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Weekly Arts Wrap Up 9/30/16

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Welcome October! This week, I am inspired by energy .  The energy I see and feel in the work you are leading is contagious and positive.  Look at OUR KIDS as they problem solve, create and design, sing, play and perform!   These pictures capture the essence of creativity.  Today, I also had the opportunity to witness the DHS Band Flash Mob in the cafeteria to get kids pumped for tonight's GAME!!!!  Awesome stuff! Collaboration and Growth: This week, we... Collaborated in middle and high school  CPT's to draft goals that are meaningful to our craft and to our students' growth. Discussed and shared possible ways to measure and assess growth, through rubric making and cross content collaboration. (K-5 Music) met with Amelia Nixon from the RI Phil on Thursday to begin their new work with the 5th grade through the Orchestra ROCKS program! (K-5 Art and 6-8 Art/Music)  met to begin the important work of goal setting as a team toward a collaborative gra

Weekly Arts Wrap Up 9/23/16

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Students in Mr. Bigelow's Audio Tech class engineering new instruments using Makey Makey boards! In the ARTS this week: Art  and Music Teachers  have been busy this week as they dig into those elements and principles of art and music with their scholars.  It is visible in lesson planning that you are building tasks for students that ask them to explore "Ideation."    2015/16 AP 2D  Art   students scored an average of 3.2- one of the HIGHEST averages of all AP courses offered at Durfee!  Kudos to Alyssa Viveiros and Mr. Carvalho for her score of 5.  Wow! Yellow School Bus Grant- I have applied for this $200.00 grant for Durfee, and have shared the link with art teachers at K-5 schools so they can apply for a grant for their students.  If you are interested, click here:  http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/applications/bigyellowappins.asp K-5 Music Teachers - Please let me know if you did not receive the Music K-8 package.  I ordered it for those who requested

Arts Wrap Up 9/16/16

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I am INSPIRED BY: This week, I wanted to share with you one of the lesson plan components shared with me by AP 2D teacher, Mark Carvalho .  In this image, he has the " ingredients for success " for students.  Everything from the objective with content specific vocabulary to artists who currently work in the industry using these Elements and Principles to communicate visually.  Kudos to Mark, who creates these "snapshots" for learning that are a tool to engage and communicate the objective in a way that is visually pleasing and clear.  He shares these with me on Google Classroom, a great tool that many of you are using! In the news this week: Durfee, Kuss, Morton, Talbot and Doran : Thank you for CPT'ing with me!  Next week, we will continue where we left off.  Meeting notes should be able to be accessed on the GDrive.   K-5 Music Teachers:  I have applied for grant funding from the Fall River Cultural Council for funds to cover the cost of the New

Welcome Back!

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Hope the first week back was filled with great things for all of you...  In our schools this week, I saw: New music teacher Steph Tierno in her new music classroom at Fonseca, working in a circle on getting to know each other! Fonseca Veteran art teacher, Deb Cabral with a group of excited first graders! Silvia's Steph Pereira getting her amazing art studio ready for her young artists- if you want to see an environment that engages and is artfully organized, check this one out! Henry Lord's 7th graders, learning expectations through music with Mr. David Monte! Kuss Artists Sondra Arnold and Karen Graca, busy at work, prepping and working with their scholars. Greene artists busy making their personalized name plates with Ms. Arons Letourneau's own Becky Csizmesia closing up music class with a little video-guided step by step dance tutorial to "Happy" by Pharrell!   Talbot art students designing portfolios and completing an identification task of the