This program helps educators incorporate music, visual arts, poetry, and drama into their teaching to deepen student learning and enhance engagement. Students explore Capoeira through movement, music, and culture. They build coordination, confidence, and SEL skills while learning songs, rhythms, and instruments in a joyful, collaborative environment rooted in respect and connection. Teachers explore puppet creation, script development, and performance to enrich classroom learning and storytelling. Combines music-making and reflection, empowering student voices through Beatbox Pedagogy. A hands-on, practical approach equips teachers, administrators, and artists with tools to implement multiple intelligences theory and arts integration techniques in their practice. Take students on a multicultural musical journey through global songs, rhythm, dance, and creative leadership. This engaging program builds teamwork, communication, cultural awareness, and connects music to SEL, literacy, math, science, and more. innerAct Theatre Education Using improv and trust exercises, participants learn ensemble thinking and collaborative skills- no acting experience required! Middle and high schoolers explore science concepts through dance, connecting movement to topics in the Next Generation Science Standards. Susan Striker: Young at Art® Susan energizes educators with simple strategies that boost literacy and math success, tailored to early childhood and elementary teachers. Educators analyze and create spoken word poetry to reclaim power, while learning strategies to integrate poetry, hip-hop, and slam into lessons that center on student experiences and critical consciousness. Expert consultations for teachers and clinicians on puppetry in classrooms or therapy, adaptive puppet theaters, and more. Led by an OT with SEL and trauma-informed training and over 20 years of experience. The Game is an interactive, experiential art workshop using imaginative play to foster creativity. Students create neighborhoods/cities with 3D acrylic shapes, developing narratives and higher-order thinking skills through prompts and object placement. Students create a play addressing a current issue (e.g., immigration, healthcare), using character, dialogue, and audience interaction to inspire change. The residency includes options for hip-hop theatre and Forum Theatre methods. Students explore stories and images to spark imagination and build writing skills. Based on Visual Literacy techniques developed with Yale's Center for British Art. This professional development session helps early childhood educators (ages 0-8) explore science in classrooms. | |
