The Southeast Center for Arts Integration

Inspiring teachers and artists to prepare learners to thrive in the twenty-first century, the Southeast Center for Arts Integration offers professional development for teachers on using the arts in the classroom to teach state standards. We also help teaching artists connect their work to the Standard Course of Studies and Essential Standards, so they can provide educational workshops and residencies that align with the curriculum. We provide information and experiences that empower teachers and teaching artists to engage multiple intelligences, climb to the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy, foster twenty-first century skills, deepen understanding of curricular content, promote Social Emotional Learning, and involve students in holistic, active learning that they won’t forget.

What we offer:

1) Professional Development Institutes: comprehensive two-day, three-day, or five-day arts-integration training for faculty and staff.

2) Workshops: One-day or half-day introductions to arts integration, multiple intelligences theory and practice, or collaborative skill-building.

3) Demonstration Teaching: Teaching artists work in your classroom with your students, so teachers can see arts integration in action.

4) Arts-Integration Residency: Teaching artists, in partnership with teachers, plan and team-teach arts-integrated units of a week or longer.

How We Work:

We partner with principals, planning teams, and administrators to design each institute to meet specific goals. We actively engage participants in educational experiences which relate to each other and scaffold learning so it adds up and makes sense. We incorporate brain research and multiple intelligences theory and practice in each session. We demonstrate 21st-century skill-building. We encourage reflection that leads to new ways to think about and practice teaching. We work with entire school staff and administration to build trust and create a safe environment for collaboration across subject areas. Participants move from engagement to reflection and then to action when they collaborate with arts teachers and other specialists to design curriculum-based lesson plans or thematic units.

Who We Are: Some of our facilitators include:

Jef Lambdin is a mime, mask-theater, and variety-arts performer who has been working as a teaching artist for 40 years. He integrates Theatre Arts with PE, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science concepts. He worked with TOUCH Mime Theater for 17 years, and Jelly Educational Theater for 5 years. Currently he tours his solo show, “The InterACTive Theater of Jef” in the Southeast. He is a former Fellow with the NC A+ Schools. He is a consultant with the SC Arts Commission on implementing ArtsGrow SC programs.

Sheila Kerrigan is a mime and teaching artist with 35 years of experience performing and conducting residencies in schools. The author of The Performer’s Guide to the Collaborative Process, she has taught Community-Based Performance at Duke and leads collaborative creative processes with grades K-12, college and grad students. She toured with TOUCH Mime Theater for 17 years, and directed for Jelly Educational Theater for 4 years. A former A+ Schools Fellow, she performs “The Scientific Mime, or What’s Up With Gravity?” an arts-integrated science show for 3rd-5th graders.

September Krueger is a fiber artist and educator based in Wilmington, NC. Her early interest in fashion led her to the Textile Design program at Philadelphia University, followed by years in a wearable art studio producing a line of women’s silk-screened clothing. After completing her graduate studies in Textiles at ECU, she joined the faculty at Southeastern Community College as their art instructor in 2011. She is an A+ Schools Fellow, and Director of Lifelong Education at the Cameron Art Museum.

Joan Certa-Moore  is a creative movement artist and a passionate believer in content integration. She has over 32 years of experience in public education as a dance instructor, and a coordinator/planner at the first A+ School in Raleigh, NC. She facilitated the opening of the only Museums Magnet Elementary School in Wake County and, in addition to being an A+ Schools teaching fellow; she is also a fellow with the National Paideia Center. She attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education Summer Project Zero Classroom: Views on Understanding, and continues to explore the world through multiple lenses.

There are more teaching artists, all with equally impressive resumes.