MultiArts, Interdisciplinary (dance, theater,
visual arts), for Elementary Schools
For 20 years, Bluepalm’s interdisciplinary
programs have used dance, theater, and visual arts to encourage
cross-disciplinary connections to learning in all subject areas.
Schools find resonance in Bluepalm’s methods because we address
the central question of arts education – how can the arts
help maximize student potential? The ‘art’ of Bluepalm
is to infuse classroom learning with the life-altering power of
artistic experience. Our multi-arts method integrates a wide range
of learning and teaching styles. Our commitment to schools –
100% of our company is engaged in the delivery of services –
and the care that goes into our programs enables us to share long-term
partnerships with sites district wide.
During our 3-4 week residency we use dance,
theater, and visual arts to build focus, vocabulary, and standards-based
connections to Open Court, Science, Math, and Social Sciences. All
program components – staff development, workshops, and live
performance – are designed to encourage metacognitive skills.
We train staff and students to ‘think like an artist’
in the classroom, in order to find pleasure and a meaningful, lifelong
relationship to learning based on one’s experiences, knowledge,
and culture.
The school receives twenty-four 45 minute workshop
sessions to divide amongst all grade levels. Bluepalm kinesthetic
language tasks blend movement and emotion to encourage student involvement,
increase communication skills, and anchor knowledge: our visual
arts techniques offer multiple perspectives to encourage creative,
time-on task, problem-solving skills. Bluepalm workshops are designed
to develop higher-order thinking skills and provide staff with modular,
time effective techniques to enhance learning.
Two 45-minute theatrical performances embrace
universal themes of growing up, personal identity, and the arts.
Bluepalm performances demonstrate that the qualities which make
a good performer also make a good classroom learner: using minimal
sets or props, performers rely on descriptive vocabulary, emotional
range, and movement to generate, and sustain, interest. Top notch
performances and award-winning scripts make Bluepalm’s postmodern
assemblies exciting theatrical and educational experiences for diverse
learning communities.
Teaching is a performing art. Led by company directors Jackie Planeix
and Tom Crocker, Bluepalm’s 90 minute professional development
helps staff embed standards of artistic excellence in every day
classroom activities. This on-your-feet, educational, and artistic
experience addresses each and every staff as a Professional Learning
Community committed to best practices based on rigor, relevance,
and relationships. Each year, a new program enables our long-term
partners to deepen their arts education goals, standards, and practices.
An on-site meeting with the Arts Cadre Chair,
school principal, and Bluepalm Executive director Tom Crocker allows
to mutually: 1) shape program components to address the needs of
the entire learning community; 2) address specific staff issues,
concerns, and goals; 3) design a convenient master schedule.
1) ‘Art at the Center of Education’:
this helpful guide shares the Bluepalm philosophy and provides practical
ways to keep the arts alive in all subject areas; 2) Lesson Plans:
a three-part course outline for all participants; 3) Mentorship
Program: Jackie Planeix, artistic Director and creator of Bluepalm
programs, corresponds with classrooms completing language/visual
arts follow-up projects.
Experience. We have a 25-year track record of
producing international caliber performances and providing quality
arts education. ‘Measurable impact’ is our goal in working
with you to increase student academic performance, communication
skills and cross-disciplinary thinking via the arts! Contact us
for a recommendation from an Arts Prototype school near you.
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