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From: Darci Tucker [mailto:darci@americanlives.net]
Hello, my friends!
It’s that time of year, and attached you will find the latest information about my programs. I’ll be in CA for several months in the spring, and the attached form has specifics about when I’ll be in each area. I’ve already got a number of bookings, and in past years I haven’t been able to accommodate everyone, so if you’re interested, jump quickly!
If you are interested in having me visit, please fill out the attached form and email or snail mail it back to me by October 10. If you have already contacted me, please go ahead and fill out the attached form so that I’ll know what dates are good/bad for you.
While “Revolutionary Women” is my standard program, I have others in which you may be interested, so please check my website: www.americanlives.net.
ALSO: I may have the opportunity to do some electronic outreach this fall, portraying characters other than those in “Revolutionary Women,” and perhaps doing storytelling and/or teacher workshops. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll send you more information.
Thanks, and I hope to see you soon!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
New Issue of History Now: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era
From: Gilder Lehrman Institute [mailto:gli@gilderlehrman.org]
Issue 17, September 2008: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era
The Institute is pleased to present the seventeenth issue of History Now, a quarterly online journal for history teachers and students, available at www.historynow.org.
In this issue of History Now, leading scholars of Theodore Roosevelt and of the Progressive Era offer new insights into the man, his philosophy, and his political achievements. From hunter to teddy bear, from trust-buster to champion of capitalism, from Republican president to Bull Moose challenger, T.R. remains controversial, contradictory, and above all, larger than life. Our contributors suggest the rich possibilities for exploring the man and the era in the classroom.
Issue 17, September 2008: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era
The Institute is pleased to present the seventeenth issue of History Now, a quarterly online journal for history teachers and students, available at www.historynow.org.
In this issue of History Now, leading scholars of Theodore Roosevelt and of the Progressive Era offer new insights into the man, his philosophy, and his political achievements. From hunter to teddy bear, from trust-buster to champion of capitalism, from Republican president to Bull Moose challenger, T.R. remains controversial, contradictory, and above all, larger than life. Our contributors suggest the rich possibilities for exploring the man and the era in the classroom.
ORIAS Update 9-23-08
From: ORIAS [mailto:orias@berkeley.edu]
ORIAS UPDATE 9-23-08
(Print view at http://orias.berkeley.edu/oriasnews.html)
IN THIS UPDATE:
1. Exhibit and programs at Hearst museum: Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala opening September 25.
2. Service learning: San Francisco’s Blue Planet Run Foundation
3. Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008
4. On-line Resource: African Access and Africana Book Awards
ON CAMPUS
Exhibit and programs: Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala
Where: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley – Kroeber Hall on campus at Bancroft and College Avenues.
Hours: Opening September 25 - Wednesday to Saturday 10:00am - 4:30pm Sunday 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The exhibit explores weaving and artistry in Guatemala. Opening to the public on September 25, 2008, the spectacular works in this exhibit offer visitors a unique look into Maya culture through textiles collected over a hundred year period. Film footage by videographer Kathleen Mossman Vitale of Endangered Threads Documentaries is featured in the exhibition as well as photography by renowned documentarian, Jeffery Foxx.
Curated by Margot Blum Schevill, Traje de la Vida explores the story of the Maya from the highlands of Guatemala. Through their weaving, they tell a narrative of culture, personal identity and of social and political transformation, with themes illustrating the resilience of the Maya people and the ability to tell their stories.
Through this exhibition, we hope to offer visitors a unique look into Maya culture, both traditional and contemporary. Rich colors and textures fill the galleries as visitors are treated to a visual cornucopia. Engaging hands-on activities for all ages and are interspersed throughout the exhibition. Learn to weave on a loom, or try on a colorful huipil and pantalones.
The Hearst will host a year of Guatemalan educational programs including weaving demonstrations, family days, film nights, and dynamic lectures, and kick off with our exhibition opening event, scheduled for the evening of September 25, 2008.
