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The STAGE Academy consists of seven modules, 41 movies and complete of seven+ hours of entertaining and academic content material the place Worldwide Keynote Speaker Vinh Giang will take you thru the foundations of communication and presentation. The toolkit you'll purchase will not be just for on-stage shows, it’ll assist you to in your off-stage communications as nicely. You will have one of the vital complicated devices on the earth – your voice. But when was the final time you sat down and discovered the right way to use it to its fullest potential? As soon as and for all, learn to grasp your instrument. No stone will likely be left unturned. Vinh will dive deep into vocal mastery, storytelling, physique language, and far rather more! You might be solely pretty much as good as you'll be able to talk. After you come via the Stage Academy, you come back amplifying the most effective components of who you might be, enhancing your means to guide the life you want. Cease enjoying a small model of your self, it’s time to interrupt out of your consolation zone and permit the larger model of you to shine via. Uncover the right way to unlock your voice and your potential. Vocal Mastery Learn to grasp your voice, crucial instrument in your life that means that you can have extra affect! Storytelling Uncover the ability of affect, connection and persuasion via masterful storytelling. Physique Language Be taught the foundations to physique language to deliver your message to life. Public Talking This is likely one of the most essential expertise as a frontrunner, enhance this and also you’ll amplify your management. Self Consciousness The second you be taught to turn out to be extra self conscious, you’ll be taught to see how others are at the moment seeing you! Storybank Be taught to construct a library of tales which you could pull from anytime!

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I’m always fascinated by the perspectives and points of view that people bring with them-- often that we don’t realize. Perhaps we’re ignorant or oblivious, perhaps the identities that inform those perspectives aren’t visible. So I was really intrigued to come across this interview with Carina Adly Mackenzie today. It’s a from a little over a year ago, and in it, she talks about  what it was like being a Muslim-American who was a teenager during 9/11...and one who was blonde and blue-eyed and often privy to the awful things people would say or do because they didn’t assume she was who they were talking about. I feel like it gives me another facet of understanding her writing, and what lens of sympathetic understanding she brings to some of the characters. It’s of particular note to me, because I often see criticism in fandom of Carina as a white woman without experiences of marginalization... and learning that there are some facts that make me reconsider a perceived reality always makes me want to reassess and reflect. https://www.mostresource.org/storybank/roswell-new-mexico-creator-talks-how-her-muslim-background-influenced-her-work/

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Connecting to the Curriculum Series: AHFES Hours at the DC Collaborative

  Submitted by: Eva Steinhardt, DC Collaborative Communications Intern

  June 15th, 2017

On Tuesday we invited our members to gather in our office in downtown DC for the second session of our AHFES Hours series. The AHFES Hours Series is centered around finding connections between our members’ educational offerings and DCPS curriculum. In this session, Donna Phillips and Scott Abbot, from the Office of Learning and Teaching, guided us through the structure and expectations of the DCPS Social Studies curriculum.

Many of the members who attended our first session at NMWA returned to learn more about curriculum connections. However, we also welcomed a number of new faces to the gathering – some of which were even new members to the collaborative. The composition of the group allowed us to explore discussions that were raised at NMWA, and to hear new perspectives and concerns. The hour-long session was informative and nuanced, shedding new light on the AHFES application process – which has a deadline of         June 30th – and allowing members to satisfy their curiosity about the aims behind DCPS curriculum creation. 

As you may know, we moved into our current office in Penn Quarter at the start of 2017. The location is very near to several of our longest standing member organizations and has given us the perfect space to expand into. During our time here we have strived to establish an open, creative, and intellectually-stimulating office culture.

Catch the workshop on our Twitter archive:  

We were thrilled to dedicate this space to our AHFES Hours event and host over twenty of our members. In celebration of our biggest in-office collaboration yet we live streamed the whole hour on Twitter. If you missed the event, or were simply curious as to what was discussed, you can watch the archived stream of our first Twitter Live here. 

Thanks again to all our members that made the effort to come out on Tuesday – and especially our friends from DCPS Social Studies who presented. It was, as always, enriching to hear your stories and thoughts on the important work done in our community. If you did attend the meeting we would love you to fill a quick survey (link here)! This data allows us to keep adapting our events in order to make them as useful as possible to our members and community.

