Engaged Mind Education Owner, Educator, Umass Global and CSU Bakersfield, Intern Teacher Support
Barbara is a dedicated educator whose passion for teaching has shaped her lifelong commitment to learning and exploring the world. With a deep love for education, she has spent decades inspiring young minds and nurturing a love for knowledge. She has been honored with multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, recognizing her exceptional contributions to the field of education. These grants have enabled her to further enrich her teaching and provide unique learning experiences for her students.
With a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Beyond the confines of the classroom, Barbara is a passionate traveler with a keen interest in exploring different cultures and traditions around the globe. Her adventures have taken her to diverse corners of the world, broadening her perspective and deepening her understanding of the global community. These experiences have not only enriched her own life but have also enriched the educational experiences she provides for her students.
Contact Info:
(661) 400-3427
barbara1114@gmail.com
Barbara Summey’s Professional Development Sessions
Learn interdisciplinary strategies for including visual arts into your curriculum with art initiated by content. You do not have to be an artist to create enriched, artfelt moments for your students entwining CCSS, SEL Cooperative Skills, Visible Thinking Routines, inclusivity, and visual arts. Incorporate engaging, visual art lessons into the post covid classroom without a cabinet full of art supplies.
Cooperative Poem
Participants will use historical grade level appropriate paintings to create an interdisciplinary cooperative poem. Participants will learn how to use visual analysis and visual thinking strategies in cooperative groups to create a powerful collective poem. This supports both thinking and listening skills.
SEL Focus: Relationship Skills & Responsible
Decision-Making
Gallery Tour of the Arts
Participants will explore, analyze, and evaluate their personal preferences in the art world. Making personal connections to the artworks helps participants connect to the visual arts. Participants will then elaborate and discuss their choice of compositions in a cooperative setting using reflective thinking routines to connect to others in their group. This is a validating activity for all students
exposing them to the visual arts.
SEL Focus: Self Awareness & Social Awareness, connecting to self and others
Artful Transitions
What do you do when students are completed with their work? Engage students in art-filled activities that connect to the curriculum while developing creativity with very few supplies. These are selective proven transitional activities that are based on CCSS and thinking strategies.
SEL Focus: Self Awareness & Social Awareness, connecting to self and others
A Moment in Time
Participants will bring a literary or historical character or event to life, utilizing the five senses and sensory descriptors to describe a vibrant moment in time. Participants will brainstorm a list of characters to visit, research key details, and create that one specific moment in time in an artistic visual representation using color marker and watercolor pencils. Participants will then share their thoughts with their group and the class.
SEL Focus: Self Awareness & Social Awareness, connecting to self and others