Information on programs associated with the exhibit at
Information on school visits at: http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/outreach/schoolvisits.html
Contact: Akiko Minaga, Museum Educator minaga@berkeley.edu| 510-643-7649
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS:
A service learning opportunity combining science, human rights, and international studies: Blue Planet Run Foundation
San Francisco’s Blue Planet Run Foundation is dedicated to creating global awareness of the safe drinking water crisis worldwide. They have a number of youth programs including a “school action kit” and a hip-hop video online at <http://blueplanetrun.org/youthboard>. Currently, they are sponsoring a 30-Mile Challenge (30 miles in 30 days run, walk, or cycle) to build wells for bringing safe water to 1200 students in Tanzania. Local students are encouraged to participate and can find out more at http://blueplanetrun.org/30-mile.
Contact: Sabrina Walasek
Program Director
Blue Planet Run Foundation
500 Sansome Street, Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.blueplanetrun.org
415-762-4345
Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008
This free exhibit, co-sponsored in SF by World Savvy, is made up of materials used by Doctors Without Borders in its medical work around the world. Guided by aid workers, students will explore real shelters; see how food is distributed; taste the high-energy biscuits distributed to combat malnutrition; understand basic health care and epidemic control in emergency settings, and more. For more information on our 2008 California tour to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego, and to find some resources to use with your class, click here:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/education/refugeecamp/home. School groups are encouraged to attend! Sign up now to bring your class in October 2008, go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/109549666.
Note: A great curriculum companion piece for this exhibit is available online at the Exploring Human Rights virtual classroom from the ICRC - module 5B
http://www.ehl.icrc.org/images/stories/explorations_pdfs/5_comp.pdf
RESOURCES
Africa Access – was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collection on Africa.
http://www.africaaccessreview.org/aar/research.html
In addition to reviews and activities you can find this year’s winners of the Africana awards including this “Best books for Older Readers” awardee:
Aya
Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie (illus.)
(Drawn & Quarterly, 2007)
The graphic novel Aya tells the story of its 19-year old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City, a suburb of Abidjan in Ivory Coast. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see-spirited, hopeful and resilient.
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971. At the age of 12, she was sent with her older brother to study in France under the care of a great uncle. She now lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris, where she works as a legal assistant and writes novels she has yet to show to publishers. Aya is her first comic. It taps into Abouet's childhood memories of Ivory Coast in the 1970s, a prosperous, promising time in that country's history.
Clement Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. After a stint in art school he spent two years in the United States doing a variety of odd jobs, publishing his first children's books and serving jail time in New Mexico for working without papers. Back in France, he went on to a prolific career in illustration. With over 40 children's books to his credit, he is also co-founder of the 3-D animation studio, Station OMD. A drummer in a funk band in his spare time, he still travels frequently, especially to Ivory Coast. In Aya, his first comic, Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Abouet's vibrant writing.
__________________________________________________
Michele Delattre, Program Representative
University of California Berkeley
ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies
2223 Fulton Street Room 338 #2324
Berkeley CA 94720-2324 orias@berkeley.edu 510-643-0868 http://orias.berkeley.edu
ORIAS UPDATE 9-23-08
(Print view at http://orias.berkeley.edu/oriasnews.html)
IN THIS UPDATE:
1. Exhibit and programs at Hearst museum: Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala opening September 25.
2. Service learning: San Francisco’s Blue Planet Run Foundation
3. Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008
4. On-line Resource: African Access and Africana Book Awards
ON CAMPUS
Exhibit and programs: Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala
Where: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley – Kroeber Hall on campus at Bancroft and College Avenues.
Hours: Opening September 25 - Wednesday to Saturday 10:00am - 4:30pm Sunday 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The exhibit explores weaving and artistry in Guatemala. Opening to the public on September 25, 2008, the spectacular works in this exhibit offer visitors a unique look into Maya culture through textiles collected over a hundred year period. Film footage by videographer Kathleen Mossman Vitale of Endangered Threads Documentaries is featured in the exhibition as well as photography by renowned documentarian, Jeffery Foxx.
Curated by Margot Blum Schevill, Traje de la Vida explores the story of the Maya from the highlands of Guatemala. Through their weaving, they tell a narrative of culture, personal identity and of social and political transformation, with themes illustrating the resilience of the Maya people and the ability to tell their stories.
