2019 WSI Summer Institute (Jackson): Full Schedule

Welcome to the 20th WSI Summer Institute, June 11-13, 2019 at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi!

8:00am CDT

Millsaps College Campus MAP here

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Monday June 10, 2019 8:00am - Thursday June 13, 2019 6:30pm CDT
AC Lobby - Floor 1

3:00pm CDT

Pre-Registration and Conversation in the Gertrude Ford Academic Complex ("the AC"), Millsaps College campus

Beat the rush - pick up your conference materials early.
We can't wait to see you!

Monday June 10, 2019 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC Lobby - Floor 1

7:30am CDT

Registration for 2019 Summer Institute

Tuesday June 11, 2019 7:30am - 8:30am CDT
AC Lobby - Floor 1

8:30am CDT

Opening Keyote

Limited Capacity seats available

Tuesday June 11, 2019 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Recital Hall - enter on Floor 2

Other, 60 minutes

9:30am CDT

It Starts With Me: Reflections of an Arts-Integrated Principal (for Principals) (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will guide school leaders through various aspects of operating an arts integrated school, with specific focus upon creating an arts infused school culture, instruction/assessment/data, and engaging parents and community.

Speakers

Belinda McKinion

Principal, Saltillo Elementary

Belinda McKinion is the principal of Saltillo Elementary School and an avid arts enthusiast. She co-wrote the first Arts in the Classroom grant for SES in 2006, and has supported and led staff through complete arts integration for the past 13 years. She has written and presented... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 137

Administrators (School or Program), 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Exploring Dance (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Dance education is more than just “creative movement.” In this introductory course we’ll explore the structural elements used to create various forms of dance and empower you to create. This hands on approach will teach you the basics then get you up, moving, and creating.

2 hours on T, W, Th = 6 hour Track

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Kinetic Etchings is a group of contemporary dance artists working together to make a mark in art and life.Kinetic Etchings exists as a venue for sharing the art of concert dance with our community. Our artists work as a team from conception to performance on each project.

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson Lesson Plan pdf

Intro to Dance by Kathryn Gurtler pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Theater Essentials: Why Theater? (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Theatre unlocks the imagination to tell stories that explore the human experience. This session will focus on classroom collaborations that teach empathy, sympathy, responsibility as well as an awareness of self and others. Try out theatre exercises that will explore why this particular art form continues to be one of the most effective ways to bring people together for the common good.

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

The mission of New Stage Theatre is to provide professional theatre of the highest quality for the people of Mississippi and the Southeast.New Stage is committed to producing important contemporary works and classics, selected for their artistic merit and their power to illuminate... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Digital Storytelling: Bringing Words to Life (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Digital storytelling allows students to experience the joy of bringing words to life by incorporating images, sound, video, and music, while supporting writing skills. In this interactive session, we will explore several different free and easy-to-use tools for creating and sharing digital stories.

Speakers

Melissa Banks

Instructional Technology, Mississippi Department of Education

Melissa Banks joined the Mississippi Department of Education as an Instructional Technology Specialist in December of 2015. Before joining the MDE, Melissa taught business and technology courses at the high school level for eight years. In addition to teaching, Melissa also served... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 222

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track | Visual Arts, 6-hour Track | Media Arts, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Improv with Orff (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Jump-In and experience the basics of MUSIC in the exciting world of the Orff Approach en route to promoting CREATIVITY and IMPROVISATION. Explore paths that develop personal music skills to enable and encourage students to create in new and rewarding ways.

Speakers

mark malone

University of Southern Mississippi

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 152

Music, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Making STEAM out of STEM (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Take a journey exploring technology while learning how to turn STEM into STEAM. This amazing curriculum track integrates STEM curricula and visual arts standards to create an informative, hands-on experience. Each participant will learn how to use art skills and methods along with STEM principles. Be ready to explore your inner creativity!

Speakers

Shanta Villanueva

Mississippi Department of Education

Shanta Villanueva is the High School STEM program supervisor and the state advisor for Technology Student Association. She holds a Mass Communication Degree from Jackson State University. She’s very passionate about Career and Technical Education.

L. Bryant

Visual Arts, Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

Landon Bryant is a teacher at Laurel Magnet School of the Arts teaching Art to kids from pre-k to 5th grade. Landon believes enrichment through the arts enhances children’s lives both academically and developmentally. Landon holds a degree from the University of Southern Mississippi... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

More Gigs, Please: Info for Teaching Artists

Limited Capacity seats available

Get valuable insight into working with Whole Schools. How do I get more gigs? How do I build stronger workshops? What's this contract stuff? The answers to these questions and more will be revealed in an exciting discussion for the artist who no longer wishes to starve.

Speakers

Asia Rainey

Arts Integration Consultant, Master Teaching Artist, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 218

Teaching Artists, 60 minutes

9:30am CDT

A Photo Story (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

How do you tell the stories around you? Find out during this engaging track where participants will be immersed in a performance based learning unit centered around photography. The unit focuses on the integration of several subjects including ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts, and Media Arts. The unit culminates in a public exhibition of the participant's photography and the story that it tells. Participants will leave with a ready to implement plan of action on creating their own exhibition of a photo story.

Speakers

Andrea Schipke

Nora Davis Magnet School

Andrea Schipke is a fourth grade math and science teacher and co-project director for Nora Davis Magnet School, an Exemplar Model School for the Whole Schools Initiative. Andrea has been teaching for fourteen years and has been recognized for various outstanding achievements in the... Read More →

Casey Watts

Nora Davis Magnet School

Casey Watts is a fourth grade teacher, 3rd-5th grade ELA department chair, and project director for Nora Davis Magnet School, an Exemplar Model School for the Whole Schools Initiative. Casey has been teaching for fourteen years and has been recognized for various outstanding achievements... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 334

Visual and Performing Arts, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Making Paper Make Art (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Artist Randy Miley will introduce you to the fine craft of Papermaking. Utilize traditional methods and techniques to create artworks with depth of form and meaning. Papermaking is fun but it also presents another avenue for the artist to seriously explore, respond, and create. Get ready to get your hands wet! ... and wear comfortable clothes and shoes! A lesson plan accompanies this experience.

