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ILSP elective: National Equity Project's Annual Coaching for Equity Institute 6/19-21 (1 ceu) (19 Jun 2013)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Coaching For Equity Institute

Every leader is a coach, every coach is a leader.

Everyone can use coaching skills to become a better leader – coaching means supporting people in your organization to become more effective. Learn how to develop and strengthen the people you work with to become more effective teachers, teammates, and leaders.

The Coaching for Equity Institute is a three-day, non-residential institute for new or experienced professional coaches, school principals, district administrators, nonprofit leaders and managers. Participants examine their coaching and facilitation styles with a focus on educational equity while practicing coaching skills with each other.

Hundreds of educators, administrators, and professional coaches have attended our annual Coaching for Equity summer institutes since 2007. Participants access the essential knowledge and skills in adult learning and facilitation that National Equity Project coaches have developed over the past 18 years to foster new practices with a wide range of leaders.

Participants learn a range of coaching and facilitative skills, including:

How to lead productive conversations about race and bias in your organization or community
Change management, group dynamics, and facilitation skills that support collaborative problem solving
Tools and frameworks to plan, implement, assess, and improve coaching
Coaching interventions that build the capacity of individuals and teams to create greater equity.

Recent Participants

School, district, and university teams working on equity or achievement gap initiatives
District leaders beginning to implement a coaching program
Educational management organization staff
Professional education and leadership coaches and consultants
Principals, Associate Superintendents, and other administrators and instructional leaders

Cost

$1,200 per participant. Group rate of $1,000 per participant applies to teams of 5 or more. Individuals and teams are welcome; come on your own or with colleagues to strengthen your equity work. Fee includes meals and resources.

Register

June 19-21, 2013

August 7-9, 2013

For registration support contact Andrea Ahlert at aahlert(at)nationalequityproject.org.

ACOE's Summer intensive: Integrated Learning Strategies, June 24-28 Oakland, Mills College (24 Jun 2013)

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:30:00 GMT

Integrated Learning Summer Intensive
June 24 - 28, Oakland, Mills College

One Size Does Not Fit All...
In a classroom of diverse learners, many students disengage. If you've ever wondered how to address the needs, from the highest to the lowest performing, join us for this 1-week intensive. Learn integrated strategies to educate students in order to create The World As It Could Be!

In collaboration with The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program, these hands-on courses explore arts integration for equitable classrooms and justice. Participants gain knowledge and tools to integrate the visual and performing arts and human rights education so their students actively engage in ways that promote a healthy, peaceful and just society.

Don't miss this opportunity
to rejuvenate your own teaching practice!

"I used to think arts integration would eat up all my teaching time. Now I think arts integration will allow my students to eat up my curriculum."
- Course A Participant, Spring 2013
Integrated Learning Specialist Program:
Register Now for a June Summer Intensive
in Oakland! June 24 - 28, Oakland

One Size Does Not Fit All...
In a classroom of diverse learners, many students disengage. If you've ever wondered how to address the needs, from the highest to the lowest performing, join us for this 1-week intensive. Learn integrated strategies to educate students in order to create The World As It Could Be!

June 24 - 28, 2013 | 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Summer Intensive - Course A, B and C
Location: Mills College, Oakland, CA
Cost: $299.00 **All art supplies and reader included, lunch not provided

Taught by acclaimed performing artist, Charles Chip McNeal and arts education specialist Tana Johnson, in collaboration with The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program. More >>
Earn a Integrated Learning Specialist Certificate
In order to qualify, participants must successfully complete all three core courses and an additional three units (30+ hours) of electives. The core courses and electives total 12 units. More >>

Earn CEUs and Graduate Credits
Participants may receive CEUs through a partnership with Mills College; they may also earn Lesley University graduate credits that can be applied toward the Lesley's Integrated Teaching Through the Arts Masters Program. More >>

For more information, please visit www.artiseducation.org or
contact Sierra Falcon at arts@acoe.org | 510-670-4557.

