Arts Integration Teacher/Leader Cohort
The Arts Integration Teacher/Leader program is an initiative with the Kennedy Center called Partners in Education. (KCPIE) It is a partnership between the Midwest Trust Center /Johnson County Community College, Shawnee Mission School District, Liberty Schools and Kansas City Young Audiences. The program is mostly focused on Professional Development for Teachers and you can read more about it here. The work extends well beyond the partner districts listed and in 2023-24 they are adding Teacher Leaders outside of the KC Metro. Participants attend the summer symposium for arts integration on July 18 & 19, 2023, as well as professional learning throughout the year.
MAAE helped recruit teachers from outside the KC Metro Area. We are pleased to welcome to the 2023-24 teacher leader cohort:
Janell Becerra - St. Joseph Schools, St. Joseph, MO
Cassie Carnahan - Neosho Schools - Neosho, MO
Lauren Hanahan - The College School - St. Louis
Jennifer Hobbs - Clarkton Schools - Clarkton, MO
Grace LaRose - North Calloway Schools - Kingdom City, MO
Details about the program
The KCPIE team is dedicated to supporting teachers on their arts integration journey. The Teacher Leader program invests in a group of teachers who are already integrating the arts into their teaching practice and bolsters their leadership within their schools, districts and the greater KC metro.
The purpose of the arts integration teacher leader is to:
Receive training and mentorship on the arts integration strategies of Acting Right with Sean Layne and Reading Portraits with Melanie Rick. These two strategies are foundational to the partnership.
Receive training and mentorship on additional arts integration strategies.
Support teachers in the integration of arts in classrooms across the metro.
Maintain the momentum/learning moving forward from the Arts Integration Symposium and subsequent Arts Integration Workshops offered throughout the year.
The commitments are as follows:
Attend the summer 2023 in person symposium at Kauffman Conference Center on July 18 & 19.
Teachers will be given access to Acting Right and Reading Portraits, online asynchronous modules. New Teachers need to complete the module at beginning of school year so that they are familiar with the two foundational strategies for the KCPIE program. Returning teachers may use to refresh and review throughout the school year.
Attend at least two of the public in-person Professional Development sessions offered by the partnership. There will be 5 events available in the 2023-2024 school year.
Participate in 2 one on one coaching sessions with Focus5 artists. Either by zoom or phone. Sign ups will be sent out throughout the school year (one in fall and one in spring).
Focus5 will offer Saturday Arts Integration sessions (90 minutes) throughout the 2023-2024 school year. Teacher Leaders will attend two sessions of their choosing and be given an access code for free registration.
Attend two group zoom sessions with other teacher leaders, led by Focus5 teaching artists or KCPIE partners (one in fall and one in spring).
Work individually or in groups with other teacher leaders to share arts integration session in one of the following settings: school staff meeting or pd day, district event, zoom session for area teachers that the partnership will help you organize and invite teachers to, KCMAEN meeting, other ideas welcome and encouraged.
Complete a short survey at the end of the school year.
If the above is met each Teacher Leader will receive a $750 stipend in May of 2024.