Workshops for Teachers

ArtsBridge partners with the Sierra-North Arts Project (SNAP) to provide ongoing professional development opportunities for Host Teachers.

Established in 1993 and using the model of teachers teaching teachers, the Sierra-North Arts Project (SNAP) fosters the professional development of kindergarten through post-secondary teachers. It honors the priorities of the California Arts Project (TCAP): direct engagement with the artistic process, direct applications to classroom teaching, and development of teacher leaders in arts education. One of six California Arts Project regional sites, SNAP serves the following twelve-county area: Colusa, El Dorado, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Solano, Yolo, and Yuba counties.

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.