The Greenville Arts Partnership between the Greenville Arts Council, Washington County School Districts and our three community arts partners, Delta Center Stage, Delta Symphony Association and the Delta Children’s Museum, is focused on full arts integration in Washington County schools. Schools interested in participating in our programs or in joining the Greenville Arts Partnership should contact either Dr. Kathryn Lewis, Education Director or Megan Hines, Education Coordinator at the Greenville Arts Council. The Greenville Arts Council is open Monday-Friday 9-5 and both can be contacted via email or phone at 662.332.2246. For more information about the Greenville Arts Council visit our website at http://www.greenvilleartspartnership.wordpress.com 2011 winter greenville arts partnership Enhancing Education through the Arts in Washington County, MS Keeping the Arts Alive in our Public Schools The Greenville Arts Partnership is a collaboration between the Greenville Arts Council, Washington County Public School Districts and our three community arts partners, Delta Center Stage, Delta Symphony Association and the Delta Children’s Museum, and focuses on full arts integration in elementary schools. Our partnership was the first in the state of Mississippi accepted into the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program in 2003, joining over 100 other partnerships b e t w e e n s c h o o l d i s t r i c t s a n d a r t s organizations across the country. As a member of the Kennedy Center Partners In Education, members of the Greenville Arts Partnership attend an Annual Meeting, and have access to high-quality professional development, current research in arts education and integration. Professional development has been provided in two ways, through workshops with Teaching Artists from the Kennedy Touring Roster and grade-level and/or discipline-specific professional development with our local staff. We present a series of model demonstration lessons to teachers in grades K to 6, demonstrating connections between Partnership free arts programming and required state frameworks. The partner arts groups present a series of live performances allowing each elementary child in the partnership to attend at least once each year. The groups work with the Arts Council staff to develop accompanying curriculum-based educational material for distribution to teachers prior to each performance. Over the years, we have succeeded in providing basic arts integration training district-wide as well as in-depth professional development to allow groups of teachers to increase their level of mastery. The underlying goal of GAP is to best serve the needs of our community, and we reevaluate our programs and create new ones over the years accordingly. Greenville Public School District first joined GAP after completing a comprehensive district-wide needs assessment in 2001 and has expanded programs to meet the needs of their students since then. In the fall of 2010 we were proud to welcome the Western Line School District to the partnership. In This Issue: Winter GAP Schedule 2 Arts Integration Resources 3 Programs in Our Partner Schools 4 Partnership Organization Updates 5 Meet the GAP Staff 6 Students explore simple machines at the Armitage Herschell Carousel on an Arts Experience Field Trip. 1
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The Greenville Arts Partnership between the Greenville Arts Council, Washington County School Districts and our three community arts partners, Delta Center Stage, Delta Symphony Association and the Delta Children’s Museum, is focused on full arts integration in Washington County schools. Schools interested in participating in our programs or in joining the Greenville Arts Partnership should contact either Dr. Kathryn Lewis, Education Director or Megan Hines, Education Coordinator at the Greenville Arts Council. The Greenville Arts Council is open Monday-Friday 9-5 and both can be contacted via email or phone at 662.332.2246. For more information about the Greenville Arts Council visit our website athttp://www.greenvilleartspartnership.wordpress.com
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Enhancing Education through the Arts in Washington County, MSKeeping the Arts Alive in
our Public SchoolsThe Greenville Arts Partnership is a
collaboration between the Greenville Arts Council, Washington County Public School Districts and our three community arts par tners, Del ta Center S tage, Del ta Symphony Association and the Delta Children’s Museum, and focuses on full arts integration in elementary schools.
Our partnership was the first in the state of Mississippi accepted into the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program in 2003, joining over 100 other partnerships b e t we e n s c h o o l d i s t r i c t s a n d a r t s organizations across the country. As a member of the Kennedy Center Partners In Education, members of the Greenville Arts Partnership attend an Annual Meeting, and have access to high-quality professional development, current research in ar ts education and integration.
Professional development has been provided in two ways, through workshops with Teaching Artists from the Kennedy Touring Roster and grade-level and/or discipline-specific professional development with our local staff. We present a series of model demonstration lessons to teachers in grades K to 6, demonstrating connections between Partnership free arts programming and required state frameworks.
The partner arts groups present a series of l ive per formances a l lowing each elementary child in the partnership to attend at least once each year. The groups work with t h e A r t s C o u n c i l s t a f f t o d eve l o p accompanying curriculum-based educational material for distribution to teachers prior to each performance.
Over the years, we have succeeded in providing basic arts integration training district-wide as well as in-depth professional development to allow groups of teachers to increase their level of mastery. The underlying goal of GAP is to best serve the needs of our
community, and we reevaluate our programs and create new ones over the years accordingly.
