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In the News This Week!

Hispanic Heritage Month:

• Check out this website for some great resources!
• Great to see Hispanic Heritage being celebrated in our schools in art and music classrooms- Please send me pics/clips of student work so I can share in the next week's blog!

Goals Work:

• We have met to discuss the Goals Doc in PLC at 6-12 schools and in your monthly department meetings, Chelsea and Kerin have dedicated time to working on these with you.  Thank you for participating in these goals oriented conversations! 
• By now, you should know who your evaluator is- please reach out or look in TeachPoint, and let me know if you need help with this.  
• The PD we will work to plan/provide for you is going to be aligned to these suggested PPG goals, so that way we are all rowing in the same direction, helping each other, and growing together.  

October 2 Release Time Day:

Here is the information for Monday October 2nd.  This is the first of two release time days for professional development, so, we will be breaking into groups according to focus/department.  Principals have been shared this information.  Durfee's schedule will be slightly different, but the DHS team should be able to have time with the department as well.  Please self select a group and "register" HERE using a quick google form.

Fine/Perf Arts- K-8- 1:30-3:30:

PreK Art and Music:
PreK Art will work together with PreK music to begin to create a PreK scope and sequence as this is a new team. Meeting at Durfee in art room 1309 (Joyce/Smith)

K-8 Music:
Group 1- Diving into the article Initiate, Create, Activate: practical solutions for making culturally diverse music education a reality by: Melissa Cain, Shari Lindblom and Jennifer Walden to look at our current maps/ lesson plans and work together to see how we can revise “model texts” in music for a culturally diverse curriculum. Meeting at Kuss- Music Room (Burnham)

Group 2- Choral vertical alignment- 6-12. Kuss Music Room (Burnham)

K-8 Art
Group 1- TAB- Teaching for Artistic Behavior- This group will focus on vertical alignment, planning for TAB, and standards based planning using TAB. Durfee Room 1310 (Dodge/Team Collab)

Group 2- Arts are LIT- This group will focus on planning for students to write and talk using content specific vocabulary to explain their thinking, so that students can improve their literacy specific to the arts. Durfee Room 1315 (McGillicuddy)

Group 3- Culturally Relevant Artists- This group will dive into Gholdy Muhmmad's book Cultivating Genius to make meaning of the importance of selecting art that is made by a variety of artists that reflect the student body that we serve. Durfee Room 1308 (Francisco)

K-12 Band/Orch:
Diving into the article Initiate, Create, Activate: practical solutions for making culturally diverse music education a reality by: Melissa Cain, Shari Lindblom and Jennifer Walden to look at our current choice of repertoire and then planning SLG and PPG for Team Ensemble Goals, and mapping out remainder of SY. Durfee Music Wing (Turgeon/Klingner)

9-12 Fine/Perf Arts:
Culturally Relevant Artists- This group will dive into Gholdy Muhmmad's book Cultivating Genius to make meaning of the importance of selecting art that is made by a variety of artists that reflect the student body that we serve. Teachers will have time during the work period to review the artists that they use as models in their practice, and begin to research artists and performers from the cultures/races/ethnicities that our students identify with. Durfee Room 1308 (Francisco)


Here's some friendly alebrije to keep you company on this awesome fall weekend! -Jackie