- Leveraging Literacy Course Now Open!
- NCCAT Opportunities
- Summer Orff Opportunities
- NEH Teacher Institute with Stipends Highlights Puerto Rico and Latin American Cultures
- New Society Awards Scholarship Opportunity for 2025
 We are thrilled to announce that the next installment on Science of Reading and Arts Education is ready for release! This course is worth 1.0 CEUs in Literacy!
Register at:
go.ncdpi.gov/LL-Registration
Course Number: 26337
Course Name: Leveraging Literacy: Adapting Arts Education Instruction for Special Populations
Course Description: After learning about how language is used in Arts Education Classrooms and about how students engage with content and disciplinary literacy in interpretive and expressive domains, you're probably wondering about some of the more nuanced approaches that are needed to serve your ensembles. You might be wondering how to serve the linguistic needs of your AIG students. You may even be wondering what responsibility you have for assessing a student's ability to engage in disciplinary literacy, or what to do when literacy is a gateway skill needed to engage in your artform (You may be thinking, "How can my students do Twelfth Night if they have little fluency and struggle with reading comprehension?) It may be that even though you've shared your literacy projects with your administrators, they are asking you to go deeper and to serve your EC and Multilingual students in new ways. Though these requests can certainly be overwhelming, learning to leverage how you utilize literacy in your room can be a powerful advocacy tool and will strengthen your teaching practice.
This course specifically looks at the ways Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts teachers support literacy practices of assessment, in ensembles, and for special populations like Exceptional Children, Multilingual Learners, and AIG students.
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Unlocking Advanced Differentiation with the NC Literacy Instruction Standards
Differentiating advanced learning with Literacy Instruction Standards allows teachers to create a more personalized learning experience for their students. Participants will dive into the art of differentiation and understand how the Literacy Instruction Standards can support a learner-centered classroom that helps students reach their full potential. Our work will include understanding advanced learning pedagogical approaches, differentiation, identifying LIS resources, and creating meaningful classroom activities. This program is designed for teachers in grades 4-12.
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 City Lore and our partners, the Bronx Music Heritage Center and Brooklyn College, are pleased to announce Somos Boricuas, a two-week summer institute for K-12 educators. This Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will offer K-12 educators learning tools, resources, lesson ideas, and historical and social content for teaching about immigration and migration experience of first- and second generation- Latin Americans, with a special focus on Puerto Rico. It will also offer insights and classroom applications that summer scholars can adapt to their teaching of other recent migrant/immigrant cultures.
The institute will take place in New York City from July 14-27, 2024. Through a series of lectures, hands-on workshops, and local field trips, teacher participants explore enduring questions in American immigration history, such as who belongs and who gets to decide? What rights is a citizen entitled to and what obligations does citizenship carry with it? What roles do cultural traditions and expressive arts play in how migrant and immigrant communities forge identities in their new homes and maintain cultural connections to their places of birth? It also offers strategies to engage students in exploring their own ethnic and race-determined immigrant histories, and the many ways in which their families might have confronted and coped with questions of belonging, identity, rights, and community as newcomers in a strange land.
Somos Boricuas builds on more than 40 of years of research and programming initiated by the late Roberta Singer on the music and culture of Puerto Rico and Latin American countries. The institute is open to K-12 educators across the country. Participants will receive a stipend of $2,200. The application deadline is March 5th. Visit our web page for more details and the application. If you have questions, email or call Elena Martínez at emartinez@citylore.org, 917-557-2354.
 In March, The Society Awards shared a new scholarship opportunity for public high school seniors who plan to attend a college or university to further their skills in an arts-related major.
The scholarship was due to launch this year; however, having received feedback from a number of schools, the Society Awards realizes that there is not a standardized arts curriculum across the state or a consistent number of arts teachers in schools. They want to offer fair options for students who may not have equal access to advanced classes. In order for all public schools to be ready for this opportunity, the Society Awards are postponing the launch until the 2024-2025 school year.
The launch for next year also allows any students who are keen on pursuing the scholarship to do so from the beginning of their senior year. Students on a block schedule will be able to prepare their portfolios in the autumn semester and will have the needed arts resources at hand.
Additionally, this will give time to consult with colleges and universities to see how IHEs approach the differing levels of classes offered to students when assessing their incoming cohorts.
The Society Awards apologizes for the inconvenience, but are very excited about this scholarship and look forward to helping young visionaries with artistic talents and objectives, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year.
Please keep an eye out for future announcements to inform students.
Resources
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Quick Reference Guides for the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
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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.
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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)
Learn More about Comprehensive Arts Education
NCDPI Arts Education - NCDPI Arts Education Website
@ArtsEdNC - NCDPI Arts Education Twitter
Contact Us!
Laura Stauderman: K-12 Dance and Visual Arts Consultant
Brandon Roeder: K-12 Music and Theatre Arts Consultant
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