Bruce Robertson – författare

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti's conceptually forceful Dance Constructions had premiered in Yoko Ono's loft and Rainer had cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater. Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time inmore than fifty-five years. Dance was a fundamental part of the art world in the 1960s, the most volatile decade in American art, offering a radical image of bodily presence in a moment of revolutionary change. Halprin, Forti, and Rainer-all with Jewish roots-found themselves at the epicenter of this upheaval. Each, in her own tenacious, humorous, and critical way, created a radicalized vision for dance, dance making, and, ultimately, for music and the visual arts.Placing the body and performance at the center of debate, each developed corporeal languages and methodologies that continue to influence choreographers and visual artists around the world to the present day, enabling a critical practice that reinserts social and political issues into postmodern dance and art. Published in association with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Exhibition dates: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara: January 17-April 30, 2017 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: May 24-September 16, 2017 Events: Pillowtalks, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA: July 1, 2017

Great teaching starts with a great curriculum. But how good is the curriculum in your team or school, and how can you make this even better than it is already? In this book, through a focus on pitfalls, principles and practical approaches, we will unpack both these questions.We will start by exploring the relationship between knowledge and skills, debunking myths that the curriculum should be focusing on one or the other: skills are knowledge in action, so we need to focus on both.Next, we will discuss why a 'knowledge-based, skills-oriented' curriculum is the best shot schools have at raising attainment for all students and closing background-related attainment gaps.After that, we will turn our attention to meta-skills (such as critical thinking, problemsolving and creativity) and explore why, counterintuitively, the best way to teach these usually isn't to focus on them directly.Finally, through exemplification and a focus on the five 5Cs of a content-rich curriculum (clarity, connection, challenge, collaboration and change), we will explore how teachers, schools, local authorities and trusts can develop a great curriculum in their own context, including practical strategies to support its continuous development.Prepare to power up your curriculum!

Educational research is clear in its messages that the quality of our teaching is the single most influential factor in determining how well students learn and attain at school. It is also clear that the quality of leadership is the single most influential factor in determining the extent to which teaching practice is likely to develop. The key to improving attainment for all and closing background-related attainment gaps is to focus on leadership that develops teaching practice.Drawing on key messages from educational literature and the experience of transforming teaching practice across a school, Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching and Learning offers middle and senior leaders a practical blueprint for effective leadership of teaching and learning in their own context.

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