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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM SERIES
BayCAP offers a variety of Professional Development Program Series to schools, districts, County Offices of Education and others throughout the year. These series consist of six to ten 2 to 3 hour sessions of professional development focused on a particular topic. These programs are in-depth, are based in adult learning theory, and take place over time (usually over one school year). Our Professional Development Program Series can be custom designed to meet the particular needs of the agency contracting our services. (For instance, we can focus on one arts discipline or on all four during a series). All of our Professional Development series are presented by our highly professional, extremely successful and exemplary BayCAP teachers leaders, who share their own successful classroom practice and experience. The workshops in the series are hands-on, immediately useful for the classroom, and intended for all teachers. All of our series are guided from the field of knowledge of the California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and Standards, as well as The California Standards for the Teaching Profession. Our primary focus is on deepening teachers' academic content knowledge of dance, theatre, music and visual arts, and developing or continuing to develop teachers' skills in utilizing instructional strategies to support student achievement of the arts content standards. All of our programs engage participants in standards based practice, professional reflection, including assessment practices that lead to student achievement. We currently offer the following series:

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS FRAMEWORK AND STANDARDS SERIES:

This series focuses on exploring how meaning is achieved in the four arts disciplines: dance, music, theatre and the visual arts through The California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and The California Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Standards-based practice will be introduced, along with standards-based assessment strategies. Participants will discover how the arts enhance learning and motivate students. They will also share ideas, student work, and reflect on interdisciplinary arts curriculum. A personal record, or portfolio will be created of participants learning during the series.

ARTS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM SERIES:

This series focuses on high quality interdisciplinary connections between the arts disciplines and other curricular areas and is designed for elementary and middle school educators. Practical strategies are presented for linking visual and performing arts standards to other curricular standards using standards-based instructional design. Participants explore the California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and Standards, the balance between process and product in the arts, assessment through multiple measures and analysis of student work, making meaning and developing and expanding comprehension through the arts disciplines. Participants explore how the arts are a means to expand communication and cognition.

MAKING MEANING THROUGH THE ARTS, ARTS AS LITERACY:

This Professional Development Series explores how dance/movement, music, classroom-based theatre and visual arts act as a powerful part of the language arts curriculum. Participants explore the parallel processes of the arts and literacy, while examining the question "What are the shared processes in the arts and in reading and writing that help students make meaning?" If the essence of literacy is meaning making, then how do the art standards and language art standards work together to help students enhance sequencing, prediction, visualization skills, image making, text representation and context? Participants will also explore the definition of literacy in the four art forms and in reading and writing, which will then evolve into an expanded definition of literacy. Participants will create an on-going journal that will include writing, collage, illustration, and stories of classroom translations and applications of the elements of the series in their classroom practice.

STANDARDS AND ASSESSMENT:

This series is designed to deepen understanding of: (1)standards and the basic principles of assessment in the arts; (2) standards based practice in the arts classroom; and (3) assessment and assessment tools used in the arts classroom. Participants will share ideas and reflections on standards based arts education, as well as developing leadership skills in the arts. As with all BayCAP series, this series is based on the California Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts.

SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
BayCAP offers a variety of seminars and workshops. These seminars can be custom designed to fit the needs of the contracting school site or district office. Examples of available workshops/seminars include:

1. Introduction to California State Visual and Performing Arts Standards/Framework

2. Introduction to UC/CSU "F" Requirement

3. Developing District Art Standards using the West Ed Model.

4. Introduction to Assessment methods in the Arts.

5. Standards-based instructional design.

6. Content workshops in any of the four arts disciplines; Theatre, Visual Arts, Dance or Music.

TCAP COLLABORATIVE DESIGN INSTITUTE
The California Arts Project offers a Collaborative Design Institute to outstanding, experienced educators, pre-kindergarten through post- secondary. The Collaborative Design Institute begins in the summer and continues with follow-up sessions throughout the school year.

The purpose of the Institute is to bring together cadres of outstanding arts educators to develop and field-test standards-based instructional units. Over the course of the year, participants examine evidence of student achievement and make refinements to the collaborative units they have developed. The conceptual framework of the CDI is based on the California Visual & Performing Arts Content Standards, The Visual and Performing Arts Framework, Wiggins and McTighe’s “Understanding by Design,” and Stigler and Hiebert’s, “The Teaching Gap.” Participants also become informed about current arts education issues, requirements, and research.

For more information on the Collaborative Design Institutes please call 909-537-7542.
http://csmp.ucop.edu/tcap/news/cdi.html

TCAP INVITATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
The California Arts Project offers Invitational Leadership Institutes each summer that continue into the school year with follow-up sessions. This Institute is open to outstanding, experienced educators, pre-kindergarten through post secondary, both specialists and generalists, who have demonstrated excellence in teaching one or more of the arts.

This Invitational Leadership Institute provides educators from various districts the opportunity to deepen their subject matter content knowledge in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. Participants engage in standards-based instructional design, and demonstrate successful standards-based teaching practices. The participating educators also become informed of arts education issues, and engage in professional reflection.

For more information and registration for the Invitational Leadership Institutes please call 909-537-7542 at the TCAP Statewide office.
http://csmp.ucop.edu/tcap/news/leadership.html

Active Partnerships in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009

Alameda County

Monterey County

Partnership is with entire district

Santa Clara County

Santa Cruz County

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