Summer Institute mini course presented by Luna Dance, uses arts integration and Studio Habits of Mind to support leadership development within institutions.

1. Dance-Making as
Educational-Leadership Practice
Presenter:
Nancy Ng
Director of Community Development
Inventing our Future: Integrated Learning Summer Institute
Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CA
August 7, 2012

4. 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?

7. Habits of Mind Studio Thinking Framework
Eight Habits of Mind
• Persisting
• Managing impulsively • Develop Craft
• Listening with understanding and
empathy • Engage & Persist
• Thinking flexibly • Envision
• Thinking about thinking • Express
• Striving for accuracy • Observe
• Questioning and posing problems
• Reflect
• Applying past knowledge to new
situations • Stretch & Explore
• Thinking and communication with • Understanding the Art
clarity and precision World
• Gathering data through all senses
• Creating, imagining, innovating
• Responding with wonderment
and awe
• Taking responsible risks
• Finding humor
• Thinking interdependently
• Remaining open to continuous
learning
Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind,
edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick. (2000)

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

9. Summer Institute Assessments
participant guides curriculum structure and depth of content
charting of responses . facilitator/coach/participant reflection
Qs at beginning and mid-year . written summative evaluation
ASI rubric

10. ASI Rubric
rubric based on
NDEO Professional Standards for Teaching Dance in Arts Education and
CA Standards for the Teaching Profession
Knowledge of Students
Content of Dance Teaching
Instructional Resources & Strategies
Reflective Practice
Leadership
Individualized Inquiry

11. Building Cultures of Dance

12. New Highland Academy,
East Oakland

16. Marin City/Sausalito Unified
School District Parent Center
Family Dance

17. Erica Jeffrey
Teaching Artist

18. Southern California Peer Leaders
Meg Glaser Teran, Maya Luz Gordon,
Ruth Ramos, Jill Sethi

21. Lessons Learned
Shared Values
Communication – ongoing, specific to
individual, transparent
Coaching Essential
Reflection – ongoing, based on
artist/teacher inquiry
Professional Learning
Community/Community of Practice
Organic – artists naturally use
“habits of mind” as they lead

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