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Marygrove College Institute for Arts-Infused Education Hosts Second Annual Summer Intensive on August 13-15

Detroit, MI, June 7, 2007 -- Marygrove College will offer a three-day summer intensive workshop for educators and artists on August 13 through 15, 2007. Titled “Community Arts Partnerships- Modeling Innovative Methods in English Language Arts Education,” the College’s Institute for Arts-Infused Education (IAIE) will provide collaborative hands-on sessions with the Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan Opera Theatre and Matrix Theatre Company.

Participants will learn how to use the arts to teach other non-art subjects as well as alternative assessment tools and brain-based education information. Participants can receive 1.6 SBCEUs for attending all three days of the intensive. The cost of the program is $50 and participants can register by calling 1-866-903-3033. The intensive training will be held in the Madame Cadillac Building on Marygrove’s campus, 8425 West McNichols, Detroit, MI 48221.

Marygrove established the Institute for Arts-Infused Education in January 2006 to improve K-12 students’ successful progress through the core curriculum in partnership with several accomplished community arts organizations. The Institute promotes the integration of the arts into the core curriculum and creates innovative models for teaching the core curriculum. Teachers and local artists, including dancers, mimes, musicians and fine artists, collaborate in classroom teaching.

Mary Lou Greene, director, IAIE, explained that arts-infused education “is not the teaching of art but rather the teaching of reading, science and math, the core K through 12 curriculum, using the arts. Marygrove College has a long and successful track record of teacher training on the bachelor’s and master’s levels. The College also has a long-standing dedication to in-service and pre-service teacher training.”

The Institute for Arts Infused Education is funded through a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more information, contact Mary Lou Greene at 313-927-1853 or mgreene@marygrove.edu, or Liz DiDonna, administrative assistant, at 313-927-1538 or edidonna@marygrove.edu.

Marygrove College is a private liberal arts college located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music, dance, the fine arts and many others. Nearly 3,000 students are enrolled in its online and distance learning Master in the Art of Teaching program as well as more than 5,000 in its non-credit programs. Call 866-313-1927 or visit www.marygrove.edu.

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