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Tami Marler, Director
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News Release: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Teacher Workshop Start of Exciting Creative Growth
11/7/2009
Location
Tulsa Public Schools
A series of grants received by the Tulsa Public Schools Fine Arts Department will lead to an explosion of creativity in district schools.
A daylong workshop on November 7 at the Philbrook Museum is the start of this creative cycle as teachers from fine arts departments across TPS (including drama, music and the visual arts) gather to receive funding for supplies and craft lesson plans aimed at developing problem-solving skills and innovation in the classroom. The goal is to get a student’s creative juices flowing. “These grants will help develop teacher capacity to generate creative thinking in our students,” said Ann Tomlins, chair of the TPS fine arts department.
The two-year grants are from the Kennedy Center for the Fine and Performing Arts and the Oklahoma State Department of Education. In the second year of the grant TPS teachers will take what they have learned and script essays for compilation in a book on best practices in the classroom.
