Practitioner Exchanges create time and space for educators to connect, build a peer community, and explore issues of practice through informal conversations facilitated by Summer Institute alumni.
Get inspired with new ideas or perspectives, ask for help with your challenges, and share your own expertise. Each month centers on a different topic and a Practitioner Exchange is often paired with workshop offerings as an opportunity to integrate and revisit information throughout the year. Practitioner Exchanges are included in the cost of workshops as follow-up discussions. Take both Workshop and Practitioner Exchange for a full 4.5-7+ hour learning experience.
Practitioner Exchanges are held on the second Tuesday of the month, 4:30-6pm Pacific, unless otherwise noted. In ’20-21 they are held on Zoom.
Upcoming 2020-21 Exchanges
AUG
11th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Sustaining the uncertain, planning & self-care
How do I plan for an uncertain year? And how to make it creative and sustainable for me? How do I reflect on my own learning and teaching goals, knowing that how I teach may change at any time? How can the work be less work, even with all the endless platform possibilities? Are there practices for self-care that I can incorporate now? Join dance teaching artist Sam Stone, experiential arts teacher Christine Atkins, classroom teacher Kristin Burke, and other dance ed colleagues as we ask these questions and collaborate to generate solutions. Bring your own questions and ideas to add to the mix!
SEP
15th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Sustaining the uncertain, planning & self-care 2.0
How do I plan for an uncertain year? And how to make it creative and sustainable for me? How do I reflect on my own learning and teaching goals, knowing that how I teach may change at any time? How can the work be less work, even with all the endless platform possibilities? Are there practices for self-care that I can incorporate now? Join dance teaching artist Sam Stone, experiential arts teacher Christine Atkins, classroom teacher Kristin Burke, and other dance ed colleagues as we ask these questions and collaborate to generate solutions. Bring your own questions and ideas to add to the mix! This topic was so popular last month, participants asked to continue the conversation in monthly meetups to check in about prioritizing self care. All welcome to join in.
SEP
24th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Flexibility, complicity, and integrity
Join dance educators Nia Womack-Freeman and Deborah Karp as they explore these questions: As dance teachers, we’re often asked to be flexible, and we’re very good at accommodating to make sure dance can happen – especially now. But are we too accommodating? When do we bend so much that it’s actually a disservice to ourselves, our students and our field? How do we reflect on our values as educators and find our own lines of integrity? How do we know when those lines are crossed? When is it time to push back to administrators and make the recommendations to support our students and art form? Bring your own questions to this peer conversation, and help us generate new ideas. This Exchange happens on a Thursday, 4:30-6pm Pacific.
OCT
13th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Sustaining the uncertain, planning & self-care 3.0
How do I plan for an uncertain year? And how to make it creative and sustainable for me? How do I reflect on my own learning and teaching goals, knowing that how I teach may change at any time? How can the work be less work, even with all the endless platform possibilities? Are there practices for self-care that I can incorporate now? Join dance teaching artist Sam Stone, experiential arts teacher Christine Atkins, classroom teacher Kristin Burke, and other dance ed colleagues as we ask these questions and collaborate to generate solutions. Bring your own questions and ideas to add to the mix! This topic was so popular in August, participants asked to continue the conversation in monthly meetups to check in about prioritizing self care. All welcome to join in.
OCT
20th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Inclusion & Special Ed
Join dance teaching artist Alisa Rasera, educational therapist Cindy Miner Kapelke, and other dance ed peers to discuss ways to move beyond compliance and into inclusion, particularly while teaching online. They’ll be exploring questions like How can we truly facilitate an equitable experience for all children’s needs in the dance classroom, when the needs of each child are unique? How are we applying UDL practices to our online teaching? What new possibilities and opportunities is distance learning offering us to increase access for all learners? Bring your own questions to this rich and casual conversation with your teaching peers.
NOV
10th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Early Childhood
DEC
10th
Teaching Dance from a Distance: Engaging Families & Family Dance
More topics to be added! Check back regularly for updates.
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