Middle Eastern

Alhambra Unified School District

Special Education

Yes

About:

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US) is a recognized leader in the fields of arts education, mentorship and community building, having been a thriving force in the underserved neighborhoods of Los Angeles County for over two decades. Our participant-driven theatre-arts programs utilize arts education to mitigate the underlying family and community risk factors that threaten the healthy development of the 1,000+ children and adults we serve annually (90% in grades 5-12), including foster youth and incarcerated minors. Designed to empower youth with lifelong skills, the benefits of our programs go beyond the reach of a typical arts education workshop to provide vulnerable youth with the hope and confidence to overcome their difficult surroundings.

US was founded over 20 years ago with the mission to empower youth in underserved and at-risk environments with the means and methods necessary to explore personal and social conflicts and develop self-esteem and communication and coping skills in order to make positive life choices and become productive members of the community. Since then, US has grown from a small youth-intervention program into a collaborative, community-based theatre arts organization with a presence in underserved schools and juvenile detention camps throughout Los Angeles County. Today, with a staff of 7; a roster of 20 professional teaching artists; best-practice, standards-based curricula; and a significant role in countywide collaborative efforts, US’s innovative, place-based programs now serve over 1,000 Los Angelinos each year between the ages of 7-65+.

Professional Development:

Description of 4 hour Lesson: Discovering Our Voice: Personal Expression through Theatre.
The Unusual Suspects 4 hour interactive professional development workshop provides middle school teachers the tools to build a creative classroom environment where students feel safe to explore personal and social group identities; and develop characters and story lines which become the foundational material to fuel a collaborative playwriting process. The US presenter will use theatre arts and playwriting exercises that demonstrate theatrical story development, script writing, and improvisation techniques. The standards based, language arts enrichment workshop will utilize ensemble exercises to establish trust, improvisation techniques to illustrate conflict and character development strategies, and writing exercises to explore the link between personal, cultural, and community issues.

Get Lit - Words Ignite

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Get Lit - Words Ignite kwall Thu, 02/16/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(213) 388-8639

Website

http://www.getlit.org

Supervisorial District Located

Second

District Partners

Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)

Downey Unified School District

El Rancho Unified School District

Hacienda la Puente Unified School District

Inglewood Unified School District

Montebello Unified School District

San Marino Unified School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

Burbank Unified School District

Special Education

About:

Get Lit – Words Ignite fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy and cultivate enthusiastic learners emboldened to inspire social consciousness in diverse communities. “Claim Your Poem, Claim Your Life.”

Get Lit – Words Ignite brings the transformative power of poetic expression to thousands of underserved young people each year through a unique standards based curriculum that fuses classic literature and poetry with contemporary spoken word techniques and performance while developing multiple literacies, refining creative self-expression, and fostering cultural understanding and social engagement. Poets, students, teachers, coaches, and mentors bring the Get Lit Curriculum into Los Angeles schools and connect them to each other through the countywide Classic Slam, where thousands come out to snap their fingers in response to crackling performances. Our award winning troupe, The Get Lit Players, perform classic and original poems in schools, performance venues, festivals, and public spaces throughout Southern California and the nation. The interrelated practices of reading, writing, and performance that are built into these programs combine with personal responsibility, empathy, and motivation to overcome obstacles to learning and build a foundation of self-confidence that equips youth to be successful, contributing citizens.

Student Programming:

The Get Lit curriculum has been offered in Los Angeles high schools since 2006. Currently, over 7,000 teens from nearly 100 high schools graduate from the program, which is taught in multiple classrooms in each school. The curriculum consists of reading, writing, memorizing and performing classic and spoken word poetry in a 12-lesson unit plan aligned to the Common Core Standards (Strand 9 and Strand 11: numbers 3,4,6,7 and 10). Students select poems by writers such as Kim Addonizio, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Gabriel Garcia Lorca, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, Tupac Shakur, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, and many others. Then, they write their own poems in response. This reflective, expressive process ignites a passion for language that fuels learning and a life long love of poetry and literature, while engaging each student’s deepest level of humanity and creativity.

