Experience the hypnotic pulse of the melodic claves, majestic congas, ringing timbales, and the call of the raspy guiro, sleek bata and beaded shekere, as tropical African percussion instruments mesh with the classical instrumentation of European music. The Roberto Ocasio Latin Jazz Project musicians provide an energized interactive demonstration, from the roots of Afro-Cuban Music to today's Latin Jazz. A fun way to learn about this popular musical genre while learning a little Spanish and maybe even dancing the mambo!

This Dancing Wheels In-School Performance discusses diversity, disability awareness, and Integrated dance. It also introduces sign-language, audio description, translation, and other ways The Dancing Wheels Company and School works with all people of all abilities. This In-School performance, which is perfect for disability awareness day, is 45 minutes of dance and dialog which concludes with a 15 minute question and answer session with the students.

Help your students "get ready for The Cleveland Orchestra" by attending this workshop in advance of an Education Concert at Severance Hall. The workshop includes many preparation strategies and materials for students, including a special excerpt CD, to help them get the most out of their concert experience. Dates include Thursday, January 28, 4:00pm-6:00pm and Tuesday, March 16, 4:00pm-6:00pm. Presenters include Dr. Robert E. Dunn of Brigham Young University (formerly of Case Western Reserve University) and Vanessa Bond, educator and doctoral candidate at CWRU.

Many songs tell stories, describing characters and their adventures in particular places at particular times. This class looks at some of the great stories of rock and roll and examines how lyrics can establish a setting, introduce characters, and develop a plot. Through exciting recorded performances by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees like Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, and Chuck Berry, students learn how narrative can be developed. They will act out undersea adventures on a "Yellow Submarine" and imagine what it would be like to be "Johnny B. Goode" by drawing what they hear and read in the lyrics, all while learning to summarize and retell the stories told through rock and roll.

Follow a Buckeye Picnic performance with this residency, where Susan works with individual groups of students gathered around her glowing campfire. Susan teaches storytelling skills and relates Ohio stories to curricular concepts such as timelines, maps, cause and effect, fact vs. opinion, immigration and factors of production. Teachers may select a songwriting approach, where students work with Susan to create a song to celebrate what they have learned about Ohioans.

Susan Weber's handcrafted quilt depicting Ohio's people, geography, and official symbols is the backdrop for her interactive stories and songs. Ohioans of diverse cultures come to life in students' imaginations along a rich timeline of Ohio heritage. Susan's stories begin with Native American and European settlers and continue with canal diggers, farmers, entrepreneurs, freedom fighters, immigrants and astronauts. Students listen and respond through movement, imitation, sound effects, and voice to stories of Ohioans whose actions made a difference in Ohio's development.

Based on the beloved movie partially filmed in Cleveland, this classic holiday comedy is a funny and sweet tale of growing up in the 1940s. This is a great opportunity to introduce your students to live theatre!
Available December 1,2,9 & 16, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

Bring the magic of theater right into your classroom with this exciting re-telling of Aesop's fables and Anansi's folktales. Acclaimed Teaching Artist Nina Domingue will perform right in the classroom as well as do a hands-on workshop with your students. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and create stories based on the style of these two master storytellers.

This dynamic dance movement series reinforces understanding of the basic physical properties relating to states of matter, the way these states of matter can interact and how different kinds of forces can affect changes. Students will explore these physics concepts while being introduced to essential dance elements and mechanics that include individual and group problem solving, creative expression and making choices.

This program for the classroom examines the people, places and events that created the steel-pan and its role in the modern day Carnival in Trinidad. One or two members of the renowned group 7 Mile Isle teach students about the history of the steel drum; provide a glimpse of Trinidad's varied landscape; offer unique insights about Trinidad's famous Carnival; and provide musical examples that bring it all to life. Video, audio, demonstration, and participation are included.

Join "Steam Engine Hal" on a playful journey through the world of unique musical instruments that fit in your pocket. Just wait till you see the traditional African "Ba-na-ku-las!"

Using stories of equality, this residency mixes words and movement to explore humanity and the differences and similaritites-both emotional and historical-between people with disabilities and people of color. Using sensory and expressive details, students will express, through movement, stories of real people throughout the civil rights and disability rights movements. Students will gain an understanding of the many historic events in the lives of people with diabilitites and people of color and how this has lead to the equality that we enjoy today. This original Dancing Wheels Residency addresses Ohio Content Standards in both the Fine-Arts and Non-Arts Curriculum culminates with a performance for family and friends.

Using stories of equality/Rosa Parks, this performance mixes words and movement to explore humanity and the boundaries of difference and equality, both emotional and historical-between people with disabilities and people of color. Using sensory and expressive details students will experience stories of real people throughout the civil rights and disability rights movements.

A Study in Black and White is a survey of two musical styles: African-American and Anglo-American. The African-American musical tradition has its roots in the African Diaspora, slavery, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era. The Anglo-American country music tradition has its roots in Appalachia and the British Isles. The program explores examples of the close connection between early "old-timey" country music and the blues.

Storyteller, songwriter and musician Susan Weber wants teachers to harness the power of a storyteller's movement and sound to teach phonemic awareness, word recognition, fluency and vocabulary acquisition. In this workshop, teachers learn how to tell captivating stories by making the most of body language, facial expression and vocal expressiveness. Susan gives teachers ample experience with stories, songs, movement and chants that are chock full of rhyming words and patterns, rhythmic movement, sound effects, the repetition of shared phonemes and rich vocabulary.

Students increase their ability to recognize, speak, understand and say words and numbers. Using call-and-response, songs, rhythms, raps and movement students will have the opportunity to hear and see the patterns of words and numbers. Program includes the ABC123 Kids Express workbook and poster for students and teachers. Students create a visual of their understanding of new sounds, words and numbers. Students will have a sharing hour presentation for the student body, family, friends and community.

Develop student listening skills and comprehension. Teachers explore and model drama activities, ideas and techniques to improve student focus, attention and responses to oral presentations.

This workshop, led by an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, will provide examples of alternative adaptations and techniques for use in various levels of performance for any instrument. Particular focus will be given to piano/keyboard, drum set, guitar, bass guitar, and soprano recorder. The presenter will address stepwise progression of skills and prompting. Adapted notation, musical games, simple ensembles, and articles/resources will also be shared. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

The presenter, an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, will demonstrate a variety of simple adaptations and special equipment, including visual aids and augmentative communication devices, useful in providing Orff-Schulwerk experiences for students with special needs. Issues addressed will include areas of vocal/verbal, instrumental, movement, and behavioral performance. Hands-on experience, video footage, and handouts will be provided.

Students learn the art and history of West African Dance and how it influenced contemporary and popular dancing in America. Students learn these dances while also researching the historical evolution of dances beginning in West Africa. Students will use technology to conduct their research and present findingsto the student body, family, friends and community.

This program involves a preparatory visit at your school, a field trip workshop and audio-visual presentation at The Music Settlement in University Circle, and a follow-up visit at your school. The Drum Circle workshops are an excellent introduction to the rhythms and culture of traditional African society and the primary rhythm instruments of West Africa. Students will have hands-on experience with djembe, dundun, shekere, and other instruments.
-Specific IEP-related goals in the following areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial skills, Communication/language
Skills, Physiological responses, Cognitive skills.

Using a "Passport to Africa," discover and record information about the materials, function, imagery, and symbolism of African masks from various countries.

Alice in Wonderland is an in-school performance which combines a narrated story book version of this tale with excerpted dances from the full length story ballet. Bringing to life the classic children's tale, with a contemporary twist using high energy reggae music this performance is truly a new look at history's most beloved classic.

Alice in Wonderland is a main stage performance which combines a narrated story book version with excerpted dances from the full length story ballet which brings to life the classic children's tale, with a contemporary twist using high energy reggae music. Truly a new look at history's most beloved classic. Available on a first come first serve basis for field trips. Spring 2010.

How lucky we are to have five wonderful senses with which to explore our world! Through the story Planting A Rainbow by Lois Ehlert, students use the concepts found in the natural world-- line, shape, warm and cool colors-- to learn about the five senses. Each then creates their own beautiful rainbow painting to represent and communicate their observations about flowers and their sensory interactions with the natural world.

Teachers discuss sensory words and why and how a writer uses them to create literary works. They learn about sensory art elements and how visual artists use them to create their works. Teachers explore a physical object from nature, record sensory details about it, write a poem, and create a visual work of art using the object from nature as the subject. The visual artist studied is Georgia O'Keeffe, and the art project is either twig and ink or paint on paper.

"American Heroes" is a multi-disciplinary program which examines how individuals from all economic, social, religious and cultural backgrounds emerge as "heroes." The student's definition of hero is expanded beyond that of the modern day sports, music and television celebrities. The program helps students realize that, although uncelebrated, they are surrounded by "heroes" and excellent role models in the form of their peers, teachers and parents. Musical instruments including guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, violin and bass violin as well as home-made instruments, such as the washboard, jaw harp, diddley-bow, washtub bass, kazoo and percussion shakers will be introduced. Students hold a final performance of their own songs with a ROAM backup band. "Latin American Heroes" is a program variation. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

"American Heroes" is a multi-disciplinary program which examines how individuals from all economic, social, religious and cultural backgrounds emerge as ""heroes." The student's definition of hero is expanded beyond that of the modern day sports, music and television celebrities. The program helps students realize that, although uncelebrated, they are surrounded by "heroes" and excellent role models in the form of their peers, teachers and parents. The program includes both a residency and assembly component. Musical instruments including guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, violin and bass violin as well as home-made instruments, such as the washboard, jaw harp, diddley-bow, washtub bass, kazoo and percussion shakers will be introduced. Students hold a final performance of their own songs with a ROAM backup band. "Latin American Heroes" is a program variation. Please call to determine availability.

What happens when hate is left unchecked? Through artifacts, photographs, and film, including testimony from area Holocaust survivors, students examine the impact of racism and anti-Semitism leading to the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million Jews. Emphasis is placed on social responsibility, how individuals can make a difference and the need for tolerance in today's world. Optional Extension Activity: 30 additional minutes-Students meet with a Holocaust survivor living in Cleveland today and hear their personal story of tragedy and triumph (limited availability-please schedule as far in advance as possible).

Students replicate and create rhythms of increasing complexity while learning to play rhythm sticks. Exploration of addition and subtraction, patterns, collecting data, and making predictions is enhanced through music and movement in this arts-integrated learning experience. This residency may include drum making, where each student creates their own percussion instrument. At the end of the residency, students play their drums, sing songs, and dance at a performance enjoyed by the school community.

Visit the beautiful Temple-Tifereth Israel Gallery, home to nearly 180 priceless objects from more than 20 countries including Ethiopia, Morocco, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania. See how ritual objects play a consistent role in religious and cultural life across generations and continents, yet at the same time reflect the specific artistic traditions of the many nations where Jews have lived. Students will have the opportunity to sketch objects and compare them to cultural objects from their own lives.

Let your students get a sample of all the things that are possible through new technology arts. Progressive Arts Alliance will provide Macintosh laptops and desktop computers for students to use in this dynamic tour of new media. Students will produce original work that will include the creation of their own web site, a recorded piece of original electronic music, and a digital stop motion animated video short. PAA's media arts curriculum utilizes multidisciplinary theories in music, visual art, English/language arts, and technology applications. In each discipline, students will have the opportunity to express their identity and their personal stories. The students' work will be embodied in high-quality personal web sites that the students and their families can visit on an ongoing basis after the program is completed.

Students actively participating in such disciplines as dance, music, theatre and visual art. By experiencing a variety of mini-classes taught by professional teaching artists, students can be the artists for a day.

Through training conducted by Young Audiences staff, any teacher can learn dynamic arts-integration techniques in theater! The Arts for Learning curriculum that accompanies this session provides teachers with 9-12 hours of classroom lessons and activities designed to enhance classroom teaching. Through theater, students explore how a shift of perspective changes a story and then rewrite and perform a fairy tale from another character's point of view. Primary texts include The Three Little Pigs and The Cat and His Master. The From the Page to the Stage residency has been created to accompany the unit.

Through training conducted by Young Audiences staff, any teacher can learn dynamic arts-integration techniques in visual art! The Arts for Learning curriculum that accompanies this session provides teachers with 9-12 hours of classroom lessons and activities designed to enhance classroom teaching. Engage all your students in reading cartoons which will captivate even the most reluctant of readers. Creating their own graphic story requires students to read for detail and justify artistic choices based on story content. The primary text is My Father's Dragon. The Drawing Conclusions residency has been created to accompany the unit. (Also see A4L short-term residency Drawing Conclusions)

Through training conducted by Young Audiences staff, any teacher can learn dynamic arts-integration techniques in visual art! The Arts for Learning curriculum that accompanies this session provides teachers with 9-12 hours of classroom lessons and activities designed to enhance classroom teaching. Through the inspiring example of baseball great Roberto Clemente, teachers engage students in synthesizing information, conducting research and communicating meaning through images. Constructing their own collages appeals to students' visual and spatial intelligence. The primary text is Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Collage and the Art of Bookmaking residency has been created to accompany the unit. (Also see A4L short-term residency Collage and the Art of Bookmaking)

Through training conducted by Young Audiences staff, any teacher can learn dynamic arts-integration techniques in music! The Arts for Learning curriculum that accompanies this session provides teachers with 9-12 hours of classroom lessons and activities designed to enhance classroom teaching. Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks provides the story through which students learn theme, inference, and text-to-text comparison. Students' musical creations reinforce character traits, plot, and overall theme. The Sound Shapers residency has been created to accompany the unit. (Also see A4L short-term residency Sound Shapers)

Through training conducted by Young Audiences staff, any teacher can learn dynamic arts-integration techniques in dance! The Arts for Learning curriculum that accompanies this session provides teachers with 9-12 hours of classroom lessons and activities designed to enhance classroom teaching. Using very simple movements, teachers lead students through reading with expression and symbolizing meaning. Kinesthetic learners will love creating their own choreography and improving skills in reading aloud using a variety of poems The What's in the Words? residency has been created to accompany the unit. (Also see A4L short-term residency What's in the Words?)

Students conceive, write and illustrate a storyline and draw a storyboard that uses the Humpty Dumpty theme as a basis for creating a new prologue, epilogue or adjunct plot. Students engage in drawing exercises with demonstrations of basic cartooning skills, cooperative learning to generate an adjunct storyline using Humpty Dumpty as the prompt, drawing storyboards to illustrate the sequential action of plot lines, and presenting a viewing and spoken word reading related to the storyboard. (Also see A4L Unit 2 in Professional Development section)

Using the theatrical tradition of Story Theatre, students are engaged in a dramatic re-telling of a familiar fairy tale. After discussing story elements in a pre-selected story, students develop tableaux with their bodies and voices using movement, suspended action, narration, dialogue, and character asides. Throughout the residency, students encounter new vocabulary and continually reflect on their experience, culminating in a final performance for their peers and/or community members. (Also see A4L Unit 1 in Professional Development section)

A professional musician and composer leads students through the creation of a movie trailer soundtrack. Each session will engage students in creative decision-making and develop critical thinking while analyzing a text to compose music. The primary text is a fanciful movie trailer that associates the excitement of pop culture with the discipline of sound design. Students will make use of a variety of musical instruments (keyboards, guitars, percussion, etc.), including ones they create. (Also see A4L Unit 4 in Professional Development section)

This residency engages students to think as choreographer and designers in the creation of dance works set to original poetry written and read aloud by students. Students identify connections between elements of storytelling, text meaning, and dance; demonstrate vocabulary through improvisation; and participate in a performance of student created, read, and choreographed dance poems. (Also see A4L Unit 5 in Professional Development section)

Between the Lions™, the Emmy award-winning PBS children's television series, and the most widely used programming in American elementary schools, serves as the starting point for this series of literacy-focused residencies. Teaching artists use a variety of arts-based activities and incorporate brief segments of Between the Lions™ episodes to bring the curriculum of phonemic awareness and phonics to life while building vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.

