Sierra North Arts Project offers in-depth institutes for
teachers, a professional development program series, consultation
and services to schools and inservice days and workshops.
Institutes
SNAP offers in-depth institutes for generalist classroom teachers
and single subject arts teachers.
Collaborative Design Institute (120 hours)
Invitational Institute (120 hours)
Pathways to Understanding the Arts Disciplines Institute (75
hours)
Professional Development Program Series (PDPS)
PDPS series engage participants in standards based practice and
professional reflection, and include assessment practices that
lead to student achievement.
Consultation and Services to Schools
SNAP offers technical assistance to schools, districts, county
offices of education, and arts organizations to improve teaching
and learning in the arts.
Arts Education Assessment Tool (AEAT): district and school
program assessment tool
K-12 Curriculum Development, including UC/CSU “f” courses
Career Technical Education (Arts, Media, and Entertainment)
Inservice
Programs for inservice days and workshop series are designed for
schools after consulting with teachers and staff so that the
programs reflect the school’s and county’s unique settings as
well as the teachers’ needs and interests. Special attention is
devoted to insuring that inservice series contain the program
strands of TCAP. These strands include direct engagement with the
artistic process, direct application to classroom teaching,
reflection, leadership, and the TCAP strand that informs
participants about recent project developments.
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.
One of the six California Arts Project regional professional
development centers, SNAP serves the following 14-county area:
Alpine, Colusa, El Dorado, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer,
Sacramento, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Yolo, and Yuba counties.
