Join the WSU Arts Integration Conference for hands-on arts-integrated workshops with guest artists in dance, drama, music, and visual arts that explore our theme, Arts and Community, and address Utah Core Standards. Participants will learn how the arts offer a way to create, engage, and make positive change within ourselves, our communities, our classrooms, and our world.
Breakout Session 1:
Contributing to Utah’s Community through Collage | Visual Art | Erinne Roundy: Let’s come together and learn about a select group of significant and diverse people from Utah’s past and present who have contributed to the community that we call “home”. We will then create a collage of these individuals on a CD sleeve housing a simple circle book highlighting one of these individuals of your choice.
Weaving in Social Learning: Creating Classroom Community through Inclusive Practice| Visual Art | Jonathan Hale: Come and explore the possibilities for using weaving as means of teaching grade level content and social learning. Weaving is traditionally a social artform, in this session we will explore creating weaving as a whole group, small groups, and individually as a way to promote collaborative learning that engages students with diverse abilities and learning needs. We will explore planning that weaves social learning experiences with integrated arts learning of Utah biomes through fiber arts.
Drama | Presenter TBA
Going Global: Social-Emotional Skills through Music & Children’s Literature | Music | Dr. Brittany Nixon May: Social-emotional functioning is imperative to learning. As teachers, it is important that we not only help our students acquire content knowledge and strategies for learning, analyzing, and synthesizing knowledge but also help them to develop social-emotional skills that are necessary in order to thrive in the classroom and community. In this interactive session, we will explore how multicultural music and children’s literature can be used to nurture social-emotional learning.
Mapmaking with Children | Visual Art | Alisa Petersen: In this workshop, attendees will explore community and culture through maps. Participants will create mini-map samples using four hands-on processes and discuss ways to apply standards from all elementary grade levels to each process.
Breakout Session 2 :
Matrix of Intersectionality (Card Game) | Keynote | Dr. Nicole R. Robinson (extended workshop that ends in session 3): Participants will explore cultural connections through the process of reflexivity, critical consciousness, and social agency. As each person has several identities—some visible, some invisible—that interplay in the daily experience, this process, begins with understanding each persons’ own social identity and it transpires when engaged children in our classrooms. Social categories include education, gender, locality, sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, class, citizenship, language ability, and dis/ability.
This session will be technology inspired and very interactive.
Makey Makey in the Elementary Classroom | Media Art | Alisa Petersen (extended workshop that ends in session 3): Learn to combine easy coding, visual art, and any core subject using Makey Makey and Scratch. Participants will explore the basics then create a simple project using Visual Thinking Strategies.
Drama | Presenter TBA
Ten-minute movement lessons I can do in my classroom | Dance | Ashley Boyack: This workshop will provide the classroom teacher with ten-minute creative movement ideas teachers can use with all ages k-6th grade. They will also brainstorm immediate ideas on how they can integrate movement into areas of the curriculum.
Contributing to Utah’s Community through Collage | Visual Art | Erinne Roundy: Let’s come together and learn about a select group of significant and diverse people from Utah’s past and present who have contributed to the community that we call “home”. We will then create a collage of these individuals on a CD sleeve housing a simple circle book highlighting one of these individuals of your choice.
Breakout Session 3 :
Matrix of Intersectionality (Card Game) | Keynote | Dr. Nicole R. Robinson (continued from session 2): Participants will explore cultural connections through the process of reflexivity, critical consciousness, and social agency. As each person has several identities—some visible, some invisible—that interplay in the daily experience, this process, begins with understanding each persons’ own social identity and it transpires when engaged children in our classrooms. Social categories include education, gender, locality, sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, class, citizenship, language ability, and dis/ability.
This session will be technology inspired and very interactive.
Makey Makey in the Elementary Classroom | Media Art | Alisa Petersen (continued from session 2): Learn to combine easy coding, visual art, and any core subject using Makey Makey and Scratch. Participants will explore the basics then create a simple project using Visual Thinking Strategies.
Weaving in Social Learning: Creating Classroom Community through Inclusive Practice| Visual Art | Jonathan Hale: Come and explore the possibilities for using weaving as means of teaching grade level content and social learning. Weaving is traditionally a social artform, in this session we will explore creating weaving as a whole group, small groups, and individually as a way to promote collaborative learning that engages students with diverse abilities and learning needs. We will explore planning that weaves social learning experiences with integrated arts learning of Utah biomes through fiber arts.
Ten-minute movement lessons I can do in my classroom | Dance | Ashley Boyack: This workshop will provide the classroom teacher with ten-minute creative movement ideas teachers can use with all ages k-6th grade. They will also brainstorm immediate ideas on how they can integrate movement into areas of the curriculum.
Going Global: Social-Emotional Skills through Music & Children’s Literature | Music | Dr. Brittany Nixon May: Social-emotional functioning is imperative to learning. As teachers, it is important that we not only help our students acquire content knowledge and strategies for learning, analyzing, and synthesizing knowledge but also help them to develop social-emotional skills that are necessary in order to thrive in the classroom and community. In this interactive session, we will explore how multicultural music and children’s literature can be used to nurture social-emotional learning.
Arts Integration: Your Next Steps! | Informational | Tamara Goldbogen & Kelly Bruce Glynn: Explore the fundamentals of arts integration and unpack how arts integration can support your students! Develop an action plan and next steps to implement skills learned at the conference into your classroom and school. This workshop is designed for attendees who are new to arts integration.