Virtual Arts Integration Symposium

Engaging ALL Learners Through The Arts

This three-day online symposium featured a variety of virtual professional development sessions for TK-12 classroom teachers, arts teachers and educators led by expert teaching artists in dance, media arts, music, theatre and visual arts. The 2020 Virtual Symposium also featured work by two national partners, The Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), and to helped guide educators in developing skills and strategies to work with students with disabilities, and focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Social Justice, Social Emotional Learning and more. The Music Center teaching artists and guest presenters also provided educators with a range of arts integration techniques to be implemented in the classroom as well as in distance learning settings.