Education Through Music-LA

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Education Through Music-LA kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 19:10

Phone

818-433-7600

Website

http://www.etmla.org

info@etmla.org

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.CenterTheatreGroup.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

Education Through Music-Los Angeles puts music back into inner-city schools as part of the core curriculum for every child, where it belongs. Education Through Music-LA is serving nearly 12,000 students with weekly, yearlong music instruction. Music has the power to transform the lives of children and their communities, and to provide them with such lifelong benefits including self-confidence, problem-solving skills, teamwork, perseverance, concentration, and motivation to stay in school.

Our objectives include:

Weekly, yearlong instruction for every child.
Integration across the curriculum to reinforce overall learning.
Ongoing training for music teachers and class teachers.
Guidance for school leaders to build towards sustainability.
Parent engagement and involvement as advocates for their music program.

Student Programming:

ETM-LA establishes strong partnerships with Los Angeles County schools to provide comprehensive, high-quality music education based on CA State and National Standards, during the school day. While many programs may serve only a subset of the school population, we provide equity for all children, including those with special needs, engaging every child with weekly, yearlong standards-based instruction that integrates skills and concepts across the curriculum.

Areas of instruction include general music, strings, guitar, recorder, ukulele, band, and chorus, determined through customized planning with each school. Depending on the grade level, each student receives one 30-50-minute music class weekly throughout the entire school year in a designated music room.

Professional Development:

In order to ensure high quality instruction for all students, music teachers participate in six annual professional development workshops and a five-day intensive training institute every August. We also provide academic teachers at partner schools with professional development workshops on how to connect skills and concepts from the music curriculum into lesson plans. In addition, ETM-LA helps principals and school district leaders plan for long-term sustainability.

Our in-school music education and training programs are overseen by Program Director Ryan Rowles, M. Ed, a school music educator with over 16 years’ experience, as well as Executive Director Victoria Lanier, a Juilliard Pre-College trained violinist with a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. in Education from Columbia Teachers College. ETM-LA's professional development workshops are hands-on, relevant to the participants and their teaching needs, and customized to provide support for a wide range of teaching levels.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

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Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 19:10

Phone

(310) 972-3022

Website

education@ctgla.org

Supervisorial District Located

First

District Partners

El Monte City School District

El Monte Union High School District

ICEF Public Schools Charter Network

PUC Schools Charter Network

Magnolia Public Schools Charter Network

Green Dot Public Schools Charter Network

Alhambra Unified School District

Antelope Valley Union High School District

Arcadia Unified School District

Bassett Unified School District

Beverly Hills Unified School District

Castaic Union School District

Centinela Valley Union High School District

Burbank Unified School District

Charter Oak Unified School District

Claremont Unified School District

Culver City Unified School District

Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)

Covina-Valley Unified School District

Downey Unified School District

Duarte Unified School District

East Whittier City Elementary School District

El Rancho Unified School District

Glendale Unified School District

Gorman Elementary School District

Hacienda la Puente Unified School District

Hawthorne School District

Hermosa Beach City Elementary School District

Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District

Inglewood Unified School District

Keppel Union Elementary School District

Lancaster Elementary School District

Las Virgenes Unified School District

Lawndale Elementary School District

Lennox School District

Little Lake City Elementary School District

Los Nietos School District

Lynwood Unified School District

Manhattan Beach Unified School District

Monrovia Unified School District

Montebello Unified School District

Mountain View Elementary School District

Newhall School District

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District

Palmdale Elementary School District

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

Paramount Unified School District

Pomona Unified School District

Redondo Beach Unified School District

Rosemead Elementary School District

Rowland Unified School District

San Gabriel Unified School District

San Marino Unified School District

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Saugus Union School District

South Pasadena Unified School District

South Whittier Elementary School District

Sulphur Springs Union School District

Temple City Unified School District

Valle Lindo Elementary School District

Walnut Valley Unified School District

West Covina Unified School District

Whittier City Elementary School District

Whittier Union High School District

Wiseburn Unified School District

ABC Unified School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.theatreofhearts.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

At Center Theatre Group and under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, we believe theatre creates an extraordinary connection between artists and audiences that only starts on the stage. Theatre creates the energy that feeds a city, a culture, and a society. Theatre reflects the community it serves. As one of the nation’s most influential nonprofit theatre companies, we proudly continue our 50-year tradition of using the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives.

