1. ART = of Deeper Learning
Marcy DeJesús-Rueff, EdD
Art of the Protest
MOST Learning
2 minutes
Introduce mysel & my belief that art is a social justice issue and a matter of equity

2. Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
10 minutes
Read the poem out loud and then take a moment to find the one word or short phrase – other than the word kindness – that really hits you…
Share your name and what grades and subjects you teach with the whole group – and then read your word or phrase.
Need information on what grades and subjects participants teach.

3. LEARNING TARGETS: I can…
Explain how focusing on art leads to deeper learning experiences in many different disciplines.
Actively participate and collaborate in this workshop.
Have a terrific time and help others enjoy themselves, too!
5 minutes
Unpack a bit – getting to DL means “Start with Art!”

4. Michael Grab’s Sculpture-
5 minutes
Watch just a bit of this video

5. What is going on here? What makes you say that? What else can we find?
  VTS QUESTIONS
What is going on here?
What makes you say that?
What else can we find?
5 minutes
Introduction to VTS

6. Review Edutopia Lesson
7 minutes to read & highlight

7. What is going on here? What makes you say that? What else can we find?
  VTS QUESTIONS
What is going on here?
What makes you say that?
What else can we find?
5 minutes
So now we’ll come back to VTS

8. Deeper Learning Prepares Students To:
Know and master core academic content;
Think critically and solve complex problems;
Work collaboratively;
Communicate effectively; and
Be self-directed and able to incorporate feedback.
5 minutes
Which aspects of Deeper Learning were highlighted in this lesson?

9. When you experience a work of art, your senses connect with your emotions. Your emotions then engage your intellect, and together your emotions and intellect ignite huge numbers of neurons to create understanding and memory.
5 minutes
But we CAN use the arts beyond culture – to propel other disciplines, especially the most difficult content, into Deeper Learning…THIS IS WHY IT WORKS!

10. One Stone by Robert Lax
one stone one stone one stone i lift one stone one stone i lift one stone and I am thinking i am thinking as I lift one stone
5 minutes
Read in a round robin
Use VTS to unpack…

11. one stone one stone one stone
Robert Lax Poetry
Stone, he realized, was one word he felt sure about. One word he could write down and feel confident a reader would understand. Standing there, he started a poem that began:
one stone one stone one stone
i lift one stone one stone
Although he’d written unusually vertical poetry before, publishing some in the New Yorker, this was his first poem in what critics would come to call his minimalist or concrete style. He wrote more—dozens in the days ahead—feeling freer every time he set one down. A year later, Emil Antonucci, an artist who had collaborated with him before, published a book of them called simply New Poems.
from:
5 minutes
Beginning of minimalist poetry

12. How did Michael Grab’s sculptures help you better understand Robert Lax’s poem?
2 minutes

13. How did Michael Grab’s sculptures help you better understand Robert Lax’s poem?
What did the poem by Robert Lax help you understand better about the sculptures by Michael Grab?
2 minutes

14. Micro-Macro by Nobuho Nagasawa
So now we’ll turn to the piece I want to focus on for the next part of our workshop.
This is a local work of public art – located across the water in the Public Utilities Environmental Monitoring & Technical Services Laboratory.
Use VTS questions…

15. How did Nobuho Nagasawa’s work Micro-Macro help you better understand Robert Lax’s poem?
2 minutes

16. How did Nobuho Nagasawa’s work Micro-Macro help you better understand Robert Lax’s poem?
What did the poem by Robert Lax help you understand better Micro-Macro?
2 minutes

17. Time to Design an Art-Math Connection
First together….
10 minutes
I’m going to model my thinking about how I and other math teachers have gone about creating these art-math connections:
If we can do this in math, it should be a piece of cake in other disciplines, right?

18. HOW TO DESIGN RIGOROUS ARTS-INTEGRATED TASKS
SELECT THE CONTENT STANDARDS:
Pick a standard that is extremely important for your grade level;
Focus on an area where students traditionally struggle;
Include a standard requiring a large amount of practice to master.
SELECT A WORK OF ART:
Be certain this work of art clearly embodies the content you want to teach and will allow for a cycle of problem solving.
Select a work of art that you find enjoyable.
Keep it local, if possible, to give your students an opportunity for hands-on experience – a local museum, gallery, artist, etc.
DESIGN THE TASK:
Include a cycle of problem solving, not just “once and done;”
Create a synthesis that requires students to re-examine the work of art, now through the lens of their new learning.
Continue the 10 minutes from before…
Review these points…especially the ones in red!
And here’s the actual task: Find the scale factors for each of these organisms…Do you think they’re all the same scale? Why or why not? How are we going to find out…?

19. Time to Design an Art-_____ Connection
On chart paper….
5 minutes
Now’s the time for you to work on your own connection – just a quick one!

20. HOW TO DESIGN RIGOROUS ARTS-INTEGRATED TASKS
SELECT THE CONTENT STANDARDS:
Pick a standard that is extremely important for your grade level;
Focus on an area where students traditionally struggle;
Include a standard requiring a large amount of practice to master.
SELECT A WORK OF ART:
Be certain this work of art clearly embodies the content you want to teach and will allow for a cycle of problem solving.
Select a work of art that you find enjoyable.
Keep it local, if possible, to give your students an opportunity for hands-on experience – a local museum, gallery, artist, etc.
DESIGN THE TASK:
Include a cycle of problem solving, not just “once and done;”
Create a synthesis that requires students to re-examine the work of art, now through the lens of their new learning.
Continue the 5 minutes

21. A Bit of Quiet Relection
What are your takeaways?
What do you still need?
2 minutes

22. I Used to Think… But Now I Think…
5 minutes
Closing Circle…

23. And please remember that ART is a matter of social justice and equity!
Thank you!
And please remember that ART is a matter of social justice and equity!