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SUMMARY:2025 Professional Development Day for Arts Educators
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2025 Professional Day for Arts Educators\n\n\n\n \nJoin us for the 2025 Professional Day for Arts Educators \n \n \n\n$40 per attendee includes lunch. \n \n \n\nKeynote speaker: Dr. Colin Walters – Darien Public Schools\n“Unearthing Joy: Empowering Students in the Arts” \n \n \n\n8:30am: Registration / Coffee Service (included in registration fee) \n9:00am – 10:30am: Keynote Speech: “Unearthing Joy: Empowering Students in the Arts” – Colin Walters \n10:30am – 11:45am: Breakout Session 1 \n\nIngredients of Creativity – Stephen Cox (For all Arts Educators)\nSpeed\, Direction\, and the Control of Time: Using Pulse\, Tempo Nuance\, and Harmonic Compression to Enhance Your Choral Interpretation – Kevin Isaacs\nGood Time/Good Feel – the similarities\, differences\, and ways of teaching/assessing both – Jimmy Greene & Jamie Begian\nA.I. In Music Education – Alan Smith\nExploring Intercultural Music Making in Our Classrooms – Oshadhee Satarasinghe\nTeaching Beginning Horn – Marjorie Callaghan\nMore Music\, Less Stress: Recruitment\, Retention & Smart Budgeting to build a Healthy Program – Music and Arts\nMaximizing Lighting for HS Theatre – Oliver Wason\nDirecting for Musical Theater – Anthony Depoto\nMusic and Arts String Repair\nHonoring Identity: The Art of Layered Self-Portraiture Inspired by Bisa Butler – Corina Alvarezdelugo\nChoice Without the Chaos: Managing a TAB Studio Day-to-Day – Kim King\nPaint\, Breathe\, Repeat: Making Meaning in Uncertain Moments – Aimee Jette\n\n12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch – Campus Center Ballroom (included in registration fee) \n1:00pm – 2:15pm: Breakout Session 2 \n\nLearn to Jam and teach your students lifelong musicianship skills – Austin Scelzo\nCreative Music Making Crash Course – Stephen Cox\n\n\nSalsa Music as a Culturally Responsive Tool for Engaging Students and Families! – Jon Garcia\nEarly Notes\, Big Impact: A Roundtable for Beginning Band Success – Colin Walters\nA.I. In Music Education – Alan Smith\nExperiencing Art and Poetry through Creative Musical Movement – Oshadhee Satarasinghe\nPreparations for BFA Acting & Musical Theater Auditions Cowan\, Howard\, McDaniel\nTeaching Beginning Low brass – Fernando Jimenez\nElevating the Secondary Ensemble Experience: Strategies for Nurturing Communities of Continuous Learning Louise Carrozza / Rebekah Rosen\nMusic and Arts Band Repair\nString Recruitment and Retention Discussion / Roundtable – Jane Minnis and Malcolm Karlan\nTiny Books\, Big Ideas: Visual Storytelling Through Artist Books – Corina Alvarezdelugo\nMaking Learning Visible in a TAB Studio Kim King\nThe Art of Holding it Together: Emotional Wisdom for Art Teachers – Aimee Jette\nCurating for High School Art Exhibits and Community Connections through Galleries – Sarah Anderson Locke\n\n2:30pm – 3:30pm Reading / Curriculum Sessions / Discussion \n\nString Orchestra with Fernando Jimenez\nSymphonic Band with Matt Doiron\nJazz Ensemble with Jamie Begian\nChoir with Jeremy Wiggins\nGeneral Music roundtable with Oshadhee Satarasinghe\nVisual Art Roundtable with Sabrina Marques\nHigh School Theater roundtable with Justin Cowan
URL:https://www.wcsu.edu/svpca/event/2025-professional-development-day-for-arts-educators/
LOCATION:Visual and Performing Arts Center\, WCSU\, 43 Lake Avenue Extension\, Danbury\, CT\, 06810\, United States
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