In her talk at the 2009 Habla Teacher Institute “Cabinets of Wonder,” Ms. Patron Vazquez describes ways we might find the center of language teaching by moving beyond textbooks and worksheets and finding the essence of what it means to tell stories, create art, and “narrate ourselves” in a new language.

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Read Habla Founder and Director Kurt Wootton’s thoughts on education on the site The Educational Labyrinth.

In his talk “Cultural Agency and Learning with Each Other” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Dr. McLaughlin explores how teachers can act as cultural advocates by working as compañeros with students and other teachers to share language, arts, cultural, and teaching experiences. Mr. McLaughlin outlines three dispositions necessary for successful cross-cultural collaboration.

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Mr. Wootton’s IDEA talk, at the 2009 Habla Teacher Institute provides a vision for rethinking school reform by placing creativity and wonder at the center of learning.

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On June 15th-19th, 2009 Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and Habla collaborated to design a new kind of professional development institute for teachers at the Walt Disney Magnet School in Chicago, Illinois. The staff for this week-long institute involved many of the artists and educators who work with Habla on a regular basis (and who will be involved in the Habla Teacher Institute “Cabinet of Wonders” July, 2009). These artists and educators included Arnold Aprill, Cynthia Weiss, Kurt Wootton, Morris Bowie, Robert Possehl, Sarah Roodhouse, and Catherine Mann.

CAPE and Habla documented the entire process with video, photography, and text.

Visit CAPE’s website to view the process (and to learn about thorough ways to document teaching and learning).

In her two-part talk titled “Through lines” and “Translations” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Ms. Weiss defines through lines as the central and recurring forms and structures that unite personal and professional work.

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In her talk “Documenting and Sharing: ‘new approaches to teaching literacy and language’: Multiple Representations for Teachers” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Dr. Burnaford presents an innovative idea for teachers to become coresearchers on both their teaching practices and their personal development.

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In her talk “Social Change, Mobilization, and the Performing Arts” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Ms. Stevenson shares her current ethnographic study of the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Group in Oakland, California, that explores the relationally transformative capacities of a collaborative arts group.

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In his talk “New Standards for a New Century: Contemporary Arts Education and Contemporary Teaching and Learning” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Mr. Aprill talks about teaching and learning organized around Big Ideas and contemporary concepts in anticipation of future demands on education.

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In his talk “An arts education augury: Thoughts on new research and the state of the field” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Mr. Rabkin analyzes the common threads in the current moment of evolution within arts education, using Steve Seidel’s speech on the “Quality of Quality” and a recent blog-a-thon on artsjournal.com as exemplars.

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