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 5-6 hour learning experience.
Practitioner Exchanges are held on the second Tuesday of the month, 4:30-6pm.
Upcoming 2018-2019 Exchanges
SEP
11th
Prompting Children’s Reflections
Join Summer Institute alumni and teaching artists Katrina Deans & Mandy Possel as they consider student reflections as assessment tools and another form of creative expression. In this casual but deep conversation, they’ll discuss questions like What does reflection look like and how do you make time for it? How do you inspire authentic reflection? Do you stay out of student reflection, or do you respond? What do you do with student reflections, if anything? How can we enliven our reflection time so that it is an essential part of class, rather than an afterthought? Bring your own questions to add to the mix!
OCT
9th
Policing & Releasing the Body
What does it look and sound like to police students’ bodies in K-12 schools? What are the larger implications of this hidden curriculum of control and compliance, particularly when considering whose bodies are most rigidly policed and by whom? How do we work to liberate and empower students’ bodies through creative movement within institutions and systems that seek to regulate their bodies for them? How can carving out a space/time within a school where agency over one’s own body is central help shift the norms of the larger institution? Join NY-based dance educator & SI alum Emily Ban in a discussion questioning the impact of fear, implicit bias, and a culture of control on students’ agency, actualization, and growth. Together we’ll seek to better understand the potential for a creative movement curriculum to radically counter these forces.
NOV
13th
Nature-Based Dance Curriculum
Because of limited access, budget cuts, fear, and even disciplinary actions, free play outside in nature is being streamlined out of schools and children’s schedules. How can dance remind students that, even if have limited contact with nature, we are still part of it? What tools, strategies, and curricular ideas do we have for deepening student’s connection to nature? Can we bring our students outside for dance? How can we bring nature inside to inspire dance-making? Join California-based dance educators Eden Flynn and Angela Wentworth in this casual conversation. Bring your own questions and curriculum ideas.
DEC
11th
Agency & Power in Early Childhood
How do we as educators introduce ideas of consent, power, and agency? How can introducing these ideas in Early Childhood benefit not only the child but the community at large? Join dance educator & early childhood specialist Aiano Nakagawa as she discusses how dance can provide opportunities for young children to learn boundaries, practice consent, build empathy, and exercise power in non-violent and non-oppressive ways. Bring your questions and expertise to this casual conversation. All welcome.
JAN
15th
Writing & Dance-Making
FEB
12th
Inquiry-Based Documentation
MAR
12th
Early Childhood Curriculum Exchange
APR
9th
Authentic Performances/Performing Process
MAY
7th
Dance in Special Education & Inclusion
JUN
11th
Cultural Relevancy in Dance
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