Are you a teaching artist seeking professional development?

Are you an artist in need of curriculum development assistance to strengthen your teaching skills?

Are you a teacher, teaching artist or artist looking for ways to effectively assess the progress of your students?

Do you need help in developing a lesson plan integrating the arts into your educational program?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we encourage you to attend this Curriculum Writing & Assessment Training.  For teaching artists and international Artists on Call of BuildaBridge, this is a required training.  For those of you not affiliated with BuildaBridge but may be involved in an arts education program, after school programming, school and/or in the non-profit realm of arts education, we invite you to join us for this professional development opportunity for only $10.

Details:

When: August 27th from 8:30am to 12noon

Where: BuildaBridge House, 205 W. Tulpehocken St., Philadelphia, PA 19144

Cost: $10 for non-BuildaBridge personnel

Trainer: Dr. Vivian Nix-Early, COO & Co-Founder of BuildaBridge

Course details:

In this course, students and professionals alike will learn how to develop strong arts-integrated curricula and lesson plans by studying samples and one another’s work. They will also learn how to develop and perform relevant assessments of children’s behavioral and artistic progress, and the trajectory of the class as a whole. This training gives students the real nuts and bolts of preparing and delivering a lesson under the difficult circumstances in which BuildaBridge works. Additionally, there will be discussion of learning style theory and how to build targeted activities for each learning style into a given lesson.

For a full list of all BuildaBridge trainings, see our Trainings page.

If you are interested in this training, please register here and remit payment at time of training.  Any questions please contact the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

BuildaBridge Teaching Artist Maritza Ogarro performs next month with Mascher's Dance.

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Maritza M. Ogarro received a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Choreography and Performance from Temple University.  She also received a double bachelor's degree in Dance and African/African American studies from the University of California, Davis.  Maritza has danced for  Northern California choreographers: Melissa Wynn, Traci Bartlow, Eric Kupers, and Kim Epifano.  She has danced for choreographers here in Philadelphia:  Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Magira Ross, Marcelo Rueda and Nyama McCarthy-Brown.  She is currently an Adjunct Faculty instructor at Temple University, a Teaching Artist for BuildaBridge and one of the Project Coordinators for Rennie Harris Puremovement's Illadelph Legends of Hip Hop Festival.  Maritza has a deep passion for teaching, choreographing and performing.  She strongly believes that dance is one of the many mediums of art that can be used to culturally enrich and inform people.