’s favorite heroines, Meg Murry, is back to join forces with her brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin for a fantastical adventure. Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger and director Nicole A. Watson bring the exciting sequel to Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved book A Wrinkle in Time to the stage. When an extraterrestrial being recruits the trio to fight an evil force, they’ll travel across the galaxy - and through the cells of a human body - to stop it. Available Nov. 1-21. 
 
In addition to the above Virtual Field Trips which require pre-registration, we are adding more free, on-demand performances which are open and available with no registration. Learn more about what's available now and our upcoming events. Information on the events above, and the ones that do not require registration, can be found on the button below.
 
Opportunities for Young Artists: 
For burgeoning artists, we offer specialized programs that offer training, exposure and guidance to build mastery and understanding of craft. Labs, class series, internships and competitions are a few of the opportunities to explore. Learn more below.
 
Additional Free Digital Education Resources
Teaching Artists Present: An online library of arts-based activities geared toward young learners in grades 2-6 and their families. 
Moonshot@Home: Bring the energy and the joy of the Moonshot studio home with 5 minute video tutorials of engaging activities for people of all ages. 
What I Do: Explore the behind the scenes decisions through the eyes of the artists who make them with 8-12 minute deep dive videos. 
Digital Resource Library: A free collection of hundreds of digital learning resources: lessons, articles, performance guides, how-tos, and much more. 
 
Any question should be sent to KCED@kennedy-center.org
Student Opportunities
Girls Rock! DC - We Rock! Camp

Adults deserve a fun camp experience, too! Girls Rock! DC's We Rock! Camp is a two-day retreat for adults to explore their creativity and connect with their inner rock star. It’s all the fun of our summer youth camp, condensed into two days for trans and cis women and non-binary and other gender expansive adults, ages 19 and up! 

We Rock! Camp is being held in-person November 20-21. At We Rock! Camp: you'll learn to jam on guitar, sing like a diva, or rock out on drums from local DC musicians; form a band with your fellow campers and collaboratively write an original song; and perform on stage with your new band at a live show for a real audience. No music experience necessary! Read all about We Rock! Camp FAQs below:
Girls Rock! DC

Girls Rock! DC is hiring for five Lead Instructors for the 2022 year. Lead Instructor is a new role, providing a stable, year-long opportunity for music instructors in DC. Lead Instructors will be responsible for providing instrument instruction and band coaching to participants at all of Girls Rock! DC’s youth and adult programs in 2022. They will also be responsible for contributing to curriculum design and coordinating with and supporting your fellow instructors and coaches. We are seeking Lead Instructors proficient in electric guitar, electric bass, drums, vocals, and/or keyboards, one Lead Instructor per instrument. Lead Instructors are compensated with $650 per month from January to December 2022, for a total of $7800. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis through December 10, 2021. Read more about the position and apply below:
Faction of Fools Theater Company, Inc: Bean and Widge Go to the Park

Watch "Bean & Widge Go to the Park!" from Faction of Fools Theatre Company and Adventure Theatre MTC

Join Faction of Fools in collaboration with Adventure Theatre MTC for this heartfelt and silly digital production that introduces climate change to kiddos (and adults) with a spirit of accessibility and hope. Bean is well meaning but chaotic. Widge is small but chock-full of gumption. They’ve come to Glen Echo Park to work on a school science assignment, but before they can even read it, they lose their homework and discover it has been ripped into pieces! Bean and Widge must search the park for the missing pieces, and along the way they meet new friends (fuzzy and human alike!), learn how they can make a difference in the fight against climate change, and become best friends. Fun for the whole family, but recommended for the elementary level.
Imagination Stage

Join us on November 18th for the LIVESTREAM premiere of the new play, '10 Seconds,' by Miriam Gonzales and directed by LeeAnet Noble.
'10 Seconds' is a play based on the ideas, conversations, and discoveries from two years of workshops between police and youth. The performance is recommended for ages 13+
This event is FREE and open to all. Register today!
Thank you to our Honorary Co-Chairs: Mayor Bowser, Jamie Raskin, and Chris Van Hollen.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Artful Movement

Virtual Field Trip
Available October 14–December 14, 2021
Available for Grades Pre-K–6
How do the acts of participating in conversations about art and engaging in movement promote social and emotional learning skills? Students will pair breath, stillness, and movement exercises to recreate a story inspired by a work of art, to explore the senses, and to discover mind-body connections. Through close-looking activities, students will describe, analyze, and connect with a work of art. Students may conclude the program with words to indicate their moods and affirmation statements to express their resilience and power. This program was developed in partnership with the mindfulness education non-profit Create Calm. Request a program by completing the reservation form: 
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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.