In This Edition:

• Featured Resource - New Teacher Toolkit

• NCASA Announces New Musical Theatre Festival

• NC Virtual Digital Transition Webinars
• State Voices: AIMing to cultivate creative thinkers across the state through art 
• NC Bold Conference
• Job Openings

Featured Resource - New Teacher Toolkit

The Arts Education team at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has compiled what they believe is the most pertinent professional development from their catalog for new Arts Educators in North Carolina. Though organized sequentially, District Arts Education Leaders may recommend a specific sequence more tailored to the needs of their PSU if necessary.   Educators are able to complete the professional development offered here asynchronously for a total of 1.5 CEUs (Note: The Course Coding Webinars are not available for NCDPI Credit. PSUs may opt to offer local credit for these sessions) The categories of these sessions include: NCDPI Standards  Learning Differences Social and Emotional Learning Funding Course Codes Arts Education Graduation Requirements Arts Integration Check out the New Teacher Toolkit (or forward to a colleague!) HERE

NCASA Announces New Musical Theatre Festival

NCASA is excited to announce we will present the first North Carolina Musical Theatre Festival in 2022-2023! While this activity is still under development, we can share we will present MPA (Musical Theatre Adjudication) for ensembles and individual actors in middle school and high school. We expect full details will be published by the start of school.   Dates for all NCASA arts activities are shown below. Sept 27 - Art Showcase Prompt Release Nov 10 - Art Showcase Submissions Due Dec 10 – Art Showcase State - Atkins HS in Winston-Salem Feb 10-11 – Dance Festival - Northwest Guilford HS Mar 20 – April 1 – Possible Musical Theatre Regionals April 21 – A Cappella State - WA Hough HS near Charlotte April 22 – Show Choir State - WA Hough HS near Charlotte April 29 – Musical Theatre State May 13 - NC Showcase   Visit NCScholastic.org for more information. These and all NCASA activities are free and open to all NCASA member schools.

NC Virtual Digital Transition Webinars

July Sessions Presented By:

Dr. Kim Warr Schroeder

NC Virtual English Teacher and NC Virtual Professional Learning Instructional Leader

Target Audience: All Are Welcome

State Voices: AIMing to cultivate creative thinkers across the state through art 

by Caroline Parker    “I think that’s why I’m still living today, because I’ve gotten so much from young people,” Jimmie Sutton says as he looks over to his students singing “Happy Birthday” to a friend and drawing in their sketch books. Sutton is… Continue reading →

NCBOLD Conference

Digital Teaching and Learning Conference The division of Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) is excited to announce its new iteration of NCBOLD for this summer. Previously NCBOLD had been a virtual professional learning opportunity for public school educators throughout North Carolina.     Realizing the importance of high quality, face to face professional learning, DTL will offer an all day digital teaching and learning conference in each of the educational regions throughout our state.  NCBOLD has recruited current, practicing educators with a proven track record of delivering high quality and innovative professional learning tied to the Digital Learning Competencies for both educators and administrators and the Digital Learning Standards for students. These NCBOLD ambassadors will create and execute innovative sessions that will allow practicing educators to effectively integrate digital teaching and learning in their classrooms. For the summer of 2022, NCBOLD will be hosted at the following locations.    EASTERN REGIONS WESTERN REGIONS Northeast: Monday, July 11 Edenton-Chowan Public Schools DF Walker Elementary School 125 Sandy Ridge Rd, Edenton, NC 27932 Northwest: Monday, July 18 Wilkes County Schools Central Wilkes Middle Schools 3541 NC-16, Moravian Falls, NC 28654 Southeast: Tuesday, July 12 Carteret County Public Schools Croatan High School 3355 NC-24, Newport, NC 28570 Piedmont-Triad: Tuesday, July 19  Davidson County Schools Oak Grove High School 3507 Midway School Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27107 North Central: Wednesday, July 13 Wilson County Schools Hunt High School 4559 Lamm Rd, Wilson, NC 27893 Southwest: Wednesday, July 20 Kannapolis City Schools Kannapolis Middle School 1445 Oakwood Ave, Kannapolis, NC 28081 Sandhills: Thursday, July 14  Public Schools of Robeson County Lumberton High School 3901 Fayetteville Rd, Lumberton, NC 28358 Western: Thursday, July 21 Transylvania County Schools Brevard High School 609 N Country Club Rd, Brevard, NC 28712     Please register for any date and location that works for your schedule! For questions or additional information, contact Lauren.Boucher@dpi.nc.gov and Brian.Whitson@dpi.nc.gov.

Job Openings

K-5 Music Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School Kinston, NC Principal, Rhonda Greene - rhgreene@lenoir.k12.nc.us   Band/Chorus Woodington Middle School Kinston, NC Principal, Patrick Phillippe - pphillippe@lenoir.k12.nc.us   Band/Chorus South Lenoir High School Deep Run, NC Principal, Elizabeth Pierce - epierce@lenoir.k12.nc.us   Chorus E.B. Frink Middle School LaGrange, NC Principal, Michael Moon - mmoon@lenoir.k12.nc.us   Art Teacher Rochelle Middle School Kinston, NC Principal, Terry Wooten - twooten@lenoir.k12.nc.us

Resources

• Quick Reference Guides for the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
• NC Arts Education Site - The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Webpages are intended to be a resource for arts educators, administrators, institutions of higher education, and other interested parties. It contains links to standards, instructional tools, professional development, and other resources related to implementing the North Carolina Arts Education Essential Standards. Arts Education leaders are encouraged to browse, reference, download, share, discuss, and adapt resources. 
• NC Arts Education Listserv- Sign up to receive detailed information and updates. Subscribe by visiting: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/NCSBE/subscriber/new. Enter your email address and then select Arts Education and any other listservs for which you would like to subscribe.
• North Carolina Arts Council
• A+ Schools of North Carolina
• NC Museum of History

North Carolina's Vision for Comprehensive Arts Education

In today's globally competitive world, innovative thinking and creativity are essential for all school children. High quality, standards-based instruction in the arts develops these skills and effectively engages, retains, and prepares future-ready students for graduation and success in an entrepreneurial economy. Dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts, taught by licensed arts educators and integrated throughout the curriculum, are critical to North Carolina's 21st century education. (Senate Bill 66: Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force, 2010)

NCDPI Arts Education - NCDPI Arts Education Google Site

@ArtsEdNC - NCDPI Arts Education Twitter

Contact Us!

Sayward Grindley: K-12 Dance and Visual Arts Consultant

Brandon Roeder: K-12 Music and Theatre Arts Consultant

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