Montalvo Arts Center is committed to partnering with educators in an effort to make up for the loss of arts education in our schools. Montalvo's teacher services initiative provides quality professional development opportunities to teachers in grades K-12. Designed to provide inspiration for busy teachers, these programs bring specialists and generalists together to explore the arts in a variety of unique hands-on learning experiences.
Educators are invited to:- Engage in dynamic visual and performing arts learning experiences led by master teachers and guest artists.
- Gain insight into how the arts can be central to learning and promote growth and development.
- Investigate connections among learning in the arts and in other core content areas.
- Inspire each other through collaboration and sharing of our ideas and experiences in the arts.
Join us as we inspire each other through collaboration and sharing of our ideas and experiences in the arts.
Professional Development Workshops for Teachers and Teaching Artists
These workshops engage educators in hands-on, arts-integrated lesson demonstrations, and focus on the encouragement and growth of student voice through arts learning experiences. Check back later for updated schedules.
Each year the conference includes a keynote address by a nationally recognized arts educator. Previous speakers, including noted teaching artists Eric Booth and Celeste Miller, have provided inspiration and a renewed sense of purpose for busy teachers.
Since its inception, The Arts in Your Classroom conference has trained over 600 educators in arts integration and subsequently provided quality arts experiences to over 15,000 students in the classroom.
*The Visual and Performing Arts Resource Guide, created by the SCCOE in collaboration with outstanding educators and master teachers, includes standards-based, teacher-friendly, developmentally appropriate arts lessons and curriculum links to other core subjects such as language arts and mathematics.