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Pops Organizations Professional Development

Conferences with an Arts Education Focus

Links to Professional Associations

In-School Arts Experiences

Arts Field Trip Opportunities

POPS ORGANIZATIONS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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DANCE

Repertory Dance Theatre

Professional Development Workshops for Teachers offered by RDT help teachers understand the state core dance standards and build teachers' confidence in their ability to teach the dance core in their own classrooms.
RDT can provide professional development workshops for faculty and staff at your school.

Children's Dance Theatre, Tanner Dance, University of Utah

CDT's Side-by-Side Dance Residency program offers weekly dance classes in elementary schools where students and teacher actively participate. Teachers work with teaching artists to collaborate on a plan to integrate dance into the classroom.
Tanner Dance also hosts a summer workshop for teachers, usually in June.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company provides both a workshop and a professional development series for teachers.
Lectures and demonstrations for students are also provided.

DRAMA

Utah Storytelling Festival

The Utah Storytelling Festival website offers lesson plans and tips for integrating story telling into the classroom.
"Storytelling in the Classroom" is a program that not only provides students with free access to a storytelling performance, but also provides teachers with lesson plans, DVDs, and other resources for their professional development.

Utah Shakespeare Festival

Each summer, the Utah Shakespeare Festival hosts a workshop for teachers entitled "Theatre Methods for the Classroom: Elementary."
Participants explore methods of incorporating Shakespeare and theatre arts as powerful inclusions in the curriculum. Tuition charged.

MEDIA ARTS

Spy Hop

All teachers who have students participate in Spy Hop programs receive access to Spy Hop's online teacher resource. This resource provides free, easy-to-use software, prompts for integrating digital media arts into class projects, and instructional sheets for video game programming so that students and teachers can learn the language of coding and design together.
Specific lesson plans developed by Spy Hop's teaching artists can be used by any interested professional for non-commercial uses.

Utah Film Center

The Utah Film Center offers K-12 educators immersive, high-quality professional development experiences in a program called SHIFT. This program supports the integration of the film making process into educational settings.
Workshops and instructional materials provide comprehensive, standards-linked lesson plans to guide educators on how to produce documentaries, public service announcements (PSAs), instructional videos, personal narratives, and other short film projects with their students.

MUSIC

Utah Opera

Music! Words! Opera! During this week-long course, teachers work side-by-side with students in a summer music camp. Together, students and teachers learn about opera traditions and history, create a libretto, and compose music for an original opera they will perform in the Utah Opera Production Studios at the end of the week.
Utah Opera will also help teachers make individual plans for a classroom opera project including the services of a composer (hired by Utah Opera) during the following school year.

Utah Symphony

Teachers who attend Utah Opera performances can earn four re-licensure points by signing in an hour before curtain at Patron Services, attending the Prelude lecture, and then enjoying the performance.
Teachers who attend Utah Symphony performances can earn three relicensure points by signing in an hour before the beginning of Masterwork con-certs at the Youth Guild Coat Check, and attending the preconcert lecture and then enjoying the concert.

Utah Festival Opera

Opera by Children is a professional development program that provides training for teachers and in-class mentoring to help the teacher lead their students in creating original operas.
Utah Festival Opera also offers art workshops. These are "Ginormous" teacher paint parties where mural sized art is created in the training by participants as they learn how to conduct a paint session with their students.

VISUAL ARTS

Springville Museum of Arts

Evenings for Educators, sponsored by the Springville Museum of Art, are held, once or twice a month during the academic year at museums and galleries across the state of Utah.
The evenings feature keynote speakers, hands-on workshops, net-working opportunities, light refreshments and free educational materials designed to help teachers integrate the night's theme into their curriculum.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts offers interactive, hands-on, and art making intensives for teachers. Their services include open houses, Evenings for Educators, and curriculum-based works.

CONFERENCES WITH AN ARTS EDUCATION FOCUS

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The following list of professional conferences for teachers, parents, and administrators provides a sense of the richness of arts education opportunities in Utah. Conferences include developing skills in arts forms, pedagogy, and integration, with focus on deepening participants' understanding the importance of arts in education.

ARTS AND ARTS INTEGRATION

Mountain West Arts Conference, Utah Division of Arts and Museums (May)
Arts Express, BYU ARTS Partnership (June)
Utah Inclusive Arts Festival, (Fall and Spring). Conference focuses on all four art forms and special education students

Arts Engage Saturday Workshops, Utah Valley University
Arts Fusion, Southern Utah University (July)
Americans for the Arts Annual Convention (June)

DANCE

UDEO Fall Conference (October). The Utah Dance Education Organization hosts a Saturday professional development conference for dance educators and elementary school teachers interested in incorporating dance into their classroom.