ILSP Elective - KALA Art Institute: Collage Sat 6/29 10am-4pm (.5 ceu) (29 Jun 2013)

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:00:00 GMT

Collage

Kim Snyder

Class #65: Saturday, June 29, 10am-4pm
Tuition $96

This workshop will cover a variety of college techniques including collage substrates, adhesives, paper types, and the compositional elements that will help your artwork to be visually interesting. This is a great introductory art class, and can be a way to generate new ideas for future artworks of various media. Bring your favorite ephemera that you’ve been saving forever, and get ready to experiment.

Kim Snyder is a photographer based in San Francisco. She focuses on personal mapping and the archeology of place in her mixed media pieces, utilizing both traditional film photography and digital layering methods. Recently, she has exhibited works at the Berkeley Art Center and Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. Presently, she is obtaining her MFA at San Francisco State University. Having developed excellent relationships with her artistic mentors, Kim hopes to provide similar opportunities to her students, and to encourage others to become involved with the creative process. Grounded in a strong belief that sharing understanding and craft can benefit both parties, Kim encourages students to engage with the experience of making. www.kimberlyjosnyder.com

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Physical Comedy w/ Joan Mankin, 7-10 p.m., Mon 7/1 -8/5 (1.5 ceus) (01 Jul 2013)

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Physical Comedy: What’s So Funny?

Instructor: Joan Mankin

Explore the many different styles of comic acting by working on scenes from Shakespeare, Molière, Beckett and Neil Simon, as well as forays into Commedia dell’Arte and martial arts. Hone your comedy skills and discover how to use what you already have to your best advantage.

Joan Mankin has been an actress, clown and teacher in the Bay Area for over forty years. She has performed at ACT, Cal Shakes (where she is an associate artist), Theatreworks, Marin Theater, Aurora Theater and many others. She has worked as a clown with the Pickle Family Circus and Make-A-Circus. She has taught at Berkeley Rep, ACT, Montalvo Arts Center, the SF Circus Center and more. Her specialty in teaching is physical comedy.

MON 7–10pm • 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 • $260

Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Acting Shakespeare, 7-10 p.m., Mon 7/1 -8/5 (1.5 ceus) (01 Jul 2013)

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Acting Shakespeare

Instructor: Julian López-Morillas

This summer Macbeth will be performed at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. This six-week intensive class coincides with this local production, giving students the opportunity to see the text they’re studying come to life on stage. Students will study the stories, characters, relationships, themes and language (including iambic pentameter, scansion, prose, rhetoric and figures of speech), and explore the imaginative worlds of the play. Students will work on short scenes, monologues and soliloquies. Learn how to choose strong, exciting and varied actions and how to harness the power of sound, imagery and rhythm.

Julian López-Morillas is well known in the Bay Area as a professional actor and director specializing in Shakespeare. He holds the rare distinction of having appeared in professional productions of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, and has directed some 20 of them. He had a long association with California Shakespeare Theater and served as its associate artistic director for several years. Julian has taught Shakespeare as literature at Mills College and classical acting technique at UC Berkeley, San Jose State, Foothill College, Solano College and Dominican College.

MON 7–10pm • 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 • $260

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Contact Improvisation, 7-9 p.m., Tues, 7/2 -8/6 (1 ceu) (02 Jul 2013)

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Contact Improvisation Fundamentals

Instructor: Aaron Jessup

Contact improvisation dance (CI) is a dynamic movement form that involves weight sharing, floor work, lifts and bodywork. CI can range from slow and contemplative to energetic and theatrical. It can be done solo, in duets and in large groups. In this class, we will explore the foundational building blocks of CI, developing a common language of physical skills. Then we will use that body-based language to interact, play and relate. This class is open to all levels of movement experience, with the aim of arriving in our animal bodies and connecting with others.