This residency explores the materials and methods for creating an accordion fold book using collage. concept of Everyday Heroes to one of the students own choosing and is developed for upper elementary grades through high school. The unit is designed to be completed in five 50-minute sessions. Each session is led by a collage/mixed media artist and engages the students in the creation of an accordion fold book using collage. (Also see A4L Unit 3 in Professional Development section)

Teachers choose a topic or concept and professional artists unlock students' creativity around it. Plunge students into a total arts experience. Through improvisation and specific art techniques, students take an idea through various art forms and return with multiple works that demonstrate their understanding. YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development

Explore ancient American civilizations, their mythology and glyphs, by investigating clues in ceramic figures, a limestone carving, jewelry, and other objects

Baba King is a story about the journey of the Civil Rights Movement and the cry for freedom beginning in Africa and chronicling incidents and historical figures to arrive at the Civil Rights Movement, as we know it today. Hybrids of traditional African song and dance create a through line too many African American and American traditions. You will hear speeches from great leaders like W.E.B. Dubois, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and Dr. King. The story of the Civil Rights Movement has never been told in a theatrical presentation with the power that is in Baba King.

The story of the Civil Rights Movement has never been told with the power that is in Dance Afrika Dances original work Baba King. Baba King is the story of the journey of the Civil Rights Movement and the cry for freedom beginning in Africa and chronicling incidents and historical figures throughout history. Hybrids of traditional African song and dances will be connected to many African American and American traditions. Students listen to speeches from great leaders while also learning through dance, songs, chants, music, writing, audio/video and theater. Baba King workbook will be available for students and teachers. Students will have a sharing hour presentation for the student body, family, friends and community.

This videoconference mini-residency takes a look at the history of rock and roll from the 1960s through the 1980s, considering how popular music influences and is influenced by American culture and current events. This program, offered at a cost of $500, includes the following:
-Interactive Videoconferencing Connections
-Videoconference Discussion Session
-In-Class Materials

This program enhances your students' skills in geometry and mathematics by taking them on a playful journey in search of moving lines, shapes, and angles. Utilizing music from orchestral to operatic, six dancers wearing clown-like black and white costumes do vigorous lifts, jumps, and turns while handling delicate, brightly colored balloons. The balloons become the catalyst for the exploration of geometric shapes, design, and choreographic patterns.

What does it mean to be an American, how have immigrants tried to adapt to their new homes, and why have newcomers sometimes been perceived as a threat? Explore the role language, citizenship, work, faith, and social responsibility play in the immigrants' transition to American life. Examine the concerns of Jewish immigrants to Cleveland during the great waves of immigration from the 1840s to the 1920s and explore the tensions between ethnic identity, ancient traditions, American citizenship and the ongoing creation of a multicultural nation.

Experience the life of Ludwig van Beethoven while enjoying concert-level piano performance at the hands of Hershey Felder. Based on a true story, students will discover Beethoven's world, as told through the eyes of his last surviving friend, Gerhard von Breuning.
Available September 25, 2009 @ 10:30 a.m.

This workshop, led by an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, will provide examples of best practices and adaptive techniques for successful inclusion of students with special needs in vocal, instrumental and general music classes. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

Kev Marcus and Wil b are Black Violin, two classically trained musicians who, along with their DJ, TK, have created the ultimate synergy between classical and hip-hop music and with it an incredible opportunity to reach children. In 2005 the group was awarded the prestigious title of ""Apollo Legends."" Kev Marcus and Wil b, both graduates of Dillard Performing Arts High School, used their musical talents to earn full scholarships to college. Now they want to make sure that North America's young people get the same exposure to the arts, and therefore, the same opportunity that they did. Performing and touring with Alicia Keyes, P Diddy and Akon, to name a few, Black Violin has committed to giving back and teaching children that classical music is cool!
March 2-5, 2010 10:00 AM & 12:00 PM Performances
60 Minutes in Length

Students create a personal garden with clay, while using different techniques to create each part of the garden-dirt, stems, leaves, and blooms. They discover the unique qualities of clay and the importance of creating beauty around us.

This is an introduction to America's classic native art form, how the blues was born, where it came from, and what it's all about. Students learn about the blues' place in American musical history through songs exploring themes including the Great Depression, the Second World War, civil rights, and the struggle for social justice. The music's geographical origins are explained. Students are introduced to the musical styles and unique musical techniques used to create this very special and very American art form. Instruments used to demonstrate include National Steel Guitar, six string guitar, harmonica and mandolin.

From country to urban blues, students listen to and learn about this unique American music with Blues SchoolHouse Band guitarist/vocalist Mike McNamara. Students follow in the tradition of blues musicians like Muddy Waters and B.B. King as they write lyrics based on their own personal experiences. Following the AAB format found in the blues musical form, this mini-residency supports classroom instruction of the writing process. Accompanied on the guitar by Mr. McNamara, students delight in singing their original lyrics and hearing them take form as a blues song! Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Take your students on a musical journey! Students listen as the Blues SchoolHouse band presents a powerful story about American history. The journey traces the evolution of blues music from its roots in African musical traditional through its emergence as a unique American music and its influence on other music including jazz, R&B, rock and roll, soul, funk and rap. The performance demonstrates how the blues is connected to important events in American history including the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement. Students rock to Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, the Jackson 5 and many others! Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration. Program Dates: November-December 2009; February 2010-May 2010.

Students design and paint an interior or exterior mural based on a curriculum-related topic identified by the teacher and related to the Blues SchoolHouse timeline such as the birth of the blues, the Civil Rights Movement, or other topic area. Students increase their art vocabulary and build confidence in speaking about art through discussion, practical application and peer critique. Through their participation, students gain a greater understanding of color, composition and improvisation. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Engage your parent and wider community in music to enliven a PTO meeting or other school event.

In these dynamic music workshops, students learn how to tap, clap, stomp and "manually" create rhythms using just their bodies as instruments. Students learn more about the structure of music and how the essential elements of musical composition and rhythm relate easily to mathematical concepts.

Students will create an "all about me" book. The children will create handmade books and then add images and text that reflect their own lives' and interests. The students will explore 2-dimensional design, discussing line, color, and form using different printmaking and collage techniques.

LaVora Perry shares her experience as a childrens' book author with students. Over several sessions, students design and publish their own fiction or non-fiction manuscript as a professionally bound book with a color cover and illustrations using software technology. Access to a student computer lab is required.

"Promote literacy during this theatrical assembly program. With props and a "bag of tricks," Mr. G! acts out popular first readers such as Frog and Toad are Friends, Amazing Grace, The Wizard of Oz, The Cat in the Hat and others. This program is great for Right to Read Month or a kick-off assembly program for coming back to school.

Utilizing ancient techniques from the culture of Ohio's native people, students learn how to coil build a ceramic bowl in a traditional manner. Each vessel created becomes an archival piece of pottery that connects young learners to the past and bridges them to the future. Glazing with symbols and imagery from the students' daily lives further enhances that connection. The bowls are both functional and beautiful.

Students will learn to use digital cameras to create animations of scientific and natural processes. Students will start by writing and recording poems, which use metaphors about natural processes that they are learning about in science class, such as erosion and deposition, the water cycle, or DNA and atoms. Students will then animate clay, drawings, and found objects to demonstrate these processes. The final product will be their finished animations combined with an audio recording of their poems that can be posted online and taken home as a DVD.

Jack Mizenko, Retired. CMSD Teacher, and Sheela Das, ROAM development director, meet with your team to develop an approved arts-integrated program in the content area you select. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

Free Planning Meeting with Roam teaching artists including Jack Mizenko, Ret. CMSD Teacher, and Sheela Das, ROAM development director, to develop an approved arts-integrated program in the content area you select. (Recommended for All Grades.)

Who were the people who built the city of Cleveland, where did they come from, how did they get here and where did they settle once they arrived? Learn about the different jobs workers had, the industries they worked in, and the products they created as Cleveland grew from a tiny village to a thriving industrial center. Discover how citizens came together to create social service agencies, summer camps, settlement houses, schools, and religious institutions. Compare and contrast the tools workers used from the early industrial age to the computer age.

This hands-on residency turns each class into its own "jug band." Students will each get a part in the band playing kazoos, rub-boards, rhythm sticks, wood blocks, shakers, and other instruments. There are vocal parts for each student as well. Younger classes perform Step it Up and Go. The older classes will perform Carried the Water for the Elephant.

Presidential campaign memorabilia, primary sources, political cartoons and maps, are used in an inquiry based examination of some of the most important presidential campaigns. Questions of issues vs. image and strategy vs. circumstance focus student's critical thinking on U.S. political history. A classroom set of copies of photos, political cartoons, etc., is sent ahead of time for students to analyze during the connection.

This program provides an overview of the different careers available in the music industry and how to prepare for careers in music performance, music education, music therapy, audio engineering and arts management.

Take a trip to the warm tropics through geography, science, art and music and be inspired by this beautiful "Carnival" world of color. Wendy illustrates the diversity and cultures of the world through the diverse artistic techniques of chalk street-painting, mask making, fabric design, and batik to create props, banners, costumes, and scenery for community celebrations and parades. Wendy customizes a visual arts program and project to enrich student's exploration of the islands and the visual arts.

Learn about the Jewish calendar, the meaning of holiday stories and how holidays are celebrated by Jewish families. Important Jewish ceremonial objects are distributed for students to explore, songs are sung and an opportunity to create holiday-themed art is included. The focus of the program changes with the season.

Art and environmental studies are combined as students create a mural that represents and celebrates the interconnectedness of people, birds, trees, and plant life from North America to Central America. Migratory bird patterns and the link between preservation of temperate deciduous forests and tropical rain forests is explored. The mural project is also an exploration of the cultural symbolism of the North American eagle of the U.S. and Mexico, and the resplendent Quetzal of Mexico and Central America. Animal and plant symbols from Native Americans, Aztec, and Mayan peoples, and the students' personal interpretations of natural forms become visual motifs for creating a visually stunning and informative work of art.

Students will be introduced to fascinating aspects of Chinese civilization and culture while combining benchmarks in Social Studies Skills and Methods with creative tools and elements of dance. They will learn about traditional beliefs, Chinese Jade culture and symbolism in Chinese calligraphy. Students will also develop an understanding of basic dance making tools using individual problem-solving skills and working cooperatively to achieve group goals.

This residency introduces the unique place pottery held in the cultures of Native Americans and European settlers in Ohio. Through potter's wheel demonstrations, hands-on pottery making and decorating projects in the traditional style of Native Americans, students are drawn into the daily life of the late 1700's Ohio. Students create pottery, tiles and sculpture to take home after firing This residency may be altered to explore a curriculum-related topic other than Ohio history.

This workshop introduces the unique place pottery held in the cultures of Native Americans and European settlers in Ohio. Through potter's wheel demonstrations, hands-on pottery making and decorating projects in the traditional style of Native Americans, families are drawn into the daily life of the late 1700's Ohio. This workshop may be altered to explore a curriculum-related topic other than Ohio history. Participants create pottery, tiles, and sculpture to take home after firing.

Narrated, 60-minute concerts performed by the world-famous Cleveland Orchestra in historic Severance Hall introduce students to orchestral repertoire and musical concepts. Young soloists and lively collaborative artists make the concert experience engaging for students of all ages. Field trip includes preparation materials including a student newspaper and special concert CD; also see the professional development section for information about Education Concert teacher workshops.

Teachers get hands-on experiences with the art form of photography by viewing and discussing a variety of photographs and learning about the photographic techniques of composition, angle and light. They learn about the power and importance of the visual image to persuade, tell a story, inform, record and express, and how these relate to history, culture, world and personal events. They take photographs using digital cameras, view and discuss their photographs. The art form for this workshop is photo montage, and the literary work is either a poem or narrative that accompanies the visual art work. Teachers discuss how they can integrate this learning activity into the curriculum and implement it in their classrooms.

After exploring the use of symbols in Medieval times, students create their own banner, flag, or family coat of arms using a variety of materials which could include: canvas, paint, glitter, collage, felt, and photographs. The flag, banner, or coat of arms can celebrate the students' school, sports team, interests, family, or historical assignment. Students gain an understanding of the use of symbols throughout history.

This residency allows students to gain a deeper understanding of story structure and character development through comic books. Students will work in groups to write their own comic narrative complete with protagonists, antagonists, setting, climax, and resolution. Comic book artists and writers will teach the basics of comic book layout and character establishment, design, and development. After writing and storyboarding, students will illustrate their comic books and digitize them using simple computer programs provided by PAA on laptops brought to the school. Each student will be able to take away copies of their comic to share with friends and family.

Dilemma Tales are traditional African stories where the resolution of the story's problem is left up the reader's prediction. Students will be assigned roles to portray as they read aloud a tale using vocal expression and rhythm. When the story stops abruptly, students will predict solutions to the dilemma.

Through a unique theatrical experience that combines electroluminescent puppetry, dance and storytelling, we meet Darwin - a wild and primitive dinosaur. Darwin is brought to life by a magical scientist, Professor Harlow. When Darwin's natural instincts take over and he begins acting on his dangerous, dinosaur instincts, Professor Harlow gives Darwin a heart. Follow Darwin's journey as he is faced with the final test of love and compassion when Professor Harlow faces danger.
May 3-5, 2010, 10:15 AM & 12:00 PM Performances, 45 Minutes in Length

Plot measurements in music. Dance through geometry. Engineer a school sculpture or mural. YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development.

Take a musical journey through the barnyard, into the West, and all the way to the mountains with bluegrass singer and guitarist "Cowboy Bob."

Using a classic tale as a prompt, students are guided to create a totally new story with a different setting, plot, conflict, and characters and put the new story into play format. Rehearse the new tale, procure costumes and props, add music and/or dance, find an audience and perform the new original masterpiece created by your students!

Newberry Award winning author Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks tells the inspirational story of how a young girl transforms a sad and lonely Cleveland neighborhood into a wonderful community by starting a garden. The story is told by thirteen different people of all ages, races, and backgrounds. The Seedfolks Project is a three day residency for students, which uses Fleischman's story to create their very own "Seedfolks characters." Students analyze the social and political forces that influence the lives of Clevelanders.

Explore the magic of the interlocking of fibers. The history and many interpretations of the ways fiber can be used to create art are endless and fascinating. Fiber can be used for anything from clothing to a fence to a giant ship rope to a basket to the finest lace. Together, students create a group of fiber sculptures, working in teams or individually. Carol teaches a variety of woven and off-loom techniques to mix with other media if desired. Students learn about contemporary fiber sculpture as well as a brief history of how fiber is used in a diverse societies and situations. They see a three-dimensional resolution of a repetitive design as well as gain dexterity with manipulation and construction.

