CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

The 12^th Annual Marion Cilker Conference for Arts in Education will take place on Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th, 2020. This year, the conference features two days of professional development addressing the conditions of the new environment of learning and teaching, by curating sessions with a strong focus on integrated learning, inclusion, and culturally responsive teaching through the arts while continuing to feature standards-based workshops in the arts and arts integration. In the true spirit of the arts, our workshops continue to exemplify creativity, excellence, and cultural inclusivity.

This conference is co-sponsored by Lurie College of Education at San José State University and the Santa Clara County Office of Education.

WORKSHOP GOALS & OBJECTIVES

The Marion Cilker Conference aims to provide educators with dynamic, hands-on engagement strategies with master teachers and teaching artists in the visual and performing arts and art-integrated curriculum. The workshops offer the opportunity for participants to experience the arts, to discuss the arts standards addressed in the lessons, and to begin to make connections and applications to various subjects of their grade-level curriculum.

Marion Cilker Conference Goals are:

• Demonstrate and engage participants in a dynamic, hands-on arts-integrated learning experience. Preference will be given to engaging, hands-on workshops.

• Articulate and demonstrate explicit connections between the California Arts Standards, National Core Arts Standards, the California Common Core State Standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards.

• Incorporate learning, with particular emphasis on cultural inclusion.

• Share effective instructional methods and strategies for high quality arts integration and assessment in the classroom

• Provide workshop notes, lesson plan, and/or take-away resources for further exploration that will be posted online

• Offer suggestions for ways in which the participant can apply and adapt their learning to meet the needs of their current and future students