Speakers

Randy Miley

Mississippi College

Chair of the Department of Art at Mississippi College. Dr. Randy Miley’s 42-year teaching career includes experiences with all age and grade levels. Prior to joining the faculty at Mississippi College in 1999, Dr. Miley taught at the University of Louisiana of Monroe, Florida State... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 312

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Quilt Patterns as Language (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop explores the use of quilt patterns as language. We will look at shapes, patterns, and colors, and consider how they can be incorporated into math and art lessons. Participants will create their own quilt squares using a variety of techniques, including crayon resist and Kool-Aid dye. Learn classroom-friendly strategies to bring quilting into your lessons!

Speakers

Mollie Rushing

retired

Mollie Rushing earned a B.F.A. from University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, an M.A. in Art Education from East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, and a B.S.E. in Spanish from Delta State University. Rushing has been teaching Art Education and Introduction... Read More →

Quilts Mollie Rushing pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:30am CDT

Successful Art Experiences: Artful Planning and Creative Practices (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Arts Integration with academic standards made easy. Experience step by step methods to creating integrated lesson plans with hands on strategies and modeling. There will be collaboration with planning, practice, and feedback through technology tools. Participants will leave the sessions with a draft lesson plan, strategies, and a SMART goal to assist with implementation.

Speakers

Limeul Eubanks

Mississippi Department of Education

Limeul Eubanks is a Staff Officer III, for the Arts: Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts and World Languages at the Mississippi Department of Education in the Office of Secondary Education. Eubanks is a visual artist and art educator that holds the following degrees: Masters... Read More →

Ashley Kazery

State ELA Director, Mississippi Department of Education

Ashley Kazery is the State ELA Director with the Mississippi Department of Education. Ashley specializes in English Language Arts at the Elementary and Middle school setting. She has been a classroom teacher, lead teacher, curriculum coordinator, and professional development coordinator... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 9:30am - 11:30am CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

11:45am CDT

Lunch in the Student Union - courtesy of MAC!

Tuesday June 11, 2019 11:45am - 1:00pm CDT

1:00pm CDT

Bringing More Voices to the Table: Tools and Tactics for Community Engagement

Limited Capacity filling up

This session will explore various organizing tools and meeting tactics to help increase public engagement and participatory decision making. This collaborative workshop will explore strategies that can be used to help educators and administrators engage with their surrounding community as well as other potential partners and stakeholders. Attendees will learn tools for leading interactive planning meetings that seek to increase public input, participation, community buy-in and overall engagement.

Speakers

Melody Thortis

Director of Grants, Mississippi Arts Commission

Melody Moody Thortis serves as the Director of Grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission. Making Jackson her home for over 20 years, Melody has worked extensively with nonprofits, community leaders, elected officials and government agencies though her work in community development... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 218

Administrators (School or Program), 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

Constructing Meaning and Understanding Using World Folktales

Limited Capacity seats available

Based on world folktales, the session will provide teachers with interactive experience and tools that can be integrated into curriculum learning. The session will include such topics as:

How to ask guiding questions of students
How to create clear assessments based on pre-reading, reading, interpreting, recreating and applying knowledge, performing, and post-understanding
How to use memory prompts
How to develop language skills

Speakers

Diane Williams

Director of Grants, Mississippi Arts Commission

Diane Williams is a fiber artist and storyteller with an engaging and approachable style. Enjoy her tales at lunch on Friday!

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

Teaching Poetry Through the Music of Tupac Shakur

Limited Capacity filling up

In this informational presentation with discussion, participants will learn how to incorporate modern rap music into their traditional poetry lessons. Poetry is traditionally a difficult concept for Middle School/High School students, but this project will peak their interest by involving a popular music choice with a traditional literature form in poetry. Participants will take home a greater understanding of the depth of figurative language and symbolism within Tupac’s songs and be able to teach a poetry lesson entirely from his music. Participants will analyze the songs “Keep Ya Head Up” and “Do For Love” while focusing on overarching themes in Tupac’s music as well as discuss different types of figurative language present and how they affect the meaning of his music.

Speakers

Jerrett Chunn

Tupelo Middle School

Tyson Prentiss

7th ELA Teacher, Tupelo Middle School

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 152

Music, 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

Footprints In the Dust: A Natchez Trace Curriculum

Limited Capacity seats available

Come take a journey on the Natchez Trace enjoying dancing, singing, acting, and interactive geography. Along the way, experience the development of this historic road prior to statehood through the present day!

Speakers

mark malone

University of Southern Mississippi

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 157

Visual and Performing Arts, 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

Humor Based Mathematics Cartoon Fractions

Limited Capacity filling up

Do you catch your students drawing cartoon characters on handouts or tests? Well, put their skills to good use and have them create their own comic strip! Students will create a comic strip to explain the process of adding, subtraction, multiplication, or division of fractions.