Through this exhibition, we hope to offer visitors a unique look into Maya culture, both traditional and contemporary. Rich colors and textures fill the galleries as visitors are treated to a visual cornucopia. Engaging hands-on activities for all ages and are interspersed throughout the exhibition. Learn to weave on a loom, or try on a colorful huipil and pantalones.
The Hearst will host a year of Guatemalan educational programs including weaving demonstrations, family days, film nights, and dynamic lectures, and kick off with our exhibition opening event, scheduled for the evening of September 25, 2008.
Information on programs associated with the exhibit at
Information on school visits at: http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/outreach/schoolvisits.html
Contact: Akiko Minaga, Museum Educator minaga@berkeley.edu| 510-643-7649
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS:
A service learning opportunity combining science, human rights, and international studies: Blue Planet Run Foundation
San Francisco’s Blue Planet Run Foundation is dedicated to creating global awareness of the safe drinking water crisis worldwide. They have a number of youth programs including a “school action kit” and a hip-hop video online at <http://blueplanetrun.org/youthboard>. Currently, they are sponsoring a 30-Mile Challenge (30 miles in 30 days run, walk, or cycle) to build wells for bringing safe water to 1200 students in Tanzania. Local students are encouraged to participate and can find out more at http://blueplanetrun.org/30-mile.
Contact: Sabrina Walasek
Program Director
Blue Planet Run Foundation
500 Sansome Street, Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.blueplanetrun.org
415-762-4345
Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008
This free exhibit, co-sponsored in SF by World Savvy, is made up of materials used by Doctors Without Borders in its medical work around the world. Guided by aid workers, students will explore real shelters; see how food is distributed; taste the high-energy biscuits distributed to combat malnutrition; understand basic health care and epidemic control in emergency settings, and more. For more information on our 2008 California tour to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego, and to find some resources to use with your class, click here:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/education/refugeecamp/home. School groups are encouraged to attend! Sign up now to bring your class in October 2008, go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/109549666.
Note: A great curriculum companion piece for this exhibit is available online at the Exploring Human Rights virtual classroom from the ICRC - module 5B
http://www.ehl.icrc.org/images/stories/explorations_pdfs/5_comp.pdf
RESOURCES
Africa Access – was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collection on Africa.
http://www.africaaccessreview.org/aar/research.html
In addition to reviews and activities you can find this year’s winners of the Africana awards including this “Best books for Older Readers” awardee:
Aya
Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie (illus.)
(Drawn & Quarterly, 2007)
The graphic novel Aya tells the story of its 19-year old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City, a suburb of Abidjan in Ivory Coast. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see-spirited, hopeful and resilient.
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971. At the age of 12, she was sent with her older brother to study in France under the care of a great uncle. She now lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris, where she works as a legal assistant and writes novels she has yet to show to publishers. Aya is her first comic. It taps into Abouet's childhood memories of Ivory Coast in the 1970s, a prosperous, promising time in that country's history.
Clement Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. After a stint in art school he spent two years in the United States doing a variety of odd jobs, publishing his first children's books and serving jail time in New Mexico for working without papers. Back in France, he went on to a prolific career in illustration. With over 40 children's books to his credit, he is also co-founder of the 3-D animation studio, Station OMD. A drummer in a funk band in his spare time, he still travels frequently, especially to Ivory Coast. In Aya, his first comic, Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Abouet's vibrant writing.
__________________________________________________
Michele Delattre, Program Representative
University of California Berkeley
ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies
2223 Fulton Street Room 338 #2324
Berkeley CA 94720-2324 orias@berkeley.edu 510-643-0868 http://orias.berkeley.edu
A World Trade Simulation for High School Students
From: Amy.Ferraz@sf.frb.org
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF), I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the International Economic Summit (IES) program. The IES is a world trade simulation for high school students that teaches fundamental economic concepts within the context of international trade. The program challenges high school students to think critically about the costs and benefits of trade while exploring the concept of globalization.
The IES program is a standards-based instructional unit that includes 13 individual lesson plans. The program is flexible in terms of classroom implementation, flowing into an existing course of study or as a stand-alone unit. By utilizing an experience-basedlearning model, it provides students with a solid foundation in economic fundamentals and incorporates a method for active-learning that is fun as well as challenging.