We plan to continue theses curricular connection conversations with DCPS Arts, ELA and Social Studies throughout the year and hope to provide more opportunities for our members to connect with other teams, including Math and Science in the future. We will keep you posted about further meetings throughout the next few months and are ready to help with any questions you may have regarding the AHFES application process.

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Cheryl 'measures up' at Mary Poppins Storybank. (at Story Bank Maryborough) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDIOcPvnwuL/?igshid=imnavdm2p122

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Policymaking 101: The Power of Effective Storytelling

Effective policy-making often begins with a powerful story. Stakeholder X was impacted by health policy challenge A, and went to a gathering where Policymaker Y was in attendance. ‘X’ asked ‘Y’ to tell her story, and everyone in the room was thereby galvanized to get busy solving the problem.

The current debate about the best way forward for providing health care for all Americans is ‘Exhibit A’. Some believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be dismantled or uprooted “root and branch”, as some have insisted. Many more believe that affordability problems in certain markets are not reason enough to repeal the ACA, especially if proposed replacements would make matters worse - in many cases much worse. Other views are more aspirational, such as those citizens who are more interested in a single-payer approach (e.g. Medicare for all).

Each side claims to have heard from stakeholders on their side of the argument who need to be rescued from those holding opposing views. Resolution will likely depend on who can tell a more persuasive story. Arguments that depend merely on data and charts are useful, but health care is inherently personal, and often emotional, so that storytelling becomes central to resolving thorny policy issues in order to benefit the greatest number of people.  

Some organizations create and deploy story banks, an effective tool for patients and advocates to communicate how they dealt with the health policy challenges in their lives. This is often key to community based participatory research (CBPR), a model that integrates community participation into the research process in a way that often requires storytelling. 

Needless to say policymakers should themselves consider becoming master storytellers. A hospital administrator who can more poignantly describe how the closure of their emergency room would impact trauma care for miles around. Similarly, a local food bank can more adroitly describe the critical role they play in the nutritional needs of their communities, thus motivating legislatures and elected and appointed executives to take decisive (and expeditious) action. 

In order to integrate storytelling into policy-making stakeholders can start right where they are. There are many tools to help make this a reality, and many examples of how it has made a difference.  

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A Day in the Life of Benet Conlin-National Service Member Spotlight from October!

Nominated and written by Helen Bisioulis, AmeriCorps VISTA Leader

Benet Conlin is an AmeriCorps VISTA working at the Iowa Community Action Association (ICAA) in Des Moines, Iowa. She hails from Waterloo, Iowa and moved to Des Moines, Iowa to go to school at Drake and graduated in December 2015 with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology. Join me as we peer into an average day in Benet’s life and get to know her inner world.

One of Benet’s goals has been to eliminate the stereotypes that surround people living in poverty, and she gets to do just that during her AmeriCorps VISTA service year. Her Volunteer Assignment Description (VAD) focuses on creating a Poverty Awareness Storybank. What this means is that she gets to capture the stories of the people who utilize Community Action resources all over the state of Iowa. She does this by creating videos from interviews already conducted, narratives, and quote graphics. Thus far in her VISTA year, she has edited over 300 hours of raw video footage. Out of the twenty or so videos that she has created, many are still waiting in the approval process before they get to be released on ICAA’s website, Facebook, and/or YouTube page.

Benet is halfway through her service and for a good part of her service, she would go in everyday and watch and edit the interviews of people utilizing Community Action services. They are people who have hit rough spots in their lives and people that she can relate to because she didn’t grow up in the easiest of living situations either. Benet grew up in poverty herself, being raised by a single mom who worked two jobs, went to school, and took care of her. From the ages of 5-14, Benet lived in a trailer park with her mother. Her father is divorced from her mother and comes from an upper middle-class background. Because her parents came from two different socioeconomic worlds, there was much misunderstanding between the two, so she relates well with those she is serving.

Benet spent time reflecting with me about stereotypes that surround poverty, recalling times in her past where she began connecting the dots as a child. “I remember I had head lice when I was a child. My dad and his family thought that it was because we were living in a ‘dirty’ situation. The doctor told my mom and I that head lice actually prefers clean hair, and that I had probably contracted it from a kid at school.” Benet tells me.