Aaron Jessup is a second-generation performing juggler whose first movement discipline was circus acrobatics, but his first movement love was contact improvisation. Aaron spent many years street performing his comedy, juggling and rope-walking show in the US, Europe and Australia. He has also appeared locally with Pickle Family Circus, Make*A*Circus and the Izzy-Award winning Scott Wells & Dancers. Aaron has taught contact improvisation locally, nationally and internationally since 1997.

TUE 7–9pm • 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6 • $95

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Improvisation , 7-10 p.m., Tues, 7/2 -8/6 (1.5 ceus) (02 Jul 2013)

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Improvisation

Instructor: Diane Rachel 1.5 ceus

Gain experience and understanding of the philosophies and fundamentals of improvisational theatre using Keith Johnstone’s IMPRO-based practice in this six-week class. Through playful interactive theatre games and storytelling, students are introduced to the elements of spontaneity, listening, accepting and responding. This methodology helps students access their imaginations, free their inhibitions and increase their confidence. This class, taught by a professional improviser, focuses on skills that enhance the student’s creative path. Principles explored include being present to the moment, letting go of the inner critic and strengthening creative impulses. May be repeated.

Diane Rachel has been performing and teaching at BATS Improv since 1989. She created a specialty long-form program with a focus on intimate acting and stage combat, which has attracted an international following. She has led workshops in Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam and Helsinki and has taught at ACT and Stanford. Diane is a founding member of San Francisco improv group True Fiction Magazine.

TUE 7–10pm • 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6 • $260

Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Improvisation: 4 Favorite Games , 7-10 p.m., Wed, 7/3 -8/7 (1.5 ceus) (03 Jul 2013)

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Improvisation: Four Favorite Genres

Instructor: Diane Rachel

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities of improvised theatre. Students delve into the more potent possibilities of improv, while exploring the nuances of style in storytelling and continued development of spontaneity and dynamic play. The focus of this intermediate/advanced level class is on four specific genres: musical, horror, romance and action-adventure. Students practice improvised singing with a musician, stage combat techniques and how to create intimacy and action-packed scenes without the aid of a million-dollar budget.

WED 7–10pm • 7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7 • $260

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Directing Plays in Innovative Places , 7-10 p.m., Wed, 7/3 -8/7 (1.5 ceus) (03 Jul 2013)

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Directing Plays in Innovative Places: Using What You’ve Got

Instructor: Daniel Talbott

You can create great theatre anywhere: at a bus stop, on a rooftop, in someone’s basement, on a toilet, even in a garbage can. This is going to be a hands-on, active class for directors to expand their imaginations and concepts of spatial staging, and to help us find the theatricality in everything. Directors will be asked to collaborate and work with a group of actors on a new site-specific short piece or scene weekly, ranging from Shakespeare to Williams and from Ionesco to Kane, and will even work on the commissioning of a new play by a group of playwrights for a specific space. In these economically and artistically tough times we have to be able to continue making theatre, and that sometimes means re-imagining what and where our theatres can be.

Daniel Talbott received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, a 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for directing, a Drama-Logue Award, two Dean Goodman Choice Awards and a Judy Award for acting, and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. His most recent play Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait was commissioned by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Encore Theatre Company and was presented at ACT’s Costume Shop in San Francisco this past summer. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP, and has taught at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA). He is a literary manager at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).

WED 7–10pm • 7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7 • $260

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: MAKING WRITERS’ WORKSHOP COME ALIVE 7/8-7/12 (1 ceu) (08 Jul 2013)

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

MAKING WRITERS’ WORKSHOP COME ALIVE
Grades 2-5
Instructors: Page Hersey & Marion Wallach
July 8-12, 2013
9:00 a.m. to noon
Fee: $300

Implementing a writers’ workshop approach in the classroom develops students who see themselves as writers and understand the power and purpose of writing. Writers’ workshop creates an environment to generate narrative, opinion, and informative pieces as defined in the California Common Core Content Standards. But where does the classroom teacher start? How to conference? How to develop mini-lessons based on students’ needs? This four day professional development will address these questions as we walk through the process of creating a community of writers. There will be time for whole group writing and sharing as well as small group work dedicated to grade-level collaboration. New and veteran teachers will find ways to breathe life into writers’ workshop.

