Art in Education Teaching Institute

For K-12 education administrators, teachers and art-education professionals. Offers Arts Learning Specialist Certification and Continuing Education Units offered through Alameda County Office of Education. Summer, evening and weekend classes. Participants learn to engage all students through dynamic culturally and socially relevant curricula, utilizing an inquiry-based approach to achieve the highest academic standards.

Summer Institute: Cornerstone Theater Company

Four-week Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency Program in which students, faculty and guest artists take up residency in a community to put on a show with, about and for the residents. (Two-day intensive option.)

Summer Institutes

One week intensive courses in: "Community Crossover" - dance in community settings; "Spirit & Substance" - dance as a tool for art & faith dialogue and artmaking; "Dance Exchange Immersion" - professional training for dancers interested in the full spectrum of Dance Exchange's work.

Summer Institute for Arts Management

Annual institute for arts managers, artists and civic leaders. Includes fundamentals of arts management, community-arts experience and arts-based exploration of intercultural communication. Also includes annual Robert Gard lecture.

Institute for Art and Civic Engagement

Fosters development of partnerships with art, culture, research, education, healthcare, social service, business and entrepreneurial ventures. Community-based learning in teaching/mentoring young people, arts and medicine, public art, international projects, "involvement in meaningful citizenship, community service and service-learning opportunities." Internships embracing role of art in public life. Founded in partnership with Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service

Institute for Community Cultural Development

Leadership development program for people who work at the intersection of the arts and community development. Professional-level training and support for community-engaged artists and community developers. Intensive five-month leadership-training curriculum (weekends). Distance-learning exchange with Community Arts Training Institute of St. Louis. Led by Bill Cleveland, Wendy Morris, Erik Takeshita and Jun-Li Wang.

CAT Institute

Community Arts Training Institute for artists and social-service providers to foster arts programs serving at-risk populations. 16 CAT fellows do 50 hours of free, experiential training during intensive, two-day sessions scheduled October-February.

Institute for Arts and Humanities Education

Organization training and placing artists in community settings. Programs: PixelNation summer video and digital media workshop for teens; Interarts field residency and professional-development program in arts infusion; Interarts workshops; Family Arts and Creativity evening workshops; Artists-in-Education placing artists in schools through Arts Education Collective; Healing Through the Arts summer program for teens, addressing racial and social problems -- staff includes professional artists, health specialists, social workers and conflict-resolution specialists.

Summer Institute

Purpose: to connect concert professionals and community-based artists together in a learning experience to better maximize the possibilities of the arts as a vehicle for social activism and civic engagement. Led by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and a team of Urban Bush Women trained in dialogic learning. May include public dance/music performance.

Summer Institute: Making Theatre/Facilitating Dialogue

"Making Theatre/Facilitating Dialogue: Performance & Collaboration in Educational, Professional, and Community Settings." Part of Lewis & Clark College Summer Theatre Institute. Includes Sojourn Theatre Lab Series. Led by Michael Rohd. Fee $300. Graduate credit available.

Teacher Training Institute for the Arts

Professional-development arm of the Kaleidoscope Pre-School Arts Enrichment Program, committed to preparing young children for school using an early-learning integrated-arts approach. Seven three-credit courses on a graduate, undergraduate or noncredit basis. Graduate credit awarded through Holy Family University. Also workshops at basic and intermediate levels; advanced-level training for Continuing Education credit hours. Also training in Multiple Intelligences. Courses taught at branches of Music School Settlement.