Another time was when she went to a food bank in Waterloo with a friend and her grandfather, who utilized the food bank. She noticed that the people utilizing the food bank all looked and dressed differently from each other, that there was no one size fits all for poverty.

“There was a woman and her daughter both wearing pajama pants. But then there were people in business casual attire. It made me think though that both would be criticized of taking advantage of the system. The woman and her daughter wearing pajama pants could be called lazy while the people in business attire could get heat from some people who would wonder why they are there in the first place. Some people might think that if they are poor, they question why they have nice clothes,” Benet reflected.

It seems that people living in poverty just can’t win and are constantly misrepresented by people who misunderstand what poverty is. That’s why Benet is excited about making videos that bust these myths. Videos that showcase everyday people who have fallen into tough times and do not deserve to be viewed as less than because of that.

When Benet is not hard at work busting the myths of poverty, she is at home watching Netflix and sewing. On the weekends, she enjoys going watching anime with her friends and going home to visit family. She has also volunteered in the community, helping with the food bank at Impact Community Action, and even spent a day clearing out leaves and debris from a downtown Des Moines historical building.

After her AmeriCorps VISTA year, Benet plans on trying to get work as a social worker or case worker. She then would like to pay off her private student loans and pursue a Masters in Anthropology degree with a concentration in Native American Studies.

If you are interested in watching any of the Storybank videos that Benet has edited, you can visit ICAA’s website at https://iowacommunityaction.org/, their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/IowaCAA/, or their YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJ1XqDIozQWEmyYnf19O9Q/videos.

Do you know a National Service member that we should spotlight?  Nominate them today at volunteeriowa.org!

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The Wunderkind Projeckt: A Success Story

Submitted by: Eva Steinhardt, DC Collaborative Communications Intern May 10th, 2017

The Washington Bach Consort entered the performance space to a wave a clapping and cheers from an audience made up over two hundred 2nd to 6th graders. Recognizing the musicians from in-school workshops, which had been run in the schools over the last few weeks, the kids, welcomed the performers with giddy anticipation.

If you’re a regular reader of Story Bank then this program may be familiar to you. The Wunderkind Projeckt was featured on our blog last October when the revamped version of the program was just starting out. Here is a recap of the program:

“Professional musicians and educators from the Washington Bach Consort, “the nation’s premiere baroque chorus and orchestra” will visit your school and discuss an upcoming Noontime Cantata concert which students are then invited to attend. What will your students produce after experiencing Bach's music— a newfound appreciation for music and the arts, a 21st-century Bach revival? We can’t wait to see what your "wunderkinder" can accomplish!”

“A wunderkind is a person who achieves great success when relatively young”

Watching this group of DCPS students engaging with, and listening to the Noontime Cantata was a unique experience. The Wunderkind Projekt doesn’t underestimate the students that take part and that helps to explain the programs success. 

This school year, we are happy to announce, that The Wunderkind Projeckt has been expanded. In the 2015-16 school year five Noontime Cantatas were open to DC students from grades 6 to 12, serving 182 students. However in the 2016-17 school year, the program has become one of our largest Arts and Humanities for Every Student (AHFES) field-trips, hosting 33 field-trips for students for 1,548 students from grades 2 through 12. 

The Washington Bach Consort was able to dramatically increase the number of field-trips offered because they were among the DC Collaborative members who participated in the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ first ever Field Trip Initiative!

Thanks to this funding a far higher proportion of DC public and charter students were able to study, and experience, the music of Bach. The reach of the program has been extensive, covering a wide grade range and levels of expertise.

Each Cantata is preceded by a classroom visit and a customized curriculum. Therefore The Wunderkind Projeckt as a program can be adapted for different student groups. Teachers contribute valuable input into this specialized curriculum design, meaning that the program to fits comfortably into wider classroom themes.

The Wunderkind Projeckt is a fantastic example of what our AHFES programs have the potential to achieve. With thought, re-evaluation, and additional resources this project has served a total of 1,730 DCPS students, convincing many that singing in German really is cool!

