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Hope your school year is winding down productively or you have embarked on a joyful summer, Reader. We are exactly one month away from the 15th and final Constructing Modern Knowledge Summer Institute, July 9-12th, and there is still room for you! When we say “STEAM,” we mean it!
Remove your teacher hat and put on your learner hat! STEAM connections are abundant at Constructing Modern Knowledge. CMK 2024 features author & music educator Tricia Tunstall and Melissa Walker, a Grammy-winning vocalist, activist, and founding director of Jazz House Kids, a large music education non-profit in New Jersey and New York City. Ms. Tunstall is one of the world’s leading authorities on El Sistema, the profound Venezuelan Youth Orchestra movement in which hundreds of thousands of children in one of the hemisphere’s poorest nations play classical music as a vehicle for societal transformation. Walker’s non-profit, Jazz House Kids, brings the spirit of El Sistema to America’s classical music, jazz, with remarkable success. Their conversation at CMK will not only make the case for arts education and its benefits to children, but share practical pedagogical strategies relevant to teachers of any age or discipline. Where else, but Constructing Modern Knowledge will you find jazz, robotics, artificial intelligence, tinkering, craft, orchestral music, social justice, electronics, and more in the same learning environment? CMK is about connections, and the connections make STEAM comes alive! Do not miss the mind-blowing learning adventures at Constructing Modern Knowledge 2024, July 9-12 in Manchester, New Hampshire! Register today at https://constructingmodernknowledge.com/registration/ Free Stuff
That's it for now! Happy (almost) summer! Gary Stager & Sylvia Martinez |
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