SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATORS


Teachers & principals: click here
for SUMMER INSTITUTE brochure
See how you can add to your professional development credentials in less than one week this summer!

 

Hawai'i '95 Team


Susana Browne, Education Director, Maui Arts & Cultural Center; Doug Holt, Curriculum Director, Kamehameha Schools Maui; and Linda Holt, Reading Specialist, Pomaika’i School. Not pictured, Bruce Anderson, DOE District Complex Superintendent.


In 1995, Maui Arts & Cultural Center and Department of Education, Maui District, joined the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts program Partners in Education. In 2004, Kamehameha Schools Maui joined the partnership. We are one of 104 teams of performing arts centers and schools in the U.S. that are dedicated to insuring that the arts are a part of every child’s education by providing professional development for teachers and teaching artists.

We look forward to seeing you at workshops, performances, and CanDo! Days. Please email or call if you have any questions about how your school can take advantage of the arts programs available:
susana@mauiarts.org
808- 243-4123

 

 

Arts in Education


Students


CanDo! Days Performances & Exhibits for Students

Teachers


Professional Development

Research


Research Projects Pōmaika‘i Elementary Kihei Elementary Kula Elementary

Arts Education Links

National:
Kennedy Center Arts Edge Arts Education Partnership
Statewide:
Hawai`i Alliance for Arts Education Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

 

What is
ARTS-INTEGRATED
EDUCATION?

Simply put: arts-integrated education uses lesson plans which match up a fine art with another area of study such as:

geometry + 3-D sculpture ...
reading skills + dramatization...
science + illustration ....


There are 'rules of engagement':
• The two content areas should make natural connections
• There must be a clear understanding of how hands-on activities connect to the learning process
• Students should reflect on their learning in both content areas
• Students are assessed in both areas


Arts-integrated education
helps provide important skills for the future citizens and workers
of the 21st century:

• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• Collaboration


Arts Integration...
the great equalizer!
. . . .



 

 



The Maui Arts & Cultural Center and the State Department of Education, Maui District, joined the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ program Partners in Education in May 1995. In 2004, Kamehameha Schools Maui joined the partnership.

Beginning in school year 1995–96, one year after opening our doors, Maui Arts & Cultural Center made a commitment to provide a comprehensive, quality arts education program for Maui county’s students. Art immersion field trips for students, CanDo! Days, teacher workshops, and performances for students are a cornerstone of The MACC’s programs. A whole generation of students and teachers have been influenced by the arts programs available at MACC. Every year, about 18,000 kids and 200 teachers participate in the programs. The Hawai‘i ’95 Partners in Education team has become a national leader in arts education!

Whether you are a veteran of our arts education programs or a newcomer, we welcome you to sign up for workshops, performances, and CanDo! Days. Let us know if your school is interested in becoming an Arts Partner school. You might want to have a visiting artist come to your school, or maybe have an arts integrated workshop at a staff development waiver day. We are here for your educational needs!

Our arts-in-education programs continue to provide:

  • Standards based professional development for teachers and teaching artists,
  • Performances, Celebrating the Artist In Us and CanDo! Days for students, and
  • Research into how the arts impact student learning and teacher practice.

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our new

2008-09 Education Brochure

Welcome to the 13th year of the Hawai’i ’95 Team’s commitment to arts education through The Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program. The 2007-08 school year marked a milestone of success with the opening of the first fully arts integrated public school in Hawai‘i, Pōmaika‘i Elementary in Kahului. With Pōmaika‘i as a “lab school,” the MACC completed the baseline year of research into how an arts integrated curriculum impacts student learning and attitudes of teachers, students, and parents. The results are impressive—and can be implemented in any school!

  • 100% of the teachers reported improvement in student learning through integration of drama strategies in all subjects.
  • The number of teacher professional development hours definitely correlates with effective arts integrated teaching.
  • When a school has a vision that everyone supports, and when that vision is the foundation for all planning, success is not only possible but highly likely.

 

This year’s workshops and performances strongly support the “Big Ideas” that organize the Hawai’i Content and Performance Standards in the fine arts: How the Arts Communicate and How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture. We continue with the third year of emphasis on storytelling as an overarching theme. You will find nearly all the workshops connect to story in one form or another. Bringing Hawaiian and world cultures into the classroom through story, music, dance, drama, and visual arts will help your students connect to their roots and the larger world while they embrace the joy of learning.

 

 

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