Greenville Public School District first joined GAP after completing a comprehensive district-wide needs assessment in 2001 and has expanded programs to meet the needs of their students since then. In the fall of 2010 we were proud to welcome the Western Line School District to the partnership.
In This Issue:Winter GAP Schedule 2Arts Integration Resources 3Programs in Our Partner Schools 4Partnership Organization Updates 5
Meet the GAP Staff 6
Students explore simple machines at the Armitage Herschell Carousel on an Arts Experience Field Trip.
WANT TO SCHEDULE AN ART EXPERIENCE?If you would like to schedule an arts experience for your classroom, please call Megan Hines at the Greenville Arts Council to make arrangements at 662.332.2246
Beauty & the BeastThe Birmingham Children’s Theatre will
perform Beauty & the Beast on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 9:00 am and 11:00 am in Jake and Freda Stein Auditorium E. E. Bass in Greenville, Mississippi. The admissions fee for the 9 am showing is $5 per child with teachers and aids admitted free and the 11 am showing is free for all attendees (Hurry! Only 200 spots remain!). Beauty & the Beast is based on a story by Madame Jean-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and dramatized by Jeff Church. What beauty will you find in unexpected places when Birmingham Children’s Theatre presents this wonderful story?
This enchanted tale of a magic castle, a beautiful maiden and a hideous beast teaches character and life skills through the story’s moral of not making judgments based solely on appearance. This main stage Theatre in Motion production runs 55 to 60 minutes with a cast of 5 to 7 actors and is age appropriate for K thru 6th grade. Theatre in Motion is the touring division of Birmingham Children’s Theatre, one of the oldest and largest children’s theaters in the country. Theatre in Motion continues to serve more than 100 communities in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions every season.
Field Trips to the Armitage Herschell Carousel
Discover Arts Integration at its finest by bringing your students to the Carousel Tour. The history and mechanism of the Carousel will be explained, and the children will participate in a hands-on science activity. This arts experience is free for fifth grad classes or $5 per student for other grade levels. Every participant will have the opportunity to take a ride on the Carousel and experience the benefits of a simple machine first-hand! Our field trip is designed to meet requirements for 5th Grade students, but we are happy to design a tour for different grade levels.
Prior to the planned visit, we will send you a comprehensive Tour and Educational Packet that will cover multiple competencies, including: • Social Studies: Using a timeline to analyze
spatial and ecological relationships between people, places, and environments
• Science: Designing and constructing a simple machine
• Eng l i sh/Language Ar t s : Compos ing descriptive texts relating to an event
Carousel field trips can be scheduled for any day of the week during both spring and fall semesters.
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Winter Happenings with the Greenville Arts PartnershipLee Engel of Delta Children’s Museum presents at a Carousel Field Trip.
Keep the Arts Alive School Supply Drive
The 2010 Needs Assessments of our GAP schools showed a common theme: teachers need more resources! There are several websites that have come into existence over the years specifically to assist with enhancing our nation’s class rooms by setting up a secure donation site where they can chose specific items or projects to fund. A list of online resources is available on this page.
For Martin Luther King Day of Service, the Greenville Arts Council and Greenville Renaissance Scholars are collecting art supplies until Monday, January 17th to enhance the classrooms of Western Line and Greenville Public School Districts as members of the Greenville Arts Partnership. In-kind donation forms will be available to people who make donations of the art supplies that are essential for our educators to successfully integrate the arts into their classrooms. Donations can be dropped off to the Greenville Arts Council office between 9 am and 5 pm, Monday-Friday. If your classroom would like to receive specific items from the supply drive, please contact Megan Hines at 662-332-2246.
Individualized SupportTo ensure our partnership programs are
successful, we offer individualized support to our GAP members so that we can best meet the needs of their individual classrooms. Aside from our regularly scheduled arts experiences and professional development, we can coordinate one-on-one meetings with educators to help develop curriculum that can include arts integration within the Mississippi Learning Frameworks.
Periodically, we offer intensive training sessions, which actively involve smaller groups of teachers focused on a particular area of need and/or interest. Intensive training sessions require more contact hours than other programs, which result in a higher level of understanding and implementation in the classroom.
Don’t forget, our staff members can assist in completing grant applications for programming or can apply for grants as a partner organization!
Kennedy Center Partner in Education
The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Education Department through its Partnerships in Education Program provides a free, valuable online resource for education directors, arts presenters, teachers and other arts educators. The Resources Available for Your Community site provides a listing (some free of charge) that include professional development workshops for teachers, seminars for artist development, classroom materials for teachers and students, workshops for parents and community members and much more. As part of the Par tners in Educat ion network , GAP partnership teams have access to Kennedy Center resources.
