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Miami-Dade County Public Schools Collaboration with ArtSpeak Supports M-DCPS Teachers

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Collaboration with ArtSpeak Supports M-DCPS Teachers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) and Florida International University’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) have collaborated to develop a singularly effective supplemental instructional tool for secondary school teachers. This instructional initiative is based on CARTA’s transformational publication platform, ArtSpeak, and its library of over 250 video interviews with impactful people from all art disciplines, yielding 5,000+ individual video clips because of ArtSpeak’ unique presentation mode.  Most of the interviewees either grew up in South Florida, went to school in South Florida, or  work and live in South Florida.  However, many of the interviewees also have national and international recognition.

The video interviews listed below have been curated and mapped to monthly teaching themes identified by M-DCPS (for example: National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Women’s History Month, National Poetry Month, National Black History Month, Earth Day, Haitian Heritage Month).  Teachers are free to determine how best to use ArtSpeak video clips to augment their curricula, for example: show one 30 second video clip in the classroom to illustrate a particular point; or assign a whole video interview as homework, with questions to be answered in writing.  STORYTELLING, the best way to communicate ideas, is at the heart of the ArtSpeak videos, thereby making the learning experience even more engaging for participating students.

It should be emphasized that ArtSpeak content is beneficial to all students, not just art students.  As Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in an ArtSpeak video interview:  “Education without arts education is malpractice.”

 

PLEASE NOTE: 

Prior to being viewed by students, the video instructional resources and articles found in the ArtSpeak Collection should go through a 3-step vetting process.  Staff at FIU, in collaboration with M-DCPS’ Division of Academics, have completed steps 1 and 2 of the vetting process.  The third and final step is for each individual classroom teacher to preview each video before showing or sharing with students, and conduct a professional evaluation to determine whether the video is appropriate for the age, grade level, and appropriateness of content given the learning standards being addressed. 

 

 

OCTOBER:

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

 

 

Click Here to Access 9 Video Interviews

 

Watch these video interviews, presented in ArtSpeak’ unique format, and select elements to use in the classroom, as homework assignments, or to generate discussion about Hispanic Heritage Month:

  • SILVIA KARMA CUBIÑÁ — Bass Museum, Executive Director & Chief Curator
  • RICHARD BLANCO — 5th Presidential Inaugural Poet
  • MARÍA ELENA ORTIZ — fine arts curator
  • TONY SUCCAR — two-time Latin Grammy Award recipient
  • LOURDES LOPEZ — legendary ballet dancer, Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet
  • BERNARDO FORT-BRESCIA — a founding principal of Arquitectonica, creator of iconic buildings worldwide
  • TANYA BRAVO — founder of the Juggerknot Theatre, creator of “Miami Motel Stories”
  • JUAN FELIPE HERRERA — from migrant farm labor camps to U.S. Poet Laureate
  • ALEXANDRA CODINA — filmmaker, creator of “Paper Children”

 

 

NOVEMBER:

HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK

 

Click Here to Access 9 Video Interviews

 

Watch these video interviews, presented in ArtSpeak’ unique format, and select elements to use in the classroom, as homework assignments, or to generate discussion about Holocaust Education Week:

  • ART SPIEGELMAN– Pulitzer Prize winning New Yorker magazine cartoonist
  • PATRICIA POSNER — author, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
  • MURRAY ZIMILES — artist, The Holocaust and The Book of Fire
  • ELIZABETH GELMAN — executive director of The Florida Holocaust Museum
  • JOSHUA GREENE — filmmaker, author of several Survivor biographies
  • MERLE SAFERSTEIN — director of educational outreach at the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center for 26 years
  • GERALD POSNER — the best-selling author of 14 books, including Mengele: The Complete Story, and Hitler’s Children:  Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders.
  • BARI WEISS — journalist (New York Times) and author
  • IGOR SHTEYRENBERG — executive director of the Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF)

 

 

DECEMBER:

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

 

Click Here to Access 9 Video Interviews

 

Watch these video interviews, presented in ArtSpeak’ unique format, and select elements to use in the classroom, as homework assignments, or to generate discussion about Human Rights Day:

  • ERIC BOGOSIAN — Armenian-American actor, dramatist, monologuist, novelist, and historian
  • KATHY SHORR — photographer & author of SHOT, 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America
  • IKÉ UDÉ — photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman
  • CANDACY TAYLOR — photographer and cultural documentarian, author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
  • JUDITH EHRLIC — documentary filmmaker of anti-war trilogy
  • LARISSA MACFARQUHAR — New Yorker writer, author of Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
  • DAVID NEW — artist, activist for people with disabilities
  • ANGELIKA RINNHOFER — photographer, conceptual artist
  • JIM MORIN — cartoonist, 3-time Pulitzer Prize recipient

 

 

JANUARY:

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR MONTH

FLORIDA JEWISH HISTORY MONTH

 

Click Here to Access 9 Video Interviews

 

Watch these video interviews, presented in ArtSpeak’ unique format, and select elements to use in the classroom, as homework assignments, or to generate discussion about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Florida Jewish History Month:

  • THE HAMPTON HOUSE — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr stayed here.  Arguably the most important crossroads in African-American history
  • SUSAN GLADSTONE — Executive Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU
  • ZACHARY BALBER — photographer
  • CARLA BERKOWITZ — film producer, Critical Thinking
  • DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR — when he stayed at the home of Alastair Gordon
  • MIRA LEHR — artist
  • JONATHAN PLUTZIK — created a cultural Mecca at The Betsy Hotel
  • LYNNE GOLOB GELFMAN — artist
  • FREDRICK KAUFMAN — composer of 130 pieces performed by orchestras worldwide, author of The African Roots of Jazz