MANSFIELD — The Mansfield Partners in Education Team, comprised of the Renaissance Performing Arts Association, Mansfield Art Center, and Mansfield City Schools, will host a professional development workshop on arts integration for educators and administrators.
“Engaging the Child the Whole Way Through” will take place on Wednesday, April 22 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Theatre.
This event is sponsored by Charles P. Hahn, CFP, Key Bank Foundation, with additional support from the Ohio Arts Council.
This free in-person workshop is designed for teachers, mentors, and educators of all grade levels and subject areas, including special education programs.
Led by veteran Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Randy Barron, the session will guide participants through a compact set of crucial arts-integrated skills that support deeper learning across the curriculum.
Drawing on multiple art forms, relevant State Content Standards, and four decades of experience in arts-integrated classrooms, Barron will lead educators through a logical scaffold of strategies they can apply directly in their own teaching practice.
The workshop is designed for educators interested in stretching their own creative muscles while discovering new ways to bring the power of the creative process into students’ lives and learning.
Participants will enjoy dinner as part of the evening and are encouraged to dress comfortably for simple movement activities. Attendees will also receive a workbook handout, along with links to online materials and resources they can access at any time.
Contact hour verification for CEUs will be available.
About Randy Barron
Randy Barron brings more than twenty-five years of classroom teaching experience into schools of all levels and has conducted more than one hundred professional development workshops and over 75 in-school residencies in 23 states. He has written arts curriculum affecting more than 250,000 students in urban and rural school districts.
Barron is a founding member and current Curriculum Coordinator for the Río Gallinas School, an elementary charter school in Las Vegas, New Mexico, focused on ecology and the arts.
As a professional dancer, he has choreographed for, performed with, and directed ballet and modern dance companies throughout the United States and Europe.
He is also a co-founder and former Artistic Director of City in Motion Dance Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
As Lead Consultant for the Santa Fe Opera’s arts-integrated residency program, Barron designs and leads professional development for teaching artists and helps craft residency designs.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Rockhurst University and serves as a volunteer firefighter in the village of Tecolote, New Mexico, where he lives with his family.
Registration and Information
The $125 registration fee for this workshop has been fully covered for all participants through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council, Charles P. Hahn, CFP, and the KeyBank Foundation.
Area educators can register at www.rentickets.org. For more information or CEU inquiries, contact Renaissance Education Manager Dauphne Maloney at dauphne@mansfieldtickets.com or call 419-522-2726, ext. 212.