East Oakland School of the Arts, Oakland Unified School District
Teachers and teaching artists/coach will share a sampling of recent arts integration lessons from a variety of disciplines that developed from working from teachers’ understanding goals in their core subject to include art understanding goals. Teachers with a range of experience with the arts and arts integration created and taught curriculum, working with an arts integration coach/teaching artist and teaching artist partners to create authentic art understanding goals. Through teaching arts integrated curriculum, teachers are investigating the ways arts learning can be seen as a potential tool for effectively leveraging their own cultural competency. Using the Studio Habits of Mind, teachers can investigate critical thinking as one piece of arts integrations’ skill-building potential.
Aryn Bowman, History Teacher, East Oakland School of the Arts: Aryn E. Bowman has been teaching US History, AP US History, AP American Government and American Government/Economics at EOSA over the past three years. Her significant academic gains with students lead to her receive Oakland Unified School District’s “Teacher of the Year” award for the 2006-2007 school year.
Fatima Ghatala, History Teacher, East Oakland School of the Arts: a Bay Area native, attended UC Davis, where she received a BA in International Relations, as well as a single subject social studies teaching credential and a Masters in Education. She has taught at the primary and secondary levels at both public and small community-based private schools. Her love for teaching lies primarily in her love for working with youth to become critical thinkers and to work together to create positive change in our communities, in our relationships, and in our selves. Her own public-school education fostered her love for the arts (before Bush days!) and she is invigorated by the infinitely possible ways to remind students that creativity is as important as literacy.
Liz Harvey, Arts Integration Coach, East Oakland School of the Arts: Liz has been a teaching artist in Northwest Long Beach, South Central Los Angeles, Central Los Angeles, and the Bay Area working with students at the primary and secondary levels as an artist-in-residence at schools, community centers, after-school programs, juvenile detention centers, and museums for over a decade. A practicing artist in sculpture, she has shown work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. She received several artist-in-residence grants to work with youth in urban settings as well as the California Arts Council Fellowship in Sculpture. Liz is also a Visual Thinking Strategies arts integration trainer and currently directs the program of San Francisco Bay Visual Thinking Strategies. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art and an M.F.A. in Sculpture.
Ariel Roman, CCA Teaching Artist, East Oakland School of the Arts
