Interested in seeing Side x Side’s school programs in action? Check out our new Visual Program Diary. This diary highlights our programs happening in the Portland, South Portland, and Lewiston public schools by school year.
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Watch New Video on Side x Side’s September Arts Institute 2020
Side x Side’s September Arts Institute from No Umbrella Media on Vimeo.
Side x Side Fall 2020 eNewsletter
Check out Side x Side’s latest news in our fall 2020 eNewsletter!
Side x Side Program Builds Community at Ocean Avenue Elementary School To Kick Off the New School Year
A virtual Side x Side drawing program for second graders at Ocean Avenue Elementary School recently wrapped up. Led by teaching artist Pamela Moulton, the program was integrated with a unit on building community, facilitating conversations about diversity, and highlighting how much we all have in common. Moulton met with students during Zoom classes and created
Side x Side Presents Workshop at 49th Annual NAAEE Conference
Side x Side was honored to be accepted as a presenter at the 49th annual North American Association for Environmental Education Conference in October. This year due to the ongoing pandemic, the conference moved online and presenters submitted video workshops along with relevant resource documents for the event. Side x Side’s teaching artist coordinator Anne Ackerman
Side x Side’s annual Arts Institute goes virtual this year
Our annual professional development for educators – the Summer Arts Institute – was moved online and to September this year. We were thrilled to have so many of our Portland and Lewiston educators with us for the one-day virtual event last Saturday. Attendees enjoyed a Mindfulness and Art session led by Meghan Quigley Graham of the
Side x Side’s Project ARTiculate Serves Youth Across All Three Portland Middle Schools
Project ARTiculate is an arts integrated cross-curricular mural program developed by Side x Side to strategically serve youth across all three Portland middle schools during a pivotal developmental time. Creating site-based murals provides an opportunity for students to acquire and demonstrate the 21st Century skills of collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking while addressing core content, leadership, student empowerment,
Side x Side Makes Transition to Remote Learning During Pandemic
It’s been a school year like no other with the coronavirus pandemic closing schools in March forcing teaching and learning to move online for the spring semester through the end of the year. Nobody imagined the hurdles we would encounter transitioning to remote learning, relying upon technology and other distance learning options that hadn’t been
Side x Side, in collaboration with LearningWorks and Telling Room, awarded grant from United Way of Greater Portland’s Brick and Beam Society
This summer, Side x Side is proud to partner with LearningWorks and Telling Room to bring LearningWorks students in South Portland a five-week virtual STEAM camp on agricultural engineering.
Read more about the grant in an article in Mainebiz.
Pre-K Students at Riverton Participate in Side x Side Movement and Dance Program Online
Just before school ended for the summer, students in Christine Wirth’s and Jennifer Seed’s Pre-K classes at Riverton Elementary School participated in a Side x Side program led by teaching artists, Meg Christie and Lisa Hicks. Side x Side purchased copies of the book, “We are Growing,” by Laurie Keller, for each student which were
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