Kristin EV Stanec
Lecturer, Assistant Chair
Department of Education
Colorado College
14 E. Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
Education
1989
1988
719-389-6925
[email protected]
Masters of Arts in Teaching, Elementary Education. Colorado College, CO
Masters Research Theses:
1. Environmental and Installation Art in Elementary School Settings
2. Let Us Fly: Schoolwide Enrichment Programs as Model for Gifted Education
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology cum laude, Colorado College, CO
Minor: Theory and Practice of the Arts
Professional Interests
arts education; arts integration via teaching through the arts; object-based learning; learning in nonschool settings; museum education; social change through the arts; community-based learning; teacher
effectiveness; digital storytelling; project and place based learning, children’s literature; ceramics, fused
glass, jewelry design, photography, crafts
Positions held
2016
2014
1996-present
2010 – 2013
2003-2010
Spring 2012
2008-2011
Fall 2011
1999-2008
1993-1994
Assistant Chair, Education Department, Colorado College College
Interim Chair, spring semester, Education Department, Colorado College
Lecturer (Faculty status 2003-present), Education Department, Colorado College
Director of K-12 Programs, Education Department, Colorado College
Associate Director of Education Programs, Colorado College
Director, Partnership for Civic Engagement (PCE), Colorado College
Co-Director, Partnership for Civic Engagement (PCE), Colorado College
Art History Teacher, Swiss Semester for Tenth Grader, Zermatt, Switerland
Director, College Aiding Program, Education Department Colorado College
Director of Visual Art, Noteworthy Arts: developed curriculum, trained teachers
and taught an after school program expanded to 60 schools in Los Angeles, CA
Arts and Humanities Teacher, Grades K-5 Pioneer Elementary, Academy School
District Twenty, Colorado Springs, CO
Fifth grade Teacher, Pioneer Elementary, Academy School District Twenty,
Colorado Springs, CO
1990-1998
1989-1990
Honors
2006, 2009
2007
2007
2007
1993
Mortar Board Honoree of the Year; Honors Convocation, Colorado College
Order of Omega Honoree, Colorado College
Partnership Award, Colorado College Center for Service and Learning
Service-Learning Advocacy and Support Award, School District 11
Teacher of the Year: Arts, Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs
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1993
Teacher of the Year: Pioneer Elementary School, District 20, Colorado Springs
Courses Taught at Colorado College, Education Department:
1996 - current
ED370 Arts Integration: Creating Critical Thinkers and Connected Communities,
also titled: ED520/ED529 Teaching the Expressive Arts in the Elementary Grades
(’96-’11); and ED320 Arts in the Elementary Classroom (‘04-‘13)
2004 - current
ED210 Power of the Arts, Theory and Practice;
offered in 2009 as a Cornerstone Innitiative Course; approved by the faculty in
Dec. 2008 as a regular course offering in 2010.
2015 - current
ED478 Advanced Methods: Critical Pedagogies in Literacy, Curriculum and
InstructionMethods: Critical Pedagogies
2012 - current
ED580 Specialized Internship Program
2013 - 2015
ED120 Youth Empowerment, fall semester extended format
2010 – 2011
ED556 Action Research for Secondary and K12 MATs, summer
2008 – 2015
ED531 Seminar for Secondary School Interns, spring semester
2007 – 2013
ED502 Student Teaching for Secondary school interns (art)
2007 - 2014
ED475/399 Secondary Art Methods and Critical Pedagogy
2006 - 2011
ED120 Experienced Aides in the Colorado Springs Schools
2004 - 2010
ED402 Seminar for Student Teachers
2001 - 2003
ED275: Mentoring At-Risk Youth
1998 - 2015
ED550 Master Research Paper Advisor
1999 - 2008
ED100 Aides in the Colorado Springs Schools
1992 - 1998
Summer Gifted Program teacher: From the Parthenon to the Empire State
Building, and It’s All in How You See It
Professional Involvement
2004 - current
Arts Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs
2007 – 2013
Supervisor of Secondary Art Student Teachers, Colorado College
2006 - 2012
Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society Chapter Counselor, Colorado College
2004 – 2006
Secondary Clinical Liaison, Colorado College
2004 – 2006
Coordinator of Secondary Supervisors, Colorado College
2005 - 2007
Service-Learning Leadership Board, School District Eleven, Colorado Springs
1998 – 2006
Supervisor of Elementary Student Teachers, Colorado College
1993-1994
Noteworthy Teacher Training Co-Director, Los Angeles, CA
2004-current
Arts Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs
Committee Work at Colorado College
2014- current
IDEA Space Advisory Board
2013- current
Strategic Planning Action Team: Center for Immersive Learning and Engaged
Teaching
2004-2013
Parnership for Civic Engagement Steering Committee, including work on separate
subcommittees for structure, thematic minor, Community Engaged Leadership
Program, CBL course tagging, merge with Center for Service and Learning
2000 - 2011
Kappa Delta Pi, Educational Honor Society
2008-2009
Athletics Board
2005-2010
Woman’s Caucus
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Grant Proposals
2013-2014
Collaborated with the Colorado Springs Conservatory, Mary Francis Kerr, and other
colleagues on several small initiatives.
