"My week at The Peace Center...

Each summer, the Peace Outreach Program offers graduate recertification courses designed to introduce classroom teachers to innovative teaching strategies where the arts bring curriculum standards to life. As a standards-based instructional strategy, arts integration helps students to make meaningful connections to concepts and content in every subject, in any classroom. This technique also provides opportunities for differentiated instruction, caters to multiple intelligences, appeals to divergent learning styles, engages higher order thinking skills and allows for active, ongoing assessment of student learning.

Planning for The Peace Center’s 2011 Summer Teacher Institute is underway. We will hold two Institutes in June 2011.  The first, June 13-17, will be for teachers involved in our smART IDEA program, only.  The second Institute is open to the public and will occur June 20-24, 2011.  For updates or to get on our mailing list, please contact Staci Dillard at 864.467.3007 or sdillard@peacecenter.org.