Archived SY22-23 Team Leader Summits
Team Leader Summit #3
Week of February 13th, 2023 | Virtual | 8:30-4:30
Essential Question:
What facilitation decisions do we make when we prioritize depth of learning & the Inner Core?
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Team Leader Summit #2
Thursday December 1st & Friday December 2nd | Virtual | 8:30-4:30
Session Objectives:
How is a unit designed when we prioritize depth of learning and the Inner Core?
- How do the tasks within a unit support the depth of learning of the target standards(s)? How does the progression of those tasks promote learning acceleration? What curricular or instructional decisions can we make about task progression to best meet the needs of our students?
- How does your practice shift support a strong unit design and a student experience that reflects the CPS Instructional Core? How will you refine it with additional student perspective data tools?
Team Leader Summit #1
Tuesday September 13th – Friday September 16th | Virtual | 8:30-4:30
Session Objectives:
How will we ensure the student experience is reflective of the CPS Instructional Core?
- Explore what quality standards alignment looks like in the arts.
- Strengthen our understanding and decisions through student perspective data
- Identify needed shifts and arts practices that can help us ensure the student experience is reflective of the CPS Instructional Core
Archived Arts Intensive Resources
Arts Intensives: School Year 2021-22
SY22 Arts Intensive #1: Cultivating Identity, Relationships and Community
Thursday, August 26, 2021 | Virtual | 9:00am-1:00pm
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Friday, August 27, 2021 | Virtual | 9:00am-1:00pm
Deepen your understanding of the district-wide CPS Instructional Core Vision via learning anchored in the CPS Instructional Priorities and how to activate them in the arts classroom. In this intensive session, you’ll engage in interactive arts learning in specific disciplines and grade bands, collaborate with peers to apply and reflect on demonstrated strategies, and acquire useful tools, techniques, and resources that can be immediately implemented in arts classrooms to help you cultivate identity, relationships and community in your classrooms.
Download slides and handouts from SY22 Arts Intensive #1 here.
SY22 Arts Intensive #2: Reimagining Assessment
Friday, November 5, 2021 | Virtual | 12:00pm-3:00pm
Continue to deepen your understanding of the district-wide CPS Instructional Core Vision via learning anchored in the CPS Instructional Priorities and how to activate them in the arts classroom. In this intensive session, you’ll engage in interactive arts learning in specific disciplines , collaborate with peers to apply and reflect on demonstrated strategies, and acquire useful tools, techniques, and resources that can be immediately implement in arts classrooms to help create culturally responsive assessments in your classrooms.
Download slides and handouts from SY22 Arts Intensive #2 here.
SY22 Arts Intensive #3: Reimagining Content
Friday, January 28th, 2022 | Virtual | 12:00pm-3:00pm
Deepen your understanding of the district-wide CPS Instructional Core Vision via learning anchored in the CPS Instructional Priorities and how to activate them in the arts classroom. In this intensive session, you’ll engage in interactive arts learning in specific disciplines and collaborate with colleagues to reflect on demonstrated strategies. Come away with valuable tools, approaches, and resources that can be applied immediately in arts classrooms to help develop culturally responsive content in your classrooms.
Arts Intensives: School Year 2020-21
SY21 Arts Intensive #1: Responsive & Relevant Remote Instruction
November 6, 2020 | Virtual | 9:00am-12:00pm
Continuing the learning that began with the summer’s Instructional Priorities series, this Intensive supported arts teachers in designing relevant remote instruction and assessment that not only uncovers where students are in their learning, but who they are and how they learn best. (Note: This Intensive was also Module 11 in the SY21 CPS Instructional Priorities Learning series. Requires CPS login to access materials.)
Download slides and handouts from SY21 Arts Intensive #1 (Module 11) for Elementary or High School.
SY21 Arts Intensive #2: Assessment Practices for Deep Student Engagement
Recorded session released April 2021
Continuing the learning from previous Instructional Priorities modules and our January 2020 session with Professor Heidi Andrade on student-centered assessment, this Intensive explored how clear, collaborative assessment practices can impact student engagement and motivation and lead to accelerated learning. (Note: This Arts Intensive was also Module 13 in the CPS SY21 Instructional Priorities Learning series. Requires CPS login to access materials.)
Download all slides and handouts from SY21 Arts Intensive #2 (Module 13).
Arts Intensives: School Year 2019-20
SY20 Arts Intensive #1: Developing Students’ Artistic Identities
August 28 and 30, 2019 | Chicago Cultural Center | 8:30am–3:30pm
“I’m bad at art.” “Why do I have to dance?” “I can’t read music.” How do we nurture students who are reluctant to engage in the arts? How can we create learner-centered classroom environments where all our students feel like successful artists? At this session, participants:
- explored potential barriers to student learning in the arts, and key strategies to overcome those barriers
- engaged in collaborative creation of lessons and activities that help students (and teachers) develop positive disciplinary identities
- acquired tools and techniques that would encourage students to see themselves as capable and competent thinkers, learners, and makers of art
Download all slides and handouts from SY20 Arts Intensive #1.
SY20 Arts Intensive #2: Designing Student-Centered Curriculum
November 8, 2019 | Chicago Cultural Center | 8:30am–12:30pm
How can we better integrate our students’ interests, ideas, and needs when we develop arts curriculum? When and where can we encourage them to take the wheel and drive their own learning (without sacrificing depth or discipline)? At this session, participants:
- explored ways to activate and increase student voice and choice in their arts curriculum
- understood the design-thinking process and how it can be used to engage and empower students
- used a design thinking model to research and prototype tools and/or techniques that would help students develop into more independent, motivated learners, thinkers, and makers
Download all slides and handouts from SY20 Arts Intensive #2.
SY20 Arts Intensive #3: Creating Student-Driven Formative Assessments
January 31, 2020 | Chicago Cultural Center | 8:30am–3:30pm
What happens when students own the assessment process? How does this help them work and think like real artists? At this Intensive, participants explored powerful, student-driven formative assessment techniques—including co-creation of assessment criteria, peer feedback, and self-assessment—to amplify students’ voices and give them more ownership over (and confidence in) their artistic process.
Professor Heidi L. Andrade from the University at Albany-SUNY, an expert in formative assessment and self-regulated learning, led this full-day session along with NYC arts teachers Angela Fremont (visual arts) and Ron Sopyla (theatre).
Download all slides and handouts from SY20 Arts Intensive #3.