2009-2012
Teagle Grant for PCE jointly with CU Boulder; $400,000 to study the effect of CBL
courses on critical thinking
2008
Boettcher grant for Community Engaged Leadership certificate cohort, working with
Office of Student Life and Grants Office
2008
Engelhard Theory into Practice (for PCE jointly with the President’s Office and ISOC,
awarded $10,000)
2008
Learn and Serve Grant, (for PCE, with School District 11, Colorado Springs)
2007
Academic Technology Incubator project
2006
Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program, U.S. Dept of
Education Office of Innovation and Improvement, (contributed minor role) School District
11 and Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration
2004, 2005
Civic Engagement course development grants awarded
Special Projects
2012 – current
2012 – current
2011-2012
2010
2009
2008 - 2012
2006 - current
September 2008
Spring 2008
2007
2006 – current
2006-2007
2005 – current
2005
Collaboration with Taylor Elementary school and the IDEA Space at CC to use
objects based learning and Visual Thinking Strategies for increasing writing
skills. Includes supporting curator of IDEA space in grant work from National
Endowment for the Arts to increase community programming for youth by
developing student tours and increasing CC student participation.
Development of Specialized Internship program for MAT program, recruiting
community partners, creating matching process and MOU, as well as year round
procedures; supported staff, students and partners.
Development of database to track students interested in Education, including all
minors and possible CC applicants to MAT program for advising and to support
changes in our department
Brought Stephan Haff to campus for ED320 in collaboration with Scott Johnson
in the Art department, ABE consortium and District 11.
Collaborated with PCE and student life to create Community Engaged Leadership
Program, complete with outcomes, application, advising procedures and policies
Pilot program with Cornerstone Arts Initiative IDEA space,
Created a K-12 licensure program from the secondary license for teacher
candidates in art, music and foreign language licensure.
Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Poetry workshop for Educators, Colorado College
Education Alumni Dinner and Panel presentation for current students
Reviewer for “Integrating the Arts” by Merryl Goldberg, Third Edition, Pearson
Publishing
Girls’ Day in the Lab, faculty advisor
El Paso County Respite Program
Education Department Placement Data Base
Digital Storytelling: “Purple Crayons”, “We All Travel the Milky Way Together”
Professional Development offerings and Presentations:
2015 - 2016
Backwards Design – New Faculty Workshop, Colorado College
2015
Backwards Design – Faculty Presentation, Colorado College
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2015, 2016
2013- 2014
2013
2011
2011
2010
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2003-2011
2005, 2006
2004-2005
2005
1994
1993 - 1995
1993
Teacher Institute, Imaginiation Celebration Colorado Springs
Thematic Arts Integration across Subjects for Home School Academy, Air
Academy District 20
Educating Children of Color, Connecting Cultures and Communicating about
Diversity through the Arts for teachers and professionals
Arts Mission Statement: Rationale, Development, and Accountability.
Eagleview Middle School Academic Arts Academy
Changing Paradigms – Using the Arts to increase Critical Thinking, Boulder
Valley School District
Exploring Paradigms – Integration of the Arts, Friends’ School, Boulder
Changing Student Paradigms, Colorado Art Education Association
Digital Storytelling as an Artistic Medium, Colorado Art Education Association
Choice Words: Building Relationships with kids, presented to CC Funquest Staff
Digital Storytelling: Intergrating Technology and the Arts While Teaching a
Sandards-based Curriculum, presented at Association of Teacher Educators
(ATE) National Conference
Poster presentation: Performance-based Assessment using Digital Video,
presented at the annual CC Faculty Technology Showcase,
The Arts as a Teaching Strategy in a Middle School Language Arts Classroom,
presented as an inservice to teachers at North Middle School, Colorado Springs
Classroom Management, presented to CC Funquest Staff
Poster presentation: Digital Storytelling – An Exercise in Writing, presented at
the first annual CC Faculty Technology Showcase
Mentor Institute, Colorado College for current cooperating teachers and students
Developing a Classroom Community, presented to CC Children’s center
Working with At-Risk Youth, presented to students at the Center for Service and
Learning, and again to North Boys Club Leadership Team
Purple Crayons, presented at the ABE luncheon, also at Harrison School District
Two Convocation, and again at daVinci Academy, District 20, Colorado Springs
Creative Arts: Visual Art, Manitou Springs School District 14, Colorado Springs
Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, Dream-Makers workshops, Colorado
Springs
“stART Teaching” Professional Development Course offered through Colorado
Department of Education and Academy School District Twenty
Continuing professional education
2014
Math Dance by Kennedy Center teaching artists Dr. Karl Schaffer and Dr. Eric
Stern, Eagleview Middle School, Academy District 20
2012
Improving Students Critical Thinking, Dr Susan Wolcot
2011
Taught Art History in the fall for tenth graders at Swiss Semester, Zermatt,
Switzerland
2010
Workshops through Teaching/Learning Center at CC: Close Reading, Letters of
Recommendations, and Critical Thinking
2007-2010
Colorado Art Education Association Fall Conference
2008
Drama in Content Curriculum, Academy School District 20
Kris Stanec, CV 2016
2007
2007
2004
2004
1997
1996
1991- 1994
Colorado Confernce on Voluneerism and Service-Learning
Association of Teacher Educators National Conference
Dreamweaver I; Adobe Elements, ITS Colorado College
Digital Storytelling Facutly Institute, Colorado College
Integrating Self-Esteem and Critical Thinking, Dennis McLaughlin
Excellence in Teaching, Dennis McLaughlin
Multiple Intelligences; Peer Coaching; Dimensions of Learning, Whole
Language/Music/Theater; Gifted Students and Their Education, Academy School
District 20
Professional Memberships
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Colorado Art Education Association (CAEA)
Association of Teacher Educators (ATE)
Colorado Association of Teacher Educators (CATE)
Kris Stanec, CV 2016