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• Meet the Teaching Artist - Leo Colon
  In my instrumental and vocal classes besides learning the rudiments of music, performance craft and creativity, my students learn about collaborating and working together
• Teaching Artist Takeaways: Kathleen Moye at North American Drama Therapy Association Annual Conference
  On Oct. 26-29, I attended the North American Drama Therapy Association Annual Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.  As conferences are built to do, it inspired me in sever
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Allie D'Amico
  I am a music educator.  As an artist, I use music to help my students express themselves, while learning new skills that will allow them to create something enjoyable for
• Donna Folan's "Thigh High Boots, a Scooter, and a Stage" Premieres at Wheelock Family Theatre
  "Thigh-high Boots, a Scooter, and a Stage", a play about the life of 2017 Boston Foundation LAB (Live Arts Boston) Grant recipient Donna Folan, premieres June 1, 2018 at W
• Teaching Artist Takeaways: Laura Evonne Steinman Mindfulness Training at the SHED Children's Campus
  It was Wednesday, April 11th 2018 and I bundled all up with my winter clothes on (yes in April!) and headed to a 2 hour Mindfulness Training.  I was cold, it was dark, at
• Teaching Artist Takeaways: Jodi Schmidt at NAEA National Convention
  Sometimes, believe it or not, as an art teacher, you can feel like a bit of a weird-o.  You are usually the only art teacher at your school.  You have the largest amount o
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Rebecca Elowe
  Hello!  I am Rebecca Elowe, actor/musician/educator.  As a performer and educator, I use the arts to inspire others to question, connect, and engage.  I love when art asks
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Ali Blake
  Hello!  I'm Ali Blake, artist, educator, wonderer, maker, and COOL teaching artist in the OSDC program at Dorchester's Community Academy of Science and Health this academi
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Mark Fuller
  Hello friends!  My name is Mark Fuller and I am a Board Certified Music Therapist.  As a music therapist, I use music as my tool to support the abilities of others to furt
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Laura Evonne Steinman
  Hello, I'm Laura Evonne Steinman, Community Artist/Educator/Activist.  I have been making a creative mess since I was a little kid building forts.  I didn't like the color
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Christian Fusco
  I am an artist-educator.  As an artist, I use anthropomorphic animals in illustrations, comics, and animations as a vehicle for self-expression, as these characters veil r
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Dani Patrick
  I am a visual artist, dancer and educator.  As a Teaching Artist, I use interactive community building activities, structured self-reflection and thematic exploration to c
• Experienced Teaching Artists Wanted
  VSA MA COOL Schools seeks experienced teaching artists to create arts-integrated programs for for two of our high school programs and one early childhood program during th
• Employee of the Quarter - Teaching Artist Jodi Schmidt
  Jodi is a delightful recent addition to the COOL Schools family.  She embodies the essence of what makes COOL Schools successful: she is a strong collaborator and endeavor
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Mia Branco
  As a performing artist I use music and stories as a way to create space for interaction, inspiration, and expression.  I enjoy working on projects with unlikely partners a
• VSA Help Wanted: Part-Time Teaching Artist at Charlestown High School
  Job Description VSA Massachusetts is seeking a passionate and experienced teaching artist (TA) or arts educator for a part-time, five-day-a-week position teaching students
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Haley Roth
  I am a performing artist, yoga teacher, and educational innovator.  Over the past ten years, I have combined my two passions (the arts and mindful practices) to encourage
• Employee of the Quarter - Teaching Artist Andy Holiner
  The minute Andy walks in through the door and begins strumming his guitar, students' faces light up and smiles abound.  Everyone shares in Andy's enthusiasm, wanting you t
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Kyle Browne
  I am a visual artist and educator.  As a teaching artist I use hands-on visual inquiry, imagination, collaboration and critiquing as a way to engage students more deeply i
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Faith Johnson
  I am a community artist who uses both individual and collaborative art making and mixed mediums to create and facilitate installation, 2D, 3D, interactive sculpture, and f
