Red Hot Learning: How to spark up your classroom with arts integration

About the Event

Dr. Merryl Goldberg, Arts Integration expert at California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM), will lead us in a day of fun and exciting arts integration activities. Merryl is a professor at CSUSM and the author of the foremost textbook on Arts Integration. Through active participation, teachers will learn how to weave the arts into ALL content areas for greater engagement by their students with universally accessible lessons for all. Merryl Goldberg is a Professor of Music at California State University, San Marcos and Director of the ART=OPPORTUNITY campaign of Center ARTES, a university center dedicated to restoring arts to education. In 2018 she was awarded the Wang Family Excellence Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching in the CSU (23 campus) systemwide. Her publications include Arts Integration: Teaching Subject Matter Through the Arts in Multicultural Settings 6th edition (2021) as well as other books, articles, chapters, editorials, and blogs. She has received numerous research and programmatic grants including Federal Department of Education Arts in Education Program, Fulbright-Hays Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Stuart and Panta Rhea grants. Merryl’s undergraduate degree is from New England Conservatory of Music, and her doctorate is from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to entering academia, she recorded numerous CDs and was on the road for 13 years playing the saxophone with the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Merryl’s hometown is Boston. Go Red Sox! For additional information, please contact: Louisa Higgins, Arts Administrator | lhiggins@rcoe.us