This webinar and presentation is a previously recorded session, Digital Learning with eMediaVA presented by Lindsey Horner.Webinar Description: This webinar presents information about media and educational resources from WHRO Public Media for fine arts educators. Lyndsay Horner, Manager of eMediaVA will led the one-hour session in July 2020. The session includes how to access eMediaVA and how to find resources to support student learning in fine arts areas of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.

This webinar will explore the digital resources of the Library of the Congress for fine arts instruction. Engagement with primary source images, objects and documents can spark critical thinking, deeper learning and interdisciplinary connections for students. Join Sherry Levitt and Cynthia Szwajkowski from Teaching with Primary Sources, Virginia (TPSVA) for a lively, interactive exploration of the Library's rich, digital collections for in-person and virtual instruction. As a demonstration, special guest Carolyn Bennett, former Library of Congress Teacher-in-Residence, will model an activity using WPA Posters.

Educational resources provided by Virginia's history and cultural museums offer educators the opportunity to form deep classroom connections to Virginia history and culture.

Participants will explore resources, learn strategies, and practice instructional routines that elevate language and enhance language acquisition in fine arts classrooms. Participants will explore resources that integrate English language development into the fine arts curriculum, learn strategies to support the development of English, and practice instructional routines that elevate language in fine arts classrooms.

Participants will learn how to use #GoOpenVA to locate arts-based lessons (many of which are also cross-curricular). All such lessons are openly-licensed so they can be adapted to your own students and purposes. Additionally, #GoOpenVA provides a community space for teachers to connect with each other in these challenging times, when everyone is learning how to approach teaching in new ways.

Participants will engage with technologies that facilitate creative music making and discuss where student imagination belongs in standards-based curricula.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning, instructional resources, and professional learning resources available to all Virginia music educators. 

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is specifically geared toward secondary choral directors.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Instrumental Music Standards of Learning and is specifically geared toward secondary orchestra directors.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Instrumental Music Standards of Learning, and is specifically geared toward secondary band directors.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Instrumental Music Standards of learning, and is specifically geared toward secondary orchestra directors.

Dr. Angela Ammerman shares rehearsal strategies specifically geared toward English Learners (ELs). Learn about resources and strategies to provide language support and engage English Learners in the music classroom. 

This slide deck covers key considerations for writing a fine arts curriculum and key features of an exemplary fine arts curriculum. A sample approach to curriculum writing is offered, and curriculum resources are provided. This slide deck is intended to support division leaders and individual educators who are writing a curriculum aligned to the 2020 Fine Arts Standards of Learning.

This webinar and presentation is a previously recorded session, Resources from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.Webinar Description: Join VMFA educators to learn about the new opportunities, resources, and supportive measures developed by Museum staff members in response to the challenges faced by teachers, students, and parents for the 2020-2021 school year. Learn about the major exhibition Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities, and find out about fall opportunities for online Professional Development, distance and digital learning options, remote access to VMFA’s encyclopedic collection, and more.

Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We’ll laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.

s workshop will focus on the basics of incorporating guitar and ukulele into your music program.

There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.

This session will use various cognitive routines (such as "See-Think-Wonder") to guide educators on how to lead classroom discussions of printed music which uses traditional and nontraditional notation, with young students. Concepts and strategies covered in this session will focus on the Music Standards of Learning of the strand: Critical Thinking and Communication.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and artist.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for middle school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.