PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
| “Creativity is inventing, experimenting,
growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and
having fun”. — Mary Lou Cook, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
Since 1987 SMARTS has provided this region’s arts
educators with current, relevant and practical continuing education that
impacts thousands of students. SMARTS agrees with the Massachusetts
Department of Education that “high quality professional development
results in new learning evidenced by changed behavior, which is gained
by opportunities to become aware, observe, practice, reflect, and refine
(1994). The arts engender such knowledge for all learners.
The discipline-based and interdisciplinary dynamic of the SMARTS Summer
Institute is the model used for services to the professional community.
These in-depth professional development programs have trained
southeastern Massachusetts artists and arts teachers K-16 to create
model curricula, to provide internet access to their units of study and
to be a cadre of mentor teachers who help to elevate the quality of arts
education for the children of this region.
