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Program Overview
As educators, we need tools to connect students' passions, and our own, to meaningful learning for the 21st century. The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning Institute examines how educators can use the arts to engage students across all subjects — not only in the arts.
The institute begins with a conversation between world-renowned cellist and Silkroad Founder and Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma and Steve Seidel, Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Lecturer on Arts in Education and director of the Arts in Education Program at HGSE, and continues with a rousing performance by the Silk Road Ensemble.
Then, over the course of the program, Harvard faculty and Silk Road Ensemble members will present sessions designed to challenge participants to consider the role of passion in teaching and learning. Participants will explore how to create powerful learning experiences that use the arts to connect students with their own communities and other cultures.
Join this growing community of educators and artists from around the world who congregate once a year to explore how the arts can inspire the kind of teaching that transforms requirements into passion-driven learning.