Over the course of the curriculum, students form teams, adopt a country, and take on the role of Economic Advisor. Each team conducts extensive research on “their” country in order to generate a strategic plan to improve living standards. The culminating activity is a six-hour, real time global trade simulation where student teams implement their strategic improvement plans in the simulated global marketplace.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco recently acquired the non-exclusive rights to deliver the IES program throughout a nine western state region. As a result the FRBSF provides, at no charge,the following materials and services to teachers and their schools:
● IES Teacher Training
● Mini Summit Kit for running a classroom simulation
● Teacher Handbooks that include lesson plans and curriculum information
● Mini Summit and Regional Event implementation support
● Classroom set of student workbooks called Players’ Guides
● An interactive website with curriculum materials and information
As you can see, the program has a great deal to offer both teachers and students, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is excited to introduce the IES throughout the 12th District. You may also be interested in this story that aired on a local ABC affiliate after a Regional Summit Event we hosted recently in San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/education/teachers/ies/events.cfm
We would like to invite teachers to our upcoming professional development training on November 3-4, 2008 to learn more about implementing this exciting program. I have attached an informational brochure as well our registration form with our 2008-2009 schedule.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions.
Best regards,
Amy Ferraz
_______________________________________________
Amy Ferraz
Economic Education Analyst
District Public Information
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street, Mail Stop 640
San Francisco, CA 94105
(ph) 415.974.2853 * (cell) 415.850.1104 * (fax) 415.977.4180
amy.ferraz@sf.frb.org
www.frbsf.org/education
www.FederalReserveEducation.org
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF), I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the International Economic Summit (IES) program. The IES is a world trade simulation for high school students that teaches fundamental economic concepts within the context of international trade. The program challenges high school students to think critically about the costs and benefits of trade while exploring the concept of globalization.
The IES program is a standards-based instructional unit that includes 13 individual lesson plans. The program is flexible in terms of classroom implementation, flowing into an existing course of study or as a stand-alone unit. By utilizing an experience-basedlearning model, it provides students with a solid foundation in economic fundamentals and incorporates a method for active-learning that is fun as well as challenging.
Over the course of the curriculum, students form teams, adopt a country, and take on the role of Economic Advisor. Each team conducts extensive research on “their” country in order to generate a strategic plan to improve living standards. The culminating activity is a six-hour, real time global trade simulation where student teams implement their strategic improvement plans in the simulated global marketplace.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco recently acquired the non-exclusive rights to deliver the IES program throughout a nine western state region. As a result the FRBSF provides, at no charge,the following materials and services to teachers and their schools:
● IES Teacher Training
● Mini Summit Kit for running a classroom simulation
● Teacher Handbooks that include lesson plans and curriculum information
● Mini Summit and Regional Event implementation support
● Classroom set of student workbooks called Players’ Guides
● An interactive website with curriculum materials and information
As you can see, the program has a great deal to offer both teachers and students, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is excited to introduce the IES throughout the 12th District. You may also be interested in this story that aired on a local ABC affiliate after a Regional Summit Event we hosted recently in San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/education/teachers/ies/events.cfm
We would like to invite teachers to our upcoming professional development training on November 3-4, 2008 to learn more about implementing this exciting program. I have attached an informational brochure as well our registration form with our 2008-2009 schedule.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions.
Best regards,
Amy Ferraz
_______________________________________________
Amy Ferraz
Economic Education Analyst
District Public Information
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street, Mail Stop 640
San Francisco, CA 94105
(ph) 415.974.2853 * (cell) 415.850.1104 * (fax) 415.977.4180
amy.ferraz@sf.frb.org
www.frbsf.org/education
www.FederalReserveEducation.org
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Friday, October 3, 2008
History Project: Saturday Seminars for History Teachers
From: Pamela Tindall [mailto:ptindall@ucdavis.edu]
Dear Friends of the History Project at UCD,
Our Saturday Seminars are back by popular demand!
Join us on October 11 for “Local History, American History,” the first in this year’s series. Historian Louis Warren and three practicing teachers will explore local connections to the national narrative. The content of Dr. Warren’s talk and the model lessons will be particularly useful for 4th, 5th, and 8th-grade teachers and of interest for all other history lovers and teachers.