Discussions and hands-on demonstrations explore the relationship between mosaics and symmetry, crystals and symmetrical forms in nature, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome. Teachers are prepared to lead students in the creation of a permanent mosaic or other classroom projects.

Students deepen their knowledge of tessellations by connecting math, geometry, and art. Creating both geometric tessellations and artistic tessellations (in the style of M. C. Escher) young people take part in a dynamic learning experience.

This class will inspire imagination through music to explore the process of creation in writing and art. Students will be instructed on how to access their imagination and use their discoveries to create a new work of their own.

Travel the globe with your students through an exploration of dance, music, theater and visual art in many cultures. Help students to value diversity and other cultures through cooperative learning and direct interaction with professional artists YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development.

This dynamic residency brings the rhythms of Africa, specifically Guinea and Ghana, to life for students as they acquire musical skills, discover the geography & culture of Africa, and learn how to play the Soli rhythm in the tradition of the Malinke and Su Su styles. Percussionist Olu Manns shares his first hand knowledge (based on his travels) of West African percussive traditions and how they've influenced current musical styles. The residency culminates in a group performance. One CD recording is proved per classroom. Teachers receive a Roots of Rhythm teacher's guide featuring ten percussion instruments from around the world including multi-cultural, cross-curricular lessons.

What do music specialists need to help them teach students with special needs included in their classes? If you are experiencing particular challenges with an individual or group of students, you may request a "customized consultation" where an experienced Board-Certified music therapist who has worked in educational settings will meet with you, observe the specific class(es), and then brainstorm with you to create new suggestions and solutions for possible strategies, modification and adaptations to the classroom environment, schedule, structure, and/or methodologies. Written parent permission for observation of particular students is required.

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Eurhythmics provides training in the basic elements of music through movement, singing, and music notation. This program is available as either a single videoconference or a multi-session course.

Students will learn about the history and culture of the 1960s in America through hands-on dance and visual art activities. Workshops will cover all of the fad dances of the 1960s and the songs that introduced the new dances: twist, mashed potato, swim, watusi, monkey, jerk, pony, etc. Workshops will also revisit the TV show "American Bandstand" and how that show helped spread these new songs and dances. Students will also learn how Detroit (Motor City) and Berry Gordon Jr. influenced popular music and how transistor radios made music much more accessible. Students will also learn about the portrait work of Andy Warhol and will make Warhol-inspired self-portraits using a three-color printmaking process. Workshops will include writing activities and discussion of propaganda in popular culture and media.

Torso-and-limbs-on workshop explores matter and molecular structure through the study of the physical movements of bodies in dance. Dance utilizes volume and movement on a macro level to illuminate the hidden structures of molecules.

What do hearing people do when they need to communicate with a deaf individual and don't know sign language? This school assembly program is a combination of theatrical skits and audience participation activities that creates deaf awareness in the audience. This program uses humor and exaggerated characters to explore conflicts that naturally occur between the Deaf and Hearing communities.

Performing Deaf Theater is like speaking two languages at the same time. Using English Language Arts and Theater, this customizable residency, combines American Sign Language, spoken English, and creative writing. Students develop a theatrical performance or skit based upon a topic or theme being studied in the classroom. Some actors perform using sign language while other actors simultaneously use "voices" to communicate the lines. All actors learn basic Sign Language when memorizing the script. Students then perform the play for an audience of parents or your school community.

A theatrical performance will be produced where the students perform using sign language AND spoken English. One actor uses Sign Language while another actor voices simultaneously. The audience will "See things they've never heard.

This residency is an interactive combination of storytelling and real-time illustration that keeps students laughing and learning from the beginning to end. Dinosaur Fables helps to explain the "big picture;" the relationship between human behavior and nature. The stories are an amusing "hook" to reflect on real-life issues, such as the water cycle, the depletion of natural resources, and alternative energy sources.

In this exciting and lively residency, students learn the three basic sounds of the African djembe. They also learn basic techniques of hand drumming, focusing on the styles found in the Ivory Coast. Sogbety is a native of the Ivory Coast and has been performing since childhood. Consider pairing this residency with Sogbety's West African Drumming performance.

This energetic, interactive dance residency makes connections between the diverse styles of dance and the diverse natures of individuals and cultures encountered in everyday living. Students are introduced to contemporary dance vocabulary and forms, such as ballet, modern, and jazz. Students discuss the similarities and differences between each and are encouraged to demonstrate the various dance styles for their peers through performance.

Discover how music and movement deepen student understanding of increment, ratio and proportion. This workshop explores and models music and rhythm activities related to numbers and shapes and demonstrates how spatial movement activities enhance the study of diagrams, formulas and symbols.

PAA arms your students with cameras and endless creativity to guide them through the creation of a dynamic short video all their own. Students will work with a professional filmmaker to write, produce, and direct a video short. Participants will learn the basics of filmmaking including lighting, sound, cinematography, writing, story boarding, and editing. Projects range from dramatic shorts to documentary videos and allow students to learn how teamwork is an important part of the filmmaking process.

A man learns people should not be judged by appearances. A boy shares what it feels like to be poor. A family discovers the library. The power of reading and the benefits of being bilingual are revealed as you venture into Latin America through stories and song.

K-1 students love an alpha-party at Mr. G's! house, a totally interactive theater experience. This residency program uses all the phonemes in a kinetic, auditory, and visual way. Teachers marvel at its effectiveness as a memory device. Residencies for for grades 2-4 can include rhymes, B-M-E, expressive speech, the four kinds of sentences and many other elements of the language arts.

Through several hands-on activities students learn and practice the mathematical concept of scale. In a real life activity they recreate drawings from the original specifications in the Painesville telegraph for the first Fairport Harbor Lighthouse of 1825. If on the graph paper, one square equals one foot, what is the scale of the completed drawing? Students solve to find out how many of their drawings must be combined to represent the actual lighthouse tower.

Incorporating rhythm, tonality, movement and dance, students learn precision marching and chants using selected poetry, rap, English and/or foreign languages. This provides students with the discipline required for drill marching, the ability to stay on task while learning new words and a skillful way to present to the public oratorically as a unit/team.

Students will learn the art and history of African percussion and its relationship to today's music, R&B, Pop, Reggae, Blues, World Music and Hip Hop. Students will learn by playing and experiencing rhythms from the countries of West Africa, Jamaica, Cuba and Brazil. Students will be even more engaged when they experiece the 360 degrees of the drum, the 360 degrees of Hip Hop DJ turntable and also the street buckets of New York. These energizing workshops include preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour"" for the student body, family, friends and community.

Have your students ever thought about what it means to throw something ""away""? During this residency, students explore pollution, recycling and personal responsibility through creative movement, song and rap. The program includes an interactive performance and a Native American Earth Steward ceremony with costumes, instruments, and dance, emphasizing our relationship with the natural world.

Students will learn about song structure, rhythm, phrasing, and note values through creating a group composition through electronic music making on laptop computers. This dynamic technology-oriented program will allow students to work with modern-day electronic percussion instruments to better understand how advancements in science and technology have affected the development of music making and recording.

Beautiful, witty and much too mischievous, Emma Woodhouse is one of Jane Austen's most unforgettable heroines. Experience this world premiere adaptation of one of the great romantic novels.
Available March 5 & 10, 2010 @ 10:30 a.m.

What is your favorite Eric Carle story? Students study why and how author and illustrator Eric Carle creates his picture stories. They learn about warm and cool colors, how shapes make objects, and how to combine objects to tell a story. Students learn about the art form of collage, and create a collage that has a clear understanding of idea, audience and purpose. A single teaching space is necessary.

In this adventure, students take an active role in one of the most compelling areas of American history. Students use critical and creative thinking skills as they come to understand and empathize with the men and women who fought so hard and risked so much to gain their freedom. Activities include:
Finding Your Kinfolk - Participants learn details about life on four different plantations. They experience the challenges of slaves trying to maintain family ties, sharing slave memories to determine their family groups.
Designing Freedom Quilts - Participants learn the role of quilts in relaying escape information to runaway slaves. Each family group incorporates a message into a student-constructed freedom quilt, suitable for public display.
Escape Challenge - Participants, traveling in their family groups, are tested on their acquired knowledge and learn survival techniques on the Underground Railroad. Correct responses move them forward on their quest to find freedom. Appropriate as an indoor or outdoor activity.
Planning session with school required. Classroom activity packets are available.

Create a sculpture that is always in bloom! Using ceramic pots, wood, and many enticing embellishments, the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary! Discussing and analyzing ratios, color, and shape will be a part of assembling this 3-dimentional celebration of life and growth. Children get a hands-on experience building a small, mixed-media sculpture.

With puppets, guitar, finger play, and movement, Susan Weber invites young children to explore a West Indian folk tale rich in rhyme and rhythm. In the story, a small boy with a very long name is challenged by his grandmother to find out her real name; he discovers humor and wisdom along the way. Susan's storytelling, songs and nursery rhymes reinforce vocabulary, alliteration, and rhyming words in celebration of names, family relationships, and traditions.

This high energy performance engages students through the exploration of Nigerian Afro-beat music with an emphasis on instrument families, percussion rhythms, call and response, and socially derived lyrics. After interacting with live afro-beat and using their bodies as percussion instruments, students brainstorm lyrical content based on positive social experiences at their school. Then Mifune and the school create and perform their own afro-beat song together!

This program enhances your students' knowledge and understanding of other cultures by taking them on a journey through Asia. Utilizing music from Ravel's Bolero, the dancers take you to India and beyond by performing Heinz Poll's famous choreography for "Bolero." In addition, students travel to China during a traditional Tai Chi dance. Finally, the program finishes in the Philippines with a traditional dance called the Tinikling. Extend this program with a three to five day residency which integrates with Foreign Language curriculum content standards for grades K-8.

The Underground Railroad residency consists of a series of classroom lessons depicting scenes from history of the road that led to somewhere. Capturing the music and movement of the time period, students will explore the influence the Underground Railroad had on western music, dance and social change! This residency brings to life the legendary characters whose perseverance and determination will inspire students to work hard and pursue their dreams.

Mr. G! lights a fire under classic fairytales with an incendiary display of theatrics. Moral lessons are engagingly developed through the acting out of the stories. This theatrical rendition uses puppetry, mime, and zany characterizations to enhance the messages of classic stories such as The Three Little Pigs, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Wizard of Oz.

Our annual evening of professional development starts with a cocktail reception followed by a series of 25-minute hands-on workshops. You choose the sessions you attend and in each, you will complete and activity and leave with a standards-based lesson plan. Classroom teachers, arts specialists, administrators and teaching artists are encouraged to join us.
Workshop Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2008, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare

Session provides opportunities for parents and children to engage in positive, productive time together, while offering models of appropriate interaction and materials to use in the home. Social, communication, relaxation, and/or cognitive skills can be reinforced through fun, shared music experiences, such as singing, playing instruments, simple song-writing, movement, and musical games. Handouts with suggestions for home use will be provided. Behavioral/psychosocial skills, Communication/ language Skills, Physiological responses, Cognitive skills-vocabulary, writing, problem-solving, etc.

In a unique experience that combines theater and interactive technologies, the audience is immersed in a world made of music, digital images and butterflies. During the performance, your students are invited to take part, to enter the scene, to move among images which react to their gestures and movement. This special show and experience, direct from Italy, is limited to an intimate audience of 100
March 4-7, 2010, 10:15 AM & 12:15 PM Performances, 60 Minutes in Length

Cleveland International Film Festival will prepare and present FilmSlam (High School Film Festival) on weekday mornings between March 22-26, 2010 at Tower City Cinemas on The Avenue at Tower City Center. The educational goals of the 2010 FilmSlam are as follows:

• Expose student to other cultures to foster awareness and acceptance of people different from themselves;
• Improve media literacy among young people so that they can evaluate and criticize the messages that they receive from film, television, recorded music and the internet; and,
• Increase awareness of film as an art form and teach students that film is more than just entertainment and that it encompasses more than the Hollywood commercial releases with which they may be most familiar.

School teachers will be able to choose from the following program of films:

• Foreign language (including German, Spanish & French films);
• Documentary films;
• American independent films; and
• A program of short subjects.

Students won't require a camera for this residency - they'll make one! By studying the earliest camera (camera obscura) students learn the relationship between the camera and the human eye. They then have the opportunity to create their very own pinhole camera. A fascinating way to learn the science and mechanics of light and photography.

The music and culture of Spain is explored through the Flamenco experience.

Students will learn how to animate using flipbooks to reinforce classroom curriculum and vocabulary. Each flipbook will be recorded using digital media and compiled to be featured at a final showing to showcase students' work. Students will also be able to take home their flipbooks to share with friends and family.

Working in small groups, students create large-scaled mixed media assemblages inspired by the work of folk artist Missionary Mary Proctor. Mary uses doors, coins, broken plates, forks & other everyday objects to visually depict moral messages learned from her beloved Grandmother whose death served as the inspiration for her art. Student assemblages may combine to tell a story or to create an illustrated theme-based timeline. The project encourages teamwork and the creative manipulation of everyday materials. Students write artist statements and participate in a peer critique. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Many artists create self-portraits as a means of self-exploration and as a way to hone their skills. Using folk art media, students will create an introspective self-portrait. Starting with a simple board as the surface for the self-portrait, students apply acrylic paints, fabric, beads, found objects and other media to render a likeness that reflects their interests and personality traits. Objectives include exploring methods and materials used by folk artists and creating original artwork from memory or self-reflection. Students write artist statements and participate in a peer critique. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Students explore the elements of art as they consider the mixed-media collages of self-taught artist Roland Knox. After discussing Knox's use of texture, color, symmetry and symbols, students identify a meaningful symbol, select folk art media and create a mixed-media collage based on their chosen symbol. Materials include beads, shells, jewelry, and other found and recycled objects. Teachers may choose an overall theme as it relates to their classroom curriculum (examples: important symbols within a culture, historical period or literary work). Students write artist statements and participate in a peer critique. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Save the date for Fair on the Square! Fair on the Square is Northeast Ohio's only education celebration and field trip expo. Browse through field trip and curriculum enhancement opportunities from arts and cultural organizations, and network with fellow educators. Join us for free refreshments and prizes! Advanced Registration Required
Monday, April 26, 2040, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Percussion music "goes green" by utilizing common everyday items and household objects to create a dynamic percussion ensemble. Residency activities will guide students through learning rhythms from around the world including those from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Students will not only learn the basics of playing percussion instruments but will also learn more about the power of rhythm and drumming to promote group cooperation, unity, focus, and increased critical listening and concentration skills.

This mini-residency focuses on the Atlantic Slave Trade and explores related music, history and geography. Led by master drummer Olu Manns, students learn about West African musical traditions including call and response, complex polyrhythms, and the role of the griot. Students make their own percussive instruments, increase their understanding of cultural traditions, and gain awareness of how music can reflect life experiences and social conditions. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Creating both geometric tessellations and artistic tessellations (in the style of M. C. Escher) teachers learn to link art, math, and geometry to enhance students' learning.

Students will learn what it was like to be an immigrant, migrant or refugee coming to Northeast Ohio from the 1840's to the 1980's. In small groups, students use primary and secondary documents, artifacts and clothing to reveal details about history of ethnic groups and practices and products of their culture. Using role-playing, students present their stories to the rest of the class.

Discover the reasons people from various culture groups came to America and the consequences of their interactions with one another, as well as how these different cultures have shaped America. Explore hands-on activities to encourage discussion and appreciation of Cultural Diversity and its importance in our global society as the motto of America "E Pluribus Unum" is learned.

