2009 Conference

South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education


	...to advance learning in and through the arts for all students.
	SOUTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION

Seeing is Believing!

"The SCAAE has learned from the Kennedy Center how important it is to provide teachers with a variety of training formats. So this year's conference will include one of the most effective new trends- demonstration lessons with students, led by master teaching artists ."

~Ellen Westkaemper
SCAAE Chair-Elect

Arts Integration in Action!

Come take part in SCAAE’s 2009 conference Arts Integration in Action! Take the opportunity to reserve a place for yourself in popular sessions when you register for the conference (see below for further information) .

Featured National
Arts Education Consultants

Date: 9/24-25/2009

Place: Hyatt Regency

Greenville, SC

conference schedule, fees & hotel information

!!Deadline for conference room reservations extended to Sept 10!!

SEAN LAYNE, founder of the national arts education consulting company Focus 5 Inc, presents professional development workshops for teachers and teaching artists nationwide for The Kennedy Center. He is also an Arts Coach for the Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program. Layne also worked with the Wolf Trap Institute Early Learning Through the Arts program in 1989. As a Master Artist, he represented Wolf Trap across the country and internationally, and has designed and piloted new residency 39 and workshop models for the Institute.

Conference Highlights

Thursday, September 24

·          24 varied sessions presented by educators from across S.C.

·          Sean Layne, “Defining Arts Integration” and “Acting Right: Drama as a Classroom Management Strategy”

·          Melanie Layne, “Telling our Story through Documentation,” and “Looking the Write Way: Analyzing Art as a Catalyst for Writing”

·          SCAC Artist Booking Hall

·          Past-Chairs Reception & Banquet

Friday, September 25

·          22 varied sessions presented by educators and teaching artists

·          Sean Layne, “Acting Right, Part II, including student modeling”

·          Melanie Layne, “Museum Field Trip,” including students at the Greenville County Museum of Art

·          Faye Stanley, “Multicultural Music I the Classroom” and more

The SCAAE thanks the Peace Center for its generous support.

Melanie Layne is an Arts Integration Specialist at Baileys Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Fairfax County, Virginia and Program Manager for the Changing Education Through the Arts Program at The Kennedy Center. As a Resource teacher, she brings arts integration strategies (drama, dance, music, visual arts and writing) into the K-5 classrooms. She has over ten years of experience integrating the arts with general education, special education and English Second Language Learners in elementary and middle school classrooms.

FAYE STANLEY is a music therapist and music educator who has worked in treatment programs as well as performing theatrical and popular music on a national basis. Traditional music, stories, and singing games are the core of Fay's work. Students participate in activities that involve patterns, nature study, ecology, foreign language, math, and language arts as they joyfully experience world arts that integrate into their classroom curriculum.

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