County Educators Gear Up for First Annual Integrated Learning Summer Institute

By The Alameda County Office of Education

The Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) proudly launches its first annual Integrated Learning Summer Institute, Inventing Our Future, at the Chabot Space & Science Center at 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland on Aug. 7 through Aug. 9.

The sold-out Institute will host more than 35 mini workshops presented by leading educational experts to help participants navigate the changing educational climate, growing demographic diversity, and challenges of student engagement in today's public schools.

The Integrated Learning Summer Institute serves as a springboard for ACOE's commitment to working in innovative ways to provide leadership and service to the education community.

"It is an important milestone for the Alameda County Office of Education — an opportunity to engage a broad community of educators in making a collective impact on our profession, our changing climate, and our future," said Sheila Jordan, Superintendent of Alameda County Schools.  

ACOE recently launched an Integrated Learning Department based on over a decade of work in arts and arts-integrated teaching and learning in Alameda County through Art IS Education.  

The Integrated Learning Summer Institute helps to establish a county-wide integrative approach that brings together rigorous disciplinary skills, applied learning, and formative and summative performance assessments.

About the Integrated Summer Learning Institute

The Integrated Summer Learning Institute is presented by Alameda County Office of Education's Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership and is sponsored by Chabot Space and Science Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; KQED Education; and Lesley University, in partnership with Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Alameda County Arts Commission; and the California Superintendents' Educational Services Association.

The first annual Integrated Learning Summer Institute is made possible through major support from the U.S. Department of Education; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Walter and Elise Haas Fund; Clarence E. Heller Foundation; and the generosity of the National Endowments for the Arts; California Department of Education; California Superintendents Educational Services Association; and the San Francisco Foundation.

Speakers and Performers include:

Dr. Shakti Butler, Documentary Filmmaker and Executive Director of World Trust, a catalyst for racial equity 

Violet Juno, Teaching Artist and Performancer who has worked with dozens of Bay Area schools, districts and arts organizations and has performed nationally and internationally in 30 cities

Charles McNeal, Director of Education, San Francisco Ballet

Dr. Dennis Bartels, Executive Director of the Exploratorium; science education and policy expert, appointed to the Education Working Group for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Reuben Margolin, Kinetic Sculptor

Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and Director of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity

Carl Anthony, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Breakthrough Communities; former executive at the Ford Foundation, responsible for worldwide programs on the environment and community development

Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director, Destiny Arts