The Riverside County Office of Education is proud to support Mono County Office of Education (MCOE), which is one of the four collaborative counties in the Region 10 service region of the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA). MCOE, in partnership with the Mono Arts Council, is offering its inaugural Create Eastern Sierra Summer Arts Institute CESSAI) in June 2021. The CESSAI will provide arts training and tools that meet the California Arts Standards and address Social and Emotional Learning Competencies for teachers to integrate  into their classrooms. 

June 21, 2021 – June 22, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. via Zoom

FEATURED SPEAKERS 

Skateboards, Speech and Seashells: Finding Joy in Arts Integration
Merryl Goldberg
Professor of Music and Arts Integration
California State University, San Marcos

Watt’s Up: The Joy of the Arts in STEAM Lessons
Louisa Higgins
Visual and Performing Arts Administrator
Riverside County Office of Education

The CESSAI online workshops will be interactive and engaging and are 90 minutes long. There should be about 25–30 minutes after each lesson for reflection and questions. Each attendee will walk away with new ideas and tools to use for integrating arts successfully and knowledge on how to address social-emotional competencies in their lessons and classrooms. The last session of each day will be round tables with the teaching artists to help design integrated units and discuss ideas.

The registration fee for this year’s online CESSAI workshop is $100. Teachers currently working in Mono County are free. The event will take place over Zoom this year.

For more information, please contact: Dr. Stacey Adler, Superintendent of Schools, Mono County Office of Education, sadler@monocoe.org, Shana Stapp, Special Program and Adult Education Coordinator, Mono County Office of Education, sstapp@monocoe.org, or Kristin Reese, Executive Director Mono Arts Council, kristin@monoarts.org.

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