Speakers

Kristi Bearden

5th Grade Science/Social Studies Teacher, Saltillo Elementary School

Kristi Bearden has been an educator for 13 years. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with both her bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2010, she became a National Board Certified Teacher. She currently works at Saltillo Elementary School as a 5th grade Science/Social... Read More →

Sherrie Kindt

Teacher 5th Gr. Math, Saltillo Elementary School

Sherrie Kindt has been with Lee County Schools for 16 years. She taught 7th grade for 12 of those years at Guntown Middle and the 5th grade the past 4 years at Saltillo Elementary. Sherrie is a 2003 graduate of the University of Mississippi and a 2001 graduate of Itawamba Community... Read More →

Fractional Comic Strips by Sherrie Kindt pptx

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

Let's Gogh Crazy

Limited Capacity full

During the session, teachers will “Gogh” crazy with ideas for integrating Vincent Van Gogh’s work into all aspects of the regular curriculum. Teacher’s will “Gogh” through the process of one sample math and language integrated lesson. As we work through this session, teachers will create a “Gogh” to lesson that can easily be integrated into any classroom. In this lesson, you will create a replica of his famous oil painting, Sunflowers, using construction paper. Each component of the replica has a specific measurement corresponding to a rubric that can be modified using your own curriculum. After completing the art component of this lesson, you will use figurative language by creating and writing as many examples of similes, metaphors, idioms, or hyperboles using your piece of art. There will also be a discussion about how this unit can be expanded to integrate all subject areas overtime. During the discussion, we will “Gogh” through several pieces of his work and give suggestions as to how they can be implemented into your classroom. You can expect to “Gogh” back to your school with a plethora of resources ready to use immediately. You and your students will “Gogh” crazy over this unit!

Speakers

Amanda Carpenter

Saltillo Elementary School

Carmon Dye

Saltillo Elementary schools

Carmon Dye is a practicing third grade language arts teacher at Saltillo Elementary School in the Lee County School System. She has been teaching lower elementary for 19 years in grade levels 1-4. She currently holds a Master's Degree from MUW in Instructional Management and the... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

1:00pm CDT

The Art of Illusion: Exploring the Science of Vision and Optical Illusions

Limited Capacity seats available

Abracadabra! This session will give teachers ideas that are sure to keep students spellbound. We will investigate the seemingly impossible art of optical illusions, perplexing pranks, and other magical phenomenon that appear to defy all rules of science and logic. Using ordinary (and not so ordinary) materials, participants will explore the many ways that art is used to trick and confound the brain! Captivated attendees will be begging to learn the how-did-you-do-that science behind these cleverly creative and mysterious experiments!

Next Generation Science Standards:
PS4: Light has a source and travels in a direction. Light is reflected from mirrors and other surfaces. Vision: We see objects when light traveling from an object enters our eye. LS: Structures of living things help them grow, survive and reproduce.

Sample Activity Links:

http://www.inspiredluv.com/30-brilliant-examples-illusion-photography-ideas/
http://roshanda-thecreativespirit.blogspot.com/2012/01/op-art-hands-that-pop.html
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/magic-arcs/
https://www.thoughtco.com/color-change-chemistry-experiments-606187

Speakers

Roger McLeod

Director of Technology, Central Creativity, LLC

Rhye McLeod is a software engineer who began his professional career in the television and film industry, designing digital media campaigns for Fortune 100 clients. For the past 15 years he has been integrating emerging technologies into classrooms throughout America, where he has... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 2 hours

1:00pm CDT

Engaging with Mississippi Visual Artists (OFFSITE WORKSHOP @ Mississippi Museum of Art)

From Theora Hamblett to George Ohr, L. V. Hall, and more, there are many Mississippi artists to be inspired by in your classroom. During this session, learn about key Mississippi artists, participate in small studio activities inspired by their works, and identify how their artwork can strengthen lessons in any subject. Bonus: keep your work and take teacher resources curated by the MMA back to your classroom!

Speakers

McKenzie Drake

Mississippi Museum of Art

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Mississippi Museum of Art

Visual Arts, 2 hours

1:00pm CDT

Object Based Learning: How to Teach From a Work of Art (OFFSITE WORKSHOP @ Mississippi Museum of Art)

By exploring the basics of “close-looking”, teachers will learn effective tools and tricks to give their students the confidence they need to make meaning out of works of art. By practicing as a group, participants will explore how to lead exciting, engaging, and informative conversations centered around object-based learning.

Speakers

Isabel Gray

The James and Madeleine McMullan Director of School and Academic Programs, Mississippi Museum of Art

A native Mississippian, Isabel Gray received her BA in Art History with a concentration in Museum Studies from Millsaps College. After graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2015, Isabel launched her museum career at the Eudora Welty House and Garden, where she served as the Education and... Read More →

How to Teach From a Work of Art WSI pptx

Tuesday June 11, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Mississippi Museum of Art

Visual Arts, 2 hours

2:15pm CDT

Active Listening Through Movement

Limited Capacity filling up

Active listening not only engages students with content in memorable ways, but also creates environments in which students affirm one another and express their own feelings in positive ways. We’ll introduce concepts in physically active listening and apply them in a hands-on way!

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Tuesday June 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement

2:15pm CDT

Moving the Plot with Improvisation

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, teachers will learn the benefits of using improvisation in the classroom: how to get away from traditional teaching, equipping them with the tools needed for 21st century teaching and learning styles. In this highly interactive session, participants will leave with ideas on how to incorporate elements of theatre improvisation into their lessons.

Speakers

Amorita M. Shells

Milam Elementary

Brooke Shoup

Tuesday June 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 60 minutes

2:15pm CDT

Arts Integration 101

Limited Capacity full

This session is designed for educators seeking more information about what arts integration really is and the research & data behind it.

Speakers

Penny Mack

Educational & Arts Integration Consultant, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

Penny Mack is an Educational and Arts Integration Consultant. She provides professional development opportunities for schools within the southern region of the US. She has served as an Instructional Coach, Field Advisor, Presenter, Facilitator, and Mentor for the MS Arts Commission... Read More →

Arts Integration 101 Data Driven Summer 2019 pptx

Tuesday June 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
AC 335

New Teachers, 60 minutes

2:15pm CDT

Texts in Action

Limited Capacity full

Participants will experience an arts integration lesson combining art prints and tableaux to teach historical, scientific, and technical texts. In this lesson, students are given a text (either historical, scientific, or technical text) to read and analyze. Students are then given an art print that correlates with the text. Students analyze the art print to determine connections that can be made to the text in order to enhance their understanding of the text. Students then create a tableaux to show the main idea of the text with connections to the art print. Students then present their tableaux along with the art print using the "spotlight" method within the tableaux to showcase specific information found within the text to show whether historical, scientific, or technical text was being used.

