OMA To Be Featured on U.S. Department Of Education’s Website

NEWS RELEASE - REVISED

Contact: Estella Zavala, 225-6437 or Dr. Joan Ashcraft, Director of Fine Arts, 225-4900
Posted on: REVISED February 3, 2006

TUSD’s Opening Mind Through The Arts (OMA) Program has been selected to be featured on the U.S. Department of Education’s eLearning website at http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/. The eLearning professional development website is part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, which also supports teachers through workshops, email updates, and the American Stars in Teaching recognition project. Please note that TUSD’s information will be displayed beginning in April.

From June through August 2005, OMA was invited to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher-to-Teacher Conferences which were presented in six cities nationwide: Cincinnati, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Tampa, Bethesda, and San Jose. This is the first year the U.S. Department of Education has included an arts-integration program model as a conference session. 

For every Teacher-to-Teacher course on the eLearning website there is an: Overview, Video, Video Companion Guide, Course Handouts, Follow-up Activities, End-of-course Assessment, etc. OMA will be added to this course list in approximately three months, once filming and submission of materials is complete. For more information, visit the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative website at: www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative.

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