Page Hersey, Ed.D. has worked as an educator in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 15 years as a classroom teacher, literacy specialist, and teacher educator. Page is also a passionate human rights educator and works to integrate global and local issues of human rights and social justice into her work with teachers and students.

Marion Wallach is retired after teaching grades 1-4 in the Oakland Public Schools for 38 years. She has served on numerous curriculum development committees and has worked with student teachers and mentor teaching programs. Marion has been a leader in BAWP's elementary program and developed its first summer program focused on elementary teaching.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE COMMON CORE CLASSROOM 7/8-12 (1.5 ceu) (08 Jul 2013)

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE COMMON CORE CLASSROOM
Grades 4-10
Instructor: Stephanie Robillard
July 8-12
Monday-Friday
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $425

[Please Note: This workshop is to take place at Westlake Middle School, 2629 Harrison Street, Oakland, 94612]

Come and spend a week digging into digital storytelling and the Common Core. Digital storytelling is the art of using multimedia to communicate ideas/concepts/stories. Learn how to teach your students to use digital tools to meet the Common Core standards of researching and building present knowledge, producing and distributing writing and presenting knowledge and ideas. In this workshop, we will use Mac/PC based applications as well as various web-based tools that will allow participants to produce digital stories. By the end of the week, you will have a digital trove of treasures to share with your students and colleagues.

Stephanie Robillard is a teacher/librarian at Westlake Middle School in Oakland. She completed the BAWP Summer Institute in 1997.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective. Luna Dance Institute: Developing & Implementing Dance Curricula A. July 8-11 12:30-6:30pm (2 ceu) (08 Jul 2013)

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:30:00 GMT

Developing & Implementing Dance Curricula-A (also named Curriculum & Instruction preK-12 Dance-A)

This course is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of standards-based dance education and its function across age levels, as well as establishing a conducive environment for dance. The contents of this course include: structuring discrete standards-based dance lessons as well as integrating dance into comprehensive curricula across subject matter, understanding the elements of dance, child development theory vis-à-vis dance and creativity, and the role of the teacher and basic instructional methods. This course is mandatory for LDI certification.

No prerequisite. $480 Fee required. Meets college/university professional standards.

DIDC-A may be offered as a semester-length course, a weekly seminar, a 3-day weekend or a summer intensive. In JULY 2013, we will offer it as a 4-day workshop, 12:30-6:30 with one AM observation, day of your choice.

http://lunadanceinstitute.org/workshops/

605 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 883.1118
Fax: (510) 883.1120

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Make a Short Film Thu 7/11-8/15 (1.5 ceus) (11 Jul 2013)

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Make a Short Film

Instructor: Christopher Morrison

Learn how to use the current circumstances of your life to make a short film that is full of vivid characters and plot points, all without spending a dime. We will work on how to examine your life to pull together everything you need to shoot your film--most of it is in your pocket right now! We will also work on “post production” including color correction and fixing sound issues. Short films are a great way to learn the craft of filmmaking without the expense of film school (or racking up credit card debt!). Shorts are in demand and can be screened anywhere from YouTube to the most prestigious film festivals around the world. Let’s get shooting!

Christopher Morrison is an award-winning writer/director/actor who has worked on over 100 theatrical productions and films. His shorts have appeared in festivals throughout the United States, and …less than kind the award-winning short film he wrote and directed, premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and is distributed by OUAT! Media. He has been commissioned for five feature scripts, multiple short scripts, pilots and a full length play that premiered in Melbourne Australia. He has a writing credit on American Cowslip, an indie feature starring six Academy Award-nominated actors. His theatrical directing has been seen on both coasts and in Chicago, and as an actor he has worked with such companies as Cirque du Soleil, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Huntington Theatre Company.

