CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
The
Birth of an Arts & Technology
Integrated School -ArtPeace@East
Kristin
Rapp
Artist, Executive Director,
ArtPeace
Don Bartalo, Dave Rapp, Liz
Vaccaro, Chris Morrison |
The
creation of a new arts and technology
integrated school offers both: 1)
a chance for deep reflection on curriculum
design and 2) an opportunity to explore
collaborative problem solving techniques
that lead toward school reform.
ArtPeace@East
is an arts/tech-based school in the
Rochester City School District currently
in its first year. We will share the
milestones of the founding process. We
will use small-group reflection to engage
participants in several foundational
questions surrounding arts-based curriculum
reform. Participants
will gain concrete knowledge of the necessary
steps in moving traditional instructional
culture toward an arts-based, 21st-century
learning community.
Conference Strand:
Curriculum and Assessment
Educators: will
learn effective techniques of team teaching
with teaching artists and will explore
movement from traditional to arts and
technology integrated teaching.
Artists:
will learn the skills necessary in working
every day in a collaborative, arts integrated
school.
Cultural Organization
Administrators: will
gain new insight into the ways in which
an arts organization can play a significant
role in the instructional design of
a school.
Education
Administrators: will see
the ups and downs of partnering with
an arts organization at the level
of school design (not just a short-term
residency).
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Kristin
A. Rapp, LMSW is a social
worker, artist and Executive Director
of ArtPeace, an organization that uses
arts, recreation and technology to
transform education and create social
change. Kristin has a background working
with diverse youth and families in
urban and suburban settings in the
capacity of a social worker, therapist,
teaching artist and program director.
She founded ArtPeace to provide creative
opportunities for the most underserved
in her community to work on developing
entrepreneurial businesses in the arts
and to learn skills that make them
more productive workers, students and
citizens.
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