• Meet the Teaching Artist: K. Lee Mock
  I am a visual artist, primarily working with drawing and painting media.  My studio and en plein air practice is both reactionary and reflective.  I observe the moving ext
• Meet The Teaching Artist: Emily Frank
  Hello!  My name is Emily Frank, or Miss Frank, Frank, or Frankie to my students.  I am currently one of a few TAs working at the Henderson Inclusion School.  I work with l
• Meet The Teaching Artist: Abby Neale
  I use art to help students investigate the world around them and imagine their own worlds. When making art, students use the skills of observation, investigation, imaginat
• Meet The Teaching Artist: Jodi Schmidt
  I identify most strongly as an Art Educator.  As an art teacher I use as many different visual techniques and mediums as possible to help students understand how things wo
• Employee of the Quarter - Teaching Artist Tim Archibald
  Tim Archibald was named VSA Massachusetts' Employee of the Quarter for April - June, 2016. Teaching Artist Tim has been a vital member of the VSA MA family for over 25 yea
• Five Tips for Supporting Teaching Artist Inclusive Practice
  By Nicole Agois Hurel, Ed.M., VSA Mass. COOL Schools Director Reprinted from VSA International's Blog Teaching Artists (TAs) bring incredibly rich resources and opportunit
• VSA Mass. COOL Schools Program Seeks Teaching Artists
  VSA MA COOL Schools Program VSA Massachusetts promotes the involvement of people of all abilities in the cultural life our communities by developing arts-integrated progra
• Seven Hills Foundation Names Kathleen McNamara VSA's Employee of the Quarter for Q1 2016
  Kathleen has been a teaching artist with the COOL Schools Program for the past three years.  She has provided quality, inclusive visual-arts programs to elementary school
• Call for Essays - Storytelling as a Strategy for Creating Inclusive Classrooms
  Bank Street College of Education seeks to draw attention to the use of storytelling as a critical strategy for creating a new, expanded conversation about inclusive classr
• Very COOL Partnership - VSA Hosts Duskin Trainee in COOL Schools Program
  This past semester VSA MA partnered with the Duskin Disability Leadership Program at UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion by hosting one of its 2015 trainees. 
• Teaching Artists - Take a Short Survey on Your Experience
  The Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) believes in sharing information to support the work of professional Teaching Artists.  As a practitioner led national network and
• SAGE Crossing Foundation Seeks Visual Arts Teacher for Adults with Disabilities
  SAGE Crossing Foundation is looking for a teacher for adults with a range of disabilities for the visual arts for two days a week in January and February.  The participant
• Teaching Artist Faye Dupras Named Seven Hills/VSA Mass. Employee of the Quarter
  Faye Dupras recently joined the COOL Schools team as a Teaching Artist, sharing her exceptional skills as a puppeteer and educator.  She has shown commitment, professional
• Teacher Art Retreat 2015
  The Teacher Art Retreat is a chance to get away and work within the arts.  It is three days of experiences put together to relax, create and discover more about yourself a
• Call for Music Therapist/Music Teaching Artist
  VSA MA COOL Schools seeks a passionate and experienced music teaching artist/music therapist to lead a music program for students ages 5 - 21 with significant disabilities
• 2015 Kennedy Center National Seminar for Teaching Artists
  The Kennedy Center National Seminar for Teaching Artists is designed to strengthen the quality and impact of teaching artists' work.  To do so, this intensive, multi-day S
• Free VSA Webinar - Teach them to FLY! How Storytelling Gives Wings to Primary-age Children with Disabilities
  Storytelling can give students with disabilities their wings.  It addresses the whole brain, engaging all learning styles, and multiple ways of knowing.  It allows teacher
• Yo Soy...Je Suis...I Am...The Future
  VSA's Yo Soy...Je Suis...I Am...The Future invites children from around the world to imagine their future! What: Students with disabilities are invited to share images of
• Physically Integrated Dance Teacher Training - AXIS Dance Company of California
  A week long explorative dance intensive with AXIS Dance Company to challenge and learn new skills derived from the company's working ethos and repertoire that will enhance
• VSA Massachusetts Seeking Teaching Artists for COOL Schools Program
  VSA Massachusetts is seeking Teaching Artists for our Creative Outlook On Learning (COOL) Schools Program who are interested in creating arts-integrated learning experienc
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Bonnie Duncan
  Bonnie's Mission Statement: I have a true drive to integrate the arts into education.  I approach each project with techniques that bring students with different strengths