Quick Links:

Washington Bach Consort 

Previous Story Bank Wunderkind Projekt feature

Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata Series

DC Collaborative

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

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DC Collaborative Connecting to Curriculum Round-table Series:

Everyday DC- A DCPS Arts Curriculum and Community Partnership

Submitted by: Rebekka Nickman, Development and Communications Coordinator March 31, 2017

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As part of a broader vision to strengthen our community of practice and expand upon our Collective Impact work, the DC Collaborative is helping to bridge the gap and foster new connections between our members, educators and the students we collectively serve. 

To ensure that our DC Collaborative members are developing high-quality programs that connect to relevant DCPS curriculum, the Collaborative began a series of professional development workshops called, “Connecting to Curriculum Round-table Series.” These Collaborative workshops highlight points of intersection between the arts and humanities and other academic studies, and assist teachers and members in connecting to the DCPS Framework for Arts Learning. We're happy to recap our recent convening here.

Connecting to Curriculum Round-table Series: Everyday DC- A DCPS Arts Curriculum and Community Partnership

This past Wednesday, March 29, Nathan Diamond, Director, DCPS Arts; Kristy Esparza, DCPS Visual and Digital Arts Specialist; Fareed Mostoufi, Senior Education Manager at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; and Allison Shelley, Pulitzer Center Grantee and award winning photojournalist presented a fantastic example of what a successful community partnership looks like when they discussed the Everyday DC project. This session was especially for DC Collaborative Members interested in visual literacy and connecting to the new DCPS Framework for Arts Learning and nearly 40 members attended!

The Blind Whino SW Arts Club  - our host for this Professional Development Workshop

About Everyday DC

Everyday DC was originally developed by The Pulitzer Center’s Education Department and inspired by Everyday Africa as a way to help students learn how to compile, curate and present their unique experience of DC through photography.

Adding on to the recent successes of the Pulitzer Center’s Everyday DC program, Kristy and Fareed connected and decided to expand this project into a Unit Plan for middle school students through the new DCPS Framework for Arts Learning. 

In this unit, students develop visual and cultural literacy skills, as well as perspective and empathy. They are asked to think critically about media representation of their communities and challenge the public perspective. This experience teaches students how art can be used for social engagement and problem-solving. In the first year of this community partnership, seven middle schools participated in the unit and exhibit.

Fareed and Kristy discuss successes and challenges of community partnerships.

The Everyday DC exhibition was also curated by middle school students.

Connecting to Curriculum Program Highlights

Nathan Diamond began the workshop by explaining a little bit about the new DCPS Framework for Arts Learning as a structure and how it can be used to bridge gaps between academic subjects. (The DC Collaborative is encouraging all members to incorporate this framework in all student programming moving forward.) 

Next, Kristy and Fareed discussed the implementation of the Everyday DC unit and the success and challenges with DCPS community partnerships. Then Allison described the project from a teaching artist’s perspective. Best practices and insights gained for future iterations were established.

Everyday DC Program Highlights:

Student work demonstrates increased understanding of photography techniques and vocabulary.

Student Engagement: Teachers reported an increase in student engagement. Students were able to connect and appreciate each other’s work.

Community Engagement: Positive feedback from the more than 100 parents, teachers, students, and staff from both organizations that attended the opening of the exhibition

The Pulitzer Center’s Everyday DC project was funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fareed interviews Allison about the teaching artist perspective of the Everyday DC project!

“We need to create a generation of critically-thinking, collaborative problem solvers. Students who know and understand world issues. Students who understand political and socioeconomic systems on a global scale. Students who recognize and appreciate cultural diversity. If we really want to face and solve the problems of this complex, multifaceted, diverse, and complicated world, we need a generation of students who are strong in all the C’s: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global competency.” - Jamie Casap, Global Education Evangelist at Google

Future Collaborations

DC Collaborative Executive Director, Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe closed the meeting by encouraging all members to connect to the DCPS Framework for Arts Learning. She informed the participants that the DC Collaborative programming committee has recommended that all AHFES applications for the 2017-2018 school year incorporate this new framework.

We look forward to providing more training and encouraging more collaborations that will lead to more curricular connections!

Quick Links:

Connecting to Curriculum Powerpoint Presentation

Everyday DC DCPS Unit Plan

Where you at the PD? Fill out the Post-Event Survey!

