National Board Certification Awarded to Three Fine Arts Teachers

Vol. 17, No. 3
A Publication of the
Fine Arts Program
February, 2014
National Board Certification Awarded to Three Fine Arts Teachers
Clois Bell, Doreen Fonda, and Camilla S. Haneberg, three veteran APS Fine Arts teachers, have recently
earned the distinction of becoming National Board Certified Teachers. Passing the national boards is a
lengthy process requiring teachers to examine and reflect on their teaching practices against the backdrop of
student achievement. Passing the National Boards is considered to be an indication of professional teaching
excellence.
Clois Bell has been a general music teacher since the late 1980s. She began her career in Rhode
Island and Arkansas, moving to Albuquerque in 2003. She has been an elementary music teacher with
APS Fine Arts for ten years. Clois decided to attempt the National Boards as an alternative to completing a
master’s degree. Clois is quick to admit, “. . . it was a tedious and time-consuming project. It was my life for
the entire year. However, I found that I learned from the process . . . the validation that the National Board
Clois Bell, elementary music teacher
Certificate offers to my life’s work is huge.”
Doreen Fonda is an English Language Arts and TESOL teacher and AVID coach at Kennedy Middle
School. This year, Doreen (Dori to her friends) is also teaching Drama I to seventh and eighth grade students.
Dori has taught for 32 years in elementary, middle and high school. She
describes herself as a shy student until she joined a drama club. Dori writes,
“The process of becoming a National Board Certified Teacher has not only
impacted my teaching, it has impacted my life! I now empower my family
and my students to believe in themselves, persevere, and dream big!”
Camilla S. Haneberg has been teaching art for 23 years. She began
her career in Cincinnati, Ohio and has spent the last three years as an artist/
teacher at nex+Gen Academy where she teaches tenth graders. Camilla holds
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s from the
Art Academy of Cincinnati. She is an accomplished artist and enjoys painting
en plein air (in the open air) in New Mexico. Camilla is also sharpening her
Doreen Fonda, ELA/Drama
drawing skills using the Classical Atelier method, a form of art instruction
teacher at Kennedy Middle School
that mirrors the historic private art studios of Europe.
Camilla Haneburg, art teacher at
APS Fine Arts is incredibly proud of these teachers and offer them our sincerest congratulations!
nex+Gen Academy
My job is to show folks
there’s a lot of good
music in this world
and, if used right, it
may help to save the
planet.
Pete Seegar
May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014
Del Norte Drama Teacher Wins Golden Apple!
Jonathan Hagmaier, drama and digital arts teacher at Del Norte HS is the latest Fine Arts
teacher to be honored with the Golden Apple Award.
Previous Fine Arts winners include Art Sheinberg, retired orchestra director at
Albuquerque and Valley High Schools; Tammy Crespin, art teacher at Madison MS; and Betsy
Van Dyke, band director at Madison MS.
To win this award, candidates must be nominated by their principal, colleagues,
students, parents, or community members. Nominees complete a lengthy
application process; they must describe their teaching philosophy and
methodology, professional development, and volunteer work.
Recipients receive a cash award and $4000 dollars to be used
towards professional development. They also receive a laptop computer
generously donated by Intel.
Congratulations to Jonathan Hagmaier on this prestigious achievement.
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New Mexico Music Education Association
2013 Honor Bands
The NM Music Education Association (NMMEA)
is the state affiliate of the National Association for Music
Education (NAfME). NMMEA is divided into districts
throughout the state with District VII comprising all
schools in the greater Albuquerque area.
Cibola HS was the site for the November 24,
2013 NMMEA District VII Honor Band concerts. Honor
Band participants represent District VII schools and are
chosen by their band directors; students must be excellent
musicians and commit to an intensive rehearsal schedule.
This year, over 76 students represented 25 mid-schools
while 89 students represented 15 District VII high
Good friends and long-time colleagues, Luis Delgado (left) and Stuart Fessinger (right)
schools.
conducted the 2013 District VII Honor Bands.
Mid-School Honor Band was conducted by
Stuart Fessinger, a retired APS band director. Mr. Fessinger, a graduate of the University of New Mexico, began his
career at Taylor MS and directed high school bands at Eldorado and Sandia. During his 29 year tenure with APS,
Mr. Fessinger received many awards including the Crystal Apple Educator Award, the National Band Association
Excellence Award, and the NMMEA Hall of Fame Award. Mr. Fessinger is currently teaching at Bosque School
where he is the director of middle and upper school bands.