Students create a mural that is a tribute to our planet. Gaia is the Earth Goddess in Greek Mythology. As our consciousness re-awakens to the importance of respecting and helping our planet, this mural gives students the opportunity to explore, discover and discuss issues most important to them in regards to the present state of the planet, and an opportunity to create a hopeful work that visually pays tribute to our beautiful but fragile planet. A great Earth Day project, but any day can be Earth Day.

Experience the process of seeking employment in a competitive world through music, lyrics, and movement. Learn how to effectively communicate skills, talents, and experiences on a resume as you discover how music and drama communicate the meanings and emotions of text. Gain valuable insights into the interview or audition process that people face when trying to get a job. Students will move and groove their way through a rehearsal session, culminating in a mini-performance right in the classroom! This residency will leave you saying, "I hope I get it."

Invite your students into the fascinating world of fused glass, right in your classroom! Students learn about the process of glass fusion by combining materials to make a glass pendant, heated in small table-top kilns. Glass fusion is not only a fun spontaneous art form but it also illuminates the science behind heating glass. Using dichroic glass, stringers, confetti, and frits which are all glass particles, students create a beautiful wearable dichroic glass pendant.

The wonderful world of Dr. Seuss is brought to musical life through this interactive performance, which includes beautiful singing, zany acting, and crazy props. Soprano, Lara Troyer, and her friends perform the one-act opera Green Eggs and Ham by composer Robert Kapilow.

How did children play, learn, work and celebrate in days gone by? By exploring artifacts, photographs, and stories and engaging in hands-on activities students learn to distinguish past, present, and future and compare and contrast their family life, holiday celebrations, and school days today with those of children who lived in Cleveland neighborhoods long ago.

The House of Blues (HOB) art collection is one of the largest collections of folk art on public display in the United States! With more than 250 pieces exhibited at the HOB-Cleveland venue, the collection includes works by local and nationally recognized folk artists including Peter Wood, Mary Proctor, and Jimmy Lee Sudduth. As a precursor to any IHOBF folk art-related residency, schools may opt to participate in this 1-hour guided art tour where students learn about folk art and individual folk artists through a discussion of artistic expression and some of the methods and materials used by the artists including the use of found and recycled objects.

Students will find their inner creativity and share their unique vision exploring the medium of clay. This class will expose students to a range of hand building techniques such as pinching, slab, and coiling methods. They will embellish and add texture to their final creations with glazing, sgraffito, and stamping.

With puppets, guitar, finger play and movement, Susan Weber brings to life the story of Rudy Raccoon's Beautiful Birthday. Tempted by sugary snacks and rescued by humor, understanding, and love, Rudy learns about healthy habits from his helpful friends. Susan's story, songs and nursery rhymes use rich vocabulary, alliteration, and rhyming words to reinforce good hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and rest.

Centered in Harlem in the 1920s-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a time where African Americans created great literature and art exploring black consciousness. Investigate the Renaissance through literature, music, dance, customs, and theatre. Then have your class perform a "Rent Party", typical of the period (a party to help a family raise money to pay the rent).

"Helen: The Untold Story" depicts the adult life of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, and their accomplishments as pioneering forces for women, people with disabilities, and for civil rights. Students will learn about sign language, audio description and women's rights, they will also learn a dance from the Vaudeville Era which they will perform this in front of an audience of their peers to demonstrate their accomplishments. Students will also learn about several historic figures and how their lives were touched by Helen's life story. This residency will prepare students to become active citizens on behalf of disability awareness and rights. This original Dancing Wheels Residency addresses Ohio Content Standards in both the Fine-Arts and Non-Arts Curriculum.

Since its inception in the early 1970s, hip-hop culture has become one of the most important forms of expression for young people on the planet. This class allows students to experience the ways that technology is incorporated into hip-hop music and culture. Students will explore the early innovations of hip-hop deejays and the development of classic turntable techniques like "playing the break," as heard in "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. The class includes a live demonstration in which students help to create a new musical composition using the latest computer music software. Don't miss this chance to learn about the creation of hip-hop music and culture and gain insight into the world of music technology and production.

Through the engagement of professional teaching artists who are also hip-hop artists, students create an exciting theatrical presentation that includes break dancing, scratching on turntables, and original lyrics. The residency gives students the opportunity to experience how hip-hop can be a positive, productive form of creative self-expression. This dynamic musical theater residency interweaves music history with the dynamic expressions of hip-hop into a play about the students' lives.

Students work with Jim Gill to conceive and create panel cartoons using U.S. history as a subject matter. Great curriculum tie-ins for Social Studies and Language Arts. This fun and often hilarious residency helps students explore historical characters and events through satire, irony, wit, and parody

Parents and students will engage in activities using dance and music of the Underground Railroad to re-enforce important life skills like perseverance, determination, tolerance, courage and respect.

This interactive performance is a musical celebration of our state, Ohio. Through original songs and movement, the program addresses topics such as kindness, cooperation, and community. Singing Ohio, we create big, round vocal sounds. Moving Ohio, we create an original community dance. And Learning Ohio, we discover a singable song that lists the 88 counties in geographical order.

Want to teach a new book in your classroom? Need a fresh approach to a story you've taught for years? Let Robin help you build an arts-infused Literacy Kit to enhance and extend reading and writing around a book in your curriculum. Kits will include graphic organizers, assessments and rubrics, brainstorming aids, and templates along with creative learning tools, such as storyboards, rap lyrics, board games and recipes. Bring your book and get started during the session.

One of the Great American Novels has come to life on The CPH stage! Follow the adventures of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River.
Available January 5-29, 2010, Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Many urban students are exploring American politics for the first time because President Obama became the first African-American President. Each student will write an original piece titled, I 2 AM Obama in any style (poetry, prose, rap, short story etc.) Students will explore similarities and differences between their lives and President Obama's. A final video will be created, using music, voice and movementhat combines all of the student writings into one group poem and performance, further creating a sense of unity. The student writings will be compiled into an I 2 AM Obama book. The finished products will be mailed to the White House. Students will get assistance from The Ohio School Of Broadcasting during the residency.Students will have a sharing hour presentation for the student body, family, friends and community.

"Black hands, white hands yellow & brown/All together we built this town/Black hands, white hands, yellow & brown/All together make the wheels go round," is the theme of this workshop. Students participate in songs about community helpers, transportation, waterways, neighborhoods, families and where our food comes from. They jump, move, play simple rhythm instruments. They practice the rudiments of songwriting (including rhyme, meter, vocabulary, grammar, and usage) and learn about oral transmission of culture by writing new verses to old songs.

Using our call-and-response, chants, songs and movement, each student will have the opportunity to know they have "Genius" from day ONE. Students will work together and increase their self-esteem & turn it into "academic-esteem". Each student will explore the word "genius" throughout history. Students will create Genius Music, Dances, Songs and Raps and personal essays. The writings will be incorporated into the "I'm A Genius" book along with photos of the student and his or her writings. Residency incudes curricular materials and preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

Blurring the lines between art and machine, students explore the history of simple machines and the ways artists incorporate technical concepts into creative process. Both past and present artists and art works, including Leonardo DaVinci, Rube Goldberg, and the London Tube are explored. Students then create 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional compositions that incorporate movement and/or sound. This residency utilizes simple mechanics, the senses, problem solving and scientific concepts, past and present.

Through this program, students explore the history, mystery and fun of cartooning. Jim enables younger students to help bring drawings to life after starting with a simple line or shape. Older students can explore the facets of cartoon conception, working together to create humorous panels of historical subject matter.

Many names of towns, rivers, and landmarks in Ohio come from the Native Americans. Discover the meanings of these names as well as some of the cultural practices and products of the First People of Ohio.

Eighty years after the "Scopes Monkey Trial," this classic courtroom drama about evolution, creationism, and an American society struggling to balance science and scripture is as timely as ever. Inspired by true events, this play makes a perfect addition to any history or science classroom.
Available October 30 & November 11, 2009 @ 10:30 a.m.

GroundWorks Dancetheater presents a unique opportunity to observe and interact with a professional dance company in a site-specific theatrical setting. In a pre-visit movement workshop entitled "Working Together-Making Choices-The Foundation of Dance," students will learn about the elements of creative movement through a series of literacy based exercises and explore their discoveries with the dance artists. Students will have opportunities to perform these exercises and studies on stage for each other. A professional dance performance with post show discussion reinforces the ideas and information learned during this engagement.
Available - October 2, 2009, January 22, 2010
Length - 1.5 hours, Pre-visit - 75 minutes, Post-visit - 50 minutes

This new offering for young students is designed to fully engage the audience in the process of theatre. Students will actively participate in developing the narrative and theatrical elements of the production. By exploring well known children's stories, this series will spark imagination and introduce the audience to the creative process. Students will learn critical thinking skills as they are exposed to the magic and wonder of theatre.
Available May 4-28, 2010, Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Integrate simple music activities to enhance students' math skills. Educators learn to use music to make math fun through the use of fingers on a piano keyboard diagram, sing-alongs, visual music graphics and more. These musical tools help to teach basic math facts as well as fractions and pattern recognition.

In this residency, students learn to strengthen and reinforce basic math skills through the use of music. Music contains many direct connections to numbers - counting beats and measures, creating and playing rhythms, and composing music with 5, 8, 10, or 12 musical tones. Recognizing and identifying patterns both in musical phrases and number sequences is explored, as well. Dave engages the students in this process by using an electronic keyboard and laptop computer, and they find both excitement and fascination in this Math and Music journey.

Add the exciting world of Japanese Raku pottery to your curriculum with this hands-on residency. Students make individual pieces of lustrous Japanese Tea Ceremony pottery, formulate glazes from scratch, and have the unique experience of firing their work in a kiln that they construct. The glazes, kiln, and techniques can remain at the school to form the foundation for an ongoing Raku program.

Wearing the legendary pot on his head, Ray brings John Chapman (better known as Johnny Appleseed) to life in a lively presentation. Johnny leads participatory storytelling, songs, and movement activities that describe his personal history, his life in pioneer Ohio, the distribution and importance of apples in frontier life, and the varieties and usage of apples in our own times.

Journey to the Land of the Blues is a program that takes students on a lively journey through the history of the blues, a music created out of the Southern African-American experience and one of the roots of Rock and Roll. Throughout the program, stories of social and cultural conditions are woven into the history of the music, including the experiences of slaves, the "Great Migrations" of African-Americans, and the technological advances that affected music and everyday life.

A hundred years ago jug bands were all the rage. In this residency children learn that even in the 21st century music is something we do, not just something we buy. They play oldtime washboards, spoons, and other discarded household items, and recycle cans, bottles and cardboard tubes into simple instruments. They practice simple rhythmic patterns and the rudiments of songwriting (including rhyme, meter, vocabulary, grammar, and usage) and learn about oral transmission of culture by writing new verses to old songs.

Colorful West African Kente cloth is made from narrow patterned strips that are sewn together. Students are first introduced to African art and culture by studying African textiles and the symbolism of Kente patterns. After discussing pattern and repetition and learning to identify pattern in a sequence of geometric shapes, students arrange papers of various shapes, colors, and sizes to create a patterned paper collage in the style of Kente. By manipulating geometric shapes for their pattern, students explore the ideas of shape, space, color, and size relationships. If time allows, the collages may be embellished with another layer of patterning formed by marker lines and stamp prints.

Students will design individual kinetic sculptures suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, using natural fiber coir (coconut hair) wire and fishing swivels. In creating the sculptures students will examine structure and shape through planes, bundles, and wire tightening. Each student will learn to use needle nose pliers and cutters as they work with their piece.

Discover the "real" noble life in the Middle Ages through arms and armor, religious artifacts, and courtly objects.

In Krazee Kwilt, Dr. Baber uses a rich and stunningly beautiful Civil War era krazee kwilt that has been handed down through his family as a metaphor for literature and life. He shares his own krazee kwilt poem as well as various works from Appalachian, Asian, Native American, African-American, Jewish and Hispanic cultural sources. In addition, Bob Henry can create story quilts with students. A finished "instant quilt" incorporating stories and images can be created with each group during a residency.

Susan Weber brings story, puppets, guitar, songs, and finger play together to celebrate nature and the smallest of creatures, the ladybug. This program features concepts of big-bigger-biggest, naming body parts and imitating sounds and gestures of animals.

This workshop supports the Blues SchoolHouse Program and the utilization of the Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide. The workshop introduces teachers to a model that calls upon blues and blues-inspired music and folk art to teach students about aspects of American history, provide them with a greater understanding of contemporary culture, and increase their awareness of the social significance of the arts. Content and learning activities align with the Ohio Department of Education State Standards. Teachers receive a Blues SchoolHouse Classroom Guide that can be used to extend the learning experience supporting further classroom integration.

Let your students stamp, roll, stencil, and print their way to a better understanding of art and math as they explore and learn their shapes, numbers, sizes, and colors. Students will discover the patterns and numbers of the plants, animals, buildings, and objects around them and how to illustrate what they see on paper. The unit incorporates concepts of patterning, repetition, layering, size, and scale. The students use found object materials and small wood shapes to make their own artistic printing plate. Students learn the techniques of fine art printing using brightly colored washable inks with stamps, stencils, rollers, and a printing press. They use their muscles and minds, developing coordination to press, roll, stamp, and make their mark. The end result, for each participant, will be a small collection of prints and a final art show.

This award-winning program connects music and the arts to learning in all subject areas while giving students access to world-class music and musicians. Learning Through Music includes the following:
-6 visits from Cleveland Orchestra musicians, all curriculum-lined and selected in close consultation with teachers
-1 Field Trip to Severance Hall for a Cleveland Orchestra Education Concert, including preparation materials
-1 Professional Development Workshop for teachers, at Severance Hall, presented by nationally known arts education expert Mitchell Korn
-1 In-School Workshop for teachers, tailored to classroom needs, facilitated by Mitchell Korn and Orchestra staff
-3 Planning meetings with Cleveland Orchestra musicians in advance of their first visit (see above)
-Curriculum materials, including a binder of lesson plans (one per teacher) and a shared box of resources (books and CDs). Lesson plans are aligned to state standards and relate to musician visits to reinforce curricular concepts.

Led by nationally known arts education expert Mitchell Korn, this workshop provides an energizing and inspiring introduction to the arts integration approach to learning. Held at Severance Hall, the workshop includes modeling of several LTM lesson plans (Grades K-5, all aligned to state standards) and a special presentation by a Cleveland Orchestra musician. For music specialists or grade-level teachers. Wednesday, December 2, 4:30pm-7:00pm.

For thousands of years, kites have been used as toys, vehicles for transportation, communication, surveying and science, as well as objects for ceremonies and fun! Students and parents learn the history of the kite and its construction, and create their own kite. Sessions provide teachers opportunities to make connections to a variety of curricula.

Students experience the thrill of singing and dancing in an opera as they learn some basic elements of music.

This two-character play is set on the porch of Tubman's home in Auburn, New York in 1902. The audience is regarded as a group of visitors who have come to reminisce with 82-year old Tubman as she recounts the heroic adventures of her life through story and song. Jeffrey Taylor, Jr. assists in telling her story and accompanies Tubman on accordion including traditional songs such as "Drinking Gourd," "Go Down Moses," and "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

What can we learn about life in the ancient near east from the artifacts and narratives that remain from that time? How do centuries-old values and practices influence life today in modern Israel? Learn about Jewish life from Babylonian and Roman times through the British Empire to today and see how Israel grew from an undeveloped agricultural society to a leading innovator in biomedicine and computer technology. Students explore the impact of this small nation on the lives of contemporary American Jews and its continuing importance to people of many faiths.