DCPS Framework For Arts Learning Web Site

DCPS

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

National Endowment for the Arts

Blind Whino SW Arts Club

Read More:

”Washington, DC Public School Students Showcase "Everyday DC" in New Photojournalism Exhibit” - Ifath Sayed, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

“EverydayDC: Student Photographers React to Exhibit” - Arthur Jones II, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

“Collaborative Effect in Action: Connecting to Curriculum Round-table Series” - Katie Greer, DC Collaborative Storybank Blog

“’Walk Like a Journalist’ with 5th graders from Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School" - Fareed Mostoufi, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

“An ‘Everyday’ Exhibition” - Amanda Ottaway, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

“Member Feature: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting” - Rebekka Nickman, DC Collaborative Storybank Blog                                  

More photos from the Blind Whino SW Arts Club - Thank you to our hosts!

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ArtsAction DC Advocacy Day 2017

Submitted by: Eva Steinhardt, DC Collaborative Communications Intern  Wednesday, March 29, 2017

From The Hill to The Wilson Building

On March 22, the arts and humanities community of DC moved from The Hill, where they had been gathered for Americans for the Arts National Arts Advocacy Day, to the John A. Wilson Building for our local ArtsAction DC Arts Advocacy day!

The day started off with an advocacy training session led by DC Collaborative's Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe and national advocacy briefing provided by Americans For the Arts. Throughout the day conversations and meetings were held between DC government officials, and the caretakers and advocates, of Washington’s arts and humanities spaces, programs, educators, artists and creatives.

The message these advocates sought to share was a unified one. Three requests were made in every meeting - whether the meeting was held with a councilmember, a staff representative, or Mayor Bowser. These requests were:

Return Funding of DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities to at least $25 Million

Provide Financial Support to Implement the DC Cultural Plan (upon its completion in April)

Develop a new funding cohort for the Commercial Arts/Professional Services Sectors of the Creative Economy

Organized by ArtsAction DC, these three requests summarize the legislative priorities of our local arts and humanities community. Our cultural organizations, artists and educators are looking towards a future where The District both sustains and is sustained through an investment in arts and humanities. This hopeful tone was conveyed in yesterday’s meetings, as culture advocates shared their stories, and vision, with local representatives.

ArtsAction DC Members, including DC Collaborative’s Executive Director Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe, meet with Mayor Muriel Bowser, Kay Kendall, Chair, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) and Arthur Espinosa, Jr., Executive Director, DCCAH.

Politics and Art: A Jam Session

However ArtsAction DC Arts Advocacy day wasn’t confined to the meetings that took place. Armed with the understanding that the cultural scene of DC needs to be experienced in order to be understood, and that arts and humanities speaks loudest for itself, ArtsAction DC brought arts and humanities popups from across DC into the Wilson building’s corridors. This effort was complimented by Politics and Art: A Jam Session - organized by DC Collaborative Member Washington Performing Arts - that took place in the Wilson Building lobby that evening.

Politics and Art: A Jam Session, was an opportunity for the arts and humanities community of DC to come together in a creative, and meaningful, space. Rainbow drapes decorated the entrance hall pillars and the lobby became a stage where local musicians (including the Alice Deal School Jazz Band and other youth groups) were invited to preform. It was a rare opportunity to gather our arts and humanities community together to exchange ideas and visions for future collaboration.

The event did not go unnoticed by government officials in the building and many came to explore the scene - wandering the exhibition tables and learning about the many programs offered by a range of organizations. Some, such as Councilmember Grosso, Chair, Committee on Education and Councilmember Robert White, Jr. stepped up the stage and shared remarks on the value of the arts and humanities in the city. Thanks Councilmember Grosso for the DC Collaborative shoutout and for all you do to help ensure students have equitable access to the arts and humanities!

DC’s Arts Advocacy day capped off a week of national advocacy, by shifting the attention back to our local community, and bringing together a diverse range of arts and humanities stakeholders from across the city.