Luis Delgado, Director of the APS Fine Arts program, was the conductor for the District VII High School
Honor Band. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, Mr. Delgado began his career as the band director at
Belen HS and taught at Alamogordo Mid-High/High School and APS’s Sandia High School. He also worked in the
New Mexico Public Education Department. Mr. Delgado has held the positions of Southwest Division President of
NAfME, NMMEA President, and Vice-President of the NMMEA Elementary School Music Division.
Congratulations to this year’s Honor Band participants and conductors.
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Elementary Student Art
Now Displayed in the
DeLayo Martin
Community Room
The request from Jennifer Neumann,
Executive Administrative Assistant for the APS Board
of Education, to the Fine Arts office was a simple
one: how could you help us add some color to the
DeLayo Martin Community Room?
The solution was equally simple: display student
artwork from the district’s elementary Fine Arts program.
Using frames purchased by the Board office, 14 pieces of elementary student art reproduced by APS
Graphics Production & District Services are now on display in the DeLayo Martin Community Room. Two pieces
represent schools in each of the seven Board member’s districts. New work is displayed twice a year.
“The elementary artwork in the DeLayo Martin room illustrates the creative talents of our students - and is
an important reminder to keep the support of art education and students in the forefront of our board decisions,”
said David Peercy, board member for District 7.
The DeLayo Martin Community Room is used primarily for Board of Education committee meetings as
well as for meetings held by a variety of district groups, often with community members in attendance.
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Puppets in the Classroom
Children of all ages can get lost in the magic of puppets by
re-telling, acting out or dramatizing a story. Puppets can be extremely
powerful because they often allow young children to articulate
thoughts and feelings they might not otherwise express.
One main character puppet is enough to pull young children
into the story and can be used to engage the students with a repeating,
predictable phrase (“Where, oh, where can he be?”).
Puppets also have the ability to enrich children’s literature
experiences. Sometimes a puppet might be just the focus a child needs
to become completely engaged with a book, and perhaps start that love
of reading that can last a lifetime.
Mid-school and high school visual art students have also been
fascinated by puppets as the subjects of still-life illustrations and
paintings. Puppets are excellent models who never need a break, never
change position, and provide challenging examples for depicting visual
texture and varying degrees of detail.
The ARTS Center at Montgomery Complex has a beautiful
collection of puppets and books to enrich your students’ literature
experience. And don’t forget to check out a CD for a visual AND
auditory experience. (Common Core Reading Standards for Literature: Key
Ideas and Details, K-5; Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards:
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas, K-5.)
Meet just a few of our more popular critters and characters:
Arts Resources
Training & Support
Montgomery Complex
3315 Louisiana NE
Phone: 880-8297 Fax: 880-8287
Hours: 1-5 p.m. M - Th
1-4 p.m. Friday
Mornings by appointment
ARTS Center Support Team
Erin Hulse, Drama Resource Teacher
e-mail: hulse@aps.edu
Sara Hutchinson, Dance Resource Teacher
e-mail: hutchinson@aps.edu
Gina Rasinski, Music Resource Teacher
e-mail: rasinski@aps.edu
ARTS Center Resources
• Arts books, DVDs, musicals, art
reproductions, CDs
• Arts integration units prepared by
ARTS Center staff
• Children’s literature that integrates
well with music and art
ARTS Center Services
• Workshops on art, music, dance,
drama, and literature integration
• One-on-one consultations on arts
curriculum planning
• Help plan arts integration units
• Firing clay for schools
• Finding that special song, art work
or book
www.aps.edu/fine-arts/arts-center
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Drama at Kennedy
Middle School -It’s
Not What You Think
On any given day, one can walk
through the halls of a middle school and find
“drama”. There are students juggling class
schedules, new friendships, and varying
teacher expectations. In a broad sense,
drama is just part of the composition of an
adolescent’s life. This year, however, students
at Kennedy MS can really claim that they
have drama - as an instructional class.
Students at Kennedy MS perform during their drama class with their teacher,
Prior to the current school year,
Dori Fonda.
principal Ed Bortot decided that Kennedy
students needed an additional elective. He contacted one of his veteran Language Arts teachers,
Doreen Fonda, and asked if she would be willing to teach an 8th grade drama class to fill that spot.
