EDUCATION IN MOTION!

A Professional Development Seminar for K-12 Teachers focused on integrating movement into the classroom JUNE 11-15, 2018 https://dance.colostate.edu/teachers-seminar/

Colorado State University invites Colorado K-12 teachers and administrators to join us on campus for five exciting days of presentations, exploration, sharing resources, and expanding our awareness and knowledge of the benefits of movement in the classroom. Guest speakers, university faculty, and education specialists will present the latest research and tools to help you to reach more students, offer innovative ways to teach our core curriculum, and learn about how our state is supporting our efforts.

Our 2018 guest presenter and keynote speaker is Mary Ann Lee, director of the Tanner Program and Children's Dance Theatre in the College of Fine Arts at the University of .

Seminar topics include:

* Let's Move! Dance Skills, Concepts, and Comprehensive Learning * Addressing and Capitalizing on Diversity in the Classroom * Hands-on Tools and Lesson Plans to Use in Your Classroom * Social & Emotional Learning in the Classroom * Integrated Arts Initiatives in Education * Dance Collaboration Across K-1 Higher Education and the Broader Community * Dance and the Learning Brain and the Benefits of Mindfulness Practice * Colorado Dance Standards, Assessment and Curriculum Planning

Registration

 Seminar enrollment is limited to 30  Cost is $250  Teachers may sign up for CSU Continuing Education credit (fee required)

Information and Registration

2018 Key Note Speaker/Presenter

MARY ANN LEE is the director of the Tanner Dance Program and Children's Dance Theatre in the College of Fine Arts at the , where she is also an adjunct associate professor in the Dept. of . She trained with Virginia Tanner and was a member of Children's Dance Theatre. She has united educators and dance/movement artists in many ways, including the Side-by-Side program - now in its 20th year - which pairs dance artists with K-12 teachers to present arts integrated curriculum. Ms. Lee was a dance specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts' Artists-in-Schools program and taught throughout the United States. She has been an invited guest teacher in China, Japan, The Netherlands, Malaysia, Indonesia,

Thailand, England, Finland, Canada, and Brazil. Ms. Lee continues to teach at the University of Utah in the departments of Modern Dance and Education, and in the Tanner Dance Program. She teaches throughout Utah, nationally, and internationally.

Additional presenters include arts educators from CSU and across Colorado as well as education and integrated arts specialists focused on bringing movement in the classroom. In addition to CSU faculty, Dr. Patrick Fahey, arts education, Lisa Morgan, Judy Bejarano, and Amber Mazurana with CSU Dance, we are excited to have returning guest presenters Fritz Anders, Dalcroze Eurythmics specialist; Louis Baldwin, 4th grade teacher and movement integration specialist in Denver schools and Pamela Barker, social and emotional learning specialist.

Lisa Morgan | CSU School of Music, Theatre, and Dance | (970) 491-5529

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