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Arts educator says school residencies spark curriculum but staff lack funding for professional learning
Summary
A meeting speaker described how professional artist residencies and arts programs can drive classroom projects and social-emotional learning, and urged more learner agency and financial support for ongoing staff development.
Speaker 1, an arts educator and program administrator, told the meeting that school arts residencies run by professional artists include pre- and post-event materials for teachers and can prompt new classroom units, but staff often have to pay for continuing training themselves.
The speaker described an example from the Utah Film Center: after students saw a documentary during a field trip, “months later, I talked to the teacher and she said, the kids loved that movie so much. She wound up creating a…
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