Speakers

Casey Watts

Nora Davis Magnet School

Texts in Action by Casey Watts pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
AC 325

Visual and Performing Arts, 60 minutes

2:15pm CDT

Slime Art

Limited Capacity filling up

Slime Art involves a media that students are obsessed with! We get to make slime and incorporate physical science into this lesson. It teaches students the importance and difference in physical and chemical components of a mixture.

Speakers

Kimberly Burkley

Teacher, Lawhon Elementary

Tuesday June 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Dance Boot Camp

Limited Capacity seats available

We’ll go through the elements of dance and then have interactive activities that show teachers how to apply them in various subjects. We’ll take real-classroom examples and give you the process to build dance into any subject matter. Come ready to think laterally and move vertically!

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson Lesson Plan pdf

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Scripts From Scratch

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop offers tools and the techniques to create original theatre scripts from a blank canvas. This highly participatory workshop provides the beginning stages to creating dialogue, character and unlocking the creative writer in us all.

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Compose Yourself: Collective Music Creation with Non-Musicians

Limited Capacity seats available

Collective music-making fosters social bonding, creativity, concentration, reasoning skills, communication, and an appreciation of the Arts more broadly. This workshop is designed to share strategies of incorporating creative music-making into the classroom – any classroom, and all students can participate! Learn how to compose music collectively, in real-time, using found sounds and common everyday objects!

Speakers

Dr. Jason Carl Rosenberg

Millsaps College

Jason Carl Rosenberg (b.1979; Ph.D. in Music from UC San Diego) is an acclaimed composer, conductor, and music cognition researcher. Using contrapuntal inventiveness and rhythmic vitality, Dr. Rosenberg’s concert music creates environments of “power and persuasion…and violence... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 161

Music, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Say It In A Song!

Limited Capacity seats available

Covers the fundamentals of the craft of commercial songwriting. This workshop is designed to challenge participants to examine their own lives and tell their own stories within the context of popular song forms. Helping participants "find their voices" is a key component of this workshop.

Speakers

Tricia Walker

Tricia Walker is a singer and songwriter whose songs are steeped in the passion, pain and grace of the American South. Born and raised in Mississippi, Walker has become one of the clearest voices of her own time and place. Her songs have been recorded by Faith Hill, Patty Loveless... Read More →

SAY IT IN A SONG by Tricia Walker pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 152

Music, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Soft Circuits: Make Your Own LED Bracelet

Limited Capacity filling up

In this exciting, hands-on workshop for PK-3rd, you will learn how to create a wearable LED bracelet that will light up when you snap it together and close the circuit. Integrating STEAM-based learning with a fun sense of fashion, this “Craftivity” will decorate your classroom with smiles.

Next Generation Science Standards:
PS3: Energy and others
Sample Activity Links: https://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Cuff-Bracelet/ -- (We will go way above this, but it’s a great tutorial.)

Teachers will get a printed copy of the lesson plan that will include step-by-step instructions, a Unit Overview (that includes the timeframes involved, materials used, and further links), assessment questions, and an assessment rubric.

Speakers

Roger McLeod

Director of Technology, Central Creativity, LLC

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Workshop Development for Teaching Artists

Limited Capacity seats available

Join Teaching Artist Asia Rainey for a session supporting development of strong workshops for WSI schools. Learn how to check and strengthen the connection between your art form and arts integration in lessons, how to nurture teacher confidence in using the art form tools you model, how to promote creative autonomy in students, and how to design lessons which have a lasting impact in classrooms. Participants will leave with tools for development in any discipline.

Speakers

Asia Rainey

Arts Integration Consultant, Master Teaching Artist, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 218

Teaching Artists

3:30pm CDT

Book Transformation

Limited Capacity filling up

Book lovers beware. In this session we will take old, forgotten books and upcycle them into new, sculptural marvels. This lesson focuses on building skills with precision, accuracy, & consistency. Participants will leave with their own unique books, as well as the resources to execute the project in your own classrooms.

Speakers

Casey Giroux

Art Teacher, Richland High School

I am a Mississippian born & raised. In elementary school, I had an amazing art teacher who inspired and encouraged me. Now, at age 25, after graduating with my B.F.A. in Visual Arts and my M.T.A. from Mississippi College, I get to be that inspiring & encouraging educator for a new... Read More →

Finished Artworks Folded Book Art pdf

Folded Book Art Step by Step Directions pdf

Folded Book Rubric pdf

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Draw My Picture

Limited Capacity seats available

In this lesson, participants will be utilizing skills in collaboration, drawing, creating, coloring, describing, analyzing, comprehension, and comparison skills. Participants will be asked to draw/create a picture, describe a picture, draw/create a picture from a description, and compare pictures. This lesson can be adapted to lower or higher grade levels. This is a great culminating lesson for the end of the second grade year. If you are looking for a lesson that requires your second grade students to use many of the language arts concepts/skills they have learned throughout the school year, this is the lesson for you.

Speakers

Tina Browning

Sherry Donaldson

Classroom Teacher, Pontotoc City Schools, Pontotoc Elementary School

Sherry Donaldson is the art teacher at Pontotoc Elementary School in Pontotoc, MS. She teaches adjunctly for the University of MS and Itawamba Community College. Her credentials include a B.F.A. and M.A. in Art Education from the University of MS. Sherry is also a national board certified... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

Intro to Drawing

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop will introduce strategies for teaching the act of active and meaningful mark making to beginner students. The participants will explore techniques using graphite, charcoal and other easily available drawing media. We will also gain an understanding of drawing the face and figure, using math to develop an understanding of proportion in the human figure. These techniques and skills can be adapted for use with all age groups. Hand out provided at end of experience.

