Crittenden Arts Council’s Delta Aesthetic Education Institute hosts a Lincoln Center National Educator Workshop July 6-10, 2009, in West Memphis, Arkansas at the West Memphis Sr. High School Performing Arts Center. Educators can discover how to unlock imaginative learning through engaging with works of art in this five-day workshop.

Other sites for Lincoln Center National and International Educator Workshop include:

• New York City, New York (July 6-10 and July 13-17, 2009)
• Kalamazoo, Southern Michigan/Chicago, Illinois (June 15-19, 2009)
• Palm Desert, California (June 18-19, 2009)
• Albany, New York (August 3 – 7, 2009)

For one week you will:

• Attend music, theatre, or dance performances and visit museums of public art sites
• Participate in hands-on workshops and in research focused on the works of art you will see
• Hear lectures by guest educators, participate in discussions with working artists and experts, and debate provocative thinking on the arts, imagination and education
• Delve into Maxine Greene’s writings
• Learn to plan a curriculum using Lincoln Center Institute’s unique aesthetic education approach—the arts as the gateway to imaginative learning and higher order thinking skills
• Join discussion groups and generate ideas for own work
• Examine and invent ways to integrate imaginative teaching and learning techniques into classroom practice

Teachers may also receive graduate credit through the University of Central Arkansas. The cost is $525 per teacher (an additional fee may be paid to the University for graduate credit), and a minimum team of two teachers is required per school. Space is limited. This is a life changing opportunity not to be missed!

Delta Aesthetic Education Institute Focus Schools: Jackson Elementary and Wedlock Elementary, West Memphis, Arkansas www.wmsd.net. Click on L.R. Jackson Elementary or Wedlock Elementary.

Lincoln Center Institute Website

For more information call Amelia Barton at 870.732.6260 or email abarton@crittendenarts.org.