Fonda was already incorporating a variety of drama-related activities such as drama
games and Readers Theatre in her English/Language Arts (ELA) classes with great success
as a means of teaching 8th grade ELA standards. She viewed the drama class as an additional
opportunity to not only focus on drama for its inherent instructional value, but also as a means of
using drama to reinforce related ELA content learning.
One of the first things she did was to contact the district’s drama resource teacher, Erin
Hulse, at the APS ARTS Center for support.
Among the many things discussed at their first meetings was the difference between
“theatre” and “drama”. “Theatre” is what most people think of when they hear the term “drama”.
But the term “theatre” actually refers to scripts, sets, props, costumes, blocking, lights, and sound,
exhibited on a stage for an audience. The term “drama”, however, refers to instruction and skillbuilding. More specifically, it refers to creating, exploring, analyzing, meaning-making, ensemble,
trust, confidence, reading, writing, and building skills for the participants. With the distinction
between teaching “drama” versus teaching “theatre” firmly in place, Fonda was ready to begin the
semester.
Kennedy’s block schedule allows the drama class of 30 students to meet twice a week for
90 minutes each session, with an additional 55 minute Friday class. The longer classes allow for
more participatory, skill-building lessons and rehearsals. The Friday class lends itself to writing,
vocabulary development, reviewing and reading scripts, i.e., more traditional academic endeavors.
So how did the first semester go? Ruben began the semester with a great deal of
skepticism, bluntly stating after two weeks, “I don’t like this class. I’m gonna try to get out of it.”
Since the time for schedule changes had passed, Ruben stayed. By the end of the semester, during
a “talk back” to 6th graders who were the audience for the drama students’ performances of Civil
War monologues, Ruben actively encouraged them to take drama as an elective. “It’s the best class
ever! And that’s saying something coming from me—I hated this class in the beginning. And now I
want to take it again next semester—but they won’t let me.”
Students were given an evaluation at the end of the semester regarding the drama skills
learned and their perspective about the class. With the question, “What is the most important thing
you learned in drama this semester?” students provided the following feedback:
“. . . that you can be yourself and not get judged.”
“. . . if we work together we accomplish more things.”
“ . . . this class has made me more confident and used to reading in front of the class.
“Drama taught me to express myself around others and to not be shy. I used to be very
concealed. Now I’m very outgoing.”
“One thing I have learned (is) more vocabulary. It helps with other classes.”
Another group of 30 students will have the opportunity to participate in the drama
class second semester. They, too, will be able to build skills with reading, writing, oral language
development and expression, analysis, creativity, ensemble, trust, and confidence.
Fonda and Bortot intend to continue offering the drama elective for the 2014-2015 school
year with the long-range goal of program expansion.
So drama in middle school doesn’t have to be “drama in middle school” - just ask the
students at Kennedy.
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APS Fine Arts
Program
Luis Delgado
Director
880-8249 ext. 338
delgado_luis@aps.edu
Trudy Randour
Manager
880-8249 ext. 340
randour@aps.edu
Denise Rudd
Art Resource Teacher
880-8249 ext. 312
denise.rudd@aps.edu
Rosemary Fessinger
Music Resource Teacher
880-8249 ext. 311
fessinger@aps.edu
Gloria Deffenbaugh
Inventory Control Tech
880-8249 ext. 336
deffenbaugh@aps.edu
Dionne Sanchez
Inventory Control Tech
880-8249 ext. 339
sanchez_di@aps.edu
•
Berna Madrid-Aragon
Secretary
880-8249 ext. 337
madrid_bj@aps.edu
Inter-office Mail:
Fine Arts Office
Montgomery
Complex
•
US Mail:
Fine Arts Office
Montgomery
Complex
3315 Louisiana NE
87110
•
WEBSITE:
www.aps.edu/fine-arts
FAX: 872-0664
MAY
ARTS Center Arts Integration Workshop: “The Colors of Summer”
Date:
Thursday, May 1
Audience: Intermediate Grade Certified Staff (grades 3 – 5)
Location:
APS ARTS Center – Montgomery Complex
Time:
8:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Reservations:
Sara Hutchinson: 880-8249, xt. 156 or hutchinson@aps.edu
Upcoming Fine Arts Events
Mark Your Calendar!
