News & Opportunities

February 3-4 2012: Music and Art in Cultural Context Workshop

The Annual Dance Summit convenes dance educators and teaching artists for a full day of professional development workshops followed by the Dance Summit Cabaret featuring student work.

Comprehensive Arts Planning Program (CAPP)

ACE-Theater Grant Applications Are Now Available!

From the East Ottertail Focus:
Area teachers 'forge' collaborative learning

From the Wadena Pioneer Journal:
Scrap piles provide gold mine for teacher training

From the Osakis Review:
From blacksmithing to space-age technology teachers forge bonds through the arts

From the Fergus Falls Daily Journal:
Teachers forge bonds across disciplines

From the Red Lake Net News:
Red Lake teachers participate in unique Perpich Center workshop

New Minnesota Standards for the Arts Approved

New Music Education resources for Minnesota music teachers.

Perpich Center launches a new multimedia resource in dance and multicultural education:

Understanding World Cultures: Sowu Dance

This online resource features research-based tools and strategies that help teachers and teaching artists develop incremental, customized learning opportunities for students as well as video clips showing what this lesson looks like in real-world classrooms. This interactive model also includes tools and resources that students may access as part of a culturally relevant and inclusive curriculum in dance.

Understanding World Cultures: Sowu Dance has been developed in partnership with Ellis Middle School in Austin, MN, and funded in part under the auspices of the Learning Innovations Council with funding from the University of Minnesota and MnSCU.