Mark your calendars for Tuesday and Wednesday, August 12-13, for the FOURTH Annual Summer Creativity Institute!!!
To be held at Little Angels Preschool in Flemington, New Jersey,
Details and Guest Instructor announcements to Follow!!!
Creatively Yours,
Dar & Deb 🙂
Here’s a little sneak peek at some of the fun, creative and beautiful things we will be making together at this year’s Third Annual Summer Creativity Institute!
Don’t be disappointed…. REGISTER TODAY!!
Last year’s retreat-like event was such a success, so of course we plan to do it again! We are busy making plans for our Summer Institute to be held on August 7 & 8th, 2012. Plans are to make this summer’s event bigger and even better! Subscribe today and be among the first to get all the details as soon as they are posted!
Saturday, April 21st Teaching Out Of The Box will be hosting another SATURDAY SESSION at the Hunterdon Learning Center. Details will be coming soon. Subscribe here to receive updates on this upcoming professional development program!
Upcycled Mini-Books: Literacy & Art
A number of you have been emailing to ask if you can still register for the Institute… yes! But, please get your registration in now, as we are tweaking the schedule and making the final counts for lunch and supplies.
AND! We are thrilled to tell you that Kimberly Carmody, from Urban River Arts in Brooklyn, is coming to the Summer Educator’s Institute! Kimberly is an inspiring woman and a gifted educator who has worked in a number of creative capacities throughout the mid-Atlantic region. I met her recently when I took her class on Sequence Painting.
Kimberly will be teaching us the method and philosophy of Sequence Painting, as well as introducing us to her Urban Mandala Project. We think that she rounds off this group of presenters in the most wonderful way!
We are very excited to announce the registration and details of the
“TEACHING OUT OF THE BOX” Educational Summer Institute
A dynamic and creative experience for Teachers in a scenic, retreat-like atmosphere. We have two days of wonderful workshops planned for you! We hope that you will be able join us for this informative and fun event.
JULY 27 & 28, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
At The Hunterdon Learning Center, 37 Hoffmann Crossing’s Road, in beautiful, scenic Califon, NJ
TOOTB Summer Institute Registration form 2011
We are offering you an exciting, two-day hands-on retreat just for teachers, in a beautiful setting in Central New Jersey, where you will learn simple ways to integrate creative activities into your classrooms, curriculum and literacy instruction that will stimulate and motivate student learning. Come and participate in dynamic workshops that use recycled and “upcycled” materials. Learn how to be creative on a shoestring budget and how to promote literacy through the exciting practice of “Art Journaling.” Abandon your fears of drawing, painting and creative writing and experience our belief that Creativity Is A State of Mind. Find out how you can integrate the arts, poetry, technology and nature-based learning into your K-5 classroom. Come and make new friends, join professional artists, writers and educators for this informative, inspiring and spirit building event and leave with a box full of ideas to enhance your teachings!
Professional Development hours will be provided.
The Bottom Line:
Registration will be limited.
The cost for the two-day event is $275.00 and this includes lunch both days PLUS, a “Swag Box” of free stuff.
Discounted price: $250.00 if paying by check ($35.00 fee for all returned checks).
$20.00 for the Special Ticketed Event 5:00 p.m. on July 27th – Watercolor Social with illustrator, Doris Ettlinger.
Payment due at time of registration. We will be accepting registration until we reach our maximum.
FEATURED INSTRUCTORS:
Carla Sonheim is a painter, illustrator, and creativity workshop instructor from Seattle who is nationally known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. She is the author of the terrific book, Drawing Lab and has presented her inspiring workshops all over the country, including Art & Soul, Art Unraveled and Etsy Studios in NYC. Her inspirational blog, The Snowball Journals, includes tons of information on her life, work and her well known online course, “The Art of Silliness.”
Doris Ettlinger is an illustrator and teacher. Ettlinger was born on Staten Island and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been illustrating professionally for the last 20 years with over 30 titles in her name. Today she lives, draws, and teaches in an old grist mill on the banks of the Musconetcong River in Warren County, New Jersey. She tells her art students that drawing every day improves her skills, just as practicing an instrument improves a musician’s skills or working out improves an athlete’s performance. The more she works, the easier it becomes to draw the scenes she sees in her mind.
Dar Hosta is an award winning children’s book author, illustrator and educator who is known for her picture books, her presentations on creativity at national educational conferences, and her programs and residencies with elementary schools throughout the country. She is an annual presenter at the American Horticultural Society’s Children & Youth Garden Symposium and a member of the Growing Good Kids Book Award Panel. Dar has published over 40 books written and illustrated by children and teachers, and these books can be seen at Blurb. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Missouri, a language arts education certification from Cleveland State University and has been working with children and adults in education since 1992.
Deb Barends has been teaching in the primary grades for 35 years. In addition to providing fine arts enrichment activities in her own classroom, Deb loves children’s literature and teaching writing to children. She has been a curriculum writer and has presented numerous workshops in language arts, creative arts and Math Their Way both locally and nationally. She believes that interweaving art and music enhances students learning in all areas of the curriculum. She is currently teaching art and enrichment at Whitehouse Preparatory School.
REGISTRATION FORM: TOOTB Summer Institute Registration form 2011
This could be YOU! Summer Literacy Institute at MNU, 2010.
Hi! We are excited to share with you that we are moving forward and currently making plans for a 2-Day, Summer Creativity Institute some time this summer! Knowing the budget restraints that many districts are under, we are really trying to make this as low cost as possible and are currently seeking funding in order to put together a really fun, hands-on, information and action-packed two days full of writing ideas, educational resources and creative inspirations for your classroom. Both Deb and I have been full of so many ideas for activities, lessons and guest instructors that we have been having trouble sleeping! We recently had a very productive meeting at an awesome venue, a beautiful spot in central New Jersey that holds a lot of promise for what we’d like to accomplish now, as well as wonderful possibilities for the vision we have for growth.
Right now, we’d like your input…
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