THU 7–10pm • 7/11, 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 • $260

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: OPINION WRITING 7/15-16 (.5 ceu) (15 Jul 2013)

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

OPINION WRITING
Grades K-2
Instructor: Siu-Mui Woo
July 15-16, Monday–Tuesday
9:00 a.m.– noon
Fee: $150

This workshop is recommended for K-2 teachers interested in learning, sharing, and collaborating on ways to improve the teaching of opinion writing for young writers, particularly English Language Learners. Participants will be introduced to: • Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in opinion writing • Strategies that support students' extending their writing • Connections among oral language, reading and writing across the curriculum • Lesson demonstration on response to literature • Use of mentor text to teach opinion/persuasive writing • Stages of writing development for ELL and strategies for teaching writing to ELLs.

Siu-Mui Woo has been a primary grade teacher in Oakland for more than 25 years before becoming a literacy coach. She incorporates her personal experiences as an English learner in her approach to teaching literacy, drawing on the strengths and needs of E.L. learners. Since 2011, through BAWP, she has been working with teachers from various school districts and providing them with practical strategies to use in teaching writing and literacy development.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: THE GRAMMAR WRITING CONNECTION 7/15-19 (1.5 ceu) (15 Jul 2013)

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

THE GRAMMAR WRITING CONNECTION
Grades 6-college
Instructor: Nelson Graff
July 15-19, 2013
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m
Fee: $425

This course is recommended for teachers of grades 6 through college who are interested in thinking more about the relationship between the teaching of grammar and the teaching of reading and writing. Practical workshop exercises will address conventionally designated basics: parts of speech, the English verb system, joining sentences, expanding sentences, uses and abuses of passive voice, and punctuation with a purpose. We will also consider what is basic to grammar and writing. Bring your favorite grammar questions and a sample student essay full of errors! Discussion topics include: “grammar myths”; the role of rules; the connection between sentence crafting, style and voice; teaching grammar options without destroying ownership; the ups and downs of writing development, English Learners’ sources of error, and the psychology of correctness.

Nelson Graff teaches composition and prospective secondary and postsecondary English teachers at San Francisco State University. A BAWP TC since 2004, he also works with teachers around the state on teaching grammar, expository reading and writing, and teaching argument.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective: Berkeley Rep School of Acting, Taking it to the Street, 7-10 p.m., Thu 7/18-8/15 (1 ceus) (18 Jul 2013)

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Berkeley Rep School of Acting

Taking it to the Street: Ancient Art in a Modern World

Instructor: Aaron Jessup

Have you ever watched a street performer arrive on a city square, create a moment of magic and then disappear? Have you ever wondered how much courage--or madness--it takes to do something like that? “Taking it to the Street” is a multidisciplinary performance project combining elements of traditional street theatre, guerrilla theatre, site-specific performance and performance art. Using the unique talents of the participants, students will create an original, collaborative, street performance experience. All are welcome; all you need is an open mind and a willingness to try something new.

THU 7–10pm • 7/18, 7/25, 8/8, 8/15 • $155

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Location: 2025 Addison St., Berkeley

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: MAKING MAGIC HAPPEN: CREATING YOUNG WRITERS WITH THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS AND THE SIX TRAITS MODEL 7/22-26 (1 ceu) (22 Jul 2013)

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

MAKING MAGIC HAPPEN: CREATING YOUNG WRITERS WITH THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS AND THE SIX TRAITS MODEL
Grades K-2
Instructor: Michelle Kellman
July 22-26, 2013
9:00 a.m. to noon
Fee: $300

Does your students’ writing bore you? Does it bore your students? Are you looking for some magic element that will help children generate joyful, expressive, and effective writing? This course is for K-2 teachers with a basic understanding of the writer’s workshop model who want to take their students’ writing to a new level while meeting the demands of the Common Core standards for writing. Using the fabulous book, Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms (3rd Edition) by Vicki Spandel, we will learn how to help students develop ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions in their writing. For each trait, we’ll analyze mentor texts and student samples, read about and practice instructional strategies, and apply the trait to the three Common Core genres: opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative. Participants will leave with a wealth of lesson plans and practical tools for making magic happen in their classrooms. Please come with your own copy of the book, which is available from Pearson (2011) on Amazon for $25-$36.