Center Theatre Group is a place where artists, audiences, community members, and students and educators connect through the power of storytelling. Our programs support artists at all points in their careers, engage audiences before and after the show, encourage our community to make theatre a part of their everyday lives, and inspire the next generation of theatregoers, artists, and artisans.

Student Programming:

Center Theatre Group's education programs support the next generation of theatregoers, artists, and artisans, encouraging them to learn more about themselves, the world, and the arts. Through workshops, events, discussions, and other programs, we encourage, support, and connect young people with theatre, and with one another.

Theatre of Hearts

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Theatre of Hearts kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

213.384.6878

Website

info@theatreofhearts.org

Supervisorial District Located

Second

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.LAChoreographersAndDancers.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

Theatre Of Hearts, Inc. was founded as a nonprofit corporation in 1987 to promote understanding between people through cultural and artistic forums and to empower local communities through education in the arts. In the wake of civil unrest in Los Angeles in 1992, Theatre Of Hearts initiated our Youth First Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Program. Our mission is to prevent and intervene in youth violence by involving underserved, at-risk youth, ages 4-18, in long-term high quality, multidisciplinary, standards-based arts educational workshops throughout Los Angeles County. The TOHYF Artist-In-Residence Program is established with the goal of activating the potential for profound transformation in the individuals we serve through the act of their creating art and thereby being empowered to make meaningful contributions to their community. Our overarching objective is to advance innovative standards based arts programming in visual and performing arts including writing that keeps pace with current trends in the educational systems we serve as well as providing these services in the midst of significant shifts in the demographics and cultural orientations in communities across Los Angeles County. We provide excellent custom-designed arts education at urban schools, probation camps, juvenile halls, low-income housing communities, and libraries. We have witnessed the power of Youth First Artist-in-Residence programs to transform lives and to strengthen communities with over 150,000 young people and their families served since 1992.

Student Programming:

A professional artist-mentor is carefully selected to provide the participating group of 15-35 youth with hands-on arts instruction for the duration of the program. Sessions average at 2-4 hours, once or twice a week, during school or after school for 13-15 weeks for each discipline. TOHYF staff works closely with site administrators to custom design and select Visual and Performing Arts, (VAPA) Standard Based curriculum in (theatre, music, dance, visual arts and creative writing) that will address the specific needs of the youth being served. The TOHYF's entire curriculum is also designed to alien with the Common Core Standards.

TOHYF program activities are monitored with particular attention to art form techniques and vocabulary as well as academic learning outcomes. At the beginning of each artist residency, pre-tests are administered to students in order to gather a baseline assessment of foundation skills, vocabulary and terminology, as defined by the California Department of Education's VAPA Standards. The results are compared to post-tests collected at the residency's close. In every case, participants who engage in Youth First AIR programs achieve test scores that show significant gains in mastery of the subject matter over the course of the program.

Professional Development:

Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First professional development offers a wide range of opportunities for teachers and administrators of all grade levels and subjects. Educators are engaged in art making as the means to develop innovative strategies to energize their approach to teaching and transform classroom dynamics. Each professional development event or series is custom designed to feature highly interactive sessions led by professional Artist Mentors. The result is an inspirational and fun way for the transfer of arts integration techniques and connecting language arts skills to one or more arts disciplines: creative writing, storytelling, or any of the visual and performing arts. The design of the training may support a Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First Artist-In-Residence project or act as a stand-alone resource for schools sites and districts. Focus areas include but are not limited to: Art-making, Cooperative Learning, Innovative Teaching Strategies, Lesson Planning and Unit Design, Community Involvement, Social and Emotional Learning, Special Populations, National Core Arts Standards, Arts as School Reform, and Multi-cultural Connections.

Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers

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Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

(213) 458-3066

Website

louisehr@LAChoreographersAndDancers.org

Supervisorial District Located

Second

District Partners

ICEF Public Schools Charter Network

Culver City Unified School District

Glendale Unified School District

Hacienda la Puente Unified School District

Hawthorne School District

Lawndale Elementary School District

Lennox School District

Los Nietos School District

Paramount Unified School District

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

South Pasadena Unified School District

South Whittier Elementary School District

ABC Unified School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.inner-cityarts.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

Each year we serve 20,000-27,000 youth ages 5-18. This year we have also renewed our family classic The Patchwork Girl of Oz, touring to NC, also sponsored locally by the Children's Literature Department of the LA Central Library. We also produce the annual San Pedro Festival of the Arts, which presents 20-24 professional dance companies. Thousands of sponsors include LA County Museum of Art, Mark Taper Auditorium, and Kidspace; we tour locally for the LA and SB County School Districts, expanding to 22 states, MX and Taipei. We have "education" grants from DCA LA, Knabe's Arts Education Partnership, and an RFP from the LAUSD. Principal's letter and evaluations. Press packet.

More Info:

Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers Arts Education
Fee sheet
Student Programming and Residencies

Student Programming:

Offerings include performances, workshops for students and professional development for teachers. These can become part of a Dance Residency or After-School Program. We have one of the best arts education programs focusing on dance available, and we also bring Physical Education programs of equal caliber for Charter and private schools. We have a wide variety of packages that include 10 workshops for 2 classes leading to performance with us at the school, 1 professional development for teachers, 2 performances by our professional dancers, and planning meetings and materials. We have another that has 20 or 30 workshops for 2-3 classes leading to performance. We have 10 programs that have been a staple on the Arts For All Website since it began.

Professional Development:

All our PD's: Creating a Dance (foundation), Weaving Dance into the Curriculum, Using Specific Cultural Dances, Writing a Dance-Choreographing An Essay, and Dance from "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" including our 1-time workshops, and residency Teacher/Teaching Artist collaborations where teachers follow up Reichlin modeling with their classes that leads to them actually teaching other teachers the lessons, prepare the participants to deliver sequential curriculum that meets the VAPA standards. Actual evaluations about the HANDOUTS: "The outlines were helpful in reading the handout- very interactive and it made all the staff want to participate." "It was a great reference & ideas, even assessment." "It gives a good quick overview of how to create a dance lesson." "Explains goals and objectives. It was engaging." "Clear purpose/objectives, connection to students" "Make it seem easier to include dance in the classroom. Fun and can be easily applied". "Creating a Dance" is our basic PD. Some specifics: the structure is an interactive movement class. We all moved before we could speak, and the emphasis in this PD is a warm-up session with Louise Reichlin. The participants become aware of the Elements of Dance, Space, Time, and Energy, and our body systems. We become aware of how we perceive movement, how we learn it, and how we can repeat it. Everyone perceives with a different part of their body system, and recognizing that helps each person understand each student has a unique way of learning, and multiple ways of presentation are necessary to teach. After the warm-up we learn a dance, and then break into four groups that design 8 counts each using the elements of dance and the Laban basics. Each is facilitated by our dancers. We put the entire dance together and perform it, followed by a discussion of the study guide notes, how to use this approach in the classroom, and finally a written evaluation. For more specifics on our PD's see Education on our website.

Inner-City Arts

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Phone

(213) 627-9621

Website

pd@inner-cityarts.org

Supervisorial District Located

Second

District Partners

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.calarts.edu/cap

Special Education

Yes

About:

Inner-City Arts' mission is to engage young people in the creative process in order to shape a society of creative, confident and collaborative individuals. We provide arts classes and workshops for school-aged children, classroom teachers and school administrators.

