smART stART Teaching Artist Workshop was a Success!

Young Audiences has successfully completed our Teaching Artists Workshop this past October 20th, 2010! Engaging ideas were tossed around the conference room which included reading standards, essential questions, and inspirational lesson plans. Some teaching artists ranging from dance, music, and visual arts, demonstrated their strategies for engaging students’ participation through literary comprehension and the fine arts. Not only was the workshop fun, but it also created a positive environment for learning through the smART stART program. We are hard at work to make our next smART stART fall workshop, November 15th, 2010, as educational and dynamic as the first!

Fall Workshop Means smART stART is Going Live!

Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center is proud to announce that our fall planning smART stART workshops will be taking October 20^th and November 15^th, 2010! We are excited to promote early literacy skills – specifically the students ability to retell a story – through the arts. During the smART stART workshops Teaching Artists and participating classroom teachers will collaborate to explore arts based strategies to help kindergarten students grasp foundational literacy skills. This collaboration is integral to ensuring student achievement and makes for a great way to spend the day! Be sure to check back for pictures and coverage of the workshops. We are on the saddle again and enthusiastic to start this 2010-2011 school year off with a bang!