June 2024

The Sound 4 Learning: Remixing Education through the Studio Experience – Register by June 12!

The Sound 4 Learning: Remixing Education Through the Studio Experience

• June 17, 18, and 20, 2024 (corrected dates)
• 9 a.m.–3 p.m. each day
• High School for the Recording Arts, 1166 University Ave. W, Saint Paul, MN 55104
• Register for Sound 4 Learning

This three-day series is created and delivered by 4 Learning in collaboration with the High School for Recording Arts and is designed for music teachers, educators, and school administrators. Participants will develop critical frameworks for understanding how the arts, equity, social justice, and education intersect on behalf of students. Key benefits will include hands-on making in professional, state-of-the-art recording studios on the High School for Recording Arts campus in St. Paul, Minn., as well as support developing pedagogical best practices. Learning outcomes include a deepening understanding of what equity in schools sounds like, how to collaborate between teaching artists and core content instructors for interdisciplinary learning in modern creative recording and production studios, and how to develop high-level learning productions that address real world problems.

Participant Eligibility

• Secondary Music educators (grades 6-12), non-arts educators, and administrators may register.
• Teams consisting of a 6-12 Music educator, school administrator, and a secondary non-arts educator (such as social studies, ELA, or Math) are encouraged to register for this workshop.
• All participants should be active educators or administrators in the state of Minnesota and employed or looking for employment for the 2024-2025 school year.  

There is no cost to register. Lunch will be provided to all participants and mileage reimbursement will be available. Registration is first come, first served. Your registration is not complete until you’ve received a confirmation email.

Please share this experience with your colleagues! Reach out to Alina Campana, arts specialist, if there are any questions. 

Register for Additional Summer Arts Learning and Yearlong Cohorts

Check out Culturally Responsive Arts Ed for more opportunities to learn in and through the arts this summer and upcoming school year.

Summer Arts Professional Learning Series

• Remixing Education: The Benefits of Implementing Hip Hop Pedagogy in the Classroom – July 10-12
• Centering Muslim Youth Identity in Arts Education: Fostering Creativity, Identity, and Family and Community Engagement – August 1-2
• The Role of the Arts in Shaping Educational Equity – August 12-14
• Accessibility, Inclusion, and Community in the Arts Classroom – August 13-15

Summer Arts Institutes and Yearlong Cohorts

• Culturally Responsive Arts Curriculum Institute and Cohort – July 9-11 and 3 school year days
• Native Arts Institute and Cohort – July 23-25 and 3 school year days

The Culturally Responsive Arts Education program is designed to advance equity and improve quality in arts education in Minnesota classrooms, schools and districts through the development and implementation of culturally responsive and anti-racist arts curriculum, instruction, policies, and practices. The program is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Assistance for Arts Education grant and is led by the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 

Arts & Equity Specialists Contact MDE’s Arts and Equity Specialists for more information: Rae Fox-Charles, 651-582-8582 Nora Schull, 651-582-8585