• Bring Dance and Drama Into Your Classroom to Enhance Literacy
  As we thaw out from this winter, VSA kicks off the spring with an innovative program for teaching artists and classroom teachers.  Embodying Literacy - Early Childhood is
• Free VSA Webinar - Tools and Techniques for Artists with and without Disabilities: How to Handle the Resistance in the Creative Process
  Content: Many creatives experience creative blocks due to the resistance that is part of the creative process.  Too often, resistance stops the artist from making movement
• VSA Teaching Artist & Sculpturist, Nora Valdez - Open Studio
  VSA teaching artist and noted sculpturist will be holding an open studio October 25 and 26, 2014 from noon to 5pm .  Come see her wonderful sculptures and drawings. 11 Hum
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Rhianon E. Gutierrez, Media Arts
  Mission Statement: As a media arts educator, I explore flexible and dynamic ways to utilize the multimodal possibilities of media to record, examine, and express our under
• Arts in Special Education Consortium Launches Resources Section
  The Arts in Special Education Consortium recently announced their launch of a Resources Section . Browse through seven different categories, ranging from Specific Disabili
• Cultural Access New England's "Round Tables Around the Town"
  Cultural Access New England (CANE) invites cultural institutions to follow-up the discussions of the last CANE workshop, "Creating a Welcoming Space for Visitors Who Are o
• Embodying Literacy: Professional Learning Community
  A professional learning community tailored to your needs as an arts educator . . . - Learn effective inclusive strategies using the arts. - Collaborate with peer arts educ
• VSA MA Seeks Teaching Artists for 2014-15 School Year
  VSA Massachusetts is seeking teaching artists who are interested in creating arts-integrated learning experiences for students of all abilities. We currently have opportun
• Teaching Artists Training
  For teaching artists in all disciplines and at all stages of their careers.  Join us for a gathering of New England teaching artists that will provide you with information
• Downloads for All!
  Some great document downloads provided to us by various sources: VSA International's Playwright Discovery Guide and Teacher Resource Guide - Visual Art EdVestors' The Arts
• Embodying Literacy: Teaching Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking Through Movement and Drama
  This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Dines, M.Ed., CAS, who is a National Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language.  She works as a reading specialist, specia
• Call for Music Therapist/Music Teaching Artist
  VSA Massachusetts' COOL Schools seeks a music teaching artist/music therapist to lead a music program for students with significant disabilities ages 5 - 21.  The program
• Arts Connect International Seeks Artists-in-Residence
  - Are you a leader in the arts field? - Are you committed to cultural inclusion and social equity on a global scale? - Do you have a vision for social change? Arts Connect
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Liz Buchanan
  My aim is to provide students with an exciting, meaningful and memorable learning experience through singing, movement and other musical activities. I believe that music i
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Kathleen McNamara
  
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Sarah Sharp
  
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Donna Folan
  My work is about providing students a way to use creativity to enhance their learning. I believe that every student has an individual learning style.  I use theater, movem
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Tim Van Egmond
  My work as a teaching artist involves lighting up students' imaginations, and bringing out their unique expressions of creativity in whatever area of learning we're explor
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Wilhelmina Peragine
  As a teaching artist, I aim to help young people develop a greater sense of their own agency, an increased ability to think from multiple perspectives and a flourishing lo
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Emily Isaacson
  I teach creativity and self-confidence. In the twentieth century, we need innovators, entrepreneurs and inventors and there is no better place than the arts to practice cr
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Tim Archibald
  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it's the universal language of mankind." I teach music/performing arts at the Henderson Inclusion Elementary
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Deborah Kronenberg