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of theatre arts by participating in creative classroom activities. Each class will collectively write a short story that will be adapted into a script and performed by the students. The performance will then be video taped in a style similar to how movies are made. An edited DVD will be completed and provided for duplication.

This assembly examines the exciting history of jazz dance from the 1930s and 1940s. The program features lindy hop and jitterbug dancers dancing along side a narration that includes slides of historic moments from the era in which the dances emerged. Dancers in the presentation wear period costumes and invite students up to the stage to learn basic dance steps. Presentation is 45 minutes long.

This customizable residency focuses on English Language Arts, Social Studies and Drama/Theatre Standards. Using drama, music, and movement we take your curriculum and customize hands-on opportunities utilizing literature, history, the arts and standards just for you! Academic Content Standard concepts include: listening strategies, summarizing, retelling, literary structure, storytelling, point-of-view, character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, graphic organizers, people in societies, and ways to generate topics for writing.

This customizable residency focuses on English Language Arts, Social Studies and Fine Arts Standards. Using drama, music, dance, and visual art we take your curriculum and customize hands-on opportunities utilizing literature, history, and the arts just for you! Academic Content Standard concepts include: listening strategies, summarizing, retelling, literary structure, storytelling, point-of-view, character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, graphic organizers, people in societies, and ways to generate topics for writing.

Discovered by Magical Theatre at the International Children's Theatre Festival in Scotland, this astounding bit of theater, music and storytelling will mesmerize your students and teachers. Sophisticated, and at the same time simple, this reinvention of the classic Wolf and Red folk tale is one of the most spellbinding performances you will ever see. And it's not just for the wee, little ones, either.

Designed specifically for your little learners, this program takes your students on a creative movement, imaginative dramatics, musical adventure. With Vicki McCrone the group explores the basics of rhythm, singing and performing with others, identifying sounds and instruments, and musical terms and concepts. With Bill Morgan, they are taught basic American Sign Language and creative dramatics. With both, they develop creative movement concepts and a choice of topics: Animals, Colors and/or Earth.

Award-winning musician Vicki McCrone engages students in a fun and educational music experience. One part Disney pop and one part kids rock, the program invites young people to sing along, play percussion, utilize finger play, and learn music vocabulary. If your students enjoy the music of artists like Dan Zanes and The Laurie Berkner Band they will love this program. Teachers may choose from Animals, Colors or Earth.

Literature and language arts form the basis for this residency that also teaches students to follow directions, improvise, use their imaginations and play with phonemes and rhyme schemes. Students dramatize stories, sing songs, and dance while immersing themselves in the elements of literature. Terry combines proverbs and body percussion to show the rhythmic aspects of language. This residency makes language and story come alive for students and can be customized for the literature being used in your classroom. Children are engaged in movement activities so a large empty room is essential; access to a piano is preferred by not required.

Children's book author M. LaVora Perry combines reading, writing, and the dramatic presentation of literature to develop students abilities to identify and create characters with distinct points of view. Focusing on dialogue, action, and setting, students discover their own literary characters.

As America adjusts to World War II, two young boys are left in the care of their eccentric relatives as their father sets off to find work. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this charming coming of age story will help students relate to life in the 1940s from a teenage perspective.
Available January 15 & 27, 2010 @ 10:30 a.m.

Through music and storytelling, Baba Jubal takes students on an adventure to the Manding African Empire. This participatory program combines history, geography and language while engaging students in the experience of making music and learning about West African culture. A residency, in which students learn more about Africa, music, and how to make their own drums, may follow this program.

In this multi-disciplinary residency, students immerse themselves in the power of art to address social and community problems. Students will understand how to design and implement creative campaigns that make a difference in their community. Students will utilize brainstorming, creative problem solving, and critical thinking skills to create an arts event and exhibit, focusing on a central problem they want to address. Students will write a proposal, mission statement, and letters to community members as part of the project, and record their own Public Service Announcements. Students will design their own silkscreen t-shirts, posters, websites, and printed invitations to the exhibit/event where they will showcase their artwork.

Students will work in teams to create at least one permanent or semi-permanent (transportable) large scale mural. Each mural can relate to a specific story or series of stories read by the class throughout the school year. Using a variety of drawing materials students will illustrate sections of the stories while discussing line, color, and form. The murals can be displayed indoors or out.

Take your students on a multicultural dance exploration where they discover various traditional dances from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. During a performance program, three artists perform the dances with traditional music and costumes while comparing and contrasting the different forms. Cultural and historical influences of the various dances are also a focus during this program.

Ethnomusicologist Terry Boyarsky leads students in the songs, dances and games of other cultures. Students learn to listen and express, while celebrating the commonality and diversity of others. Map skills are taught through exercises in tracking, sequencing, spatial awareness, and measurement. Students of all learning styles discover, connect and translate their physical travels into symbolic reading of the map. Share this joyful, rhythmic, integrated approach and watch your students locate themselves geographically and culturally.

All cultures have a history of mask making. In this residency students learn to make masks using a variety of materials and techniques. Wendy teaches the value of masks as they are used by different cultural groups in ceremonies and festivals. Students observe examples of masks from the Caribbean, Africa, Mexico and Asia. They learn to apply concepts of two and three dimensional design, incorporating a variety of geometric shapes. Students are left with the knowledge of how to transform themselves through visually engaging and powerful masks.

Terry combines music and movement to create a unique custom designed residency exploring math and literacy. Using rhythm, body percussion, world music, improvisation, movement, and song, Terry gives students the tools to solve time-space-energy problems, and experiment with pattern, form and structure. Teamwork and listening are emphasized. A large, empty room and a piano are required for this program.

Terry combines music and movement to create a unique custom designed residency exploring math and literacy. Using rhythm, body percussion, world music, improvisation, movement, and song, Terry gives students the tools to solve time-space-energy problems, and experiment with pattern, form, and structure. Teamwork and listening are emphasized. A large, empty room and a piano are required for this program. Please specify math or literacy focus.

Students explore manners, etiquette, decorum and protocols across cultures and throughout history. They will compare behaviors that are expected in many different social settings with particualr emphasis on African tradititons and customs. Students will dramatize their findings through creative skits that exemplify the appropriate and inappropriate ways of doing something. Songs, raps, music and movement will be used as students refine their work. Teaching Artist and students will prepare the classroom to welcome invited guest to participate in the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

This program involves a preparatory visit at your school, a field trip concert in the Glick Recital Hall of The Music Settlement in University Circle, and a follow-up visit at your school. Concerts, approximately 45 minutes in length, are geared to self-contained classes or inclusion classes. They involve some audience participation and are informal, welcoming opportunities for students with special needs and their peers to experience high quality music in a unique concert venue. A different instrument family, e.g. strings, winds, percussion, brass, can be featured each concert.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial skills, Communication/language skills
Physiological responses, Cognitive skills

This program involves a performance at your school. Concerts, approximately 45 minutes in length, are geared to self-contained classes or inclusion classes. They involve some audience participation and are informal, welcoming opportunities for students with special needs and their peers to experience high quality music in a unique concert venue. A different instrument family, e.g. strings, winds, percussion, brass, can be featured each concert.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial skills, Communication/language skills, Physiological responses, Cognitive skills

Blues artist Wallace Coleman grew up in the South in the 1940s and students get the opportunity to hear what life was like for African-Americans in that place and time. The residency consists of songs played by Wallace and Bob with discussion of the music and of Wallace's life. Students are invited to suggest songs and topics for songs, making up songs on the spot.

Artist Jacob Lawrence depicted the struggle for basic human rights with his epic Migration Series. After learning about his "dynamic cubist" style, students reconsider this great American story by creating artworks that reflect how hope, understanding and empathy can develop from oppression and struggle. Using a "parts of a whole" approach, the project strengthens team building and encourages individual expression. The finished series of paintings are brought together to create a visual narrative that retells the story of the Great Migration.

This session engages students in data collection, graphing, and the use of timelines using the music of Mozart.

In this exciting residency, students brighten their school with art by creating a dynamic group mural project with a professional mural artist. The mural can be painted on a school wall, painted on canvas and hung, or painted on boards that can be installed just about anywhere. Mural themes range from social studies concepts, to characters featured in books read in the classroom, to the school's name and community. Mural-making allows students to learn about teamwork and problem solving skills through experiential learning. Students also learn more about the principles of design as well as important math concepts like drawing objects to scale and plotting points on a graph.

This residency is designed to be customized to each classroom's request. Team members choose a limited number of the non-arts curricular areas most appropriate to their particular students. The residency offers either (a) Direct service group music therapy sessions with a Board-Certified Music Therapist in a self-contained special education classroom, (b) a Board-Certified Music Therapist working in an inclusion classroom, or (c) a combination thereof. The music therapist meets with the appropriate classroom teacher, music specialist and any other team members to determine together prioritized needs and realistic goals. Sessions include assessment of children's skills, goal and objective-setting, choice of interventions to be used, and documentation and evaluation of progress. Music experiences include singing, chanting, playing instruments, movement, listening, composing/creating, discussion about music, etc. The music therapist provides methods to address generalization and transfer of skills/responses demonstrated in music therapy settings to other school settings.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following skill areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial, Communication/language, Perceptual/motor , Physiological responses, Cognitive skills

This residency is designed to be customized to each classroom's request. Team members may choose non-arts curricular areas most appropriate to their particular students. The residency offers either (a) Direct service group music therapy sessions with a Board-Certified Music Therapist in a self-contained special education classroom, (b) a Board-Certified Music Therapist working in an inclusion classroom, or (c) a combination thereof. Sessions include assessment of children's skills, goal and objective-setting, choice of interventions to be used, and documentation and evaluation of progress. Music experiences include singing, chanting, playing instruments, movement, listening, composing/creating, discussion about music, etc. The music therapist provides methods to address generalization and transfer of skills/responses demonstrated in music therapy settings to other school settings.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following skill areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial, Communication/Language, Perceptual/motor, Physiological responses, Cognitive skills

This residency is designed to be customized to each classroom's request. Team members choose non-arts curricular areas most appropriate to their particular students. The residency offers either (a) Direct service group music therapy sessions with a Board-Certified Music Therapist in a self-contained special education classroom, (b) a Board-Certified Music Therapist working in an inclusion classroom, or (c) a combination thereof. The music therapist meets with the appropriate classroom teacher, music specialist and any other team members to determine together prioritized needs and realistic goals to be addressed in the time allowed. Sessions include assessment of children's skills, goal and objective-setting, choice of interventions to be used in service provision, and documentation and evaluation of progress. Music experiences include singing, chanting, playing instruments, movement, listening, composing/creating, discussion about music, etc. The music therapist provides methods to address generalization and transfer of skills/responses demonstrated in music therapy settings to other school settings.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following skill areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial, Communication/language
Perceptual/motor, Physiological responses
Cognitive skills

Students experience performances of traditional songs from other countries including America and participate in learning cultural dances, hearing tales from far away lands, and performing a famous tune from America circa 1930's on their take home kazoo. Parents will love this!

Students experience performances of traditional songs from countries around the world including the Bahamas, Latin America, Eastern Europe, America, Ireland, Germany, and France. Students will participate in cultural dances, discussion of folktales from far away lands, learn singing in a round, music intervals, and the basics of accompaniment.

Music in Movies is a fun look at the movies, with an ear towards learning how music helps to tell a story and heighten the emotional impact of movie scenes. A variety of musical and video examples will be used as we explore what underscores some of our favorite films. No musical expertise is required!

Music is the Weapon offers writing and music as an alternative to violence and negativity. Two or three members of Mifune lead a writing residency exposing students to lyrical songwriting from today's artists and yesterday's masters. Discussion focuses on current events of either personal, local, national or international significance. Members of Mifune coach students in writing their own lyrics and music. The residency concludes with a performance of the students' original music.

In this world of television and video games, music as a form of play has become an endangered species. In this program, students explore a world of music that has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Students leave with pocketfuls of musical potential and a joyful sense of responsibility to continue the wonderful tradition of PLAY-ing music everyday. This program encourages invention and insists upon music under any circumstances.

Students will be guided by a Cleveland-based international recording artist in the creation of their own song lyrics that will draw from classroom curriculum content and positive life lessons. Once songs are completed, students will work with a video artist to create a music video for their song. Each student will receive a DVD of their music video at the end of the program. (Program can be customized for Social Studies, Science, or Math focus)

Students will travel across the United States exploring various sites of geographic and musical interest. Music created in the U.S., such as jazz, Cajun music, and indigenous music are among the stops on this journey.

Students will embark on a cultural and musical journey as they chart a path through Ohio's diverse regions and cities. Along the way they will take inventory of Ohio's geographic characteristics using maps, photos, and music.

This is a songwriting residency in which classes compose their own blues lyrics about current events. There is a broad scope here which could see songs about local, national or regional issues, sports or even lifestyle trends. In addition to literacy standards, students learn about rhythm, pacing, and meter, which involves mathematical skills. Residency includes performances in an assembly or in class.

Students will start with the question "If you could interview anyone or anything (an object, a person, dead or alive or imaginary) who or what would it be?" Their interview can be with anything or anyone from a pencil, to a Martian, to Abraham Lincoln, to a character from one of the books they are reading. Students will start by writing their questions for their interviews and will compose creative answers. They will then act out their interview script on film. Students will be taught acting on camera and will be able to dress-up and create props and costumes to bring their interview to life. This project explores research through interviewing and enables students to "think outside of the box."

OHIO (Only Happened in Ohio), includes activities that focus on Ohio's waterways. Students learn about the importance of rivers and canals, the Great Lakes and the historical significance of these bodies of water. Through the use of maps and timelines, students discover how Native Americans and pioneers used Ohio's waterways. This residency culminates in a "Saturday Night" square dance and performance of student-composed songs. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

OHIO (Only Happened in Ohio), includes activities that focus on Ohio's waterways. Students learn about the importance of rivers and canals, the Great Lakes, and the historical significance of these bodies of water. Through the use of maps and timelines, students discover how Native Americans and pioneers used Ohio's waterways. This residency culminates in a "Saturday night" square dance and performance of student-composed songs.

One World Rhythm, celebrates the rhythmic human spirit. Told as a multicultural, interactive story using various cultural hand drums and percussion, this program invites children to journey with an African rhythm as it travels from Africa to Cuba, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and the United States. The imagination of students will ignite as rhythms change form, patterns and sound during their travels. Students participate by singing in several languages, playing body percussion and dancing. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

One World Rhythm celebrates the rhythmic human spirit. Told as a multicultural, interactive story using various cultural hand drums and percussion, this program invites children to journey with an African rhythm as it travels from Africa to Cuba, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and the United States. The imagination of students will ignite as rhythms changes form, patterns, and sound during their travels. Students participate by singing in several languages, playing body percussion, and dancing. This uplifting story of traveling rhythms celebrates the African roots of much of today's music.

Beacon Street subscribes to the idea that if children regard each book as an adventure, perhaps they feel more inclined to read! Susan Weber and Bob Kloos advocate reading as an entertaining form of adventure through an array of participatory songs, poems, mime, demonstrations, drama and rap. These experiences provide lasting images that prompt younger audiences to reach for books for years to come.

