Arts Education Consulting
Cynthia has worked as an arts educator on the professional development team of the Habla Teacher Institutes. These institutes are designed, led, and sponsored by Habla: The Center for Language and Culture. As a member of the team, Cynthia has co-facilitated institutes at Habla: The Center for Language and Culture in Merida, Mexico, and in Chicago and Summit, Illinois with the Summit School District 104.
Habla Teacher Institutes are week-long professional development experiences integrating literacy, language, and the arts. The institutes help teachers to build classroom experiences around the core values of: Community, Meaningful Texts, Multilingualism, Arts Integration
Shared Leadership, and Reflection. Teachers learn multimodal strategies to apply to their classrooms across all content areas.
Documentation of the practice and curriculum can be found here: https://www.hablateacherinstitute.org/documentation/
The Habla Teacher Institute, Merida, Mexico
Habla Teacher Institute, Chicago and Summit, Illinois
with the Summit School District 104
Habla: The Center for Language and Culture
Co-founded and directed by Kurt Wootton and Marimar Patron, Habla is a Spanish Language school and cultural center in Merida, Mexico, committed to connecting people across languages and cultures. At the core of Habla is a group of dedicated educators eager to share their knowledge and passions with the ever-growing Habla community.
For more information on Habla: https://habla.org/
Teachers at Chicago Habla Professional Development
Arts Integration Publications
Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning
Co-Editor with Dr. Gail Burnaford & Arnold Aprill
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education CAPE
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2001
Renaissance in the Classroom invites readers to consider the possibilities for learning and growth when artists and arts educators come into a classroom and work with teachers to engage students in drama, dance, visual art, music, and media arts. It is a nuts-and-bolts guide to arts integration, across the curriculum in grades K-12.
Cynthia has also been the director of arts integration programs at Project AIM (Arts Integration Mentorship Project) at Columbia College Chicago, and led professional development with the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education.
She has been co-editor of two books that share the rich arts-integration practice of Project AIM and the Chicago Partnerships in Education, CAPE.
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning
Co-Editor with Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein.
Columbia College Chicago, 2008
AIMprint: New Relationships in Arts and Learning outlines the nationally renowned Project AIM model through essays, curriculum samples and sample unit plans. AIMprint provides rich perspective on the field of arts integration.
