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CITATION NUMBER

INFORMATION SOURCES

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ONE

AEP1

#A

Our Curriculum utilizes the following nationally pre-tested, validated curriculum:

• NEA (National Endowment of the Arts) program: Shakespeare in American Communities
• Will Power for Youth
• Folger Library: Folger National Shakespeare Library has a vast number of resources for teachers of Shakespeare, see:

All involve “Deep Learning” approaches, but many samples of this and other curriculum we use are attached in our Curriculum Supplement

AEP2

#B

Citations to experts on Deep Learning on whom the ISE relies can be found on page 19 and 38 of our attached Curriculum Supplement, a document  where their associated definitions of “Deep Learning” are also found.

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TWO

WP1

#C

Sample Lesson Plans are found at pages 45-53 (particulalry p 50) of our attached Curriculum Supplement. 

An Overview of our Curriculum and curriculum approach is essential to understanding where the Sample lesson fits into to our overall approach to teaching, to learning outcomes, and to our curriculum as a whole, and that Overview can be found at pages 20- 30 and pages of the attached Curriculum Supplement. 

WP1

#D

Our program for New Immigrants takes place in a neighborhood educational center called HER (Hispanic Educational Resources) http://www.herdsm.org/

A specific follow-up activity associated with our program at this cite is the “pachanga” (party, fiesta – often associated with music) which the Festival provides, an activity associated with various local Latino groups who produce them monthly.  The Festival itself is the site for the July Pachanga.!

A list of multi-culturally specific follow-up activities that are provided at the Festival is found at Citation E below. 

WP2

#E

Multi cultural components at Fest

Shakespeare is performed in virtually every country in the World. [See:

“Internet Shakespeare Editions to link to: Shakespeare Around the Globe (http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/about.html) 

Accordingly, new at the 2010 Festival are internationally-themed pre-show talks on 3 nights of the Festival.  

These Pre-show Scholar’s Talks are about Shakespeare and the way in which Shakespeare relates to various ethnic communities.  Scholars are themselves members of that community.  We co-produce the Talks with various local Associations (listed below), who are offered the opportunity to host (along with the Scholar’s Talk) a variety of supplemental events directly on the grounds of the Festival, such as Food Booths, Information and Membership Booths, Two-Dimensional Art Booths, and VIP events.  Some groups, such as the Latino group “Allianza” also host a post-play dance or other event (pachanga).  

We are working with the following organizations which serve New Iowan Immigrants who come from countries where Shakespeare is a presence. These organizations will help provide outreach to the new immigrants AND will provide us with the scholar who will present a talk, bi-lingually as indicated, on the role of Shakespeare specifically in that culture.  

The groups or specific scholars who will be hosting Mutli-cultural Scholars Talks at the 2010 Festival include:

• Asian American Association of Des Moines (serves immigrant Chinese groups and also all five of the southeast Asian national groups).  Since 2008, we have been working with particularly the local Chinese-American Association, which wishes us to take our Shakespeare programming to China.  
• Allianza, Dia de los Muertos, and HER (Hispanic Educational Resources)
• Hollis Monroe (Also one of our Teaching Artists, bio attached), a noted Shakespearean scholar who for outreach, will be working with a variety of local groups which serve, or primarily serve, the local African American community, such as various churches, Urban Dreams, and “I’ll Make Me A World In Iowa”. 

All Multi-cultural components have oversight from our Community Advisory Board, which features experts from these and other ethnicity based communities, or other experts on Community Outreach, who provide ongoing oversight into our outreach activities.  List of our various Boards, including our Community Advisory Board, are attached in our Supplemental Materials.

SECTION THREE

PME1

#F

In addition to the significant theatre teaching experience our lead educator manifests at the college level, as well as the significant high school teaching and curriculum development experience our supervisor manifests (See CVs) we have successfully provided specifically Shakespeare and Theatre education programs since 2004 to the following school districts and community agencies:

School Districts: programs from 1 day workshops to 4 week workshops to 5 month residencies

• Des Moines Public Schools
• West Des Moines Public Schools
• Ankeny Public Schools
• Pleasant Hill Public Schools
• Altoona Public Schools
• Marshalltown Public Schools 

Community Groups:

• Des Moines Arts Center
• Hispanic Educational Resources
• Metro Arts Alliance
• Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Iowa 
• Urban Dreams
• Children and Families Urban Ministries
• Youth and Family Services
• Lutheran Social Services
• Waukee Arts Council

Also Des Moines Senior College and all five branches of the Des Moines Public Library system plus select branches of the West Des Moines Library system

PME2

#G

A 10-year strategic plan for the growth and development of our organization, including the growth and development of our educational programming, has been on file with Bravo Greater Des Moines (local arts council) since 2007.  This plan includes a heavy emphasis on our step-by-step plan to begin to provide educational services at a scale suitable for needs of the Metro, including our plan to take our current Workshop program into schools (in addition to Library) and also to develop a summer youth “daycamp” program that would offer youth opportunities to Act and take on other live stage roles in live performances.  Our current workshop program is the initial phase of that growth plan. 

PME4

#H

Our nationally-certified evaluator has developed custom Likert scale measurement markers which allow us to measure pivot points of change in participants ability to enjoy or participate in Shakespeare theatre activities.  See page 54-59 of our Evaluation Materials.