Students will see a live performance of Mozart's tragi-comic masterpiece "Don Giovanni", having been primed for the experience by an in-school visit from an Opera Cleveland Teaching Artist leading an interactive session called "Opera Is...". Teachers will be supplied with grade-level-appropriate instructional materials. Following the performance, students will write a review of the opera for possible publication.
October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM, State Theater

Students will see a live performance of Donizetti's riveting tale of madness, "Lucia di Lammermoor", having been primed for the experience by an in-school visit from an Opera Cleveland Teaching Artist leading an interactive session called "Opera Is...". Teachers will be supplied with grade-level-appropriate instructional materials. Following the performance, students will write a review of the opera for possible publication
May 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, State Theater

Opera Cleveland's flagship education program has been successfully implemented in over 200 classrooms. Students write and perform their very own opera, on a subject of your choosing. Classes may use existing stories from ELA curriculum or write their own as a group. Opera Cleveland provides a Music Mentor to work with students to turn the stories into songs. Designed to be implemented by the non-arts classroom teacher, this residency includes curriculum, lesson plans, and PD training workshop for teachers.

Pick the subject your students find most challenging, and teach it to them through song! Your students will write a story about the subject, and an Opera Cleveland Teaching Artist will set their story to music, which they will then perform for their peers and community. 9 one-hour visits (two per week) plus a performance day. A proven method for improving content retention and stimulating interest in difficult subject matter.

This performance is and original work created by DAD. Through music, song, and dance, Origins takes you on a musical & dance journey through the African Diaspora. We begin with the melodic chants and dances of the ancestors of West Africa and travel to the islands and Brazil with its colorful regalia and dance. We end our journey in America saluting, jazz, blues, sounds of R&B and Hip Hop. Origins is a vibrant colorful performance that is both entertaining and educational. It's guaranteed to have your students captivated from beginning to end.

Origins is an original residency created by Dance Afrika Dance. Through music, song, and dance, Origins takes you on a musical & dance journey through the African Diaspora to America 2009. We begin with the melodic chants and dances of the ancestors of West Africa and then travel to the Islands and Brazil with its colorful regalia and dance. We end our journey in America saluting the journey of dance through the music of, jazz, blues, soul, r&b disco and hip hop. Origins is a vibrant colorful residency that culminates in a performance for your student body, family, friends and community. Origins workbook will be available for students and teachers.

Robin Pease lets you put her in a box as a means to examine stereotypes and discover that "you can't tell a book by its cover". Participants then have the opportunity to ask questions, discuss, and investigate race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and disability by acting out and discussing famous movie scenes. Finally, discover ways to explore diversity right in your own backyard. Then use the scenes in your classroom to stimulate discussion!

Students will learn to speak with clarity and acquire an expanded vocabulary that will energize their intellect. Students will be introduced to some of the great poetic masters like Langston Hughes and Nikki Giovanni. They will explore the creativity of words and movement while developing a greater command of the English language as they prepare to "slam". Teaching Artist and students will welcome invited guests to participate in the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

Parents, grandparents and their toddlers sing songs, clap and dance to traditional American music.

Using "natyam" or dance, which is closely associated with the arts of music, sculpture and painting in India, this program gives students a sense of history and culture and enables them to easily assimilate the connection and integration between the performing arts and the language arts.

This program engages students in a multi-disciplinary residency that begins with West African drumming workshops, linking the tradition of storytelling and oral history to West African traditions that used music and drumming as an integral part of conveying a story. The students then engage in oral history interviewing and writing workshops. Students use hand-held recorders at home to interview family members and friends. Students also interview each other and record the interviews in the classroom. Looking to the future, the students write essays about their hopes for the future. Students work with a recording arts specialist from PAA that will guide students in creating a dynamic "sound collage" that will include recordings the students have made with family, friends, other students, and themselves. They will use "found sounds" from the community and will also record their West African drumming pieces to complement their oral history sound collages. Each student will leave the residency with a unique recorded CD.

Students will learn about the movement of people from the old world to the new, from east to west, south to north, country to city, oppression to freedom, through exploration of uniquely American musical genres, such as folk, blues, jazz and rock. Students will be engaged in singing, clapping out rhythms, writing new words to old songs as well as writing an opera backed by ROAM musicians. Students will play simple instruments. They will come to understand the oral tradition, the mixing of cultures to create new genres, the influence of social conditions and technology on the transmission and experience of music. They will also learn about pitch, tempo, dynamics, melody, harmony, verse and chorus, rhythm and rhyme. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

Students will learn about the movement of people from the old world to the new, from east to west, south to north, country to city, oppression to freedom, through exploration of uniquely American musical genres, such as folk, blues, jazz and rock. Students will engage in singing, clapping out rhythms, writing new words to old songs as well as write an opera backed by ROAM musicians. Students will play simple instruments. They will come to understand the oral tradition, the mixing of cultures to create new genres, the influence of social conditions and technology on the transmission and experience of music. They will also learn about pitch, tempo, dynamics, melody, harmony, verse and chorus, rhythm and rhyme.

The exciting sounds and sights of Battu, a percussion ensemble, draw students into a world of different cultures to the beat of a drum (or surdo, xylophone...). Battu provides a multicultural, historical learning experience through diverse music and instruments taking students from Trinidad to Brazil, Cuba to Asia.

Follow a Poetry Journey program with Playful Poetry, a residency that allows students to learn presentation and speech skills through theater games and writing activities. At the end of the residency students perform their own writing.

During a Poetic Expressions residency, students build on the ideas of a We Ain't Afraid of No Poems performance as they script and score poems to set into motion. This leads to a deeper appreciation of poetry and improved language skills.

This comprehensive workshop series draws from English Language and Fine Arts standards to reinforce learning the variety of styles, elements, forms and structures of poetry. Imaginative and creative, this program is an exploration of poets and poetry infusing the imagery, sounds, and structures of poetry with the creative language and movement of dance. This residency can also be focused on the works of a poet of particular interest or theme being studied.

Ray performs a program of original children's poetry enlivened with his blend of interactive theater, call and response, and sing-along. Students journey with Ray to the Land of Poetry where they act out Grandma Zelma's nursery rhymes, create animal songs and meet all kinds of strange creatures like the Goonies, the Hullaballoos and the Yowler.

Learn "Slamming" from one of the originals. Salinger brings to students over 15 years of experience, both as a participant and an organizer of the art form. This residency presentation integrates the fun and creativity of poetry slam while downplaying the competitive aspect. Students learn the rules and history of poetry slam through participating and producing their own poetry slam competition.

Through use of printmaking techniques, students discover the shapes and places of local geography. The unit incorporates concepts of mapping, math, patterning, repetition, layering and color. Students use found objects and small wood shapes to build a map of a real or created space. Students will make their own artistic printing plate. Students learn the techniques of fine art printing, including intaglio and relief. The residency considers place, personal connection to community, and the built and natural environment. The end result, for each participant, will be a series of prints and a final art show.

Through the use of stencils and other printmaking materials, students explore pattern making with shapes and colors. Students will generate patterns using inspiration from everyday objects such as city grids, local architecture, plant life, animals, and objects/packaging. Students will create a collection of different prints. The students will explore a range of drawing and printmaking techniques including using a printing press that PAA will bring to the school. The end result, for each participant, will be a small collection of prints and a final art exhibit.

Public service announcements (PSAs) educate citizens about issues that are timely and relevant to their daily lives. Through the collaboration of classroom teachers and PAA's artist-educators, students will conceive, plan, and produce their own PSAs in the form of short video projects. Each PSA will include a short but strong message on a curriculum-related topic. By the end of the project, students will understand the concept of conveying a powerful message to a general audience through media. Each classroom will write and produce five two-minute video PSAs that will be created to teach other students and community members about socially relevant topics.

The wonderful, expressive world of puppetry comes alive through adaptations of original and published stories performed by David's puppets and marionettes. David engages students in his fun-filled shows, complete with songs and musical rap numbers which bring the audience into the act. Shows always conclude with his marvelous marionettes, leaving students wanting more

Students choose a message they want to convey through a fiction or creative non-fiction piece and learn strategies for making their writing real, relevant, exciting, and interesting. They explore how characters tune in and inspire readers using dialogue, action, and setting to develop a theme.

In this residency, students will explore art elements, principles, and images as they create a thematic mural that relates to the curriculum theme of your choice. Each student creates a piece of a mural which is later joined with others to reveal one cohesive image. This project teaches students to appreciate community and respect diverse points of view about artwork.

In this workshop, students will explore art elements, principles, and images as they create a thematic mural that relates to the curriculum theme of your choice. Each student creates a piece of a mural which is later joined with others to reveal one cohesive image. This project teaches students to appreciate community and respect diverse points of view about artwork Depending upon project, additional prep time and fees may be necessary.

Creative writing and poetry can be a powerful way to express one's self. Are you looking for a way to motivate students to put their thoughts on paper? To let their voices be heard? Musician Dave Young uses rhythms and beats to engage and inspire students to write, perform, and record their own rap and hip-hop song lyrics. Popular topics include but are not limited to: school spirit, world affairs, history and Black History, and patriotism. Dave brings a computer, microphone, and electric keyboard to your classroom to record the students performing their creations. Afterwards your class will receive a CD of the music and lyrics. Showcase your students' talents and put poetry in motion

In this residency, students are guided through the process of telling a story in rhyme with rhythm in hip-hop style. They will work with an international hip-hop recording artist to write stories about themselves that they will perform for the rest of the class at the end of the residency.

Students build fluency skills by reading aloud a book or story to create a collaborative "book on tape." Dave brings a computer and microphone to record each student reading a sentence or paragraph until the story is completed. The recorded audio can then be edited to assist students who might require a little extra help. Students bring the recording to life by adding music and sound effects and recording the final product to a CD.

A few chairs, a couple of music stands and you have Reader's Theater. This residency promotes literacy using popular children's classics such as Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, The People Could Fly, Anansi the Spider or Aesop's Fables as staged readings. Choose one of these stories and Jimmie Woody, as the narrator, works with your students to turn one of these stories into a wonderful staged reading for your classroom. This residency helps students develop their public speaking and dramatic skills as well as helps them learn how to cooperate with one another and be creative with literature.

Readers Theater is a method suggested in just about every Language Arts textbook printed. This residency will give your students an in-depth look at how to effectively use Readers Theater to communicate and comprehend literature while practicing listening, reading aloud and writing responses to demonstrate understanding.

Students will engage in a multi-media residency that enables them to use everyday objects to create music, sculpture and design plans for "reusing" the objects in the everyday world. Students will work with a musician to create and play in a "recycled" percussion ensemble, a sculpture artist to create and display dynamic art works, and a product designer to create their new contributions to the creative economy.

Students learn to design using a needle and thread as well as the sewing machine to create art of the Pharaohs and masks of West Africa. Using geometric shapes, students display the art of royalty. Our unique method of engagement connects the students to Social Studies as they explore the history, geography and cultural practices of Egypt and West Africa. Residency incudes curricular materials and preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

Invite Johnny Appleseed, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Zelma George, Thomas Jefferson and many others to your school. Sing the folk songs of Ohio. Explore the craftsmanship of Native Americans. YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development.

Do your students forget to be nice to each other? In this Central American tale, a mean turtle learns the value of friendship and remembers to be nice while students participate in Spanish language and song and learn about animals and places in Costa Rica.

RHAPSODY Assembly includes a dynamic live performance that features hip-hop music, dance, and rhyme with a DJ, MC, and break dancers. The program demonstrates how hip-hop can be a positive and productive form of creative self-expression. The presentation also includes an explanation of the basics of each art form of hip-hop culture as well as an overview of the beginnings of hip-hop history. Audience participation is encouraged and members of the audience are invited to the stage to participate in hands-on demonstrations alongside the artists. A question-and-answer session with the audience concludes the presentation. The Assembly Presentation is approximately one hour in length. The program can be shortened to fit into a 40 or 50-minute class period. A Pre-Performance Visit will give students a multi-media introduction to hip-hop. The Post- performance Visit will give students a hands-on workshop in one of the art forms featured in the assembly.

Communication comes in many forms. When animals and birds spring out of your hands, when bees hover over blooming flowers, and when mere glances of the eye express a disappointment communication is born. Discover the power and energy of rhythmic movement or the magic of mime when stories come alive in dance. See, feel, and experience the joy of wordless communication.

This videoconference residency takes a look at the history of rock and roll, considering how popular music influences and is influenced by American culture and current events. This program includes the following:

• Interactive Videoconferencing Connections
• Videoconference Discussion Session
• A Visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• In-Class Materials
• Professional Development Workshop

We typically think of music as an art form, but every note we hear can be understood in relation to the laws of science. This class examines the basic acoustic principles in the sounds of rock and roll by investigating how all sounds are created by vibrations, how sound travels to our ears through moving air molecules, and how sounds can be represented in a graph by using an oscilloscope or a computer. Students will learn how the musical notes of instruments are determined by frequency and amplitude and how the shape of a waveform determines an instrument's timbre. Musical examples showcase Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees and illustrate how we perceive the various elements of sound. The class concludes with a live demonstration of digital audio software in which audience volunteers get to record and manipulate their own voices.

In this exciting, interactive class, elementary school students examine the instrumentation of a rock band, discovering the low notes of the bass guitar, the pounding rhythms of the drums and percussion, the melodies and harmonies of guitars, keyboards, and more. Students have fun learning about the characteristics of the instruments and their sounds - and even perform along with the band! By investigating how musicians arrange the various instruments of a band, students discover how the different parts of classic rock and roll songs are created. This class includes historic video performances by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, as well as live performances and demonstrations by the Rock Hall education ensemble. At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum kids really do get a chance to ROCK!

Roots of Rock & Roll studies the early history of Rock and Roll. The primary goal is to discover how Rock and Roll evolved from the blending of traditional Appalachian music, with its roots in the British Isles, and African-American music. These two forms, which developed separately and were isolated by geographic and cultural differences, came together with the birth of technology and the irrepressible enthusiasm of the pioneers of modern music such Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Bessie Smith, Bo Diddley, and Elvis Presley.

Discover how immigrant families preserved their cultural heritage and the important role faith and tradition play in Jewish life today. Learn about Jewish holidays, how families celebrate them, and make connections between Jewish traditions and those of other religious/ethnic groups. Ancient Jewish rituals and practices are explained and explored through hands-on objects and cultural artifacts, many centuries old.

Roots to Rock was first developed in conjunction with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to celebrate its grand opening in 1995. Since that time it has been performed in hundreds of schools, libraries and other community institutions. Roots to Rock follows the growth, development, popularity and influence of Rock & Roll from its origins in the British Isles and Africa, across to the American continent, back to the British Isles, and back across again! See how rock began and hear the music of its founders; from Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rogers to the Beatles, Rolling Stones and beyond.

Oleg Kruglyakov, balalaika virtuoso, and Terry Boyarsky, masterful pianist, offer an introduction to Russian folk music and the balalaika, a traditional Russian 3 stringed instrument. The dance tunes, classical music, gypsy melodies and Russian songs are meticulously translated into English and draw from the over 160 ethnic groups living in Russia today. Experience the mysterious sounds of the balalaika and the expressive range of the piano in this exuberant performance!