This February, MacKenzie Stroh, Executive Director of the Greenville Arts Counc i l , Dr. Leeson Tay lor, Deputy Superintendent of Greenville Public School District and Michael Ray, of Western Line School District will attend the Kennedy Center Annual Meeting, which allows team members to receive additional training related to program and partnership development, and to recast the terms of their written partnership agreement. The Annual Meeting will also provide the opportunity for teams to learn from each other's experiences, renewing profess ional assoc iat ions wi th o ther partnership team members and Kennedy Center staff.
For more information about the Kennedy Center or to access the resources available there, visit their website at: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/
New GAP Website!To make GAP resources more accessible
to our educators, we are proud to announce a brand new website! Our website is broken down to provide an overview of each of the sections of what we currently offer, a full section of Resources for Educators with downloadable curriculum guides for GAP arts experiences, an up to date calendar, and a GAP Members Only page thats provides access to specialized copyrighted lessons and videos of model demonstration lessons. Visit our new Greenville Arts Partnership website at greenvilleartspartnership.wordpress.com
Arts Integration Resources
Need Classroom Materials?
The following is a list of online non-profits for educators to post items needed for their classrooms. Donors can select projects or
items to sponsor, can make online payments and receive tax information.
www.donorschoose.orgPublic school teachers post classroom project requests ranging from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital and beyond. When a project reaches its funding goal, they deliver the materials directly to the school. Oprah picked DonorsChoose as one of her favorite things of 2010.
www.supplyourschools.org
Supply Our Schools is designed to perfectly match donors with the needs of students in under-privileged school districts. The idea is simple: have teachers identify the specific needs of their classrooms and let donors decide which supplies they would like purchase for donation.
http://classwish.org
Teachers, administrators and officers of teacher-parent organizations create a Wish List of the supplies they need for their students and spread the word to parents and others in the community wi th ClassWish tools. Supporters see exactly how they can help, and get a receipt for their tax-deductible contributions.
www.iLoveSchools.com
iLoveSchools.com works with teachers, schools and districts, encouraging kids to stay in school while helping them gain a lifelong love for learning. They match America's school teachers with individual, group and corporate donors of new, used or in-kind classroom resource.
Greenville Public School District to host a 6th-8th Grade After-School Dance Program
Beginning in the Spring of 2011, Greenville Public Middle Schools are introducing an after-school dance program for beginning and experienced dancers. The six week program will offer students the opportunity to foster and enrich their dance education through the development of technical proficiency and artistic growth. Soloman and Coleman Middle Schools will each be holding three sessions for a group of 8-15 students, providing exposure to new styles of dance techniques in a setting that will allow them to interact closely with a skilled instructor.
Brianne Connelly of Lake Village, AR will be teaching the classes, bring over 14 years of experience as a dancer and instructor to the program. Ms. Connelly is an alumna of the Lake Village Teach for America Corps, where she formed the Lakeside Middle School Dance Team. She has taught community dance classes at several different locations, including the Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA and Greenville Higher Education Center. Ms. Connelly has experience teaching Hip Hop, Zumba, Aerobic Dance, Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Line, Folk, Tap, Latin, African, and Chinese dances and will be sharing a variety of dance styles and techniques with the participating students.
Fall Semester Western Line School District Family Reading Night
This past fall semester, Western Line School District and GAP hosted 40-60 parents, students, teachers and administrators for Family Reading Night. Ms. Justine Moser, an alumna of the Leland Teach for America Corps, and Cindy Miers coordinated a presentation of the skit The Sneetches based on the book by Dr. Seuss. The skit was used to introduce the definition of tolerance and to give an example of what the struggle for tolerance looks like in a setting that parents and students could have a dialogue together.
Ms. Moser directed a theatre group made of students in 4-8th grade that attended GAC sponsored classes to present The Sneetches, which then led to a short discussion about why they feel accepting others and embracing their differences is important. The students and parents also read one of two Dr. Seuss books in the break-out classrooms, either Horton Hears a Who, or The Butter Battle Book. These books also explored the theme of tolerance and acceptance and what can happen if people are too quick to let fear of differences cause them to hurt and neglect others. Then each classroom was instructed to create collages that depicted images and words that express acceptance, understanding and tolerance.
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Ms. Connelly teaching a dance routine to the Lakeside Middle School Dance Team.
Have a story about a successful arts integration program that you think we should highlight in our Spring newsletter? Contact Megan Hines at the Greenville Arts Council at 662-332-2246 or [email protected].
Ms. Moser’s 4-8th grade actresses performed Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches this fall.