Speakers

Randy Jolly

Instructor/Director of Gore Gallery, Mississippi College

Instructor Randy H. Jolly is an Instructor in the Department of Art who also serves as the Director of Gore Gallery. He joined MC’s faculty in 2008 and currently teaches Design I and II, Painting III and IV, and Drawing Studio Art. His area of expertise includes working with clay... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 334

Visual Arts, 90 minutes

3:30pm CDT

O'Keeffe's Flowers

Limited Capacity full

Participants will learn color shading and composition using oil pastels to create their own flowers in the style of American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe. Participants will explore the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe while gaining understanding realism vs. abstraction. Teachers will learn how to make connections to science and poetry in context with the art lesson.

Speakers

Rebecca Wilkinson

Hinds County School District

Tuesday June 11, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 90 minutes

8:00am CDT

Opening Keynote

Limited Capacity seats available

Wednesday June 12, 2019 8:00am - 8:45am CDT
Recital Hall - enter on Floor 2

Other, 60 minutes

9:00am CDT

It Starts With Me: Reflections of an Arts-Integrated Principal (for Principals) (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Belinda McKinion

Principal, Saltillo Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 137

Administrators (School or Program), 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Exploring Dance (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson Lesson Plan pdf

Intro to Dance by Kathryn Gurtler pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Theater Essentials: Shakespeare Unplugged (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

Teaching Shakespeare by Francine Reynolds pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Digital Storytelling: Bringing Words to Life (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

Melissa Banks

Instructional Technology, Mississippi Department of Education

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 222

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track | Visual Arts, 6-hour Track | Media Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Improv with Orff (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

mark malone

University of Southern Mississippi

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 152

Music, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Making STEAM out of STEM (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Speakers

Shanta Villanueva

Mississippi Department of Education

L. Bryant

Visual Arts, Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

A Photo Story (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Andrea Schipke

Nora Davis Magnet School

Casey Watts

Nora Davis Magnet School

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 334

Visual and Performing Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Making Paper Make Art (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

Randy Miley

Mississippi College

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 312

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Quilt Patterns as Language (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Mollie Rushing

retired

Quilts Mollie Rushing pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Successful Art Experiences: Artful Planning and Creative Practices (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Speakers

Limeul Eubanks

Mississippi Department of Education

Ashley Kazery

State ELA Director, Mississippi Department of Education

Wednesday June 12, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

11:15am CDT

Active Listening Through Movement

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement

11:15am CDT

Math and Hip Hop: Word Problems Into Solutions

Limited Capacity full

In this fun 60 minute session, you will learn how to be hands on with solving word problems, using props, dance and creative thinking. This will be a fun addition to your classroom! Projected for k-3rd, 60 Minutes

Speakers

Mary Frances Massey

MAC Teaching Artist

Mary Frances Massey is a dance instructor and part-owner of North Mississippi Dance Centre in Tupelo, Mississippi. She offers dance classes in ballet, tap, jazz and hip hop and has choreographed for show choirs in Tupelo and surrounding areas since 2008. Massey’s teaching programs include incorporating movement into the narration of favorite children’s books and using... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 223

Dance/Movement, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Playing With a Purpose: Theatre Games!

Limited Capacity filling up

Games are a fun way to break the ice and engage people of all ages. Try out theatre exercises can be used as a get-to-know-you, to introduce a new unit in the curriculum, to center or focus the group or just for fun!

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Go Mobile: Exploring the Mississippi Museum of Art’s App as a Teacher Resource

Limited Capacity seats available

During this session, participants will learn how to use the Mississippi Museum of Art's app to incorporate its collection of art works into the classroom. Whether it's using the pre- and post-visit activities to enhance a planned visit to the Museum, examining the high-res images of artwork in permanent and traveling exhibitions, or choosing from the list of suggested studio activities, there's a little something for everyone! Come experience the app and explore the possibilities. Download the app now, it's free.

Speakers

McKenzie Drake

Mississippi Museum of Art

Isabel Gray

The James and Madeleine McMullan Director of School and Academic Programs, Mississippi Museum of Art

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 325

Media Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Presenting at Summer/Winter Institutes

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will provide educators with tools for building effective presentations at Whole Schools Institutes. We will discuss time management, goal-setting and making connections, balancing session components, materials, and facilitation strategies (especially for chickens). This session is influenced by attendee feedback from past Summer/Winter Institute surveys; the workshop offer insight into how we can improve engagement, efficiency, and effectiveness. Special focus will be placed on keeping your attendees from falling asleep.

Speakers

Asia Rainey

Arts Integration Consultant, Master Teaching Artist, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 218

Teaching Artists, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Dem Bones

Limited Capacity seats available

In this hands-on visual arts/science lesson, teachers will use clay to learn about the skeletal system, adaptation, and form. Participants will learn to 'think like a scientist' as they make predictions using claim-evidence-reasoning (CER). Lesson can be adapted for 3rd-12th grade.

Speakers

Gail Morton

Blue Mountain College

Gail Morton uses a variety of materials to foster 21st century learning skills in the classroom. By modeling the creative cycle, she has developed hands-on, arts-infused lessons that teach creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication to teachers and students. She... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

I Can With Kandinsky

Limited Capacity filling up

Based on the popular e-book "Arts Integration Lessons," featuring the works of Wassily Kandinsky, participants will study and create art to explore math concepts including data, measurement, and geometry.

Speakers

Amanda Koonlaba

Party in the Art Room

Amanda Koonlaba, Ed. S. is an educator and artist with more than 12 years of experience teaching both visual art and traditional courses. Her career has been driven by the power of the arts to reach all learners. She is a published author and frequent speaker at education conferences... Read More →

I Can with Kandinsky by Amanda Koonlaba pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Who's That Tripping Over My Bridge: Retelling a Story with Visual arts, Drama and STEM

Limited Capacity filling up

During this lesson, teachers will be given the tools to help teach students in lower elementary how to retell a story using drama, visual arts and STEM. We will introduce the book, “Who’s That Tripping Over My Bridge?” which is a version of Three Billy Goats Gruff with a Cajun twist. This is an important tool to teach students that they are able to retell a story without having to write it down. They are able to act out and create a retelling with art.

