Van Wezel trainings are always FREE and include certificates for professional credit hours.
Learn how to use the arts in your classroom for more engaged learning. Each workshop ties directly to school standards. Our teachers leave the workshop feeling ready to use our prepacked strategies and inspired to teach!
Upcoming Professional Development:
Teaching the Writing Process through Hip Hop
February 11
5-8pm
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
In this interactive workshop, Bomani Armah will show teachers how to use aspects of hip-hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment. Educators will learn rhyme-based strategies that build student writing and communication skills using the five steps of the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). These strategies also enhance vocabulary while making connections between essay writing and songwriting.Dinner will be provided. Grades 3rd +
Register through the Sarasota County Schools PD system (section 11420) or below!
As a Partner in Education with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, we join with the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation and the Sarasota County Schools to bring world-class master teaching artists to Sarasota for engaging and cutting-edge professional development workshops.
Learn more about the Kennedy Center Partners in Education program.