  I use theatre techniques as tools for all students to deeply engage in content, making their own meaning as part of a student-centered, strengths-based community of artist
• Call for Visual Arts Teaching Artist to work in Early Childhood classrooms in Mattapan
  VSA MA COOL Schools seeks a visual arts teaching artist to create an arts-integrated program with teachers in grades K0 - 1st grade in a school in Mattapan, MA.  The progr
• Embodying Literacy
  A professional learning community tailored to your needs as an arts educator . . . - Learn effective inclusive strategies using the arts. - Collaborate with peer arts educ
• COOL Schools 2012-2013 Report Now Available
  The air is crisp, school supplies are arriving on store shelves and the VSA MA team is gearing up for another great year of transformation through the arts in our COOL Sch
• Upcoming Submission, Application, and Registration Deadlines
  Kennedy Center National Seminar for Teaching Artists Registration Deadline: May 31, 2013 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013 Advanced Te
• Igniting Innovation . . . Creative Leadership and High-Impact Practices
  Arts|Learning and Lesley University Creativity Commons present "Igniting Innovation . . . Creative Leadership and High-Impact Practices". Speakers and panelists include: D
• Learning Through Music, for All Abilities
  This is a guest blog post by Liz Buchanan . I'm in a room with twenty-five children, four of whom use wheelchairs.  As the children act out a song about butterflies, I cho
• Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Arts: A Guide for Teaching Artists
  The Kennedy Center is sponsoring a free webinar Tuesday, January 29 2013 at 3pm given by Sharon M. Malley, Ed D, Special Education Specialist, Office of VSA & Accessibilit
• Violinist With One Hand Inspires Young Musicians - Boston Globe
  Boston Globe, 12/20/2012 Written by Geoff Edgers/Globe Reporter Photo by Josh Reynolds The first time the students saw Adrian Anantawan play his violin, they were stunned.
• Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards
  Each year, The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards solicits nominations from the general public and notable public figures, providing the opportun
• Teaching Artists & the Future of New England
  New England Consortium of Artist-Educator Professionals (NECAP) and its local partners, the Rhode Island Foundation and Lesley University are convening gatherings with Nic
• COOL Schools 2011-2012 Report Released
  The VSA MA 2011-2012 COOL Schools Education Report has been released and is available for all to review and download .
• "Start with the Arts" PDFs Now Available!
  "Start with the Arts" and "Start with the Arts at Home" are instructional programs created by VSA for pre-school and early elementary school learners that uses the arts to
• Job Opportunities for Teaching Artists
  VSA Massachusetts is seeking teaching artists who are interested in creating arts-integrated learning experiences for students of all abilities. We currently have opportun
• VSA MA Student of the Month - Sheila Richards
  The VSA MA Student of the Month initiative was launched to celebrate the accomplishments of students who have exhibited significant artistic, social or academic growth thr
• COOL Schools Workshops Announced
  The Education Department of VSA Massachusetts has scheduled a series of four professional development workshops taking place October 10 - 25, 2012.  They include: The Play
• Talk and Potluck with Eliot School
  Visiting teacher Doug Stowe will discuss "Wisdom of the Hands: Why We Still Need a Wood Shop" Friday, July 6, 7pm at the Eliot School, 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain.  Admissi
• Student of the Month
  The VSA MA Student of the Month award celebrates the accomplishments of students who have exhibited significant artistic, social or academic growth throughout their partic
• Harvard Educational Review Now Accepting Stories
  The Harvard Educational Review is now accepting stories through June 1, 2012 from children, youth, and adult arts learners for its upcoming special issue "Expanding Our Vi
• Happy Teaching Artist Appreciation Week!
  Thanks to all of our teaching artists for bringing a Creative Outlook On Learning to schools across Massachusetts! MUSIC Deborah Stuart  shared her immense expertise on wo
• Congratulations to Abebe Ticktin from the Henderson Inclusion Elementary School for being named VSA Massachusetts Student of the Month!
  The VSA MA Student of the Month award celebrates the accomplishments of students who have exhibited significant artistic, social or academic growth throughout their partic
• VSA now accepting entries for its 2012 visual art programs
  Sustaining / Creating A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, ages 16-25 Deadline: July 8, 2012 Sustaining / Creating asks emerging artists to

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