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.
Upcoming 2019-20 Exchanges
SEP
10th
Creating Space for Child-centered Work
What does it mean to teach from a child-centered focus? How can I better listen to children’s voices & ideas and integrate them into my teaching? How do I balance children’s choice & inquiry with what I’m “expected” to teach? Join Oakland classroom teacher & Summer Institute alum Victoria Albaracin as she discusses these questions – and more! – in an informal peer-to-peer conversation that helps you get to the heart of your teaching philosophy. Bring your own questions & experience!
OCT
8th
Embodied Poetics: Writing & Dance
Dance Educator and California Poet in the Schools Amanda Chiado leads this invigorating conversation about the intersection of dance and writing. Join her as she explores such questions as How do dance and writing complement and inspire each other? How do I encourage my students to grow in both dance and writing simultaneously? How can dance help create writing that is more powerful – and vice versa? Talk with other artist educators and teachers curious about arts integration about how to play with both kinesthetic and written communication.
NOV
12th
Dance in Special Education & Inclusion
DEC
10th
Creating Community through Dance
JAN
14th
Aerial Dance & Creativity
FEB
11th
Dance & Self-regulation
MAR
10th
Dance Integration Across Curricula
APR
14th
Agency & Power in Early Childhood
MAY
12th
Cultural Relevancy in Dance
JUN
9th
Dancers in Leadership
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