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During Year 2 training, teachers and artists worked together to
plan how best to teach media literacy in a way that integrates the
arts with core curriculum. |
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Not seen in the photograph is dance artist, Amy Shimshon-Santo who
is leading teachers and artist through a series of activities to
help them better understand different elements of dance during Year
3 training. |

Teacher Alex Soria, teacher Bonnie Blitzstein, visual artist Joan
Harrison, visual artist Alvaro Asturias, music artist Andrew Grueschow
and teacher Lorena Mendoza act out a scene from a play that drama
artist Candy Danzig (visible in the background wearing a red shirt)
guides them to perform as part of the training for Year 3. |

CML founder Elizabeth Thoman and AnimAction founder Clifford Cohen
show teachers and artists at Year 2 training, samples of storyboards
that students from the previous year created to help plan their
animation projects. |

During Year 3 training teachers and artists experiment with different
percussion instruments as part of music artist Andrew Grueschow's
session on music. |

Teacher Joan Austin, teacher Debi Conti , music artist Andrew Grueschow,
teacher Elizabeth Williams, and teacher Steve Schullo work as a
team to create music with percussion instruments as part of Grueschow's
training session. |

Andrew Grueschow demonstrates different rhythems and patterns that
can be made with percussion instruments during his training session
on music. |

Teachers participate in an activity to experience differences between
one-way and two-way communication during a Year 3 training session.
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Teachers and artists list on chart paper the lessons and activities
their group generated from the day's activities, as well as corresponding
California State Learning Standards in Language Arts, English Language
Development, Visual and Performing Arts and Media Literacy Key Questions. |