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Art Goes Back to School: Young Audiences of Northern California

This Educator Guide explores the history of arts education in California and the Bay Area and provides a wide array of local resources.
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Art in Public Places: Jo Kreiter

This Educator Guide addresses the history of public performance art.
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Community Institutions for the Arts: Ashkenaz

This Educator Guide tracks the history of this community venue and others like it as a point of connection and learning about world cultures.
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Dance Masters: Margaret Jenkins

This Educator Guide is about the history of modern dance and the contributions of some its most innovative choreographers, including Jenkins.
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Educational Tool: Approaching Your Bias

This Educational Tool provides tips for facing the inherent challenges of teaching about contemporary artists and their work.
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Educational Tool: Arts Assessment

This educational tool describes the role of assessment in a standards-based visual and performing arts classroom. This document also provides several options for substantive forms of assessment in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Arts Classroom Tips

This educational tool provides classroom management tips, teaching strategies, and pedagogies for classrooms dedicated to Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and/or Theater.
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Educational Tool: Connections, Relations and Applications

This educational tool provides direction for making connections between the various arts disciplines, between the arts and other subject areas, and careers in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Dance Vocabulary

This document is a comprehensive vocabulary list related to Dance.
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Educational Tool: Developing Arts Programs

This educational tool is a comprehensive list of foundations and organizations offering funding for arts education programs in Northern California.
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Educational Tool: Literacy-Based Instructional Strategies

This Educational Tool provides literacy-based instructional strategies that may be used in conjunction with arts media screenings in the classroom.
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Educational Tool: Media Tips

This Educational Tool provides techniques for using Spark in the classroom including critical viewing tips, media production terms and concepts, and talking points about media production and media literacy.
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Educational Tool: Multiple Intelligences

This Educational Tool describes Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how it relates to Spark's educational programming and resources.
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Experimenting: Kunst-Stoff

This Educator Guide introduces students to experimental dance, and provides strategies to explore movement.
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Frontiers of Dance: AXIS Dance Company

This Educator Guide addresses the history of integrated dance and theatre companies in the UK and the US.
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Frontiers of Dance: Ledoh and Salt Farm Butoh Dance Company

This Educator Guide traces the history of butoh to its origins in post-war Japan and its diverse contemporary forms.
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Home, Sweet Home: Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

This Educator Guide is about the history of drumming, street performers, and African American musical theater.
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Leaders: Brenda Way

This Educator Guide addresses the history and uniqueness of ODC/San Francisco and dance in San Francisco.
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Legacies: Shri Krupa Dance Foundation

This Educator Guide is about the Indian dance form of Bharata Natyam and its traditions and practices.
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Roots: Halau 'o Keikiali'i

This Educator Guide introduces the Hawai'ian dance form of hula, including its historical traditions, cultural significance, and present day practice as both creative expression and social preservation.
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Spark 503: John Santos

This Educator Guide includes hands-on activities and discussion points related to the instruments and rhythms of Latin Jazz music.
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Spark 509: Chitresh Das

This Educator Guide discusses the history of Kathak dance and Chitresh Das� career. Activities include improvisation, working with rhythms, and reflecting on dance as an art form.
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Spark 512: Klezmer

This Educator Guide includes cultural learning, dance, and music activities related to the klezmer tradition.
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Spark 513: Lily Cai

This Educator Guide includes hands-on movement activities and discussion-based activities related to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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Spark 609: The Bonsetter's Daughter

Introduce students to the world premier of a new American Opera created by composer Stewart Wallace and acclaimed author, Amy Tan. This educator guide explores the process of collaboration, and the hisory of both Chinese and Western operatic traditions.
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Spark 707: Kitka

This Educator Guide provides historical information about Eastern European vocal traditions and includes music-related lessons for the classroom.
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The Jet Set: Alonzo King

This Educator Guide tracks the history of modern-contemporary ballet and the contributions of King and other innovative choreographers.
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Think Globally: San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

This Educator Guide introduces students to ethnic dance and includes an activity in which students will research their families' personal experiences with cultural and ethnic dance.
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Trailblazers: Joe Goode

This Educator Guide addresses the history and form of dance-theatre as an artistic genre.
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What Experience Teaches: Anna Halprin

This Educator Guide introduces students to modern, postmodern, and contemporary dance, as well as to different applications for dance outside the field.
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