SNAP Site Programs
SNAP's activities include: an annual invitational institute, a Professional Development Series, collaborations with other arts and educational agencies, and consultation and services to schools throughout the region.
The two-week Invitational Leadership Institute offers an opportunity for K-16 teachers to share their expert teaching practices with their colleagues, to engage in the arts in depth on an adult level, and to create classroom translations of these in-depth experiences with the arts. Members of SNAP serve as teacher/leaders to regional schools and assist in district program development for the project, as well.
In addition to the Summer Institutes, SNAP offers a Professional Development Series with thematic emphases in five areas--Arts Across the Disciplines, Arts in Global Perspectives, Creativity, Technology, and the Framework. Each series offers thirty hours of programs, and sessions are scheduled so that participants have appropriate periods of time between sessions to apply learning to their own professional contexts and to share experiences based on this application in subsequent sessions. The series are available to schools, districts, county offices of education, and post-secondary institutions.
Other services offered by SNAP include consultations to schools and districts and specially designed inservices and presentations based on the expressed needs of the contracting agency. Consultation services are also provided to arts agencies for developing grant proposals and for designing professional development programs.