Speakers

Courtney Bryan

Cathy Lutz

Ann Smith Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 334

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Multi-Sensory Arts Integration for the Struggling Learner

Limited Capacity full

This session will help students with learning differences use arts integration to coincide with multi-sensory learning and guided discovery, enabling the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic pathways in the brain to form a stronger foundation for storage and retrieval of academic information.

Speakers

Megan Leake

St. Anthony Catholic

Kacey Matthews, CDT, CALT

Dyslexia Therapist, St. Anthony Catholic School

Kacey Matthews, M. Ed., CALT, has been in education for over 10 years with experience in teaching Kindergarten, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, reading resource, and gifted classes. A graduate of Millsaps College with a B.A. in Elementary Education, Kacey received her M.Ed. in Dyslexia Therapy... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 152

Visual Arts, 60 minutes | Dance/Movement, 60 minutes | Other, 60 minutes

12:15pm CDT

Lunch ON YOUR OWN - enjoy a nearby restaurant!

Wednesday June 12, 2019 12:15pm - 1:45pm CDT

1:45pm CDT

Math and Hip Hop: Algebraic Equations and More

Limited Capacity seats available

Since debuting this program at WSI Summer Institute 2017, Mary Frances has added more than addition and subtraction! Now with multiplication, division, word problems and Algebra! We will take basic Algebraic Equations and use props and dancing to solve and represent the problems. Projected for 6th Grade.

Speakers

Mary Frances Massey

MAC Teaching Artist

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Grammar Drama

Limited Capacity filling up

Participants will sample theatrical strategies for learning the basics of grammar, including the parts of speech, sentence structure, and sentence types. Activities will begin with a simple chant to identify the eight parts of speech and dramatic games that enhance understanding of each of these eight types of words. Other activities will include acting out human sentences, taking "sentence types" on a picnic, and dramatizing types of figurative language.

Speakers

John Howell

Casey Elementary School

John Howell has a BA in English and Theatre from MSU. He has been the Arts Facilitator and drama teacher at Casey Elementary School for twenty years. He has also worked at New Stage Theatre as an actor and Education Director, and he sometimes writes, acts, and directs with Fondren... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Visual Literacy: Communicate with Power

Limited Capacity seats available

Visual literacy is a 21st century skill that is defined as the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate visual messages. We teach our students how to communicate through written and spoken word, but we often neglect to teach our students how to communicate their message visually. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are your students saying? In this session, participants will become familiar with basic design tools and rules. Participants will then use the design tools and rules to create powerful visual messages using several different FREE websites and apps.

Objectives:
1.   Get familiar with basic design tools and rules.
2.   Create powerful visuals in various FREE online apps, using the design tools and rules.
3.   Discuss classroom applications.

Type: Visual Arts/Media Arts

Speakers

Melissa Banks

Instructional Technology, Mississippi Department of Education

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 222

Drama/Theatre, 2 hours | Visual Arts, 2 hours | Media Arts, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

The Art of Orff

Limited Capacity seats available

Designed specifically to begin to build music skills in young children, the Orff Approach combines instruments, movement, body percussion, games, and dance that encourage improvisation and creativity.

Speakers

mark malone

University of Southern Mississippi

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 152

Music, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

The First Week of School In an Arts Integrated Classroom

Limited Capacity full

New to Arts Integration? Concerned about behavioral and time management issues with implementing the Arts in your classroom? Start the year smART by establishing daily routines and procedures through the arts.

Speakers

Penny Mack

Educational & Arts Integration Consultant, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

elements complete (3) pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 335

New Teachers, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Eudora Welty House & Garden (OFFSITE WORKSHOP)

Limited Capacity full

Explore the beautiful home and gardens of Mississippi's own Eudora Welty, getting a glimpse of how this space and the people around her inspired Miss Welty to write some of the most beautiful stories in our culture, and how you can apply these lessons in your classroom.

NOTE: In case of rain, this session will be held at Millsaps in AC 218

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Eudora Welty House & Garden 1119 Pinehurst St., Jackson, MS 39202

Other, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Creating a Maker Space in Your K - 4th Grade Classroom

Limited Capacity filling up

Creating a Makerspace in your Classroom is a hands-on workshop that will address how teachers can promote inquiry-based learning by providing a makerspace in their classroom. We will explore guidelines for making a makerspace and how to create one on a limited budget. Educators will also go through a makerspace activity using the design cycle and prompt cards.

Speakers

Sheri Bradford

Mississippi Children's Museum

Sheri Bradford serves as assistant director of enrichment at Mississippi Children’s Museum (MCM). She holds a BA in communication from Mississippi State University, and a M.Ed. from Mississippi College with emphases in English and communication. She and her husband, Keith, have... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Artful Storytelling: A Lesson in Ekphrasis

Limited Capacity seats available

Based on a series of successful writing workshops at the Mississippi Museum of Art, this session will explore the possibilities of incorporating artworks as catalysts for creative writing in the classroom. Educators will learn the different types of ekphrasis and familiarize themselves with elements of the visual and verbal that can help bring these lessons to life.

Speakers

Isabel Gray

The James and Madeleine McMullan Director of School and Academic Programs, Mississippi Museum of Art

Dr. Michael Pickard

Millsaps College

Artful.Storytelling.Handouts pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 2 hours

1:45pm CDT

Mythological Creatures and Where to Find Them

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants will learn methods for incorporating the visual arts in a mythological creature lesson that covers the following: animal habitats, life cycles, and food chains, story elements and character development, writing narratives and expository text. Various art techniques will be covered so participants can create their own mythological creatures. Each participant will leave with a completed project and a pack of instructions, standards, and planning guides so they can present this lesson at their home schools.

