Moonshot Summer Teachers Institute, FL 2017
In July 2017, I was on the presenting team for the second Moonshot Summer Teachers’ Institute (a learning lab for educators) at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida. Hosted and coordinated by The Learning Alliance, the institute took place over 5 days and was attended by teachers and educators from the Indian River School District, who experienced a combination of visual arts, theater, collaborative planning and curriculum development, with an emphasis on social-emotional development. The focus text was Ollie’s Odyssey by William Joyce.
Some images of the visual arts experiences can be found below:
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- Participants walked through the Tunnel of Love each morning
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- Adding memories, photos and observations to the Tunnel of Love
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- Social emotional focus
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- Shaving foam marbling for hand-made journals
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- Building a pocket friend
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- Pocket friends fit into an Altoids Box
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- Sweet and tender pocket friends
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- Shadow puppetry for the final performance
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- Teachers performed the text for Ollie’s Odyssey through shadow puppetry
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- Teachers performed the text for Ollie’s Odyssey through shadow puppetry
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- The final performance