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>Mr. Kim Wheetly, Mr. Scott Rosenow, and Mr. Joel Baxley, of the Southeast
>Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA), recently received $60,240 from
>the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to implement a professional
>development program that will prepare local teachers to integrate arts
>into elementary and middle school classrooms.
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>The SCEA team's 5-day summer program will engage 80 elementary and middle
>school instructors from 13 public schools and 3 private schools in the
>region.  The goal of the development team is to demonstrate new approaches
>to arts integration using connections between the arts, social studies,
>and language arts to teach key academic concepts.  Participants will
>engage in planning with Wheetley, Rosenow, Baxley, and other members of
>the development team to develop targeted strategies for integrating the
>arts into their classrooms.
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>Congratulations to the SCEA team!  Their efforts with this development
>program will support the Southeast Center for Education in the Artsmission
>to integrate arts into regional classrooms.