Michelle Kellman is an ELD Coach in Hayward and has sixteen years’ experience as a K-3 classroom teacher and a coach of teachers. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and former Project GLAD trainer and has taught workshops in instructional strategies for English learners and in using oral storytelling to develop students’ writing.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: ALL ABOARD FOR TRAVEL WRITING: GATEWAY TO SENSE-DRIVEN WRITING 7/22-25 (.5 ceu) (22 Jul 2013)

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

ALL ABOARD FOR TRAVEL WRITING: GATEWAY TO SENSE-DRIVEN WRITING

Instructor: Perry Garfinkel
July 22-25
Mon-Thurs
9:00 a.m. – noon
Fee: $275

Using in-class exercises and “assignments” both around campus and at home or “on location,” this week will introduce teachers to the elements of travel writing that are fundamental to all great writing – offered in a style that’s fun, informative and highly adaptable. Valuable for the classroom or for one’s own summer travel journals or (dare we dream) publication, teachers will “model” after the masters of travel writing (from Marco Polo to Mark Twain to modern day), then draw from their own senses as they go “on the road,” filing very short pieces over the days of the course.

Perry Garfinkel has been a contributor to the New York Times since 1986. He’s also written for National Geographic Magazine and many other publications; and is the author/coauthor/ghostwriter of 10 books, including his “Buddha or Bust,” a national bestseller in 2006. Arthur Frommer called his “Travel Writing for Profit and Pleasure” the “definitive work in the field” at the time. He’s also been an editor: was among a group that launched New Age Journal in the ‘70s and was launch editor in chief of EcoTraveler Magazine in the ‘90s. http://www.perrygarfinkel.com/

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: MAKING A SCENE 7/29-8/2 (.5 ceu) (29 Jul 2013)

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT

MAKING A SCENE
Open to All Grade Levels
Instructor: John Levine
July 29-August 2
9:00 a.m. – noon
Fee: $300

Have an idea for a movie or a play? This course focuses on the building blocks of dramatic writing — character, plot, dialogue, and conflict. Through writing exercises and feedback sessions, participants will craft and develop a series of scenes and get started on their own scripts. At the end of the week-long workshop, we'll have an informal reading of your work. Besides having a lot of fun, you will take away an increased "bank" of instructional strategies and effective materials for classroom use as well as an increased confidence as writers and teachers of writing.

John Levine teaches composition, public speaking, and creative writing in the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley. His plays have been staged in theaters across the country, from California to Alaska to New York, and have been published in a number of anthologies.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: TEACHING WRITING IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM, Aug 1-14 (2 ceu) (01 Aug 2013)

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT

TEACHING WRITING IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
Grades 6-12
Instructors: M. Clare LePell & Katherine Suyeyasu
August 1–14
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fee: $575

We all want our students to write more and to greater effect, but how do we make this happen? How do we build memorable and meaningful writing lessons that generate thoughtful content and address the needs of both our strongest student writers and our most struggling student writers? What are strategies for helping English Learners and for building students' skills that meet the new Common Core Standards? What about cultivating academic language in the classroom? And how do we do all of this without drowning in paper? In short, how do energize or re-energize ourselves as teachers of writing so that we can engage students in the power of the written word?

Join this two-week class led by veteran educators, M. Clare LePell and Katherine Suyeyasu, where we’ll address these questions and more. In a highly collegial setting:

experience interactive teaching demonstrations that will give you new ideas and greater confidence in your lessons
acquire hard and soft copies of specific instructional strategies for immediate use with your students
write frequently and share your writing in small groups
explore questions about the teaching of writing through discussions of selected readings
develop lessons using your own curriculum and texts and ready to use in the fall.

Please note that there will be some homework assignments, including: reading articles, drafting personal writing, and developing curriculum. .

