In addition to strengthening teacher practice and improving student outcomes, quality professional development can be a powerful strategy for sparking broader school improvement. The most effective professional development is sustained over time and includes several essential elements that include:
- Sustained leadership
- Effective teaching and learning
- Powerful content (content worth teaching)
- Consistent classroom based support
- Empowered teacher ownership
The Music Center provides a range of professional development programs and services, all rooted in the California Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Standards, to help teachers along a continuum towards being able to fully integrate the arts into daily classroom instruction.
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Institute for Educators at the Music Center
Available by invitation only, the Institute for Educators is a year-long professional development experience in the arts. Beginning with an intensive five-day program in July, the Institute gives educators innovative ways of teaching the arts and strategies for making effective connections with other core subject areas.
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Teacher In-Services in the Schools
Teacher In-Services provide hands-on instruction to teachers in music, dance, theatre and the visual arts. A professional artist from the Music Center will visit your school for a single two-hour workshop, up to a series of five-hour classes scheduled throughout the year. In-Service sessions are aligned with school instructional goals and can be customized to match teachers prior experience teaching a particular arts discipline.
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Saturday Professional Development Workshops at the Music Center
Held at the Music Center on select Saturdays throughout the year, these teacher workshops are designed to expand teacher skills and knowledge in the core content of dance, music, theatre and the visual arts. Each four-hour session is led by a professional artist and appropriate for all levels of teacher experience.
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Artsource® Curriculum
As a curriculum tool for educators, artists and arts-specialist, Artsource®
contains more than 65 curriculum units featuring outstanding professional
artists and their works.
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Online Educator Network
The Online Educator Network uses the Web to support educators in bringing the arts into the classroom. The site offers a range of teacher resources, including lesson plans in each discipline.
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To learn more, call (213) 250-ARTS or email profdevelopment@musiccenter.org
  are proud to sponsor professional development programs at the Music Center.
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