Speakers

Jeremy Brooke

Nora Davis Magnet School

Wednesday June 12, 2019 1:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
AC 334

Visual Arts, 2 hours

4:00pm CDT

Theora Hamblett Across the Curriculum

Limited Capacity filling up

Theora Hamblett is one of Mississippi's most treasured visual artists. This session will immerse learners in her work, inspired the creation of individual works, and offer ideas for integrating math, science, social studies, and language arts across multiple grade levels.

Speakers

Amanda Koonlaba

Party in the Art Room

Theora Hamblett by Amanda Koonlaba pdf

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: B B King Group

Lawndale Elementary
Pontotoc Elementary
St. Anthony Catholic
St. Richard Catholic

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 334

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Buffet Group

Limited Capacity seats available

Joyner Elementary
Lawhon Elementary
Pierce St. Elementary
Poplar Springs Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 222

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Faulkner Group

Casey Elementary
Oakland Heights Elementary
Milam Elementary
Rankin Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 215

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Jim Henson Group

Carver Elementary
Cook Elementary
T. J. Harris Elementary
Thomas St. Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 152

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Sela Ward Group

Ann Smith Elementary
Heidelberg Magnet School
Nora Davis Elementary
Oak Grove Longleaf Elementary
Philadelphia Elementary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 157

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Thalia Mara Group

King ECEC
Mannsdale Elementary
Parkway Elementary
Oak Grove Primary

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 223

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

4:00pm CDT

MANDATORY Team Meetings for WSI Member Schools: Welty Group

Northwest Middle School
Plantersville Middle School
Saltillo Elementary
Tupelo Middle School
W. A. Higgins Magnet

Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
AC 325

WSI Teams, 60 minutes

6:00pm CDT

After-Hours at the Mississippi Museum of Art

Teachers will tour the Museum, make art to connect with Museum exhibits, meet artists and education staff, and enjoy food and adult beverages!

Wednesday June 12, 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm CDT
Mississippi Museum of Art

Other, 2 hours

8:00am CDT

Opening Keynote: Art Creation in VR

Limited Capacity seats available

Discover the newest in Virtual Reality technology that is allowing artists to create masterpieces within VR itself. See how to make art a true experience through creative technology that brings viewers into your creation!

Speakers

Josiah Jordan

Chief Technology Officer, Lobaki, Inc.

Josiah Jordan, Chief Technology Officer & Founder, is responsible for the technical R&D and commercial product development of the company. He has 17 years of software development and engineering experience, from supersonic aircraft and spacecraft instrumentation to high performance... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2019 8:00am - 8:45am CDT
Recital Hall - enter on Floor 2

Other, 60 minutes

9:00am CDT

It Starts With Me: Reflections of an Arts-Integrated Principal (for Principals) (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Belinda McKinion

Principal, Saltillo Elementary

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 137

Administrators (School or Program), 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Exploring Dance (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson Lesson Plan pdf

Intro to Dance by Kathryn Gurtler pdf

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Theater Essentials: Dramatizing Story (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Digital Storytelling: Bringing Words to Life (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

Melissa Banks

Instructional Technology, Mississippi Department of Education

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 222

Drama/Theatre, 6-hour Track | Visual Arts, 6-hour Track | Media Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Improv with Orff (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

mark malone

University of Southern Mississippi

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 152

Music, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Making STEAM out of STEM (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

Shanta Villanueva

Mississippi Department of Education

L. Bryant

Visual Arts, Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

A Photo Story (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Andrea Schipke

Nora Davis Magnet School

Casey Watts

Nora Davis Magnet School

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 334

Visual and Performing Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Making Paper Make Art (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Speakers

Randy Miley

Mississippi College

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 312

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Quilt Patterns as Language (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Mollie Rushing

retired

Quilts Mollie Rushing pdf

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

9:00am CDT

Successful Art Experiences: Artful Planning and Creative Practices (3 Day Course: must attend all 3 days)

Limited Capacity full

Speakers

Limeul Eubanks

Mississippi Department of Education

Ashley Kazery

State ELA Director, Mississippi Department of Education

Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 6-hour Track

11:15am CDT

Your Ticket Aboard the STEAM Train (for Administrators)

Limited Capacity seats available

STREAM can be intimidating for class room teachers because many think that you must incorporate all disciplines each and every time. Learn to focus on 3-4 different disciplines and how when teachers work together and share their expertise, everyone wins - especially students!

Speakers

Amanda Cashman

St. Anthony Catholic School

Miss Cashman received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Millsaps College. She taught art for Vicksburg Catholic Schools at St. Aloysius High School and St. Francis Xavier Elementary for grades 5-12 from 2004 -2007. Miss Cashman worked at the Mississippi Museum of Art... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 137

Administrators (School or Program), 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Active Listening Through Movement

Limited Capacity filling up

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Constructing Meaning and Understanding Using World Folktales

Limited Capacity seats available

Based on world folktales, the session will provide teachers with interactive experience and tools that can be integrated into curriculum learning. The session will include such topics as:

How to ask guiding questions of students
How to create clear assessments based on pre-reading, reading, interpreting, recreating and applying knowledge, performing, and post-understanding
How to use memory prompts
How to develop language skills

Speakers

Diane Williams

Director of Grants, Mississippi Arts Commission

Diane Williams is a fiber artist and storyteller with an engaging and approachable style. Enjoy her tales at lunch on Friday!

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 223

Drama/Theatre

11:15am CDT

Teaching Poetry Through the Music of Tupac Shakur

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Jerrett Chunn

Tupelo Middle School

Tyson Prentiss

7th ELA Teacher, Tupelo Middle School

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 152

Music, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Keep It Real: Authentic Artistic Expression

Limited Capacity seats available

What is the difference between product art and process art? Explore the difference and unlock the critical thinking and psychosocial development components within authentic artistic expression.