Why were so many Egyptian gods part human and part animal? This lesson explores how ancient Egyptians observed animal behavior and ascribed animal characteristics to their gods.

Through art and artifacts from the CMA collection, students become acquainted with Egypt's natural environment, as well as aspects of daily life such as food, clothing, shelter, and recreation.

Learn how to decipher some of the "sacred writing" of Egypt in this fascinating look at writing system that originated more than 4,000 years ago

Find out how the Egyptian desire for an eternal afterlife contributed to the ritual of mummification. Watch a real mummy being examined with the latest technology.

Visually exciting scenery becomes the backdrop for this hands-on residency. Mr. G and the students collaborate to produce and perform one of ten Tall Tales or Fables (chosen by the teacher). Students will operate the puppets and narrate the story in this fun and cooperative production.

This residency combines basic sign language and creative dramatics. The fundamentals of theatre are taught using simple improvisations and basic sign language. Useful communication signs like bathroom, silence, hold, stand, sit and line-up will be taught to both the students AND teachers. Teachers will be able to communicate basic classroom directions with their students in silence.

This interactive music residency engages young students in playing rhythms quickly and easily by using the "Simon says" method to help students practice their listening skills and their ability to follow directions. Each student in the class has a small drum and they practice call and response techniques by playing rhythms on their drums. In addition, they also practice counting by counting out rhythms and the number of notes they are playing by listening and repeating musical patterns.

In this program about American pioneers, Bob shows how songs can tell stories. He leads the group in sharing songs that tell tall-tales, songs that spread the news, songs about animals and songs about heroic figures.

Basic (How Do I Turn This Thing On?) or Advanced Training and applications across teaching disciplines for School Teachers and Administrators. Recommended for All Teachers, Administrators.

Smart City USA tells the story of two rival groups. The Wannabees verses the Gonnabees. It's about choices! This original work is told through drama, song and dance. Colorful costumes and backdrop set the tone for this entertaining but thought provoking production. New lyrics to the music of Michael Jackson, Sly Stone, Bob Marley and others help make this a production that young and old. Enjoy!

SmartCity USA tells the story of the two types of groups in school-the "Wannabes" and the "I'm Gonnabes". It's about choices for grades, respect, manners and behavior. This original work is told through drama, song and dance. Colorful costumes and backdrops created by the students set the tone for this entertaining but thought provoking production. Students help create new lyrics to the music of Michael Jackson, Sly Stone, Bob Marley, Ozzy Osbourne and others to help make this production a team effort. Students learn all aspects of production as they take on the roles of photographers, videographers, light designers and choreographers. Residency incudes curricular materials and preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

SmartCity USA tells the story of the two types of groups in school-the ""Wannabes"" and the ""I'm Gonnabes"". It's about choices for grades, respect, manners and behavior. This original work is told through drama, song and dance. Colorful costumes and backdrops created by the students set the tone for this entertaining but thought provoking production. Students help create new lyrics to the music of Michael Jackson, Sly Stone, Bob Marley, Ozzy Osbourne and others to help make this production a team effort. Students learn all aspects of production as they take on the roles of photographers, videographers, light designers and choreographers. Residency incudes curricular materials and preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."

Teachers (even those who think they have no musical abilities) will learn how to involve students in songwriting to reinforce concepts in an area of curriculum. At the end of the workshop, each teacher will have a songwriting idea to use in their classroom. Recommended for All Teachers, Administrators.

Dave engages students in how computer technology has changed the way we create sounds and music. Using the synthesizer, Dave invites students to participate by identifying traditional musical instrument sounds and easily recognizable pieces of music. Students join the fun, creating and performing sounds right on stage. This fun and educational presentation will change the way you listen to music.

This program encourages students to discover Flamenco and Spanish culture through discussion and physical exploration of Flamenco dance and music. Students learn about two contrasting versions of Flamenco dance through demonstrations by a professional dancer who has studied and performed Flamenco in Spain. Students are immersed in learning full phrases of Flamenco dance vocabulary, Spanish vocabulary and songs. They are challenged to increase their critical thinking and motor skills while enhancing their self-esteem and cultural knowledge. A residency culminates in the creation of a traditional Flamenco Cuadro, a group of dancers, singers and musicians who work together to create a Flamenco performance.

Students acquire vocabulary through music making, reader's theater, and the inspiration of Mozart.

Inspire your students through the power of the spoken word. In this residency, students will develop their voice and presentation skills. Encouraging students to think poetically, and independently, they will be guided through the writing and performance of their own verses. Students will engage in creative writing exercises, learn how to effectively use poetic devices, and write their own rhyme schemes. They will sharpen their pronunciation, voice projection, and performance skills. Given the encouragement, tools, and support to express themselves with confidence, they will learn to embrace the uniqueness of their own creative voice. Later sessions in the residency will include an "open mic" atmosphere where students will be able to practice their performance poetry. The program will culminate in a dynamic student performance where students will share their original work.

Spring 2010 come see The Dancing Wheels Company perform All That's Jazz, modern repertory set to Duke Ellington Suites. With choreographers, Donald McKayle and Dianne McIntyre this is sure to be a swinging good time! Dates and times to be announce on website. Available on a first come first serve basis for field trips.

This amusing and engaging assembly program transports students to another place and time as they learn fascinating details about steel drums. The renowned 7 Mile Isle band introduces participants to Trinidad's diverse culture, relates it to European music history, and makes learning fun as students discover the "Tambu Bamboo!"

America holds the promise of a being a country where "all men are created equal" yet the reality of life in America has not always reflected this ideal. Learn how racism, ethnocentrism, and anti-Semitism have plagued Cleveland and America since its earliest days. See how Blacks and Jews were prevented from living in many neighborhoods, how the Ku Klux Klan interfered in local elections, and how Nazis and Fascists openly organized in our city. Hear the story of a young African-American Clevelander who shattered Olympic records and Hitler's racial bias, how a Shaker Heights teen became a victim of international anti-Semitism, and how a Cleveland rabbi fought for justice and civil rights. Learn how citizens have come together to fight against discrimination and hatred to build a more tolerant and diverse culture.

What would you do to fight discrimination? How will you combat hatred and intolerance and become an agent of change? The Maltz Museum challenges students to take personal responsibility to combat hatred, discrimination and intolerance by participating in the Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out! essay contest. $100,000 in college scholarships and prizes will be awarded. Entry deadline: November 4th. Representatives from the Museum will visit your class or assembly to discuss with students the impact of prejudice and discrimination on the classroom and society and then challenge students to enter the essay contest.

Investigate different styles of stories as students discover dramatic structure and cinematic ways to retell and sequence stories using the graphic organizer called "STORYBOARD!" Students write and illustrate an original story in comic book format, then use the comic book as a script to perform the story for the class.

Using everyday objects like buckets, pipes, cans and even paper bags, percussionist Jeremy Miller works with students to create intricate and powerful rhythms. This program illustrates the alternative uses of everyday objects and how they may be used as musical instruments to make new sounds. With street and trash percussion the possibilities are endless! The residency culminates in a group performance. One CD recording is proved per classroom.

What do a garden hose and a funnel sound like? Gary Adams of Metropolitan Brass introduces the science of sound and provides a first exposure to brass instruments in this engaging program for preschoolers.

The presenter, an experienced Board-Certified music therapist who has worked in individual and group settings with individuals with special needs and their "typically developing" peers, discusses a working definition for the term "social skills" and brainstorms with participants key social skills beneficial for these individuals and their peers to demonstrate at home, school, work or in the community. Examples of uses of music in structuring social successes and possible non-musical techniques or resources to use in tandem with the music experiences will be provided. Audience participation, video examples, and handouts will speak to various learning styles of attendees. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

See and hear well-loved stories in a new way. Learn what it's like to be an author or a poet. Students partner with artists to illustrate and rewrite their own tales. Get students prepared to publish their own work. YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development.

Your students reinforce the learning of math and geometry by designing and creating a colorful symmetrical mosaic. Each student takes home an individual ceramic mosaic as well as a Chinese tangram puzzle made from clay. An additional focus on science, history, and social studies adds depth to this 3-day residency program.

A tableau is a frozen picture created physically through the gestures, poses and expressions of the participants. Teachers discover techniques for creating human sculptures, B-M-E tableau, and pantomimes that electrify the teaching of the story elements: character, setting, plot, problem, events and resolution.

Founded in 2000, the TAIKOPROJECT is an ensemble of America's premiere, emerging taiko drummers dedicated to the preserving and disseminating American taiko drumming through educational activities and public performances. This is a state-of-the-art theatrical production blends taiko with storytelling, spoken word, music, hip hop choreography, video multi-media and dance.
May 5 - 7, 2010 10:00 AM & 12:00 PM Performances
60 Minutes in Length

The primary objective of this program is for students to grasp and retain the applications of math standards and benchmarks to real-life money management. Students will learn budgeting and how to get the most out of checking and savings accounts. Discussions will explore how to recognize financial traps involved in short-term "payday" loans, rent-to-own programs, and credit cards. Students will write and perform songs about the topic in many forms, including blues, rhythm and blues, rock, and rap. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

"Taking Charge of My Cash". The primary objective of this program is for students to grasp and retain the applications of math standards and benchmarks to real-life money management. Students will learn budgeting, how to get the most out of checking and savings accounts, and financial traps involved in short-term "payday" loans, rent-to-own programs, and credit cards. Students will write and perform songs about the topic in many forms, including blues, rhythm and blues, rock, and rap.

Tableaux are a series of living still pictures. Students will discover the skills needed to work in a group forming a series of pictures that aid in reading comprehension.

Teachers Rock provides a professional development forum for K-8 level teachers and school administrators who are interested in integrating popular music into their classrooms across the disciplines. Each session spotlights a grade band or subject area as well as a moment in the history of popular music. Materials include a featured lesson or resource for teachers to take with them and use in their classrooms. The goal of Teachers Rock is for teachers to learn how to use appropriate classroom activities and methods that integrate rock and roll music, from its roots to its current incarnations. Participants are encouraged to share lessons and instructional methods with colleagues in an open discussion/workshop forum. Teachers Rock programming is offered at no cost.

This extensive workshop series draws from English Language and Fine Arts standards to reinforce learning the variety of styles, elements, forms and structures of literary text. Imaginative and creative, this program is an exploration of fables, folk tales and short stories infusing the imagery, sounds and structures of the author with the creative language and movement of dance. This residency can also be focused on the works of an author of particular interest or theme being studied.

See the electricity on stage. Record your own music. Move like a molecule. Build your own invention. YANEO teaching artists and staff work with teachers to plan a year-long multi-arts and multi-sensory experience including in-school performances, classroom workshops and professional development

Meet Hegeota a "real Indian", learn some Mohawk language, sing a chant, and participate in a story as you explore the four directions of the compass rose to discover character education qualities, gain perspective on, and learn some of the practices of the Native American people in society. Students demonstrate effective listening strategies during the participatory performance through response to directions and questions to identify the themes of the stories.

The Great Community Mystery, encourages inner-city youth to celebrate their community, its people and its history while they develop skills in map reading, geography, multimedia technology and music performance and appreciation. The project concludes with student recording sessions and an all-school assembly, reinforcing the meaning of community and instilling pride in the students' neighborhood. In addition, ROAM teaching artists bring a SMART Board into the classroom, and students work with interactive maps and video clips to solve the Great Community Mystery. (Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

The Great Community Mystery, encourages inner-city youth to celebrate their community, its people and its history while they develop skills in map reading, geography, multimedia technology and music performance and appreciation. The project concludes with student recording sessions and an all-school assembly, reinforcing the meaning of community and instilling pride in the students' neighborhood. In addition, ROAM teaching artists bring a SMART Board into the classroom, and students work with interactive maps and video clips to solve the Great Community Mystery.

Meet Ben Franklin, Hiawatha, Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Thomas Jefferson, Jacques Cartier and others while discovering the origins of our Constitution not in the European "cradles of civilization" but in the Native American Iroquois Confederacy.

Learn about the experiences of African-Americans under the institution of slavery in this re-enactment of the true story of Lucy Bagby, a runaway slave captured in Cleveland amid the protests of local abolitionists and returned to her Master. She was the last fugitive to be surrendered by the North under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law during the Civil War. The audience is invited to sing along to Wade in the Water, Free at Last, Rally Round the Flag, Follow the Drinking Gourd, and No More Auction Block for Me. Teachers choose four to six participants to read aloud with our actors. Actors arrive one hour prior to performance to set up and work with participants.

The Legend of Nguzu Saba" begins in a mystical land called Kwanzaa land, where families young and old live in peace, love & happiness all year long. Life is good in Kwanzaa Land because the Kwanzaa Queen has taught her community to live in respect and harmony because they live by the seven principles of the Nguzu Saba. One day, the Queen is given the devastating news that there are young people in the land of Cleve who do no know about the seven principles or it's way of life exemplified in the Nguzu Saba. The storyy tells of the Queens mission to collectively teach the seven principles so that families and young people all over the world can live in peace and harmony. The original music score includes traditional African dance and drum, Blues, Hip Hop Gospel and R & B. and Break Dancing. The story is fueled by engaging characters such as Music Man, Sista Sevena, Rasta-ma-tazz, Elder Red, Black & Green, and Boogie & Woogie

The Legend of Nguzu Saba residency shares the innovative Kwanzaa story that can be enjoyed any time of the year. Seven loveable characters represent the seven principles of the Nguzu Saba (The Seven Principles of School & Community) who take you on a journey through song and dance.This residency teaches the benefits of respect and the joy of learning. Student will use the original music score to dance and present a show for the student body, family, friends and community. Program includes The Legend of Nguzu Saba workbook, CD and poster for students and teachers.

Students will examine a variety of printmaking techniques such as block printing and monoprinting. Students will explore 2-dimensional design by using and discussing color, form, line, and texture.

Ray brings Thomas Jefferson to life in authentic period costume and gives students a glimpse of Colonial America. In this very interactive performance, students learn about the Constitutional Convention and formation of the United States. Students participate as delegates representing the colonies and decide if they want to join the new United States. Thomas Jefferson leads students as they consider and vote on issues such as slavery, taxation, and land owning.

This residency expands the Sounds and Songs performance program and leads students in many different directions of the technology curriculum. Using a PC, see how a sound wave form can be manipulated, how music can be viewed and edited in graphic form and how musical notation is displayed. Each school receives its own CD created by Dave and the student musicians.

Inspire your students to use Hip-Hop as a powerful tool for change and positive communication. Students will work with a Cleveland-based international recording artist and MC (rapper) to write, compose, perform, and record their very own raps on environmental issues. Students will be educated and informed about the most current research on sustainability, alternative energy, green building, recycling and more. The program will culminate in a final performance that can correlate with your school's science fair. Students will also be able to take home a recording of the raps that they write on CD.

Scientists and dancers have a lot in common! Find out how both use inquiry, experimentation and revision to understand their world and share their experience. Students move to model molecules and use their entire bodies to understand matter and its states. Physics has never been this down to earth, and dance has never flown this high!

Did you know that Sign Language can be used as an innovative classroom management strategy? This residency teaches useful communication signs to people of all ages. Once these signs are learned, teachers and students are able to silently communicate with one another during classroom activities. Words such as bathroom, silence, hold, stand, sit, or line-up are taught to both teachers and students. Instead of using generic hand gestures, use real Sign Language.