M. Clare LePell is celebrating her 25th year as a classroom teacher in Castro Valley and has been a BAWP Teacher Consultant since 1993. As the former head of a school/university partnership with a focus on adolescent literacy, Ms. LePell has developed secondary reading and writing curricula and led multiple professional development activities. .

Katherine Suyeyasu earned her Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from U.C. Berkeley in 1998. She currently teaches 7th and 8th grade Humanities Core at ASCEND K-8 in the Oakland Unified School District. During her fifteen-year teaching career, she has led district-wide professional development focused on writing, history, and math.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS 8/5-9 (1 ceu) (05 Aug 2013)

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT

SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS
All Grade Levels
Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky

June 17-24
9:00 – noon (UC Berkeley campus)

August 5-9
9:00 – noon (Larkspur)

Fee: $300

Come spend a week of mornings writing, sharing, reflecting, reading, and revising. Become a better writer and a better teacher of writing. This workshop offers rich opportunities for teachers at all grade levels and any writing experience level to explore a range of writing genres and practical, classroom-tested writing strategies. The workshop fosters a warm and encouraging community of writers where participants read inspiring models, collaborate in small groups and collect ideas and materials for teaching. This year we’ll highlight approaches that align to the Common Core Standards. The Writing Workshop for Teachers sits solidly on the Bay Area Writing Project’s belief that teachers become better teachers of writing by writing themselves. Participants contribute to an in-class anthology to be compiled and distributed at the end of the workshop. Join us at one of two workshop opportunities to frame your summer!

Meredith Pike-Baky has been involved in English language education for most of her career, planning and conducting programs for teachers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and more recently in Rwanda, Burundi and Singapore. Meredith created the Writing Workshop for Teachers out of her love of writing and belief in the power of teachers’ writing and telling their stories.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: THE TIME WE HAVE: WRITING FAST, WRITING SHORT 8/5-9 (1 ceu) (05 Aug 2013)

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT

THE TIME WE HAVE: WRITING FAST, WRITING SHORT

Open to all grades
Instructor: Marty Williams
August 5–9, 2013
9:00 a.m. – noon
Fee $300

Always wanted to write prose poems and flash fiction, perfect the blog-length essay, or even revive the art of letter-writing? Join other teachers this summer with writer Marty Williams to read a handful of contemporary writing in various short forms, to play with the juxtapositions of prose and poetry, essay and fiction, and to write, write, and write. The emphasis will be on experiments with language to produce fresh, raw work that surprises us in its direction, topic or form. Many of the activities and exercises in the class can be translated into classroom teaching at all levels.

Marty Williams is a Bay Area poet and writing workshop teacher of many years. A BAWP Teacher Consultant and Affiliate of Amherst Writers and Artists, Marty teachers ongoing workshops with ...a thousand words... and Room to Write. A former high school and middle school teacher and literacy coach, Marty is working on a manuscript of poems about the places she lives: Oakland, California, and Kenai Lake, Alaska.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

ILSP Elective. Luna Dance Institute: Developing & Implementing Dance Curricula B. Aug 5-9 9am-4pm (2 ceu) (05 Aug 2013)

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Developing & Implementing Dance Curricula-B

(also named Curriculum & Instruction preK-12 Dance-B)

Continuing where DIDC-A leaves off, this course investigates the role of the teacher in creating, implementing and sequencing standards-based dance curricula in relevant and authentic ways. Participants learn a process for moving students from exploration through improvisation to composition in a manner that allows for maximum exploration, problem posing and solving, and choice making. In the process, they deepen their understanding of the elements of dance and forming.

Course content includes choreographic devices, the principles of design, forms, contemporary learning theories, including constructivism. This course is mandatory for LDI certification.

Prerequisite DIDC-A. $480 Fee required. Meets college/university professional standards.