Quick Links

DC Collaborative Website

DC Collaborative Donation Page

Mayor Muriel Bowser

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

ArtsAction DC

Americans for the Arts National Arts Advocacy Day

ArtsAction DC Local Arts Advocacy day

Washington Performing Arts

Politics and Art: A Jam Session

Councilmember Grosso, Chair, Committee on Education

Councilmember White

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Arts and Humanities for EVERY Student Blog Series

Collective Impact

Submitted by: Maya Simkin, DC Collaborative Programs and Communications Intern Video by: Stone Soup Films Friday, March 17, 2017

Arts and Humanities Education Advocacy

We are excited to present the third video in the short documentary series made by Stone Soup Films on our programs on our Collective Impact! These videos are part of this month’s arts and humanities advocacy initiatives, where we will be showing off our work and our members who are critical to cultural programming for student in DC. This video features Arthur Espinosa, Jr. of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and several of our organized arts and humanities field trips to places like The Phillips Collection and Washington Bach Consort and Howard University Middle School for Math and Science. Thank you to to Stone Soup Films for helping us show off the highlights of our work! Next week we will be unveiling a mini-documentary for the end of the month!

Collective Impact Video Blog!

 Third blog in the #ArtsAndHuamnitiesForEveryStudent series

Arthur Espinosa describes watching the students light up in a way he never thought possible when they were taken backstage after a concert to meet the performers and ask questions. The interaction taking place on the actual set is unique in that it opens the curtains on how the arts get produced and pushes down the barrier between professional performers and the students.

He stresses the importance of making arts and humanities part of everyone’s daily experiences and of working with the community to impact the education of DC students. DC is host to some of the world’s best arts institutions, it’s important that students get to take advantage of it.

Thank you to to Stone Soup Films for helping us show off highlights of our work!

DC Collaborative helps upwards of 30,000 DC Public and Public Charter School students attend field trips throughout the school year. We are dedicated to providing access for all students to high quality arts and humanities education experiences like the ones in this video. Teachers can contact info@dccollaborative.org for more information to sign up for these opportunities.

You can donate here to help us reach more students!

Thanks to Stone Soup Films for the video!

Quick Links:

DC Collaborative Website

Stone Soup

DC Collaborative Donation Page

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Arts and Humanities for EVERY Student Blog Series

About the DC Collaborative

Submitted by: Maya Simkin, DC Collaborative Programs and Communications Intern Video by: Stone Soup Films Friday, March 24, 2017

Arts and Humanities Education Advocacy

This is the final video in the short documentary series that Stone Soup Films made about us! We are so thankful that Stone Soup was able to create these videos for us to use as part of a month of arts and humanities advocacy initiatives. We are grateful to our community partners that were featured in this video like The Kreeger Museum, Phillips Collection and Washington Bach Consort. This video encapsulates our mission and the work we do in partnership with our members to reach as many students as possible with meaningful arts and humanities educational programs. 

We are inspired by the work of our members and school partners to ensure that the cultural institutions are seen as a integral part of the education of DC’s students.

About the DC Collaborative Video Blog!

Fourth and final blog in the #ArtsAndHuamnitiesForEveryStudent series

Our Executive Director, Lissa Rosenthal-Yaffe, makes the case for the DC Collaborative and its members that collectively, the arts and humanities education community is making a crucial impact on student learning in the District when providing access to the education programming at cultural institutions. She looks forward to eventually working with all 85,000 students in the DC community both inside and outside of the classroom.

Linda Harper, Board President of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, comments on the rich cultural amenities in DC and the need for public schools to take advantage of these resources in the city. The DC Collaborative in partnership with its members, fills this void and acts as a bridge between DC cultural institutions and DC Public and Pubic Charter Schools.

Jeanette McCune, the Director for DC School and Community Initiatives at The Kennedy Center and DC Collaborative Board Member, says that the DC Collaborative has been necessary and dependable resource for students experiencing programs at The Kennedy Center as well as other institutions in the city.

Thank you to to Stone Soup Films for helping us show off highlights of our work!

DC Collaborative helps upwards of 30,000 DC Public and Public Charter School students attend field trips throughout the school year. We are dedicated to providing access for all students to high quality arts and humanities education experiences like the ones in this video.

You can donate here to help us reach more students!

Thanks to Stone Soup Films for the video!