NDEO Annual National Conference (October). The National Dance Education Organization hosts a three-day conference for educators interested in dance education.
daCi Utah Day of Dance (October). A multi-generational and multi-cultural community dance event that provides teachers with training in cultural art forms and the creative process.

DRAMA

UDEO Fall Conference (October). The Utah Dance Education Organization hosts a Saturday professional development conference for dance educators and elementary school teachers interested in incorporating dance into their classroom.

UTAC Annual Conference (January). The Utah Theatre Association (UTAC) holds an annual three-day conference each year for a few days in January.

MEDIA ARTS

NAMLE Annual Conference (June). The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAM-LE) hosts an annual conference for teachers seeking professional development in media arts.

MUSIC

Orff Schulwerk in the Mountains Workshop (June). A ten-day workshop for teachers leading to certification in Orff-Schulwerk Methods of music education.
UMTA State Conference (Oct/Nov). The Utah Music Teachers Association (UMTA) hosts a two-day conference for teachers interested in integrating music into their classroom.
NAfME National Conference (Oct/Nov). This three-day conference provides parents, teachers, and administrators, and parents with professional resources that promote music education.

UMEA Midwinter Conference (Feb). The Utah Music Educators Association (UMEA) hosts a conference for two days in February for teachers.
MTNA Annual National Conference (March). Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) also hosts an annual conference for teachers.
InterMuse Academy (June). A two-week workshop hosted by Brigham Young University leading to Kodaly certification, a powerful and distinctive pedagogy for music education.

VISUAL ARTS

UAEA Fall Conference (Fall and Spring). Utah Art Education Association meets for a fall conference and spring conference each year.
NAEA Annual National Convention (March). This three-day event is the worldâs largest art education convention. Its express aim is to improve visual arts instruction in Americaâs schools.

State Wide Arts Partnership Evenings for Educators. Find a professional development workshop in visual arts at museums across the state of Utah at various times throughout the year.

LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

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IN-SCHOOL ARTS EXPERIENCES

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DANCE

TRADITIONZ

Traditionz is a folk-dance performance outreach program that provides entertaining cultural education through dance assemblies at local Utah schools during the month of May. Assemblies last approximately 45 minutes.

traditionz@byu.edu
Contact Vickie Austin: 801-422 - 4283

KIDS IN MOTION TWO-WEEK RESIDENCY*

Ririe-Woodbury dancers visit your school for two weeks. This in-depth residency includes an interactive performance demonstration, creative movement classes and a peer-to-peer performance at the end of the residency. A parent/child night and teacher workshop are offered as well as an invitation for the school children to attend a free matinee at the Capitol Theatre.

education@ririewoodbury.com
801-297-4241

DANCE IS FOR EVERYBODY*

Ririe-Woodbury dancers visit your school and present a lecture demonstration in your gym, auditorium, or cafeteria.

education@ririewoodbury.com
801-297-4241

TEACHER WORKSHOPS & LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS*

Childrenâs Dance Theatre offers free lecture demonstrations, with 40 students and two live musicians.

tannerdance@utah.edu
801-581-7374

RDT MOVEMENT CLASSES & LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS*

Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) dancers will come to your school to perform for the whole school and/or teach movement classes in specific grade-level classrooms.

rdt@rdtutah.org
801-534-1000

KINNECT DANCE COMPANY

BYU students in Kinnect Dance Company create, perform, and teach dance to students in grades K-6. They present engaging assemblies and creative dance workshops in elementary schools and other community settings.

byukinnectdance@byu.edu.

BALLET WEST FOR CHILDREN*

A small touring group from Ballet West will per-form at your school or bring your students to a free school matinee at the Capitol Theatre.

801-869-6934

MEDIA ARTS

REAL TO REEL*

This free interactive classroom presentation for grades 4-8 that focuses on media literacy skills and shows students the power of voice and artistic expression in documentary film.

Lmeans@utahfilmcenter.org
801-746-7000

VIDEO GAME DESIGN*

Spy Hop offers free workshops that introduce students to coding and programming languages while going through the steps of developing a video game.

info@spyhop.org
801-532-7500

MUSIC

OPERA BY CHILDREN*

Students and teachers can create their own original operas in their classrooms in this program offered by Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre.

opera@ufomt.org
435-750-0300 ext. 118

WHO WANTS TO BE AN OPERA STAR?*

This assembly, provided by artists at Utah Opera, introduces students to the world of opera by stag-ing a wonderfully comedic - and content rich - television game show.

pfowler@usuo.org
801-869-9090

SYMPHONY FOR THE SCHOOLS*

A full orchestra (40-45 musicians) will come to your school or use one of your high school theatres to bring together several schools in your district to experience the Utah Symphony.