Dates & Details
Where: Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K Street in Sacramento
When: Saturday, October 11, 2008. Registration, continental breakfast, and networking from 8:30-9:00 am; Lessons to noon
Tuition:$45 for this workshop alone; $250 to attend all 6 seminars.
Click here to view the flier or here to register for this event.
Please forward this to your friends and colleagues. Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Pam
Pamela Tindall, Director
The History Project at UC Davis
One Shields Avenue, 653 Kerr Hall, Davis, CA 95616
phone: 530.752.4286 mobile: 916.837.9781
Dear Friends of the History Project at UCD,
Our Saturday Seminars are back by popular demand!
Join us on October 11 for “Local History, American History,” the first in this year’s series. Historian Louis Warren and three practicing teachers will explore local connections to the national narrative. The content of Dr. Warren’s talk and the model lessons will be particularly useful for 4th, 5th, and 8th-grade teachers and of interest for all other history lovers and teachers.
Dates & Details
Where: Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K Street in Sacramento
When: Saturday, October 11, 2008. Registration, continental breakfast, and networking from 8:30-9:00 am; Lessons to noon
Tuition:$45 for this workshop alone; $250 to attend all 6 seminars.
Click here to view the flier or here to register for this event.
Please forward this to your friends and colleagues. Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Pam
Pamela Tindall, Director
The History Project at UC Davis
One Shields Avenue, 653 Kerr Hall, Davis, CA 95616
phone: 530.752.4286 mobile: 916.837.9781
Holocaust Center Student Volunteer Program
The Next Chapter
The Next Chapter is a volunteer program for 11th and 12th grade students who want to learn more about the Holocaust. Teen volunteers are matched with Holocaust survivors who they will interview and record their oral histories. Also, the teens will work with research partners at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland to try to determine what happened to each survivor’s family, community, and town after the war.
Students will meet once a week at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco to learn about the history of the Holocaust, conduct research, and complete the oral history essays. The program will run from November through May.
Students will receive community service credit for their participation.
For an application and more information please contact:
Taylor Epstein
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
TaylorE@jfcs.org
415-359-2463
To download a flyer click here
The Next Chapter Project is a partnership of JFCS and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, in cooperation with Congregation Emanu-El and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.
Quick Links:
HCNC Website
HCNC Events
Donate to HCNC
Upcoming Events
Fall Film and Lecture Series
October 30
Film Screening:
Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story
Q&A with Louis de Groot
November 20
Melanie Saxer Johnston,
author of What My Father Saw
December 11
Film Screening:
Watermarks
View our full list of upcoming events here
Ongoing Exhibit
Letters: 1938 - 1946
HCNC's current exhibit
Contact Us
121 Steuart Street
San Francisco, CA
94105
415.777.9060
info@hcnc.org
HCNC is a beneficiary of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
The Next Chapter is a volunteer program for 11th and 12th grade students who want to learn more about the Holocaust. Teen volunteers are matched with Holocaust survivors who they will interview and record their oral histories. Also, the teens will work with research partners at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland to try to determine what happened to each survivor’s family, community, and town after the war.
Students will meet once a week at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco to learn about the history of the Holocaust, conduct research, and complete the oral history essays. The program will run from November through May.
Students will receive community service credit for their participation.
For an application and more information please contact:
Taylor Epstein
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
TaylorE@jfcs.org
415-359-2463
To download a flyer click here
The Next Chapter Project is a partnership of JFCS and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, in cooperation with Congregation Emanu-El and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.
Quick Links:
HCNC Website
HCNC Events
Donate to HCNC
Upcoming Events
Fall Film and Lecture Series
October 30
Film Screening:
Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story
Q&A with Louis de Groot
November 20
Melanie Saxer Johnston,
author of What My Father Saw
December 11
Film Screening:
Watermarks
View our full list of upcoming events here
Ongoing Exhibit
Letters: 1938 - 1946
HCNC's current exhibit
Contact Us
121 Steuart Street
San Francisco, CA
94105
415.777.9060
info@hcnc.org
HCNC is a beneficiary of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
Cal Performances in the Classroom Workshop: Making History Come Alive!
