Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center and Pōmaika‘i Elementary School partner to offer professional development workshops for Maui educators with John F. Kennedy Center’s Melanie Rick 

Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center, in partnership with Pōmaika‘i Elementary School, is offering two Professional Development Workshops for Maui educators with John F. Kennedy Center’s Melanie Rick on Saturday, January 20th at Hui No‘eau. Melanie Rick is a National Board Certified Teacher, certified Reading Specialist, and co-owner and senior arts integration consultant for Focus 5, Inc. Melanie works in art museums, schools, and art centers across the country helping teachers develop their students’ visual literacy and critical thinking skills. Melanie is currently a course leader and instructional arts coach for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art’s Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program in Washington, D.C.

This workshop series is Hui No’eau’s first collaboration with Pōmaika‘i Elementary School. The partnership was developed with the goal of providing increased visual arts education resources for Maui’s youth and educators. “The Hui met with Pōmaika‘i’s Arts Integration Coordinator and Coach Rae Takemoto and realized that we could serve more of the Maui community by working together,” said Lana Coryell, Senior Program Manager at Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center. “The Hui is thrilled to create a partnership with Pōmaika‘i Elementary and hope this will be the first of many more collaborative efforts.”

Hui No’eau invites educators to register for one or both of Melanie’s workshops:

Reading and Talking about Visual Art in the Early Childhood Classroom (Grades PreK-2)

Saturday, January 20 / 8:30 am – 11:30 am

Students in grades K-2 are often emerging readers who are depending on images to provide visual cues to aid in comprehension. This workshop focuses on looking and talking about illustrations in fiction picture books before, during, and after reading to help students develop the skills of prediction, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, and retelling a story.
Tuition & Supply Fee: $15

Reading Art Across the Curriculum: Observe-Infer-Inquire (Grades 3 – 8)

Saturday, January 20 / 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Visual art is a text that students of all reading abilities can access. This workshop introduces the language of visual art so that teachers feel confident looking, thinking, and talking about art with their students. Join us to learn about resources for building a library of images that can be used to efficiently build background knowledge, teach content, generate points of inquiry for research, and assess understandings in social studies, science, and reading. Tuition & Supply Fee: $15

 Interested educators can pre-register for each of these professional development workshops at huinoeau.com or by calling 808-572-6560. Tuition is only $15.

 Hui No‘eau is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community visual arts education organization located at 2841 Baldwin Ave. Makawao, Maui, Hawaii. Visit huinoeau.com for more information.