For more information about these workshops and seminars, please contact District Arts Network Coordinator, .

Creating a District or School Arts Plan
Learn how to make an arts learning plan that aligns with school site plans and teacher professional development plans. Workshops and coaching may be designed to focus on specific topics including:
• Forming a district or school site arts team
• How to create a practical vision
• Data collection methodologies
• Assessing strengths & identifying barriers
• Facilitating a public review of your arts plan
• Arts policy and your school board
• Implementation plans with action steps and bench marks
• Developing a district or school professional development plan
• Planning district or school wide Teacher Institutes and Retreats
• Develop involvement and successful partnerships with parent communities
• Document and evaluate your implementation progress

Arts Learning Seminar Series
This new series combines hands-on art practice in all arts disciplines with research-based, state of the art thinking frames to integrate the arts with other subject areas. The seminars in drama, dance and visual art are all California standards-based and include a range of strategies to aid language acquisition, address differentiated instruction, and encourage meta-cognitive thinking. All workshops are held at the Alameda County Office of Education, 313 Winton, Hayward. For more information, click for a PDF of the brochure.

Studio Thinking Framework
Using this thinking framework developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teachers learn to name, convey and assess the learning that happens in the arts. This tool helps arts teachers to name, convey, and assess learning in the arts, and to work with non-arts teachers to plan and leverage learning in multiple subject areas through arts integration, and apply a flexible yet rigorous structure to curriculum planning and assessment.

Making Learning Visible: Innovative Assessment
Making Learning Visible is a Project Zero framework that is a unique way of presenting student learning so that the understanding is transparent to the student and teacher, as well as to administrators, parents and the community. This workshop includes:
• How to capture the learning process before, during and after learning experiences
• Reflection and discussion protocols that can be used with students, parents, visitors, and teacher groups
• Making Learning Visible toolkit

Online Curriculum Development
The Alliance provides a web-based tool for curriculum development and action research in the classroom. This tool supports and reveals the learning process of teacher teams as they describe, think through, and improve arts related teaching and learning in reflective, collaborative explorations. This tool also helps professional learning communities of teachers and administrators to share and reflect on student learning and outcomes in a flexible on-line environment.

Art IS Education
During National Arts Education Month in March, Alameda County celebrates Art IS Education, a collaborative effort to inform community leaders about comprehensive strategies for building educational capacity, resources and understanding through arts learning to assure a high quality education for all students. This workshop includes:
• Planning school and district wide Art IS Education demonstrations of learning that involve parents, communities, and local policy makers
• Media press kit
• Public relations templates
• Creating event partnerships with local businesses
• Exhibition sample materials

Artists and Arts Organizations: Working Effectively in Schools Today
The Alliance works with districts and arts organizations to provide ongoing workshops and institutes for community artists and arts organizations to assure professionally qualified arts educators for schools. These artist trainings include how to:
• Work with district teachers to understand how to teach in and through the arts
• Plan, model and coach for quality arts learning and arts integration instruction
• Align arts and arts integrated curriculum with California standards
• Assess student learning in the arts and other content areas