Change of Heart:
Artistic Alternatives to Violence
The Arts build self esteem... can you think of
a better way to stem the tide of violence?
Change of Heart:
Violence Prevention Package
Timeline:
- Initial Planning Meeting: The success of the
Change of Heart requires a unified effort. Therefore the
initial planning meeting of 45 minutes to 1 hour requires
a Program Planning Team which includes, at minimum, the
following stakeholders: the CES coordinator of the program,
the school principal or assistant principal, the school
guidance counselor or SAPIS, and either the school parent
coordinator or other parent representative. Goals for
the meeting include:
- understanding of the goals of the program and
the individual components of the Program Package;
- Initial scheduling of all components;
- Recommendation for program evaluation procedures.
- Teacher Manuals: Printed material is meant to
support the staff development provided next, and give
teachers a reference which may be used after the artists
are gone. Students workbooks are provided for participating
students. The basic Package includes: 30 copies of
Change of Heart Curriculum Framework, 30 copies of the
manual Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts, 30 copies of
the manual Sunrise at 602: Enlightened Classroom Management
and 90 copies of the student workbook Play with Purpose.
- Staff Development workshops: The first hands on
activity with participants includes 4 workshops with up
to 30 teachers. These are up to 3 hour workshops on the
following topics:
- Change of Heart, Artistic Alternatives to Violence;
- Applications of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences;
- Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts; and
- Enlightened Classroom Management.
Each of these
four workshops is described above and is accompanied
by the Teachers Manuals or student workbook described
in #2, immediately above.
- Show: (Odyssey, The Dream Rehearsed, The
Folklore Festival, depending on the grade level and
school preference.) A 5-day show component is scheduled
over a tightly compacted period of time. Five consecutive
days is best, but there is flexibility here. Goals include:
- introduction of elements of the program to the
school participants (students, teachers, administrators)
- building self-confidence in school participants
- establishment of the artists as credible experts
and role models. Maximum number of participants in
Odyssey and The Dream Rehearsed programs: 30.
Maximum number of participants in the Folklore
Festival: 50. One teacher will serve as school
coordinator. Culminating show on the fifth day may
be for audience of up to 250 students. Student participants
and the teacher coordinator will fill out final evaluations
on the program component, identifying feelings, insights
and principles learned.
- Artist residence/ mentoring: Artists engage with
teacher-partners in a residence to demonstrate the
approach of Change of Heart, and to mentor teachers
in applying the principles of the Change of Heart
approach and to design their own curriculum activities.
The basic Package includes one artist working with 3 classes
a day (maximum size 30 students) for a total of 3 contact
hours per day with students. The artist works for 12 days
with these classes, visiting with a frequency of at least
twice per week. Before the residence program begins, the
artist engages in a planning meeting with the
teacher-partners to
- clarify the goals of the program
- design the curriculum and
- review evaluation procedures.
- Parent Workshop: One parent workshop will share
with parents the activities and approach of Change of Heart.
The workshop will be up to 3 hours in duration, and
include up to 30 parents. Each participating parent
will receive a copy of the Change of Heart Curriculum
Framework.
- Evaluation meetings: The artist, the three
teacher-partners, and the guidance counselor, principal
or assistant principal, and the parent coordinator or
parent representative will meet with the CES program
coordinator after every fourth residence session to
discuss progress and make recommendations for the future
which the artist and teacher-partners will then implement.
There will be three such meetings during the course of
the residence. The final meeting will include a overall
program evaluation.
Evaluation: Teachers will be required to fill out
evaluation forms at the end of each staff development
session. These will be reviewed by the Program Planning Team.
Students and participating teacher-partners will be required
to maintain Journals which will be collected before each
Evaluation meeting and will be used to develop the final
program evaluation. Journal entries will be required
after each session, describing
- what participants learnedclarify the goals of the program
- their responses to in-class sessions, andclarify the goals of the program
- any issues they have or problems they are experiencing
which they wish to see addressed.
The full program costs $16,860
For more information on this powerful program,
email us at
programs@creativeeducationalsystems.com
To receive a free copy of the Change of Heart Curriculum Framework
email us at
programs@creativeeducationalsystems.com
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