CommonGround 2008
Mindful Innovations

We will work to create 10-minute daily activities that support exploration of and reflection on Eric Booth's “Habits of Mind for Creative Engagement."

Starting with a few examples, we will explore how Booth's Habits of Mind provide a framework for daily explorations into creative engagement with the world around us, using arts-based activities in the performing and visual arts. These activities inspire creative open-mindedness in students for the rest of school work to come. They also foster in students the tools they need for interacting with a constantly changing world in creative and positive ways.

Conference Strand: Curriculum and Assessment

Educators, Artists: will be able to use activities from workshop and understand basic concepts to create new activities for and with learners.

Community/Parents: will be able to work with or piggy-back on teacher-led activities at home and in other child-centered settings.

Others: will be able to teach participants how to use the HOM as a framework for short, effective bursts of arts-based activity in multiple settings.

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Carol Ponder, the first national Teaching Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in Fall 2007 has worked with the Empire State Partnerships program, the Lincoln Center Institutes (and 5 other AE Institutes), the Kennedy Center, and VSA arts (International and Tennessee), among many other organizations.  She also is in the classroom on a regular basis, to be sure that her theory always is grounded on rubber-meets-the-road practice.

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