2010 TCG National Conference - Pre-Conferences
TEAM Pre-Conference |TCG/American Express Leadership Boot Camp|NET Pre-Conference
2010 TCG Education Pre-Conference
Building a National TEAM: Theatre Education Assessment Models Phase Two
Join us as we equip Education Directors with the training and tools to tabulate and articulate the effectiveness of their education programs through accessible, valid, and reliable assessment analysis.
In 2007 TCG launched Building a National TEAM: Theatre Education Assessment Models. This national project is designed to give theatre educators a repertoire of models and vocabulary they need to document and report the impact of their theatre programs to all of their stakeholders, including funders, teachers, school administrators, parents, theatre leaders. While Phase One of TEAM focused on the creation and application of new models adaptable to specific programs, Phase Two will address tabulating your data, as well as reporting on and disseminating the results.
Over our day and a half together on June 16th and 17th, we will refresh our memories on the first phase of TEAM training which highlighted the idea that assessment drives learning, and showed us how to use four types of flexible assessment models: performance tasks, portfolios, observations, and surveys. Next, though the expert guidance of our returning assessment consultant, Robert Southworth, and our accomplished TEAM Working Group of nine theatre education practitioners, we will move into a combination of plenary session and small group breakout activities. These will give participants the time and space to become more deeply grounded in the practice of assessment while also rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty through sharing, evaluating, and revising assessment objectives and outcomes for their programs. Analysis of specific concrete examples of data will follow. Last, we will consider how to plug this information into appropriate reporting tools for our various stakeholders.
If you are an Education Director, or hold Education responsibilities at your theatre, this training is crucial to the continued growth and vitality of your programs. It will sharpen your ability to advocate for your programs internally and externally, and will also provide a process to help you identify and articulate the success of your programs. We hope you will participate in this opportunity to engage in a cutting edge conversation with the national theatre education community.
Schedule:
|
Building a National T.E.A.M.: Theatre Education Assessment Models 2010 TCG Pre-Conference Chicago Cultural Center, |
DAY ONE |
Chicago Cultural Center - Grand Army of the Republic Hall, 2nd Floor
|
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
Assessment Tools and Analysis |
| 8:00am | Registration begins; Continental Breakfast |
8:30am - Noon |
Welcome, Laurie Baskin, Director of Government & Education Programs, TCG Opening Remarks, Andrea Allen, Education Director, Seattle Repertory Theatre Assessment Overview Value and Rewards of Assessment Overview of ASSESSMENT 101: How can we use assessment to capture valuable outcomes? Introduction to ASSESSMENT 201: How can we use analysis to understand assessment outcomes? How can we draw valid and reliable conclusions in order to improve teaching and learning? Building Assessment into Our Planning, Part 1 Warm-Up Everyone Plans: Shared examples of programming in small groups, emphasizing the relationship between planning and assessment as a process Logic Models & Program Planning review Introduce examples of Structured Planning Framework. Workshop Time: Small group work on where and how assessment fits into a program’s logic model |
Noon |
Lunch Provided by TCG and catered in the space |
1:00 – 5:00pm |
Building Assessment into Our Planning, Part 2 Analyzing the Data Quantitative Data: Build quantitative data into categories and understand quantitative data analysis. Technological Tools: How they can assist in analyzing data. Qualitative Data: Build qualitative data into categories and understand qualitative data analysis. |
| 5:00 – 5:30pm | Reflections |
DAY TWO |
Chicago Cultural Center - Preston Bradley Hall, 3rd Floor |
| Thursday, June 17 2010 Preston Bradley Hall, 3rd Floor |
Findings and Conclusions |
| 8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30am | Reflections |
9:00am – 12:30pm |
Writing the Story of Your Results Identifying findings and conclusions: Compare objectives with outcomes to strengthen findings; organize conclusions around stories of how objectives were met, and get comfortable with connecting objectives and outcomes as the basis for stories of findings from data. Learn how to identify data as either a finding, an example of methodology, a recommendation or a conclusion. Practice developing narratives around findings and conclusions: Work in small groups to turn data into story outlines for different audiences. Building Assessment into our Planning, Part 3 |
| 12:30 – 1:00pm | Closing |
TEAM Consultant and Working Group Members
Andrea Allen, Director of Education, Seattle Repertory Theatre
Peter Avery, Director of Theater, NYC Department of Education
Carol Jones, Director of Institute for Educators, Alliance Theatre
Kati Koerner, Director of Education, Lincoln Center Theater
Milfordean Luster, Education Director, Detroit Repertory Theatre
Nancy Marcy, Former Education Director, The Coterie Theatre
Dawn McAndrews, Festival Director, VSA Arts
Daniel Renner, Director of Education, Denver Center Theatre Company
Dan Welch, Outreach Director, Walden Theatre
Robert Southworth, Project Consultant, President and Principal Investigator,
SchoolWorks Lab, Inc.