From: Rica Anderson [mailto:ricaa@calperfs.berkeley.edu]
Space is still available. Enroll now!
Having trouble reading this email? Read it online.
www.calperformances.org
Professional Development Workshops for Educators with
Lenore Blank Kelner, Kennedy Center Teaching Artist
Making History Come Alive!
Tue, Oct 14, 3:30-6:30 pm
Longfellow Middle School,1500 Derby Street
Berkeley, $25
Offering strategies for integrating drama into the social
studies/history curriculum, this workshop engages
participants in theater games that teach geography and
role drama, effectively transporting students to other
cultures and time periods. As part of daily instruction,
these dramatic methods are designed to deepen students’
comprehension and spark their interest.
Lenore Blank Kelner, Actress, Director, Author, Educator
Since 1981, Kelner has directed her own educational theater company, Interact Story Theatre which performs in schools, museums, libraries, and theaters all over the United States. The recipient of the 2004 Creative Drama Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Kelner serves as an education consultant to the Maryland State Department of Education and school systems nationwide. She has trained thousands of teachers in how to integrate drama into everyday classroom instruction and has worked with students in all grade levels. She has also written three books on drama and education. Her most recent book, A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension, co-authored with Rosalind Flynn, was published by Heinemann in 2006.
Enroll Now! Online Order Form
For more information about Cal Performances in the Classroom and to register for
workshops, contact Rica Anderson at 510.642.6838 or ricaa@calperfs.berkeley.edu
Presented by Cal Performances and the Berkeley Unified School District as a team of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program.
2008/09 Cal Peformances in the Classroom Workshops
Chinese Acrobatic Artistry
Sat, Nov 1, 10 am-1:00 pm
Jewish Culture Around the World
Tue, Dec 2, 3:30-6:30 pm
The Music of Revelations
Sat, Jan 31, 10 a.m.-1:00 pm
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rica Anderson
Education Programs Administrator
Cal Performances
101 Zellerbach Hall #4800
Berkeley, CA 94720-4800
phone: (510) 642-6838
fax: (510) 643-6707
www.calperformances.net
Space is still available. Enroll now!
Having trouble reading this email? Read it online.
www.calperformances.org
Professional Development Workshops for Educators with
Lenore Blank Kelner, Kennedy Center Teaching Artist
Making History Come Alive!
Tue, Oct 14, 3:30-6:30 pm
Longfellow Middle School,1500 Derby Street
Berkeley, $25
Offering strategies for integrating drama into the social
studies/history curriculum, this workshop engages
participants in theater games that teach geography and
role drama, effectively transporting students to other
cultures and time periods. As part of daily instruction,
these dramatic methods are designed to deepen students’
comprehension and spark their interest.
Lenore Blank Kelner, Actress, Director, Author, Educator
Since 1981, Kelner has directed her own educational theater company, Interact Story Theatre which performs in schools, museums, libraries, and theaters all over the United States. The recipient of the 2004 Creative Drama Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Kelner serves as an education consultant to the Maryland State Department of Education and school systems nationwide. She has trained thousands of teachers in how to integrate drama into everyday classroom instruction and has worked with students in all grade levels. She has also written three books on drama and education. Her most recent book, A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension, co-authored with Rosalind Flynn, was published by Heinemann in 2006.
Enroll Now! Online Order Form
For more information about Cal Performances in the Classroom and to register for
workshops, contact Rica Anderson at 510.642.6838 or ricaa@calperfs.berkeley.edu
Presented by Cal Performances and the Berkeley Unified School District as a team of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program.
2008/09 Cal Peformances in the Classroom Workshops
Chinese Acrobatic Artistry
Sat, Nov 1, 10 am-1:00 pm
Jewish Culture Around the World
Tue, Dec 2, 3:30-6:30 pm
The Music of Revelations
Sat, Jan 31, 10 a.m.-1:00 pm
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rica Anderson
Education Programs Administrator
Cal Performances
101 Zellerbach Hall #4800
Berkeley, CA 94720-4800
phone: (510) 642-6838
fax: (510) 643-6707
www.calperformances.net
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