2017 WSI Summer Institute (MGCCC Hospitality Resort Management Center): Full Schedule

1:30pm CDT

Time Travel: Mississippi's First 200 Years

Get a brief overview of Mississippi's 200 year history, culture and personalities. Create a clay topographic map of the state and learn how the geography of the state has driven its economy and culture.

Speakers

Chuck Galey

chuck@chuckgaley.com, Visual Artist / Teaching Artist

Chuck Galey has drawn all his life. “I had everything I needed growing up in a small farm town in the Mississippi Delta; a pencil, a piece of paper and a long-winded Baptist preacher.” He has illustrated over 70 educational books and 17 children’s picture books, one that he... Read More →

Galey Time Travel Miss.'s First 200 Years LESSON PLAN pdf

Galey Time Travel Miss.'s First 200 Years MAP pdf

Wednesday June 14, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Room 221

Arts Experience, Visual Arts

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Collage-O-Rama

Mounds of wonderful images and stuff. Participants will get to manipulate and glue to create a variety of collages.

Speakers

Kay Thomas

Teaching Artist, ArtsSmart, TRAHC

Kay Thomas, visual artist, received an M.F.A. in ceramics from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. degree in ceramics from Texas A & M University-Commerce, Texas. A teaching artist with over thirty years of experience, Thomas has worked with students and teachers grades Pre K-university... Read More →

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 212

Arts Experience, Visual Arts

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Differentiated Instruction as a Tool to Maximize Effectiveness in the Classroom

Most classrooms are filled with students performing at various learning levels: some of them struggling, others performing well beyond grade-level expectations, and the rest falling somewhere in between. Differentiated instruction includes, involves, and inspires all learners. Teaching artists will explore how to authentically differentiate lessons while remaining true to their art forms.

Speakers

Jennifer Unger

Education Director, TRAHC

Jennifer Unger is a professional teaching artist and theatre director who serves as the Education Director for Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council (TRAHC). As a director, Ms. Unger has directed and written productions for both adult and young audiences. She has also served... Read More →

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 211

Arts Experience, Drama

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Get on Board with Gladys

A character can teach character, class routines, and academic content. A character can learn lessons, teach lessons, or be a part of a lesson. Students can learn to create characters to teach the class content, understand empathy, and look through the lenses of someone else.

Speakers

Lindsay Brett

Lindsay Brett is an administrator at Plantersville Middle School. She served as a theatre teacher for 12 years at Tupelo Middle where she implemented a character ed /PBIS/ student motivation program using videos with her character "Gladys." Gladys now travels to churches, conferences... Read More →

Get on Board with Gladys pdf

Get on Board with Gladys How To pdf

Get on Board with Gladys Creating a Character Brett pdf

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 215

Arts Experience, Drama

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Guided Improv

Improvisation is one of the most rewarding and powerful theatrical strategies out there. Take this challenging strategy and work together to make it approachable and exciting for teachers as well as their students. By turning improvisation on its head and counting on the assistance of a "guide" in the process, improv becomes tremendously accessible to every person willing to give it a shot!

Speakers

Sean Glazebrook

Sean Glazebrook is an educator, actor, and founding member of the NOLA Project, as well as the Director of Arts Programs for Lusher Charter Schools. He holds a dual B.F.A. in Theatre & History from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an Ed.M. in Education Policy & Management from Harvard’s... Read More →

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 222

Arts Experience, Drama

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Illustrating Children's Books Like the Masters

Explore the many different approaches used to illustrate children's books! Then create your own illustration in multiple versions using several styles that correlate to those of well-known children's illustrators, including Eric Carle (tissue paper art), Ed Young (pen and water color), David Diaz (torn paper) and Jerry Pickney (scratch art).

Speakers

Thom Borden

A former Chicago music teacher, Thom Borden completed his Orff Master Level under Jos Wuytack and has studied music and movement in Europe. Continued studies included Kodály Training at Colorado State University and Silver Lake College with Sr. Lorna Zemke. As a former clinician... Read More →

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hall A

Arts Experience, Music

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Jazz It Up!

Let loose with Mary Frances in this fun break out session! She will take you through a beginner/intermediate jazz class where you’ll also learn a fun dance and perform it for your peers. Great for beginners or intermediate dancers!

