Visual & Performing Arts

We have monthly meetings to share and explore topics related to arts education including arts integration resources, social emotional learning and the arts, and technology and the arts. This year, we will be working with Stop Motion technology with the County Office of Education Tech TOSA, Stephanie Sumarna. 

Audience: TK-12 grade Teachers, Teaching Artists, Administrators & Educational Leaders

We have one hour monthly meetings to share and explore teaching and learning in the different disciplines of music, visual art, theatre & dance/movement. 

Audience: TK-12 grade Teachers, Teaching Artists, Administrators & Educational Leaders

The Santa Cruz COE, Santa Cruz Symphony & Carnegie Hall LINK UP ORCHESTRA MOVES Professional Learning

Learn about the Link Up program; develop familiarity with the selections for the Link Up Concert; review best practices of the program; share lessons, successes, challenges & next steps.

Audience: 3-6th grade Teachers and Teaching Artists

4 days at the beginning of June

Option: Participants have the option of also joining the year-long Arts Education Community of Practice

Join us for the region-wide Summer Arts Education Institute! We explore the arts disciplines and arts integration. We provide strategies to help support students in developing their voice, leadership skills, creativity, equity lens, social and emotional wellness, and connectedness. Finally, we explore our own creativity and social-emotional wellness. We look forward to having you join us!

Audience: TK-12 grade Teachers, Teaching Artists, Administrators, High School & College Students

Attend 3 meetings throughout the year.

Teacher and Teaching Artist meet 1-2x/week

Form a collaboration between the classroom teacher and a teaching artist.  Co-create and co-teach lessons that draw from Common Core and California Arts Standards.  Create a Google Classroom that can be shared and replicated.

Audience: Teachers, Teaching Artists, Teachers in Alternative Education Classrooms

Become familiar with the national Poetry Out Loud format, strategies, curriculum & assessments. Review how to use the program to support students.  Share best practices.  Review Rubric & Judging Criteria.  Learn how to hold a classroom and school competition.

Audience: High School Teachers

Support our multilingual community by showcasing poetry in many languages.  Support students in improving their analytical skills through reading and interpreting a variety of poems. Share best practices for teaching poetry recitation.

Audience: High School Teachers

Fall - Spring

Join our countywide Art Exhibit by submitting up to 50 pieces of student artwork per district for our annual spring exhibit.

Support teachers in teaching standards-based visual art lessons and collect student work to showcase in the Youth Arts Exhibit.

Audience: TK-12 grade Teachers, Teaching Artists

Support teachers in using the FashionTeens program that integrates the Arts with Environmental Literacy

Audience: Middle & High School Teachers, Art Teachers, Teaching Artists