InPrint
How to Be a Creative Writing Teaching Artist for Grades K-12
Tuesday, April 27, 7 p.m. at Richard Hugo House
Are you interested in teaching kids the joy of writing and getting paid to do it? Program directors from Writers in the Schools (Rebecca Hoogs), Arts Corps (Tina LaPadula) and Hugo House (Margot Kahn Case), as well as working writer Kevin Emerson, will talk about what makes a great teaching artist, how to apply for these positions and how to do a great job once you’re in.
Admission to the panel is $5.
About the panelists
Kevin Emerson is the author of middle grade novels "Carlos is Gonna Get It" and the Oliver Nocturne series. A former elementary school science teacher, Kevin also developed writing curriculum and helped write a book about how to teach science using art, based on his old classroom. He is currently a writer-in-residence with Writers in the Schools (a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures), working with middle and elementary school students in the Seattle Public Schools. He is also a teacher for the summer Scribes program at Richard Hugo House and a teacher/tutor at the nonprofit writing center 826 Seattle. Besides writing, Kevin also sings, drums and writes songs for his Seattle band Central Services. The band recently released an album of kids’ music called "The Board of Education." You can find him online at www.kevinemerson.net.
Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, "Grenade" (2005) and her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, Cincinnati Review and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004) and Artist Trust of Washington State (2005). She is the director of education programs and the curator and host for the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & Lectures. In 2009, she was the co-director of the summer Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington.
Richard Hugo House's youth programs director since 2007, Margot Kahn Case is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and holds a MFA in creative nonfiction. Her first book, "Horses That Buck," was published in 2008. She is the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship from Columbia University (2003), the Ohioana Library Associations Walter Marvin Rumsey award for a promising writer under 30 (2005), the High Plains Best First Book award (2009) and a CityArtist award from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (2010). She has worked professionally as a journalist, speechwriter and arts administrator. Prior to joining the staff of Hugo House she managed Seattle’s Writers in the Schools program.
Tina LaPadula is the education director and founding member of Arts Corps. Her commitment to emergent curriculum, art for social change and student-centered assessment helped shape the Arts Corps philosophy. In her current Arts Corps role, Tina is leading the MusicianCorps Seattle pilot, a musicians-in-service program of Arts Corps and Music National Service. Tina has performed for theatre, film and television in Seattle, New York, London and Pennsylvania and has taught acting and performance storytelling at area schools, Centrum Arts, Power of Hope, A Contemporary Theatre, Hilltop Children's Center and Seattle Children's Theatre. She has led classes and workshops on student learning, assessment strategies, classroom management and creative habits for the University of Washington, Seattle Public Schools, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, School's Out WA and multiple local and national conferences. Tina is a member of the Community of Thinkers, a group working to support arts education in Seattle Public Schools, and is a proud board member of the Association of Teaching Artists. She credits her early work at the YWCA for teaching her the fundamentals of youth care and illuminating the huge need for quality arts experiences for all young people.
InPrint is a quarterly forum on the business of writing. Presentations are open to the public and cover publication, education and other topics pertaining to the writing life.