Speakers

Mary Frances Massey

MAC Teaching Artist

Mary Frances Massey is a dance instructor and part-owner of North Mississippi Dance Centre in Tupelo, Mississippi. She offers dance classes in ballet, tap, jazz and hip hop and has choreographed for show choirs in Tupelo and surrounding areas since 2008. Massey’s teaching programs include incorporating movement into the narration of favorite children’s books and using... Read More →

Wednesday June 14, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hall C

Arts Experience, Dance/Movement

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Dance Elements and the Brain Dance

Participants will explore each of the four dance elements (body, energy, space, and time) and use these to manipulate the BrainDance, which is a brain-centered movement progression used to focus, direct, and expand attention and interdisciplinary learning in the classroom. Participants will specifically use the elements and the founding tenets of the BrainDance to create movement to accompany the instruction of "high frequency words" and basic math equations in the classroom. Curricular and non-curricular movement activities, as well as classroom management strategies for making interdisciplinary dance instruction immediately successful, will be shared as well as a rubric that can be used to formatively and summatively assess independent teaching in this type of instruction.

Speakers

Julie White

Mississippi Arts Commission (USA)

Julie White, Associate Professor and Director of Dance Education, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in performance from the University of Illinois and a Master of Fine Arts in choreography from the Ohio State University, along with Ohio Licensure in K-12 Dance Education. She performed... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hall C

Arts Experience, Dance/Movement

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Improvisation

Improvisation is about spontaneous creation -- a story, scene, or song. Learn to use improvisational activities to create art. Improvisation is built on the concept "Yes, and." "Yes" refers to acceptance -- when an idea is offered it must be accepted. "And" refers to enhancement -- other players must not only accept each new idea, but must add something. Improvisation can be fun, flexible, educational, and collaborative!

Speakers

Zeb Hollins III

Arts Coach, KID smART

Zeb Hollins III studied Speech/Theatre at Southern University and worked and studied Educational Theatre with New York University’s Creative Arts Team as a Master Actor/Teacher for six years. While in New York, he performed in numerous productions at The Billie Holiday Theatre... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 215

Arts Experience, Drama

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Living Art

A creative experience that blends Visual Art (Mississippi Photography and Paintings) with Tableau (Frozen Pictures) and Active Storytelling. Problem solving and social discussion will enhance abstract thinking through Drama as stories behind art work are acted out through narrative ideas, music, and Pantomime.

Speakers

Patricia Carreras

Teaching Artist

Patricia Carreras is an actor, a mime, a puppeteer, and a director. She has been working as a teaching artist since 1985, sharing her skills and her art forms in thousands of schools across the nation. She attended SUNY Buffalo and earned a Masters Degree in Theatre and Film in 1984... Read More →

Living Art 2 old ladies jpg

Living Art 3 with kite jpg

Living Art boy ice cream jpg

Living Art men with pockets Faiers jpg

Living Art MS boys jpg

Living Art MS depression jpg

Living Art MS depression 2 jpg

Living Art MS workers jpg

Living Art painting fence jpg

Living Art poverty jpg

Living Art Survivor jpg

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 216

Arts Experience, Dance/Movement, Drama, Visual Arts

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: MAC Bicentennial Arts Curriculum

The Mississippi Arts Commission presents its newest curriculum, Mississippi History Through the Arts: A Bicentennial Journey, 1817-2017. This curriculum focuses on Art, History, and Mississippi’s Folk Traditions. Created in collaboration with Mississippi Museum of Art and Mississippi Department of Education, this FREE resource will be a dynamic tool for the arts integrated classroom!

Speakers

Dr. Mark Malone

William Carey University

With over 40 years of teaching music and social studies in elementary, high school, and the community college, Dr. Mark Hugh Malone is currently Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at William Carey University in Hattiesburg. A frequent presenter at the Whole Schools... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Hall A

Arts Experience, Other

3:00pm CDT

Arts Experience: Theater Games for Focus and Concentration, Grades 2-8

Create an atmosphere of fun, focus and concentration through playing theatre games with your students. Concentration is a skill that students can improve through practice.

Speakers

Jennifer Unger

Education Director, TRAHC

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Room 211

Arts Experience, Drama