Calendar Event: Artful Reading--Professional Development Overview

Are you looking for a new approach to reading? Could your reading program use a "shot in the arm" to engage students through multiple disciplines?

Well, take some time and join Catherine Rubin of the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL) as she offers a professional development overview of CTL's program, Artful Reading.

Artful Reading offers a unique primary and intermediate instructional model that integrates the development of literacy skills with learning in and through the arts. This program engages students through multiple disciplines and varied activities. This program applies high-quality, arts-based reading materials to enhance creative and reflective classroom practice for the primary and intermediate grades teacher.

Join Catherine Rubin in this webinar as she introduces you to Artful Reading and enhances your professional understanding of the value of the arts as a critical component of literacy development.

Catherine Rubin holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Designskolen Kolding (formerly Kolding Kunsthandvaerkerskolen/National School for the Arts) in Kolding, Denmark, and she is a talented artist in her own right. She is an artist-in-residence for the Kentucky Arts Council and has been featured as an artist on Kentucky Educational Television (KET) and in the KET Visual Arts Toolkit. Catherine developed and field tested the model that is the basis for Artful Reading, and she co-developed CTL's Striving Readers adolescent literacy coaching model as well as serves as a mentor coach to colleagues and school literacy coaches involved in the program. In addition, Catherine is a lead facilitator and coach for CTL's community college content literacy work and has served as a mentor coach for CTL's Different Ways of Knowing (DWoK) work around the United States, and Catherine has trained artists working in schools to integrate the arts across content areas.

Join Catherine for this professional development overview of this multi-disciplinary program.

Target Audience: Curriculum Directors, Professional Development Directors, Gifted and Talented Coordinators, Title One Coordinators, Principals, Primary and Intermediate Grades Teachers, Arts Specialists, and Paraprofessionals