DIDC-B may be offered as a semester-length course, a weekly seminar, a 3-day weekend, or a summer intensive. In AUGUST 2013, we will offer it as a 5-day workshop, 9-4 (8/5-9)

http://lunadanceinstitute.org/workshops/

605 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 883.1118
Fax: (510) 883.1120

ILSP elective: National Equity Project's Annual Coaching for Equity Institute 8/7-8/9 (1 ceu) (07 Aug 2013)

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Coaching For Equity Institute

Every leader is a coach, every coach is a leader.

Participants learn a range of coaching and facilitative skills, including:

How to lead productive conversations about race and bias in your organization or community
Change management, group dynamics, and facilitation skills that support collaborative problem solving
Tools and frameworks to plan, implement, assess, and improve coaching
Coaching interventions that build the capacity of individuals and teams to create greater equity.

Recent Participants

School, district, and university teams working on equity or achievement gap initiatives
District leaders beginning to implement a coaching program
Educational management organization staff
Professional education and leadership coaches and consultants
Principals, Associate Superintendents, and other administrators and instructional leaders

Cost

Register

June 19-21, 2013

August 7-9, 2013

For registration support contact Andrea Ahlert at aahlert(at)nationalequityproject.org.

ILSP Elective - Bay Area Writing Project: ESSAY WRITING FOR TEACHERS 8/12-14 (.5 ceu) (12 Aug 2013)

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT

ESSAY WRITING FOR TEACHERS
Grades 6-12
Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky
August 12-14
9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Fee: $250

Reading and writing nonfiction have taken on greater urgency with the Common Core Standards. It follows, then, that reading and writing essays have assumed a role of prominence in the curriculum. Explore this versatile and provocative form as it embraces explanation and argument and produce an essay of your own during this three-day workshop in August. The course will provide an in-depth study of the essay and a range of engaging examples and approaches to reading and writing what Phillip Lopate refers to as “exercises in doubt.” You will leave confident of what essays are with a collection of engaging strategies to teach them.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/node/2423

Integrated Learning Summer Institute - Aug 13-15 (1 ceu) (13 Aug 2013)

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:30:00 GMT

August 13-15, 2013
Chabot Space & Science Center
1000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland, CA

Alameda County Office of Education

Inventing Our Future

Integrated Learning Summer Institute 2013

August 13-15, 2013 | 8:30am - 4:45pm

Chabot Space & Science Center | Oakland, CA

Improve student and teacher engagement with creativity, rigor and accountability.

Join K-12 teachers, administrators, content-specialists and teaching artists for

three days of dynamic speakers and mini-courses with leading edge practices on:

Watch & Share

Common Core & Assessment * Equity * Arts Integration

Math, Science & Environment * Frameworks * Digital Media

View mini course descriptions and the institute schedule.

Inventing Our Future Plenary Speakers

Rhodessa Jones

Actress, singer,

teacher, writer and

Co-Artistic Director

of the San Francisco

acclaimed

performance

company Cultural

Odyssey.

Shirley Brice Heath

Linguistic

Anthropologist

at Stanford University,

studying learners

across the life span in

non-formal

environments of

learning.

Gerald Richards

CEO of 826 National,

youth advocate and

education expert

working to improve

access to higher

education and foster
creativity through

writing.

Favianna Rodriguez

Interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer, using art to address

issues of migration,

global politics,

economic injustice,

patriarchy

and interdependence.

Inventing Our Future Mini-Courses

Choose from 36 mini-courses on a variety of topics such as:

Common Core & Smarter

Balanced Assessments

Forget the bubble test!

Discover how a

performance based

assessment model can

transform teaching and

learning.

Making Sense of Math

Through Art

Leverage art skills toward

greater understanding of

fractions and geometry

Take home an illustrated

step-by-step manual.

Tracing Identity through

Digital Media

Create compelling stories

using iMovie. Learn how to

integrate the technology in

your classroom.

View all mini-courses. Sign up for courses when you register.

Save 25% before May 30!

Early Admission: $150 per person

General Admission: $200 per person

Demand is high and space is limited. Please register early.

For more information: artiseducation.org or contact arts@acoe.org, 510-670-4557.