Speakers

Penny Mack

Educational & Arts Integration Consultant, Whole Schools, Mississippi Arts Commission

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 335

Visual and Performing Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

What's Your Angle?

Limited Capacity seats available

Performance based art where you will explore how to make permanent sculptures while using degrees of angles and fractional parts of a circle and how to use math with art prints!

Speakers

Andrea Schipke

Nora Davis Magnet School

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 215

Visual and Performing Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Dem Bones

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Gail Morton

Blue Mountain College

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Prints and Poetry

Limited Capacity filling up

This session will focus on using poetry and print making to show participants how to use everyday materials to provide arts-integration for Kindergarten – Third Grade Students. Participants will learn how to create a print relief using Styrofoam while gaining some ideas to use to engage students with visual arts, creative writing, and language arts standards.

Speakers

Ann Nelson

teacher, Oak Grove Primary

In her 30th year of teaching, Ann Nelson is in a kindergarten/first grade looping classroom at Oak Grove Primary School in the Lamar County School District. Ann holds a BS from William Carey College, MEd from the University of Southern Mississippi, and EdS from William Carey College... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 334

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

11:15am CDT

Why M.U.S.I.C.

Limited Capacity seats available

Music unlocks self-expression, intelligence, and creativity. GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi provides a view of music’s influence through an exploration of history with emphasis on Mississippi, industry careers, and technology. GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi is structured around artifacts that were designed to create music and support change throughout history. Participants will learn how a visit to the Museum is more than a field trip!

Thursday June 13, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 60 minutes

12:15pm CDT

Lunch in the Student Union - courtesy of MAC!

Thursday June 13, 2019 12:15pm - 1:30pm CDT

1:30pm CDT

Dance Boot Camp

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Kathryn Wilson

Kinetic Etchings

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson Lesson Plan pdf

Dance Boot Camp by Kathryn Wilson pdf

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 157

Dance/Movement

1:30pm CDT

Scripts From Scratch

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

New Stage Theatre

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 215

Drama/Theatre, 2 hours

1:30pm CDT

How To Make Your Art an EXPERIENCE in Virtual Reality

Limited Capacity seats available

One of the greatest questions of our time is how to fuse current technologies with culture and arts. Fortunately, VR gives artists the chance to experiment with mediums that allow for this exploration. Here we will showcase how to create 3D art with VR programs such as TiltBrush, Medium, and Quill.

Speakers

Josiah Jordan

Chief Technology Officer, Lobaki, Inc.

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 218

Media Arts

1:30pm CDT

Compose Yourself: Collective Music Creation with Non-Musicians

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Dr. Jason Carl Rosenberg

Millsaps College

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 161

Music

1:30pm CDT

Creating a Maker Space in Your 5th - 8th Grade Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Making a Makerspace in your Classroom is a hands-on workshop that will address how teachers can promote inquiry-based learning by providing a makerspace in their classroom. We will explore guidelines for making a makerspace and how to create one on a limited budget. Educators will also go through a makerspace activity using the design cycle and prompt cards.

Speakers

Sheri Bradford

Mississippi Children's Museum

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 223

STEAM, 2 hours

1:30pm CDT

Expressive Brushwork and Painting with Gusto

Limited Capacity full

Everyone can paint! These hands-on experiences will help to develop an understanding of painting with expressive brushwork and color. The exercises explored can be used with all age groups. It will help the teacher turn their classroom into a painting studio that works. The experiences and techniques provided through the workshop exercises will heighten the student’s awareness and use of color to create more meaningful works of art. Handouts and lesson plans will be provided at end of experience.

Speakers

Randy Jolly

Instructor/Director of Gore Gallery, Mississippi College

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 334

Visual Arts, 2 hours

1:30pm CDT

O'Keeffe's Flowers

Limited Capacity full

Speakers

Rebecca Wilkinson

Hinds County School District

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 335

Visual Arts, 2 hours

1:30pm CDT

Paper Quilling: From Quaint to Quirky

Limited Capacity filling up

Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Participants will learn the basic techniques of quilling. They will also learn the centuries long history of this obscure art form and how its making a comeback in the contemporary art scene. Participants will leave with two ready-to-implement lessons (complete with directions & assessment tools) along with their own paper quilled artwork.

Speakers

Casey Giroux

Art Teacher, Richland High School

Paper Quilled Mandala Step pdf

Paper Quilled Mandalas Examples pdf

Paper Quilled Mandala Rubric pdf

Paper+Quilling pdf

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 325

Visual Arts, 2 hours

1:30pm CDT

Snowmen at Night Collages

Limited Capacity seats available

We will begin this lesson by reading the story, Snow Friends, by M. Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton. Then, we will discuss all the story elements within the story and how the characters became close friends by building a snowman together. We may also refer to several other snowman books including, The Biggest, Best Snowman, Snowmen at Night, and Snowman Magic. Then, we will brainstorm various ideas of how we would want to create our very own character from the story, a snowman and write a desciptive sentence about the snowman character.

The Process: Participants will practice painting, drawing, coloring, cutting, and gluing skills. They will learn the processes of wet on wet painting, blending pastels, collaging processes, and showing depth through overlapping shapes. Art vocabulary terms include line, form, texture, light/dark colors, horizontal/vertical, and perspective.

Speakers

Sherry Donaldson

Classroom Teacher, Pontotoc City Schools, Pontotoc Elementary School

Leslie Hilliard

Kindergarten Teacher, Pontotoc Elementary School

Leslie Hilliard is a kindergarten teacher at Pontotoc Elementary School in Pontotoc, MS. She is Pontotoc City School District’s Teacher of the Year. Her credentials include a B.A. in Elementary Education and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of MS. Leslie is... Read More →

Snowmen at Night by Leslie Hilliard pdf

Thursday June 13, 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
AC 222

Visual Arts, 2 hours

3:45pm CDT

Closing Plenary

Thursday June 13, 2019 3:45pm - 5:00pm CDT
Recital Hall - enter on Floor 2

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