FEBRUARY
Metro Youth Art Exhibit
Annual juried exhibit of high school student art; display opportunity for midschools
Exhibit Dates:
Sat., March 1 – Sunday, March 30
Location: Fine Arts Gallery – Expo New Mexico (State Fair)
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Gallery Admission: Free
Parking:
Expo NM parking fees apply
See the Fine Arts website for a schedule of weekend music performances by APS
high school musicians (www.aps.edu/fine-arts)
NM Philharmonic Concerts for Fourth Grades
Dates:
Tuesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 15
Location:
Popejoy Hall
Performance Times: 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Reservations:
Packets were sent in the APS school mail to 4th gr. chairpersons the week of January 27
Elementary Music Teachers
Present Workshops at All-State
Conference
MARCH
Elementary Honor Choir Concerts
Annual concerts featuring fourth and fifth grade students from APS elementary
schools
Date:
Saturday, March 1
Location:
Eldorado High School (Montgomery & Juan Tabo)
Fourth Gr. Concert: 2:45 p.m.
Fifth Gr. Concert: 4:00 p.m.
Admission: Admission is free but seating is limited
Beginning Orchestra Festival
Annual concerts featuring beginning orchestra students from local middle schools
Date:
Saturday, March 8
Location:
West Side Concert: James Monroe MS 6100 Paradise NW
East Side Concert:
Eisenhower MS 11001 Camero NE
Time:
2:30 – 3:00 both concerts
Admission:
Free for both concerts
APRIL
“Art is Elementary”
Annual exhibit of art from APS elementary schools
Exhibit Dates:
Saturday, April 5 – Sunday, May 4
Location:
Indian Arts Bldg. – Expo New Mexico (State Fair)
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Gallery Admission: Free
Parking:
Expo NM parking fees apply
“Focus on Youth” Photography Exhibit
Annual juried exhibit of photography from APS high schools, Albuquerque
Academy and Sandia Preparatory School
Exhibit Dates:
Sunday, April 28 – Sunday, June 9
Location:
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
2000 Mountain Rd. NW (Old Town)
Awards Reception: Sunday, April 28 2:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m.
Museum Admission: $4/adults;$3/NM residents, $2/Seniors (65+);
$1 Children 4-12, Children under 3 – free
Sundays, 9:00 am – 1:00 p.m., free admission
Workshop presenter Anna Perea (front) was assisted in a blacklight drumming
demonstration by (from left) APS elementary music teachers: Joe Gershin, Paul
Palmer, James Macklin and Vicky Wood.
A unique workshop on use of blacklight as an instructional
strategy in the elementary music classroom was presented by four
APS elementary music teachers at the NM Music Educator’s All State
Conference in early January. Presenters included Jan Delgado, Anna
Perea, Antonio Romero and Stacy Sandoval. The workshop was
aptly titled, “Musicians Do It In the Dark.”
Over 80 elementary music teachers from around the state
participated in the workshop by turning out the room lights, turning
on the blacklights and using white gloves, hula hoops and stretchy
bands, among other glow-in-the-dark items to demonstrate a variety
of participatory instructional strategies.
Among the lesson objectives included in the fluorescent
environment were creating rhythmic patterns, recognizing and
keeping a steady beat, demonstrating spatial levels (low, medium,
high), and depicting melodic contours, among many others.
The workshop also included information on classroom
logistics, materials needed, costs, and resources (both local vendors
as well as online instructional videos).
For access to the Power Point presentation of the workshop,
visit www.aps.edu/arts-center; click on “workshops”.
In addition to the blacklight workshop, APS elementary
music teacher Rebecca Ortega facilitated a session on multicultural
folk dances that is always well-attended and considered a highlight of
the conference.
