CoTA’s three- to five-day Teacher Institutes provide educators an
opportunity to experience arts-integrated learning first hand.

Teachers participate in a variety of sessions during which CoTA teaching artists model arts-based strategies that engage students in learning, sharpen critical thinking skills, and nurture varied modes of intelligence. Teachers discuss and reflect on how the visual and performing arts can be used to support specific learning goals for their students. Participants who incorporate arts-integrated instruction in their classrooms post-Institute will have access to educational resources and online mentoring from CoTA artist-educators and staff as well as an online platform to share their projects and lessons with other educators.

TO BOOK A TEACHER INSTITUTE OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
CALL 619.677.0751 OR EMAIL US.

Over the course of three years, teachers receive approximately 60 hours of one-to-one training with highly qualified teaching artists at their school sites. By the end of the third year, teachers are skillful and purposeful in enlisting the visual and performing arts as a mode of meaning making and communication.

Collaborations include:

• • One-on-one curriculum planning time with artists
    (approximately five hours per year)
  • Co-teaching of lessons in the classroom
    (ten 60-minute sessions per year)
  • Exploratory workshops
    (four to six hours per year)
  • Opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in exhibitions and performances
  • Opportunities for teachers to share their work with colleagues

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Part of a national public-private partnership that leverages the arts to spark transformation in the nation’s highest-need schools, Turnaround Arts: California is one of 14 partner organizations from across the nation working with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, and several private foundations.

Turnaround Arts: California serves 17,000 students in 27 high-need elementary and middle schools across 20 school districts statewide, including urban, suburban, and rural communities. California is the largest program affiliate in the country, serving nearly one-third of the 84 participating schools nationwide and involving over 50 community and arts organizations in the work to date.

Participants are introduced to a specific art form, see projects that demonstrate how it can be used in the classroom, and given the opportunity to create their own projects. Together with round-table discussions and curriculum planning time, teachers leave CoTA Exploratory Workshops confident in the skills and knowledge needed to lead a similar activity in their own classrooms.

TO BOOK A WORKSHOP OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
CALL 619.677.0751 OR EMAIL US.