Quick Links:

DC Collaborative Website

Stone Soup

DC Collaborative Donation Page

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Arts and Humanities for EVERY Student Blog Series

Professional Development Institute for Educators

Submitted by: Maya Simkin, DC Collaborative Programs and Communications Intern Video by: Stone Soup Films Friday, March 10, 2017

Arts and Humanities Education Advocacy

We are proud to unveil the second video in the short documentary series made by Stone Soup Films as part of this month’s arts and humanities advocacy initiatives! Constant development and learning is essential for teachers to continue doing meaningful work in their classrooms. The workshops have a focus on arts and humanities integration and give an opportunity for teachers to get together and share their ideas while picking up new ones. This video blog showcases the DC Collaborative’s Professional Development Institute for Educators that was held at The Kennedy Center. There is one more video blog and a mini-documentary that will be shown at the end of the month!

Professional Development Institute for Educators Video Blog!

Second blog in the #ArtsAndHuamnitiesForEveryStudent series

This film features a one of the Professional Development Institute Tell Your Story: Using Arts Integration to Impact Literacy, part of the DC Collaborative’s PD Institute Series. This event was co-produced by The Kennedy Center. Hear from teachers including Joanna Lewton, who is also a DC Collaborative Key Communicator, as they explain how arts and humanities integration training plays a crucial role in assisting teachers in the classroom. She says that she came out of the workshops with new ideas to bring back to her staff immediately. Teachers actively participate in hands-on activities which include dance, bookmaking, storytelling, music and even stop motion animation that they can incorporate in their classrooms.

Thank you to to Stone Soup Films for helping us show off highlights of our work!

DC Collaborative helps upwards of 30,000 DC Public and Public Charter School students attend field trips throughout the school year. We are dedicated to providing access for all students to high quality arts and humanities education experiences like this one.

You can sign up for free professional development workshops with several of our partners here. Topics change based on the workshop to expose teachers to a variety of issues and methods.

You can donate here to help us reach more students!

Thanks to Stone Soup Films for the video!

Quick Links:

DC Collaborative Website

Stone Soup

DC Collaborative Donation Page

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Arts and Humanities for EVERY Student Blog Series

Capital City Public Charter School Attends National Museum of Women in the Arts

Submitted by: Maya Simkin, DC Collaborative Programs and Communications Intern Video by: Stone Soup Films Friday, March 3, 2017

Arts and Humanities Education Advocacy

As part of this month’s arts and humanities education advocacy initiatives, we are thrilled to roll out a short documentary series on our programs and the work of our members made by  Stone Soup Films! Access to arts and humanities education opportunities are critical. We will showcase our work and the dedication of our members who share in our mission of equitable access to cultural programming for DC students in celebration of the arts and humanities advocacy and awareness building activities this month. There are two more video blogs and a mini-documentary that will be shown at the end of the month!

National Museum of Women in the Arts Video Blog! 

First blog in the #ArtsAndHuamnitiesForEveryStudent series

This film features Capital City Public Charter School’s field-trip to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), an example of one of the thousands of field-trips we offer, in partnership with our members, throughout the school year. 

Thank you to to Stone Soup Films for helping us show off highlights of our work!

Capital City Public Charter School Attends NMWA

Two of the museum educators, Ashley and Adrienne, share their perspectives on why art is an important part of a child’s education and the positive benefits it can have. Learning about art could make a child aware of their surroundings outside of the museum and give them another avenue for expression. They appreciate DC Collaborative’s commitment to uplifting these engaging arts and humanities field trips.

On a tour of the museum, children are active participants, asking and answering questions. One asks about a choice of background in a painting, clearly demonstrating attention to the presentation and understanding of artistic intention. They learn about how different colors in patterns used can express an artist’s feelings and portrayal of reality.

The Program

Thinking Routine Thursday

NMWA will be hosting two events as part of our March lottery called “Thinking Routine Thursday,” appropriate for grades 3-12 where students go on tours led by museum educators. The tours will teach students about several works in the museum and engage them in discussions so that they can connect the art to their own worlds. Make sure you sign up for this free opportunity for your school on April 6th or 13th!

DC Collaborative serves upwards of 30,000 DC Public and Public Charter School students attend field trips throughout the school year. We are dedicated to providing access for all students to high quality arts and humanities education experiences like this one.

You can donate here to help us reach more students!

Thanks to Stone Soup Films for the video! 

Quick Links:

DC Collaborative Website

NMWA website

NMWA AHFES Feature Page

Stone Soup