Summer Arts Retreat 2003

June 16-27, 2003
Application Deadline TBA

Application | How to Apply | Cost and Credit | Retreat Details
Evening Events

1. Complete the application
2. Enclose the $75 per person registration fee check written to UAAHE.
3. Make sure both get to Elaine Jones, at the State Office of Education by TBA.
   Utah State Office of Education, 250 E 500 S, P O Box 14420, SLC UT 84114-4200
   

Please read “Retreat Details” carefully before filling out the application. Acceptance will be based on demonstrating a sincere desire for this training and a solid commitment for implementing and improving arts education in your school. Applicants will receive notification no later than April 22nd. Those not accepted will have registration checks returned. For those accepted, the balance of payment for housing and meals will be due May 6th. For questions contact Elaine ejones@usoe.k12.ut.us or (801) 538-7892.

• Registration fee is $75 per person check written to UAAHE.
  
• Housing and meal costs for both weeks $350.
  
• Total cost: $425
  
• University, State Inservice Credit, and/or re-licensure points available

What is the Retreat?

An extensive and comprehensive professional development event, it is unquestionably the most powerful training available for improving instruction in all the arts in elementary schools. The retreat has three purposes: to fall in love with the arts, to spark collegial relationships, and to receive the highest quality of pedagogical instruction and resources. A team of experienced and highly qualified teachers currently in elementary, secondary, and collegiate assignments, as well as professional artists, folklorists, and naturalists residing both in and out of Utah. The evenings feature performances and exhibits by folk artisans, professional theatre, dance, art, and music companies both in and out of Utah.

• How to understand the rudiments of dance, music, drama and art.
• Modeling of how to teach dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
• How to use the arts as curriculum as well as teaching/learning strategies for other subject areas.
• How to build an arts supportive community, nurturing and facilitating leadership in arts education, identifying and accessing arts resources, money, and advocacy materials.
• How to work together as a team in designing and teaching an arts curriculum.
• Where to find valuable resources.

Participants must apply for registration as elementary school teams, including an administrator and three or more teachers interested in implementing the fine arts core curriculum. Media specialists, arts specialists, artists, and parents who work in the school may also be team members. Administrators are invited to attend both weeks, but are only required to come the first week, when the Administrative Training Track is scheduled. Parents and local artists involved in the arts program and the school may also be team members. Schools smaller than 400 students may have a smaller team.

Beginning and ending times for each day: 8 AM to 9 PM. Exceptions: first Monday begins at 11 AM; first Friday ends at 5 PM; nothing on Saturday and Sunday; second Friday ends at NOON.
Date of Retreat: June 16-27.

All individual instruction materials, syllabus, and incidental supplies are provided. The only additional money you may need to bring would be for buying additional teaching materials and resources you may want for your classroom/school which will be available for purchase.

All individual instruction materials, syllabus, and incidental supplies are provided. The only additional money you may need to bring would be for buying additional teaching materials and resources you may want for your classroom/school which will be available for purchase.

You may arrange your own private accommodations, or for $350 you can stay at the Snow Garden apartments we have rented, meals included ($175 for the administrators who may come only the first week). Bring own bedding and toiletries. The apartments each have three bedrooms with two to a room, with two bathrooms per apartment. Apartments have full kitchen, so individual diet needs can be managed by participant. Please bring own diet Coke, as the machines run out of it, and pop is not served with meals.) Breakfast will be served each morning in the clubhouse of the apartments. Our opening session each day will also be held in the apartment complex. Those staying in private accommodations will want to purchase a meal ticket ($115 each week) as noon meal times are away from the apartments and utilized for team planning; evening meals are often incorporated into the evening events.

Move in the dance classes, sing in a group, draw and paint in the art class, act out a story, participate in randomly selected artform group performance, sit on the floor or ground occasionally, walk in the wilds during the nature experience day, be outside often during the two-week training. Please bring an instrument if you play.

A few team scholarships are available for schools that have never attended a retreat and who submit a completed application by the appointed deadline. You must indicate on the application that you desire to be considered for this. Where two applications are of equal quality, the one received earlier receives preference.

Scholarships are for teams only. (See “who may attend” above.) The scholarship pays for food, housing, materials, and tuition for the principal (one week) and three other team members (two weeks). School teams may have more members than this but must pay for any beyond the administrator and three teachers.