Teacher-Professional-Learning Bank Continued:

      Several Dancers Core, Atlanta

         Several Dancers Core is a professional, contemporary dance organization that creates, performance and presents contemporary dance.  Since 1980, they have been creating and performing innovative contemporary dance.  Several Dancers Core is home to the internationally acclaimed CORE Performance Company, known for its riveting, passionate and unique work.  The Company offers residencies and workshops that deepen educational experiences for school-aged children or provide healing and deeper awareness for adults.  Photo courtesy of Several Dancers Core.  Keiko Guest, Photographer

      Creating Pride, Atlanta

           Creating Pride is an organization dedicated to improving education by inspiring teachers to create engaging work for students so that children can succeed socially, artistically, and academically.  The ArtsNOW initiatives foster classroom success by equipping educators with the training, resources, and confidence needed to integrate creativity and the arts into daily instruction. 

Photo courtesy of Creating Pride.

       Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah

          The Telfair Museum of Art traces its history from 1886 when the Telfair family home opened to the public as an art museum and school. It now boasts three diverse sites -- the original building, the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, a National Historic Landmark building; the Owens-Thomas House, also a National Historic Landmark; and the recently completed Jepson Center for the Arts, a contemporary building which houses 20th- and 21st-century art.  The Telfair has a long and distinguished history of providing outstanding arts education programs to its community, including lectures, workshops, family days, school tours, outreach programs for youths and audiences with disabilities.

       Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, Kennesaw

     The Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project is a Georgia site of the National Writing Project, which connects to NWP’s philosophy of teachers teaching teachers.  It achieves this goal through one of its core programs, the annual Summer Invitational Institute, a 4-5 week course, where exemplary teachers from all disciplines and grade levels come together to demonstrate and examine their classroom practice, study the latest research about teaching writing, and develop their writing skills. The Summer Institute counts as a standard graduate level course of 3 credit hours and earns 3-5 non-technology PLUs.

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