When budget cuts eliminated arts instruction from Los Angeles public schools in the late 1970s, it was up to local communities to fill the gap. Skid Row area schools and students, already struggling, were at a clear disadvantage—until artist and educator Bob Bates was inspired by a vision to "create an art space for kids" to serve this population. He and Irwin Jaeger, a businessman, teamed up to form Inner-City Arts in 1989. Knowing the benefits of the arts in the lives of all children, Bob and Irv were determined to bring the benefits of a safe, creative environment to children in downtown neighborhoods, who would otherwise miss out.

A groundbreaking—and enduring—partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District brought students from 9th Street Elementary School to Inner-City Arts' first studio space on Olympic Boulevard. In its inaugural year, Inner-City Arts served a total of 60 elementary school students. With evidence mounting that Inner-City Arts' unique approach to arts education supported student gains in literacy and overall achievement, principals and teachers from other schools soon signed on. Inner-City Arts forged collaborations with other educators and the academic community to develop new programs targeting specific student needs. Programs were created to support classroom teachers, bringing the lessons of the studio to other academic disciplines. To date, Inner-City Arts has served over 200,000 students and 10,000 teachers in the Los Angeles area

Professional Development:

Inner-City Arts’ Professional Development Institute serves 1,400 classroom teachers, teaching artists, administrators and community members annually.

For pre-service teachers: University Partnerships Supporting Teachers in the Arts (Upstarts) provides an opportunity for graduate education students to develop a foundation for bringing the arts into the classroom. In partnership with the UCLA Teacher Education Program, Mount Saint Mary’s College and Cal State Dominguez Hills, Upstarts has provided opportunities for over 1,000 new teachers.

For schools: Arts in the Classroom offers full-staff development for schools, providing an introduction to arts engagement, integration strategies, restorative practices and trauma-informed pedagogy.

For individual teachers, teaching artists and members of the public: In Creativity in the Classroom, Creativity Practicum and STEAM Connections, participants explore their own creativity through a variety of media, and then build bridges between the arts and other disciplines to foster literacy, inquiry, critical thinking and community in their students. LAUSD Salary Points and University Extension Units are available for these programs.

For administrators: Education, Arts and Social Emotional Learning (EASEL) is a program designed for principals and administrators who want to bridge arts instruction with other content areas through a lens of social-emotional learning and brain-based research.

For the public: The Visiting Scholars and Artists Series and Intersections include both hands-on and lecture style gatherings that explore theory, research and practice in arts education and related fields.

For information about Inner-City Arts Professional Development programs, please contact: Valerie Miller, Professional Development Manager, 213-627-9621

CalArts Community Arts Partnership

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CalArts Community Arts Partnership kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

(661) 222-7790

Website

cap@calarts.edu

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Newhall School District

Saugus Union School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.armoryarts.org

Special Education

About:

The award-winning CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a co-curricular program of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), offers free, after-school and school-based arts programs for youth ages 6-18 in every discipline taught at CalArts. Programs are offered at public schools, community centers and social service agencies across Los Angeles County. With classes led by a teaching corps of accomplished CalArts faculty, alumni and student instructors, CAP participants learn to create original works of art and to experiment with prevailing conventions of artistic expression. CAP’s success has served as a model for other arts education organizations locally and nationally. And the program has received numerous honors, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which recognizes exemplary programs that foster the creative and intellectual development of America’s children.

Student Programming:

The curriculum for each CAP class utilizes project based learning (PBL) strategies that align with Common Core State Standards and the Visual and Performing Arts standards approved by the state of California, as well as the interests, skills and goals of participants in the class. Partners are deeply engaged in every step of the visioning, foundation building, implementation, and evaluation stage of CAP Programs. In the beginning stages of a partnership, CAP and partner members form the Core Planning Team for each class. Both entities explore different aspects of the project, set goals and objectives, and develop processes and strategies for working together. Once a working relationship has been formed, CAP and partner staff meet throughout the program period. CAP programs culminate with a public exhibition for participants’ families and friends, which documents students’ work and helps them complete the creative process.

Armory Center for the Arts

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Armory Center for the Arts kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

626-792-5101 x111

Website

information@armoryarts.org

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Duarte Unified School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects