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Professional Development and Resource Programs

  • Perpich-Sponsored Clinicians at 2025 MMEA Convention Well-Received

    February 18, 2025

    Music educators from across Minnesota gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center February 13-15 for Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) Midwinter Convention 2025. This annual conference serves many purposes including opportunities for music educators to hear inspiring performances, to learn about new strategies…

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  • 2025 Minnesota Dance Summit

    February 4, 2025

    Minnesota dance educators came together this past weekend for the 2025 Dance Summit hosted by Mary Harding, Perpich’s Dance Education Specialist. This year’s guest presenter was Cleo Mack (Dance 1994), Director of Dance at Middlesex County Magnet Schools in New Jersey, co-owner…

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  • Perpich Center Partners with Arts Education Organizations This Month

    August 29, 2024

    The Professional Development and Resource Programs (PDR) group at Perpich Center for Arts Education partnered with three of Minnesota’s arts education organizations this month to offer professional development: American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota (ACDA-MN), Minnesota Band Directors Association (MBDA), and Dance…

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  • Rootedness & Futurity: Integrating Arts + Philosophies of Minnesota Native Americans in Curriculum Development

     Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Mdewakaƞtuƞwaƞ Dakota and a citizen of the Lower Sioux Indian Community, speaks to the gathered educators

    August 15, 2024

    The Professional Development and Resource Programs (PDR) group at Perpich Center for Arts Education brought together 130 arts educators…

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  • 2023-2025 CAPP Cohort Kicks Off Second Year of Program

    August 14, 2024

    The Comprehensive Arts Planning Program (CAPP) is starting its second year of programming with the 2023-2025 CAPP cohort. Every two years, school districts and charter schools are eligible to apply to this state-funded program. The 2023-2025 CAPP cohort (Bluffview Montessori (Winona), Central…

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  • Summer Music Professional Development Workshops 2024

    August 12, 2024

    Thanks to the many music educators who attended our series of Summer Music Professional Development workshops for music teachers the first week of August. The group explored guitar pedagogy, African drumming, Music Literacy, and Orff in the Elementary classroom. Time flies when you’re…

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  • Data + Arts Can Equal Success!

    August 9, 2024

    This month, arts educators from across the state convened to study a topic not usually associated with arts education—data. “Data-Driven Excellence: Enhancing Arts Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Advocacy” workshops were held on August 5th in Rochester and August 7th in Duluth. Sessions…

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  • Minnesota Reflective Artist Award is Ready to Pilot – We Invite your Participation!

    March 5, 2024

    Through the Minnesota Reflective Artist Award, students develop artistic knowledge, skills, and thinking to deeply engage in practices of the artistic field and better understand themselves as an artist, musician, dancer, actor, and more!

    The Professional Development and Resource Programs group at Perpich…

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  • 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit

     Participants and presenters for the 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit

    February 13, 2024

    The 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit brought dance instructors and dancers together at Perpich Center on February 9 & 10, 2024. The summit’s theme was Implicit Bias: Challenges and Gifts in…

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