NEW Arts Integration Learning Opportunity!

As the Waterloo Schools prepare to celebrate their 20th Anniversary of Partnerships in Education with the Kennedy Center and the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, we’re excited to provide a new learning opportunity entitled: “Arts Integration: Building Awareness through Community Partnerships.” 

According to the Kennedy Center, arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process that connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.

A workshop on the morning of Saturday, March 25th will provide participants with an opportunity to engage in learning around arts integration with artists such as Quynn Johnson, Christina Farrell, and Akwi Nji. Gallagher Bluedorn and AEA staff will also provide learning opportunities related to hosting teaching artist residencies, building our own local teaching artist pool, and how to engage in the work of arts integration on your own. Additional zoom and in-person learning opportunities will follow throughout the months of April and May. By working with artists and teaching artists, educators will be able to explore definitions of arts integration, plan for implementation, and experience engaging teaching strategies for a variety of student learners.

Participants can choose to engage in the following ways!

For In-Service Educators (Course #204863)

$10 – Participant only 

$45 – Participant & Renewal Credit

$135-Participant & Graduate Credit

For Pre-Service Educators (Course #204883)

$5-  Post-Secondary Students- Participant only

For more information, contact:

Travis Gratteau-Zinnel, Instructional Coach for Fine Arts, Waterloo Community School District 

Kelsey Bowers, Literacy Consultant, Central Rivers AEA

For artists interested in this work, contact:

Jennifer Onuigbo, Community Relations Manager, Gallagher Bluedorn

We hope that you consider joining and sharing widely!