Santa Fe Opera Spring Tour Performances for Grades 3 - 5
Dates:
Mon., April 21 – Thurs., April 24
Location:
KiMo Theatre
Performance Times: 10 am and 12 noon; (Wed., April 23: 10 am only)
Reservations:
Packets were sent in the APS school mail to grade level chairpersons the week of February 1
ARTS Center Arts Integration Workshop: “The Colors of Summer”
Date:
Tuesday, April 29
Audience: Primary Grade Certified Staff (Gr. K – 2)
Location:
APS ARTS Center – Montgomery Complex
Time:
8:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Reservations:
Sara Hutchinson: 880-8249, xt. 156 or hutchinson@aps.edu
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Scholastics Awards Six APS Students with Gold and Silver Keys in Art
The New Mexico Art Education Association (NMAEA) is the newest
affiliate of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, a non-profit organization
that recognizes secondary students with exceptional creative talent through the
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
It is the country’s longest-running recognition program for creative secondary
students. Notable past winners include Robert Redford, Andy Warhol, Truman
Capote, and Sylvia Plath.
In years past, students from New Mexico were entered in the Southwest
Region-at-Large, which also included Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona and Texas.
Because of the new NMAEA state affiliation, New Mexico students will now
compete only with their New Mexico peers, giving them a greater chance to win
an award or scholarship.
Students can submit work in areas such as drawing, painting, ceramics, glass,
and photography among many others. Graduating seniors may also submit up
to two portfolios to compete for a Portfolio Gold Medal, with the 16 winners
receiving $10,000 each in scholarship money. The national winners will be
Guests enjoyed the artwork at the Art.Write.Now exhibit that was
announced on March 15th.
held
at
the
National
Hispanic
Cultural
Center.
Albuquerque
was
one
Six APS students received state-level awards this year – called “keys” – with
of only four stops the exhibit will make throughout the country. Photo the Gold Key winners going on to compete at
courtesy of the Association of Young Artists and Writers.
the national level for Gold or Silver Medals.
• Nicole Hensley, Volcano Vista HS: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee in Digital Art
• Luis Medina, Highland HS: Silver Key in Ceramics and Glass
• Hye Jin Park, La Cueva HS: Gold Key in Mixed Media, Silver Key in Drawing, 2 Silver Keys
in Ceramics and Glass, Gold Key in Ceramics and Glass
• Heather Parker, Del Norte HS: Silver Key in Drawing
• Ceidric Platero, Del Norte HS: Gold Key in Drawing; Silver Key in Drawing • Christina Silachanh, Del Norte HS: Silver Key in Painting; Silver Key in Photography
Winners at the national level will be announced mid-March.
Last November, the National Hispanic Cultural Center hosted
the Art.Write.Now. Tour – a traveling exhibition that featured
the work of the 2012 national Scholastics Gold Medal winners,
including two students from New Mexico: Emilie Sommers
from Albuquerque Academy received a Portfolio Gold Medal in
Photography, and Katarina Pittis from the New Mexico School of
the Arts won a Gold Medal for Photography. The exhibit will also
travel to Pittsburgh, PA and Laramie, WY.
The 2013 State Awards Exhibition opened on February 7,
2014 at Warehouse 508 in Albuquerque and should be on display
through the beginning of March. The exhibit includes the work
of the APS Gold and Silver Key award winners listed above. See
http://newmexicoartawards.wordpress.com for specific dates, times
and venues for all of the Scholastics events.
The writing component of Scholastics is an equally prestigious
program including works in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and a
variety of other literary genre. NMAEA is actively searching for a
local organization to serve as the affiliate for the writing portion of
the Scholastics program.
APS Fine Arts Welcomes New Music Teacher
Kay Martin, an elementary music teacher who
has been with the elementary Fine Arts program since its
inception, has been delighting students with song and dance
at many APS elementary schools for 17 and a half years.
Martin retired effective January 1 to care for her
young grandchildren.
William Wadsworth, a recent UNM graduate, will
assume Martin’s position at Oñate Elementary School.
Wadsworth’s
primary instruments are
bassoon and saxophone.
While he doesn’t get
to play them in the
elementary classroom, he
does get to display that
talent on the weekends as
a soldier in the 44th New
Mexico National Guard
Army Band.
The Fine Arts
program wishes Kay
Martin all the best in her
retirement and is looking
forward to having Will
Wadsworth join our staff. Will Wadsworth, elementary music teacher
In Memorium
Dr. Alan Zoloth, an elementary music teacher
with the Fine Arts program in 1996-97, the program’s first
year, passed away in January, 2014 in Atlanta. “Mr./Dr.
Zoloth” as he was called by several confused kindergarten
students, taught at La Mesa, Sandia Base and Whittier
elementary schools that year and will be missed.
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