Fine Arts

Most of you know that we have a Fine Arts Website that tells about each of our areas. Please check it out by clicking HERE.

You could also get there by going to:

pasco.k12.fl.us

click on the tab at the top "DEPARTMENTS"

scroll to find "Fine Arts" & click on it

You can navigate through our Fine Arts Website by using the green department navigation section. Please go to your department and check it out. Look for your school in the list. If you have a school website for your department, make sure it is linked there. If it isn't, please email Michele Christy <mchristy@pasco.k12.fl.us>. In order for us to link your website it must be linked to your school's website first.

**Please email Michele Christy photos of your program that you would like to be rotated onto the website. We really want to promote the arts and show off what the students are doing.

We are happy to announce that Pasco County has developed a talent pipeline! With three easy to navigate pathways- Teach, Coach, and Lead! Depending on your dreams and aspirations there is a path for you to explore! Each pathway has aspiring, current, and advancing icons to view opportunity cards. These cards include important information about the program as well as contacts to help get you started.

Please view this video from Mr. Browning and then take a few moments to check out myDevelopment Opportunities to find your possibilities.

Set your goals and keep coming back for more as we continue to make Pasco's pipeline your go to spot for advancing in your career!

This year's Congressional Art Competition winner is Lilly Xu from Land O Lakes HS.

The Congressional Institute is proud to sponsor the Congressional Art Competition. The annual competition celebrates the artistic achievements of the nation’s high school students. Each Member of Congress chooses to host the program in their individual districts. Many offices ask a panel of local artists, such as artists-in-residence, art teachers, gallery owners, to act as judges. The winning artwork will hang in the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for one year. The tunnel is the most highly traveled access point between the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Capitol. Every day, Members of Congress, distinguished visitors, and tens of thousands of tourists – from the United States and abroad – walk through the tunnel and admire the artwork.

Art teacher: Matthew Paltoo

The very talented Olivia Robertson 11th grade from Wiregrass Ranch HS was named as a top 5 Finalist in the annual ESS Art Contest. The top 5 contestants in each category compete by getting likes on their art that is posted on the corporate ESS FB page.

"Gina Connell, the ESS East Manager of Pasco County and her District Manager Jenny Hacker came in to give Olivia Robertson a gift. She was given balloons, a thank you card with a gift card inside a basket full of expensive Copic markers for participating in the ESS Contest. Olivia was really happy. I am so glad she is in 11th grade, she will be my student next year too!"

Art teacher: Paula Roush-Smith

We need more mentors for all areas of Fine Arts.

Please take some time to consider this opportunity.

Do you have:

• Minimum of three (3) years “highly effective or effective” teaching experience
• Demonstrated emphasis on personal professional development and advancement of the education profession.
• Demonstrated effective skills related to:
  • designing, delivering, and assessing high-impact learning activities for ALL students
  • building a compassionate classroom
  • Communication, collaboration, and organization
  • leadership skills, qualities, and experiences

If so, would you be interested in mentoring a new &/or new to Pasco teacher?

Mentors receive a stipend and in order to receive the stipend they MUST meet with their mentee a minimum of 1 time per week (can be via zoom, in person or on the phone - emails do not count as the 1 meeting per week). The mentor must fill out a meeting log in myPGS for each meeting. New &/or new to Pasco teachers receive a mentor for 2 years.

If you qualify, are willing to put the time into a new teacher, and would like to be a mentor, ask your admin to fill out this recommendation form, select date of cohort on form, and send to Charlotte Kralik to register you in myPGS. Your admin must be the one to recommend you and send it to Charlotte.

Please check out this flyer for Clinical Educator summer trainings and information.

ALREADY A MENTOR?

​If you are already a mentor, you might need to renew your training.

They will be requiring Clinical Educator trained mentors to take the refresher every five years. They are constantly revising the course content to best serve our new teachers and interns. Mentors are one of the greatest support systems in our district. It is time to step up our game to ensure the high-quality mentoring.

Please check out this flyer and register for the refresher course if you have not taken Clinical Educator in more than five years. Ask your admin to fill out this recommendation form for the refresher course, select date on form, and send to Charlotte Kralik to register you in myPGS.

**ALREADY A MENTOR?**

You should be getting the mentor newsletter called "Mentor Minute". If you are not on the mentor email list, contact:

Charlotte Kralik (catkins@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Steve Causey (scausey@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Let them know that you are a mentor and would like to be on the mentor email list so you can receive the Mentor Minute newsletter and other important information.

If you are a new teacher or new to Pasco, you should have a mentor assigned to you. If you do not have a mentor, please reach out to your principal. If you and your principal would prefer you to have a mentor in the same field as you, Tom Viking and Michele Christy have a list of approved mentors in the fine arts. Your principal can contact us for suggestions.

You are eligible to have a mentor for your first 2 years in Pasco County.

You should be meeting with your mentor at least 1 time per week. The meeting can be in person, via zoom, or phone call.

If you are not already on the "new teacher" email list from the district you might want to contact:

Charlotte Kralik (catkins@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Steve Causey (scausey@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Let them know you are a new teacher, what subject you teach, and where you teach. Ask to be put on the new teacher email list so you can start receiving the Newbie Newsletter and receive all the information that they send out to new teachers.

We would love to announce any accolades that you and your dance classes have received. Please email Michele Christy with information about awards that you and/or your students have received so we can promote your dance programs. Do you have any student going to competitions? Placing in any competition? Please let us know.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

Dance Advantage is a website that discusses many different topics for dance class. You might find it interesting. One of the pages from this site discusses creating lesson plans. If you would like to check it out, click HERE.