Laurie Baskin, Project Coordinator, Director of Government and Education
Programs, TCG
Alissa Moore, Project Facilitator, TCG
TCG/American Express Leadership Boot Camp
June 15-16, 2010 in Chicago, IL
The TCG/American Express Leadership Boot Camp will offer
a two-day professional development pre-conference workshop bringing
together pairs of leaders (an established leader and an emerging leader)
from 20 theatres. Developed and led by the Center for Creative Leadership,
the goal is to foster intergenerational dialogue, explore effective
methods of communication, increase participants’ self awareness
and align vision with strategy. During this session, participants
will learn to:
• Seek and use feedback effectively
• Design strategies for building collaborative alliances and
partnerships
• Lead and manage change and its impact on others
• Utilize strategic thinking skills
• Solicit input from diverse sources and perspectives to promote
collaboration
Application deadline: Friday, February 26
Tentative Acceptance Notification date: Monday, March
15
Click here for full application guidelines and materials.
The Network of Ensemble Theaters present
NETWorks: The ABCs of Today's Creative Touring
Partnerships
The environment for touring has changed considerably in the last few years. Producing theaters are increasingly presenting and the rise of national and international performance festivals is creating greater opportunities to share the work. At the same time the sluggish economy is making many presenters risk-averse, looking for the “sure bets.”
In this shifting arena, what do ensembles and companies need to know as they prepare to tour—or re-think how they tour? Led by touring artists and “activist presenters,” this artist-centered workshop will map the touring landscape, build skills and share resources to prepare artists and companies to go out on the road.
This parallel pre-conference is presented by The Network of Ensemble Theatres, a national coalition of ensembles created by and for artists, in conjunction with the TCG National Pre-Conference and is open to ALL National Conference registrants. Whether you’re touring to a theater across town or to a performing arts center across the country—(or just thinking about touring)—you won't want to miss this opportunity.
June 16 - 9am - 5pm
Lookingglass Theatre
821 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
Session Leaders:
MK Wegmann, President & CEO, National Performance Network, has 30 years experience in organizational development and artists' services. NPN supports the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts, and in its home in New Orleans, serves as an intermediary and fiscal sponsor for artists and organizations working in recovery efforts. From 1978-1991 she was Associate Director for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and from 1993-1999 as Managing Director of the theatre company Junebug Productions. Wegmann serves on Boards of Directors for National Performance Network, Junebug Productions, Performing Arts Alliance (PAA) and the Cultural Alliance of New Orleans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spring Hill College and a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University of New Orleans (now UNO).
Steven Sapp is a founding member of UNIVERSES, a National/International ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse Poetry, Theater, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Politics, Down Home Blues and Spanish Boleros to create moving, challenging and entertaining theatrical works. The group breaks the bounds of traditional theater to create their own brand, inviting old and new generations of theater crafters as well as the theater goers and new comers to reshape the face of American Theater.
Additional Speakers/Resources:
Sabrina Hamilton is the Artistic Director of the Ko Festival of Performance, (www.kofest.com), a summer festival of original work now entering it's 19th season in Amherst, MA. In this capacity, she has been written about extensively in Lisa Mulcahy’s new book Theater Festivals: Best Worldwide Venues for New Works, published by Allworth Press 2005. Ko was originally created by a group of touring ensemble artists who thought that they could create a more artist-centered environment where work could be both created and presented. As Artistic Director, she curates the performances, rehearsal residencies, and 6-day intensive workshops. She also recruits and supervises the interns, serves as Resident Lighting Designer, and is heavily involved in the marketing aspects. One niche that Ko has begun to fill as part of our "value-added" and "artist-centered" approach to presenting is to help pieces that have not yet toured adapt themselves for touring - particularly in terms of design or technical re-conception.
Marc Masterson is the Artistic Director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. In ten seasons of leadership at Actors Theatre, Mr. Masterson has produced more than 200 plays in Louisville, expanded and deepened arts education programs and spearheaded community-based projects, including commissions and site-specific productions of regional stories and artists. He is an award-winning director, with more than 100 professional productions to his credit, who enjoys working on new plays as well as innovative productions of the classics. As a producer, he has brought new artists to Louisville audiences, including playwrights August Wilson, Craig Wright, Theresa Rebeck and dozens of Humana Festival playwrights. He led the creation of Actors Theatre’s first Education department and numerous community outreach efforts. Mr. Masterson earned an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, and subsequently taught at both universities. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of Theatre Communications Group.
Deirdre Valente is Vice President of Lisa Booth Management, Inc. Since 1984 Deirdre Valente and Lisa Booth have produced and managed contemporary performing arts projects by generative artists in more than 300 cities in 30 countries on six continents. In theater, LBMI works on an ongoing basis with Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa), the Hip Hop Theater Festival (NYC), Ping Chong and Company (NYC) and Teatro Hugo & Ines (Peru). Recent projects/companies also include producing Ratan Thiyam’s Chorus Repertory Theatre from Manipur, India, and organizing and general managing the tours of Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers for Trinity Rep & Penumbra, and Major Bang for the Foundry Theatre.
Deirdre’s expertise includes non-profit and commercial producing and tour management, fiscal management and analysis, board development and grantsmanship, strategic and contextual marketing and promotion, technical production and dramaturgy. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, prior to joining Lisa Booth Management in 1984, she stage managed Broadway shows and served as Company Manager for international touring productions in opera and theater. Vassar College alum.
Email any questions about this event to our friends at N.E.T. - ensembletheaters@gmail.com