Dancing Wheels' beloved classic, The Snowman is available to come to your gymnasium/auditorium. The performance will include fully costumed selections from the full length ballet set to a script read by a narrator. The performance concludes with a question and answer session with the company. The Snowman ballet is based on the story written by Raymond Briggs set to music by Howard Blake, the story is the adventure of a Snowman who comes to life and goes on a magical journey with his new friend James.

The Snowman is a winter classic that follows the book, The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs with enchanting music by Howard Blake. The Snowman and his friend James take a magical journey to experience hysterical moments with perky penguins, dancing turkeys, squirrels, bunnies, a wolf, and even sassy skunks. Available on a first come first serve basis for field trips. Coming Winter 2009/2010.

The Motown Sound paralleled and influenced the most optimistic decade of the Civil Rights Era (1959-1969). The lyrics of Motown music illuminated the peaks and valleys of adolescent development demonstrating that the joy and pain of falling in and out of love transcend racial and class differences. Motown boldly proclaimed its music as the "Sound of Young America", and performed its music to racially mixed audiences, a revolutionary act at that moment in history. Students will experience this slice of American History as told through the movement and music of the Motown Sound. They will learn the Music, Dance and the messages embedded in the songs, connecting relationship issues to social issues and relationship building to community building. Students will perform a Motown Revue, creating simple choreography based on the Music and Message of The Motown Sound. They will explore the similarities and differences between the music of that era and the popular music of today.

Create community in your classroom through music, math and movement! Teachers learn how to use rhythm sticks to create increasingly complex rhythms independently and as a group. This collaborative experience allows students to explore patterns and sequences kinesthetically and aurally, and will enrich understanding of the math curriculum.

Children clap, yodel, sing along, and do a rousing "sit-down square dance" as they laugh and learn about American traditional music and acoustic string instruments with bluegrass musician Paul Kovac.

A visual montage that is an homage to George Washington Carver's profound contributions to the world. Known to many only as the "peanut man" students create a work of art that reveals so much more about this great spiritual, humanitarian genius referred to as the "Black Leonardo." Dr. Carver was not only a great agricultural chemist/scientist but an award winning artist, and musician and great teacher. His very special ability to "communicate" with and heal plants earned him renown at an early age. He believed that if you love nature it will reveal its secrets to you.

Why are costumes important? Where do the ideas come from? What is the design process? How do costumes affect actors? This class will answer these questions about costume design and cover the basics from concept, to collaboration, to completed costumes.

This session will focus on a specifically requested type of stage make-up- for example, old age, scarring, fantasy, animal, or stylized characters. Due to time limitations, this segment will not be able to focus on latex work, facial prosthetics or lace beard making.

This videoconference will present an introduction to stage make-up. Topics discussed will include the need for stage make-up, the use of different make-up foundations, and the basic application of various commonly used stage cosmetics.

Theater Basics in a Suitcase is an exciting residency that allows students to create their very own performance using items from an ordinary suitcase. In this residency Jimmie Woody teaches the fundamentals of theater: voice, body awareness, improvisation and creative expression. Students choose items from Jimmie's "Theater Suitcase" to stimulate their creativity and develop their public speaking and dramatic performance skills. Watch as your students work together as an acting ensemble to create an exciting theatrical performance. This residency also provides teachers with dramatic techniques to be used within their classrooms throughout the year.

Once upon a time, Mr. G! was a licensed electrician. Now he uses theater, rap, dance, and electrical props to teach what electricity is all about through conductors, circuits, switches and more. Concepts support and reinforce the Ohio Academic Content Standards.

Join in an African story to travel on a theatrical journey to discover things are not always the way they seem. Participants then have the opportunity to question, discuss, and investigate unintentional insensitivity and sticky situations that might arise in your classroom. "Jump your comfort zone" to look at diversity in a theatrical way.

This program is an introduction to jazz via the sounds of a professional quartet. The concert involves some audience participation, historical reference, and teaching of musical concepts. Students will learn about jazz styles, what to listen for, and the roles of the various instruments. Concerts last approximately 45 minutes.
Specific IEP-related goals in the following areas:
Behavioral/psychosocial skills, Communication/language skills, Physiological responses, Cognitive skills

Invite a historical woman to step out of the textbook and into your classroom. Women In History brings a unique opportunity for students to interact with a historical figure who answers their questions and provides a glance into what life was like in centuries past. Select the figure that best suits the Language Arts or Social Studies curriculum. Historical biographies can be found at www.womeninhistoryohio.com.

Meet a talking vegetable as you participate in this African story/dance to realize that things are not always the way they seem and sometimes there is just too much talk. Then learn how to say hello, thank you, and sing goodbye in Swahili.

Top Cat rules his people's house until they bring home a mysterious box with a cute new kitten inside! Students read the story, Top Cat by Lois Ehlert, and using the art form of collage, create Top Cat and Little Kitten masks, and reenact the story about pets, cats, animal behavior, sharing, and accepting and welcoming someone new.

In a comparison of American Indian and Early Settler cultures, students examine corresponding artifacts on the screen, identify the potential for trade, and recreate a hands-on trading activity. Students use critical thinking in comparing the daily lifestyles and culture of the Woodland American Indians of the Great Lakes, and the Early Settlers.

The Tree of Life is a hands-on project based on a Mexican folk-art form. The program not only reinforces students' understanding of nature and the importance of preserving trees and animals as a way of preserving human life, but also is an opportunity of acquiring information about how other cultures represent their surroundings.

Students learn about the interrelationships between the visual and musical arts as they collaborate as a class to create an action-filled storyboard and twenty-second musical score. Cartoonist Jim Gill first develops a storyline involving two characters through six hand-drawn storyboard scenes. Composer Dave Young then collaborates with students to compose the perfect musical score to match the cartoon's plot and actions. The final session involves both artists coming back together with the class to finish a final short cartoon.

This experiential workshop, led by an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, provides a rationale for the use of music in the classroom. It describes the various uses of music, types of musical experiences possible and non-musical goals to be addressed through these experiences. Participants will learn sample experiences to assist young children and their teachers, aides, and so on in transitions and teaching opportunities.

Students gather facts and information from Earth or Life Science (such as: food chain, effects of weathering on the landscape, clouds, etc.), then write a script using details and examples to illustrate the main idea of the specific chosen science curriculum. Students then use drama tools and techniques to share these findings with others by creating a TV commercial or slide show to be rehearsed and performed for the class.

The Civil War is perhaps the most defining event in U.S. history. Its effects, from the Emancipation Proclamation, through the difficulties of Reconstruction, to the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, have defined politics, culture, and race relations ever since. Through a combination of narrative and live performance, this program brings to life a colorful but turbulent period in our nation

Unchained: From Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, teaches about the turbulent time in US history beginning with Slavery, through the Reconstruction and up to the Civil Rights Movement. Highlights of the individual classroom activities will be shared on the ROAM website. Students experience live music, learn songs and stories, write original lyrics to traditional music forms, and participate in a final performance.
(Students will record the songs they have written with professional musicians, and each student will receive a copy of their recording.)

Unchained: From Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, teaches about the turbulent time in US history beginning with Slavery, through the Reconstruction and up to the Civil Rights Movement. Highlights of the individual classroom activities will be shared on the ROAM website. Students experience live music, learn songs and stories, write original lyrics to traditional music forms, and participate in a final performance.

In this exciting and hands-on print making residency, students explore cultural symbols as Bonnie assists students in creating their own prints. Symbols from any culture can be incorporated to support the study and understanding of other cultures (examples include American Indian symbols, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Islamic forms and designs, African Adinkra symbols or any culture you can think of). Students discuss symbols and their meanings. Then, they each carve symbols into Styrofoam which is used with ink and paper to make beautiful prints. The prints can be mounted together to form a mural.

The presenter, an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, will discuss of a variety of communication/language and/or language arts goals that can be addressed either directly or indirectly through general music experiences. Many strategies that may be useful to both music educators and classroom teachers when engaging in music experiences with children with speech/language delays or disabilities will be suggested and demonstrated. Live examples and handouts will be provided. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

The presenters, an experienced Board-Certified music therapist and a classroom teacher with literacy expertise, will discuss of a variety of language arts goals that can be addressed either directly or indirectly through general music and integrated classroom experiences. Live examples and handouts will be provided. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

The presenter, an experienced Board-Certified music therapist, will discuss of a variety of communication/language and/or language arts goals that can be addressed either directly or indirectly through general music experiences. Many strategies that may be useful to both music educators and classroom teachers when engaging in music experiences with children with speech/language delays or disabilities will be suggested and demonstrated. Live examples and handouts will be provided. Workshop content may be customized to support collaboration between classroom teacher and the music specialists.

Readers Theater is a method suggested in just about every Language Arts textbook printed; this is the workshop that will give you an in-depth look at how to effectively use Readers Theater to enhance reading and writing skills with poetry.

Introduce your teachers to distance learning topics from the CMA and learn how to integrate videoconferencing into your curriculum.

Griot is an old African term for storyteller. Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Dubois, Sojourner Truth, Muhammad Ali and many other prominent voices in African-American history were griots. This performance, performed by griot Jimmie Woody, exposes students to the literature and speeches of historical African-American heroes. This performance highlights the lives and achievements of important historical and political leaders. Students also gain an understanding and appreciation of the cultural and historical contexts of drama/theater in societies both past and present.

Students will explore how to work from the inside out and gain a greater understanding how the environment impacts and influences choices in everyday life. The students will experience the science and math of "Walking in Your Royalty". Students will dissect the negative images of music videos, lyrics, posture, magazines, internet, etc. Residency incudes curricular materials and preparation for the culminating event called "Sharing Hour."
5 key areas students will examine in the Walking in Your Royalty residency:

• Royalty Pledge - (write, create & recorded a rap).
• The Nguzu Saba (seven principles of school and community)
• Engagements - Work Book Activities Power Point
• Project Activities - Dance, Music, three-dimensional art, videography
• 21 Tips - What is Royalty?

Walking to the Western Reserve celebrates the 205-year history of the state of Ohio. The program includes songs and stories of Moses Cleveland, the Wright brothers, and Ohio's presidents. Other topics include the Underground Railroad, canals and rivers, the settlement of the Shakers, and Thomas Edison. Through a program of traditional acoustic music and folk dances students will be offered a glimpse of what life was like in a time before electricity and modern technology.

Every student contributes to building answers to the basic questions of why and how people moved from one country to another, and who came to the Cleveland area during the peak immigration period of 1880 to 1930. Students use a class set of 30 reproduction primary documents sent ahead of time for an inquiry-based lesson facilitated by a museum educator.

We Ain't Afraid of No Poems provides older students with a lively and grammatically correct program emphasizing audience participation, adolescent issues, and multicultural themes. Students participate in a performance of "Jabberwocky," Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man," and "Casey at the Bat."

Students will use a variety of found objects and fine art materials to create dynamic wearable art ranging from headpieces to shirts and accessories. The residency will use inspiration from various cultural dresses from around the world and will demonstrate how fashion designers use math in their everyday work.

Students will work in groups to create a website around a central topic of the teacher's choosing that reinforces core curriculum standards. Topics can be drawn from social studies, science, math, or language arts. Students will begin by researching and writing about the topic of their websites. Professional design artists will then develop students' core competencies in the principles of design. Next, students will learn the basics of photography as they collect images for their websites. Simple website design software and templates will empower students to easily design their websites without complicated code. Friends and family will be able to access the websites online. Progressive Arts Alliance will provide Macintosh laptops and desktop computers for students to use.

Immerse students in a fabulous residency celebrating the culture of West Africa. They learn about the rhythms, songs, and languages found in the villages of the Ivory Coast. Residencies are custom tailored to fit your school's needs.

Designed to give students an overview of Jewish history, religion, and culture, this program can be integrated into a unit on world religions and multiculturalism. Centuries-old ritual objects from over 20 countries are utilized to explain Jewish religious life and important life cycle events. Historic photographs, narratives, and artifacts from Cleveland's rich Jewish history transmit the values and practices that continue to inform the ongoing life of the Jewish people today.
Optional Extension Activity: 30 additional minutes-Students visit the sanctuary of The Temple-Tifereth Israel, just steps from the Museum, to explore the sacred space and its ritual objects (limited availability-please schedule as far in advance as possible).

Using theatre and dance techniques, students will be on their feet creating movements to prepositions like over, under, around, through, etc. Fee is $85 for one workshop, $150 for two and $200 for three. Number of students per workshop is only limited by the available space needed for movement.

Teachers discuss how visual artists and writers share important tools for creating their works. They are engaged in stimulating and challenging discussions and experiences with both visual and literary art works. Using the tools of clear idea, audience, and purpose, they create a visual art work that communicates a chosen idea or theme, and a literary work (poem or narrative) that accompanies their visual art work. Poet Langston Hughes and visual artist William H. Johnson provide the examples for this workshop.

In this residency, students learn that visual artists and writers share important tools for creating their works. They are engaged in stimulating and challenging experiences with both visual and literary art works. Using the tools of clear idea, audience, and purpose, students create a visual art work that communicates a chosen idea or theme. Students study poet Langston Hughes and visual artist William H. Johnson. The art form is either painting or collage. Students also create a literary work to accompany their visual art. A single teaching space is necessary.

Children's book author M. LaVora Perry describes the book-writing process from idea to published book and beyond, performs dramatic readings of her writing for children, preteens, and teens, and answers questions about her books and the life of a published author.

Using creative movement, children will learn about primary colors and the colors created when they're combined.

Dedicated to the Elimination of Assumptions and Fallacies, this school assembly program is a mixture of theatrical skits and audience participation activities that creates deaf awareness in the audience. By exaggerating the characters in our skits, we make our points as well as entertain.

What is the difference between singing and speaking? At what moment does a poem become a song? How can we bring power and expression to the spoken word? This residency explores creative writing through the ears of a songwriter. The experience begins with natural speech and everyday language, the written journey ends with the sharing of original poems and songs. Hear what happens when you combine melody, rhythm and personal expression with the creative gifts of the students in your classroom.

Get students moving to the alphabet! The amazingly simply Wiggle Words program utilizes basic movements set to the letters of the alphabet to enhance a wide range of your student's literacy skills, including: spelling, phonics rules, identification of vowels and consonants, and rhyming/storytelling.

This videoconference or field trip explores how an individual artist's work and survivors respond to their experiences of the Holocaust. The program features a grouping of wall hangings that visually depict historic maps, scenes and philosophic concepts regarding the history of the Holocaust. Students explore the creative process, interpretation, and explore how an artist honors historical memory.
This program would work well for any class reading The Diary of Anne Frank studying tolerance or WW II.

Using music from the 1920's to the 1980's this residency takes students on a journey through history focusing on the liberating progression in the world through the eyes of female songwriters. With classics by The Carter Sisters, Mahalia Jackson, Etta James, Buffy Saint-Claire, Janis Joplin, Dolly Parton and Gladys Knight, this residency includes women's rights throughout history and their musical compositions that came in response to the times. Students will identify central ideas and find supporting details about how women were affected by women's suffrage as a whole. Student's findings will be retold at an assembly presentation for their peers, friends and family.

Susan Weber's songs and stories about lip-smacking fish, juicy watermelon, spicy pizza, and home-baked pie inspire children to make healthy food choices. Children follow simple oral directions: how to be an echo, improvise movement, experiment with sound effects. As they participate, they build vocabulary and increase phonemic awareness.