Native American

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

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

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

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

Castaic Union School District

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.

Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center

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Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

661-362-5305

Website

http://bit.ly/2tj2QTH

linda.candib@canyons.edu

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Newhall School District

Saugus Union School District

Sulphur Springs Union School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

El Monte City School District

Special Education

Yes

About:

The Santa Clarita PAC K-12 Arts Education Outreach Program provides exceptional workshops, residencies, assemblies & bus-in opportunities for schools and students. Our roster continues to grow as we add new teaching artists and workshop choices as well as exceptional assembly programs. All of our programming meets or exceeds California’s Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards, and many of them support the California State Common Core Standards.

Since 2010, the PAC K-12 Arts Education Outreach Program has grown from a program servicing one school with residencies to a program that is now in 30 out of 40 elementary schools in the Santa Clarita Valley. Working with more than twenty teaching artists and performers we bring a wide variety of programs to participating schools. In addition, we host between five and seven bus-in performances at our state-of-the-art theatre located on the College of the Canyons Valencia campus.

It is our belief that early first-hand exposure to the arts plays an important role in child development. To reach this goal, the K-12 Arts Education Outreach Program exposes students to the visual and performing arts, while collaborating with local educators to develop enhanced arts education programs. Through school assemblies, bus-in events, classroom visits and family performances, students enjoy performances that meet or exceed California’s Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards.

Student Programming:

Los Angeles Opera

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Los Angeles Opera kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

(213) 972-7219

Website

http://www.laopera.com

educom@laopera.org

Supervisorial District Located

First

District Partners

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

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

Manhattan Beach Unified School District

Special Education

Yes

About:

In just less than three decades of existence, LA Opera has become, under the leadership of Eli and Edythe Broad General Director Plácido Domingo, the United States' fourth largest opera company and "...stands out as a newly important force in American Opera." (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times). LA Opera created a sensation with its inaugural production of Verdi's Otello starring Plácido Domingo in 1986. Under founding general director Peter Hemmings and subsequently under Plácido Domingo, who became the company's general director in 2003, LA Opera has grown to become a company of international stature. LA Opera began producing opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles County in 1986. The Company currently performs six to eight operas a year, as well as several operas for students which tour Los Angeles area schools. About 120 people work at the Company year-round, planning new operas, raising money to produce the operas, selling tickets, working on lighting, costumes and scenic designs, managing the finances, and creating programs for the community. More people are added when an opera is being produced. People are hired to sing and play in the orchestra, make the costumes, work backstage, and direct the operas. Some of the famous artists who have worked at LA Opera include Eli and Edythe Broad General Director Plácido Domingo and Richard Seaver Music Director James Conlon; singers Sondra Radvanovsky, Eric Owens, Juan Diego Flórez, Bryn Terfel, Vittorio Grigolo, Nino Machaidze, Anna Netrebko and Patricia Racette; directors Woody Allen, Peter Hall, Franco Zeffirelli, William Friedkin and Robert Wilson; and designers David Hockney, Ian Falconer, Gerald Scarfe, Maurice Sendak, and Gottfried Helnwein. For more information about LA Opera’s extensive Education and Community Engagement programs which reach approximately 140,000 people per year, please visit our website: www.LAOpera.org, call 213.972.3157, or email educom@laopera.org.

Professional Development:

OPERA FOR EDUCATORS LA Opera's award-winning 6-part Opera for Educators series explores opera from interdisciplinary points of view. The series focuses on artistic perception (applying learned vocabulary to analysis of opera), criticism (making judgments about artwork and supporting them), and aesthetics (exploring the philosophy of art) while examining historical and cultural context of the works to support the core curriculum and district wide emphasis on literacy. Teachers begin each day with a four-hour survey of the day’s theme from experts in their academic fields, making interdisciplinary connections to opera while examining historical and cultural context of the works, with an emphasis on vocabulary and aesthetics and career connections. The workshop concludes with an opera recital and time for questions on integration to adapt and develop material and techniques for taking art into the classroom. The goal is for teachers to develop and construct original lessons intended for classroom use based on the material examined during the content sessions. There are six, five-hour sessions for 30 hours of total class time. Available for LAUSD salary points and UCLA Extension credit. DISCOVER OPERA Discover Opera is an introduction to the art form, opera production, and LA Opera with LA Opera artists, designers, and administrators. Teachers hear recitals, watch an orchestra tech rehearsal and take a back stage tour. Moreover, we give teachers the tools to take opera back into the classroom through hands-on arts-integration seminars addressing California Common Core Standards. There are four, five-hour sessions for 20 hours of total class time. Available for LAUSD salary points and UCLA Extension credit.

LA Arts Group

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LA Arts Group kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

Phone

626-378-1445

Website

http://LAArtsGroup.com

cammy@laartsgroup.com

Supervisorial District Located

Fifth

District Partners

Mountain View Elementary School District

Redondo Beach Unified School District

Discipline

Program Type

Grades Served

Historical & Cultural Context

Arts Integration Subjects

http://www.inner-cityarts.org

Special Education

Yes

About:

Los Angeles Arts Group (L.A. Arts Group) is committed to excellence in arts education and believes the arts are powerful tools for expression and communication and vital to the development of every child. Our goal is to provide high quality, standards-based arts education for grades K-12 in creative environment that promotes collaboration and respect. Our programs aim to engage students, teachers and the community to provide learning in and through the arts. L.A. Arts Group consists of trained and experienced professional artists in dance, music, theatre and visual arts.

Student Programming:

Artist residencies and workshops are aligned with the Visual and Performing Arts Standards and designed to integrate the arts with other subject areas. Teaching Artists bring professional experience, skills, and content knowledge in the art form, and collaborates with teachers to meet grade-level curricular standards. Students learn arts content, vocabulary, and skills, and have opportunities to develop self-expression, communication, and collaboration. The number of workshops depends on school/district goals for depth of student learning.

Inner-City Arts

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Inner-City Arts kwall Wed, 02/15/2017 - 16:10

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