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Register Now! Sustaining Artful Instruction and Learning, Jun 20-22 Marriott Montgomery Prattville at Capitol Hill

Sustaining Artful Instruction and Learning (SAIL) a new program offered by the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, combines the best of two already-successful programs developed by AAAE: the Imaginative Learning Workshop, which has for 16 years offered professional development in support of arts integration, and Making Value Visible, which began two years ago, and focuses on assessment in the arts. SAIL is available to educators throughout the state, providing professional development for classroom teachers, arts educators and administrators in support of K-12 education. SAIL, which promotes the symbiosis of arts and education, will be delivered each year with two tracks, lasting two days each, and will provide follow-up to all participants through ongoing webinars connecting educators in a statewide community of learners. Track I: Creating Value will focus on concept based arts integration strategies that may be applied to K-12 students by classroom teachers, and/or teaching artists and arts specialists, with an introduction to assessment strategies. Track II: Making Value Visible will focus on innovative documentation as an assessment strategy. The documentation methods will measure learning in the arts throughout the creative process, providing multiple opportunities for educators to review, evaluate and revise teaching practices. All participants will work together to explore meaningful documentation of student work, sharing concrete evidence of the value of arts education in order to support, sustain and advocate for arts programming.