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Lil Buck and a Silk Road Connect student from MS 584 performing together at SummerStage in June 2011
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Silk Road Connect
A Silk Road Project Educational Program
Program Vision
Silk Road Connect inspires passion-driven learning by empowering students and educators to seek connections across all areas of study and to follow their interests from the familiar to the foreign. In a spirit of playfulness and investigation, collaboration and creativity, this program invites students and teachers to experience learning as a continual process and the foundation for a meaningful life in our complex and interrelated world.
As ongoing globalization, technological advances and prolonged international conflict make our world ever smaller, it becomes increasingly important that we learn to embrace our identities as citizens of a global community. The arts have historically been a gateway to understanding among diverse peoples, but continued cuts to arts programming in public schools are denying young people valuable tools to connect with the world around them.
In response, the Silk Road Project has developed Silk Road Connect, a multidisciplinary educational initiative targeting middle school in low-resourced communities, where students are least likely to have access to the transformative power of the arts. By working with sixth-grade students, we are engaging children at a pivotal point in their lives when making connections with a broader world can be of enormous benefit.
Learn More
To learn more about upcoming Silk Road Connect education events, including professional development sessions, join our Silk Road Connect mailing list by emailing education@silkroadproject.org.
Silk Road Connect in New York City
The Silk Road Project is working for a third year with Edward Bleeker JHS 185 in Queens. Educators have been taking part in professional development sessions, and teaching artists have been visiting students to share their perspectives as professional artists and as individuals.
Silk Road Connect in Boston
This year the Silk Road Project began working with middle-school educators in the Boston area, at Jackson Mann K-8 School in Allston and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School in Cambridge. Silk Road Connect teaching artist visits will begin in Winter 2012.
Summer Institute: The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Artists and educators from around the country—and around the world—are invited to join us at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a weekend institute from July 28 through July 29, 2012. A plenary session with our artistic director Yo-Yo Ma will open the institute. Harvard faculty, Silk Road Ensemble musicians and Silk Road Connect teaching artists will present arts-integrated lessons. Workshops, panel discussion and small group sessions will examine passion-driven learning in practice.
Tuition is $875 (travel/accommodation to be arranged by participant). Space is limited.
The Silk Road Project will make limited funds available for assistance with tuition and travel. Participants should seek funding from other sources, where possible. The application for financial aid is attached to the institute application.
Details and application through Harvard's Programs in Professional Education
Email education@silkroadproject.org to sign up for our Silk Road Connect mailing list.
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