Partner Organization
UpdatesUpcoming Events:
januaryGAC Gallery Opening 7DSA Swing Concert 8GAC Movie Screening 20GAC Carousel Party 28
februaryDCM Beauty and the Beast 17DCS Oklahoma! 23-27 GAC Gallery Opening 25
marchDSA Jazz Concert 10GAC Lecture at Bass 16Greenville Honors Its Own 25
aprilGAC Spring Fling 9GAC Gallery Opening 15GAC Lecture at Bass 20GAC Student Invitational Opening 28
mayDCM and DSA Outdoor Concert 7DCS The Color Purple 11-15GAC Lecture at Bass 18
Contact Us:Greenville Arts Council 662-332-2246
www.greenville-arts-council.com
Delta Center Stage 662-378-9848www.deltastage.com
Delta Children’s Museum 662-378-8645deltacm.org
Delta Symphony Association 662- 334-4168
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A positive sense of momentum fills the E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center. Through a new membership program and through growing community and business support, GAC has been ab le t o i n c rea se t he regu la r programming calendar. GAC is working more closely with their community arts partners, and has ex t ended ou r educa t i ona l partnerships with the local school districts. This November, GAC welcomed two new AmeriCorps VISTA staff members. Megan Hines, jo ined as the new Educat ion Coordinator, will be working closely with Dr. Kathryn Lewis, Director of Education, to increase educational art opportunities in the schools. Gabriel Watson, joined as the new Operations and Volunteer Coordinator, working directly with the center’s operational staff to continue to grow GAC’s programming and create more events for members.
Delta Symphony Association The Delta Symphony Association aims to maintain high quality programming that covers musical genres reaching a broad range of tastes - including Blues, classical, swing, jazz and Texas fiddling. In the past, visiting artists have presented at GAP partner schools as DSA offers an educational component in conjunction with the musical performances to expose students to types of music that they likely do not hear very often and to show them the possibilities that exist within the musical arts.
Delta Children’s Museum Delta Children's Museum is a non-profit civic organization dedicated to providing Mississippi Delta residents with hands – on, participatory and visual learning experiences in the arts and sciences. In the midst of their 31st season, the Delta Children's Museum is excited to continue to host family-centered projects in the "Museum Without Walls." The beauty of the organization is that without a home, without walls - wherever their feet take them is where the museum is!
Delta Center Stage
Delta Center Stage was founded in 1979 by a group of volunteers to bring live theatre back to the Delta Community. Delta Center Stage or "DCS" as everyone knows it, has compiled a remarkable record of artistic success and community service, gathering strength on the tradition of support for arts and literature that distinguishes it's hometown of Greenville, MS. Delta Center Stage has a very active youth and children's program, providing wholesome supervised activity for young people during the summer of each year through the production of their annual summer youth musical, where young people from the community produce a show almost entirely on their own. Many other educational and collaborative efforts with schools and other arts organizations are also supported each year.
Dr. Kathryn Cascio Lewis is Director of Education for the Greenville Arts Council. Prior to developing this position, she was the Executive Director of the Greenville Arts Council and E.E. Bass Foundation for four years and taught Art Education at Delta State University for five years before that. She received her PhD in Art Education with a minor in Curriculum and Instruction from the Pennsylvania State University, her MA in Art Education from the University of Alabama, and a BA in Art from Millsaps College. She has worked in teacher education for many years with a variety of schools and organizations including the Getty Education Institute and various museums.
Dr. Lewis served on the board of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education and as the President of the Mississippi Art Education Association. She worked closely with the Mississippi Department of Education in the development of the Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks and conducted their training workshops for teachers throughout the state. She was honored as the 2004 Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education Higher Education Art Educator of the Year as well as the 2005 Mississippi Art Education Association Higher Education Outstanding Art Educator of the Year for her service to the field while teaching at Delta State University.
Megan Hines is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. As an undergraduate, Megan was recognized as the University of Minnesota Alumni Association Student Volunteer of the Year, as the University of Minnesota Homecoming Queen and as a recipient of the prestigious University of Minnesota President's Student Leadership and Service Award. She was actively involved in student government, serving as the President of her college, a vice president officer of campus sorority life, and as a student representative to the Board of Regents. Megan has been volunteering at the Greenville Arts Council since she moved to Greenville in July and joined as staff in November as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member. As a member of the MDSC/AmeriCorps*VISTA program, Megan is working to empower individuals and organizations with skills and knowledge needed to implement and sustain programs in their communities with a focus on children and youth. Megan will be assisting Dr. Lewis in the Greenville Arts Partnership by coordinating the daily operations of the program, including the website, newsletters and scheduling of field trips.
