Dance-Making as Educational-Leadership Practice

Presenter:Nancy NgDirector of Community Development

Inventing our Future: Integrated Learning Summer InstituteChabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CAAugust 7, 2012

Understanding Questions

How do the skills dance artists use to create connect with leadership skills?

What professional supports are needed for teaching artists to develop as leaders?

Habits of Mind

• Persisting• Managing impulsively• Listening with understanding and

empathy• Thinking flexibly• Thinking about thinking• Striving for accuracy• Questioning and posing problems• Applying past knowledge to new

situations• Thinking and communication with

clarity and precision• Gathering data through all senses• Creating, imagining, innovating• Responding with wonderment

and awe• Taking responsible risks• Finding humor• Thinking interdependently• Remaining open to continuous

learningDiscovering and Exploring Habits of Mind, edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick. (2000)

Studio Thinking FrameworkEight Habits of Mind

• Develop Craft• Engage & Persist• Envision• Express• Observe• Reflect• Stretch & Explore• Understanding the Art

World

Luna Summer Institutes6-day Intensive . Follow-up coaching Online forum . Mid-year meeting . Gallery Walk

Summer Institute Assessments

participant guides curriculum structure and depth of contentcharting of responses . facilitator/coach/participant reflection Qs at beginning and mid-year . written summative evaluation ASI rubric

ASI Rubricrubric based on

NDEO Professional Standards for Teaching Dance in Arts Education and CA Standards for the Teaching Profession

Knowledge of StudentsContent of Dance Teaching

Instructional Resources & StrategiesReflective Practice

LeadershipIndividualized Inquiry

Building Cultures of Dance

New Highland Academy,East Oakland

Marin City/Sausalito Unified School District Parent Center Family Dance

Erica JeffreyTeaching Artist

Southern California Peer LeadersMeg Glaser Teran, Maya Luz Gordon, Ruth Ramos, Jill Sethi

Lessons Learned

Shared ValuesCommunication – ongoing, specific to

individual, transparentCoaching Essential

Reflection – ongoing, based on artist/teacher inquiry

Professional LearningCommunity/Community of Practice

Organic – artists naturally use “habits of mind” as they lead

What professional supports can you offer in your agency/institution to encourage teaching artist as leaders?