bhawkins@usuo.org
801-869-9090

THEATRE

STORYTELLING PROGRAMS*

Students may enjoy a performance by professional storytellers in your school or as part of a visit to the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival

Story.timpfest@gmail.com
801-228-1350

BYU YOUNG COMPANY

The Young Company tours a production to Utah schools each semester. The troupe of 10 BYU students typically performs for 35-40 schools, bringing plays to tens of thousands of students every year.

rebecawallin@yahoo.com
801-229-1073

UVU NOORDA YOUTH THEATRE

The Noorda Theatre Center for Children and Youth supports university productions for young audiences, facilitates conferences and special events, operates a summer camp for youth, and develops new scripts for young people..The Center produces fall and spring touring shows that are performed in schools in Utah Valley and beyond. The Center also schedules school matinee performances of many of UVU's main season shows.

noordacenter@uvu.edu
801-863-5437

VISUAL ART

ART TALKS*

Outreach educators from the Springville Museum of Art will come to your school to provide interactive classes for students, train teachers, and contribute materials for classroom use.

SMAOutreach@springville.org
801-489-2727

MUSEUM IN THE CLASSROOM*

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts inspires creativity, curiosity and critical thinking with authentic art objects, hands-on experiences, and art-making activities delivered to your classrooms.

annie.burbidge.ream@umfa.utah.edu
801-581-7332

TRAVELING MUSEUM PROJECT*

Temporary exhibitions of authentic art objects from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts education collection are delivered to schools throughout Utah. Each exhibition is accompanied by art-based, in-class presentations and professional development work-shops. This object-centered approach explores the role art plays in people's lives across the globe. The program develops visual literacy, fosters independent learning, and cultivates critical thinking, creativity, and curiosity.

annie.burbidge.ream@umfa.utah.edu
801-581-7332

BOOK ARTS TREASURE CHEST

The Book Arts Treasure Chest takes book arts, a cross-curricular learning tool, directly into Utah classrooms. Treasure Chest teachers present a lesson on the history of books, using rare books and facsimiles as examples that students view and handle, then guide the students in making a book that relates to their current curriculum.

k12bookarts@utah.edu.

*FREE SERVICE

ARTS FIELD TRIP OPPORTUNITIES

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IN-THEATRE MATINEES

Ballet West provides students with the opportunity to attend an actual ballet performance at the newly renovated Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre. This hour-long program begins with an educational introduction and is followed by a portion of the repertoire currently being performed for the general public.

EDUCATION@BALLETWEST.org
801-869-6911

FIFTH GRADE CONCERTS*

This special series is presented at Maurice Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. All fifth grade classrooms within busing distance are invited to attend. In addition to receiving materials for teachers, hundreds of attending schools receive personal visits from Utah Symphony Guild Docents trained by our Education Department to present core concepts and an introduction to orchestral mu-sic. Concerts are 45-50 minutes in duration. Schools may sign up through our on-line open enrollment each year. Open enrollment is usually available by late September.

www.usuoeducation.org

UTAH SYMPHONY & UTAH OPERA OPEN REHEARSALS

Attendance is free but space is limited.
See www.usuoeducation.org for rehearsal dates.

Contact Beverly Hawkins: 801-869-9092

PRODUCTION STUDIO & CAPITOL THEATRE TOURS*

Teachers and their classes are invited to tour the performance venue and/or production studios. During the tours, students see the costume shop at work, the set and costume storage areas, and the rehearsal hall - where all the work happens before a performance.

kjohnson@usuo.org
801-869-9079

ANNUAL CONCERT FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES

The concert features Opera Resident Artists with the Utah Opera and Utah Symphony on the Capitol Theatre Stage in a special concert where everyone understands the expected behaviors of these young people.

Interested school groups can register online.
www.usuoeducation.org/specialneeds

TIMPANOGOS STORY TELLING FESTIVAL

Your students can attend a performance at the Timpanogos
Story Telling Festival in September for free.

To register visit www.timpfest.org.

BYU ARTS MATINEES

BYU provides opportunities for elementary and secondary students to attend matinee performances in several professional theaters on the BYU campus. These performances last approximately one hour and showcase a variety of art forms including dance, theatre, and music, as performed by BYU students and faculty and visiting artists. Tickets to all school matinees cost $4 each.

artsassist@byu.edu
801-422-5632

BYU MUSEUM OF ART*

The BYU Museum of Art provides engaging opportunities for elementary students to visit the museum. Tours and activities can be scheduled to accommodate school curriculum focuses.

Contact Krisanne Hastings:
krisanne_hastings@byu.edu