Click HERE to go to the "DanceTeacher" website. It is full of interesting articles, teacher stories, and prompts for reflection like "Barbara Duffy’s Top Tips for Teaching Improv" by Lauren Wingenroth.

Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) is an experimental laboratory, a safe place for new and experienced dance teachers to enhance their skills, develop sequential curriculum, and learn from one another. For over twenty-five years, DEL has been training and supporting the work of dance educators, equipping the teachers of today with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom.

Check out their Blog to find interesting topics of discussion like "Finding Rhythm Through Call and Response: Body Percussion with Nicholas Van Young" for prompts for reflection.

They have a Video Gallery where you can find things like "LMA/LOD for Dance Educators". In order to view the videos, you will need to go to myPascoConnect first and sign in to Content Keeper Bypass.

Check out these websites for music education:

Music Theory

Music Theory offers a wide variety of exercises, lessons, and tools to help you learn music.

Interactive Music Sites

This Weebly page features a collection of resources to help students learn music. These include tools for composing music, virtual instruments, interactive games and many more.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

WGI Sport of the Arts is the world’s premier organization producing indoor color guard, percussion, and winds competitions. It is called the Sport of the Arts because it brings music to life through performance in a competitive format. There were more than 33,000 participants at the regional level, and more than 16,000 participants at the Sport of the Arts World Championships this past April. We had three Pasco high school Color Guards compete this year in Dayton Ohio. Congratulations to the Color Guards from the following schools for their outstanding results.

WGHS = 12th place in SA Prelims round 7

JWMHS = 12th place in CGA Finals Scholastic A

SLHS = 3rd place in the Finals Scholastic Open Division

Tips and Tricks of a Drama Teacher - Drama Tools That Is, By DHCBALDWIN

This is a short article that suggests a few items to purchase to help with your theatre class.

Check out this article/blog called Lesson Plans for Drama Teachers by Lindsay Price.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

Check out the Stage Agent Blog!

You will find so many educational tips and ideas in this blog. One thing you should check out is the article titled "Acting Exercises You Can Do Alone" by Laura Josepher. This is one of many articles you will find in the Stage Agent Blog.

5 Simple Classroom Management Solutions for the High School Art Room is an article from The Art of Education University. This article discusses the 5 most common management issues:

• Early finishers
• Large class sizes
• Students not treating art like a "real" class
• Students talking when they should be listening
• Cell phones

Check out the article "Art Teacher Hacks for Creating Positive Art Classroom Routines" by Amy Clay @ Deep Space Sparkle. You will find 10 suggestions that might help in your classroom.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

We at ASAP are committed to promoting the Arts in our community. ASAP members are excited to start planning some great events, workshops, peer support, and artist opportunities in the new year. We welcome all Pasco Art Teachers, either public, private, charter, active or retired art specialists, at all grade levels.

ASAP provides the opportunity to recharge & promote the artist in you. ASAP is working in conjunction with The Pasco Fine Arts Council, PFAC, to offer a variety of benefits when you join both organizations!

Art Specialists Association of Pasco has a $15 Annual Membership Fee, and our membership drive is underway for the 2022 calendar year!

You may also consider joining both ASAP and PFAC for a combined cost of $50 for the year, and enjoy the benefits of membership in both, such as:

participation in PFAC Member Shows, attending classes and workshops at a reduced cost, a listing in the PFAC Artist Registry, access to the artist library, opportunities to sell your items in the PFAC store, and more.

Please check our website for more information on how to join. Or you can also connect to ASAP through the PFAC link. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Hensel (mhensel@pasco.k12.fl.us).

ASAP:

https://artspecialistassoc.wixsite.com/asap

PFAC:

https://www.pascoarts.org/

We hope that you will join us!

We have an Elementary Visual Art Display and a Secondary Visual Art Display on our Fine Arts Website to show off the amazing artwork that our students were doing. We would love to continue to display your students artwork on this platform.

If you would like to have your students artwork on our district wide Padlet:

1. take photos of your best student artwork
2. email the photos to Michele Christy <mchristy@pasco.k12.fl.us>.
3. include the students first name and grade

We will put all the photos you send on our Padlet and rotate the best of the best onto the website page. You can send one photo at a time or multiple photos. What ever is easier for you.

We cannot wait to see all the amazing things your students are and will be creating! We would love to represent EVERY school on this Padlet.

What question did red ask yellow when they met up?

Orange you happy we got together?

Beginning in June of 2022, all five gifted endorsement courses will be available over the summer. Teachers will be compensated for 60hrs at the stipend rate ($25/hr) per course they complete over the summer. This opportunity is being made available through a grant and will conclude once all funds have been utilized. For additional information on dates/times please reference the attached flyer. Contact Kristin Ingold with any questions.

Prioritized Participants​ are as follows:

• Teachers currently tagged out of field for the gifted endorsement ​​
• Teachers that will be tagged in 22-23​
• Remaining seats out of 50 (per course) on first come first serve basis​
• Interested participants will complete the MachForm on the attached Flyer​
• Confirmation of enrollment in course will be via myPGS registration​

Tom Viking - Fine Arts Program Coordinator

Michele Christy - Fine Arts Resource Teacher

Email: tviking@pasco.k12.fl.us
Website: pasco.k12.fl.us
Location: 7227 Land O' Lakes Boulevard, Land O Lakes, FL, USA
Phone: 813-794-2585