Workshop

Get Curious & Creative!

$4500 for a full-day workshop experience

This workshop is designed to help individuals become aware, acknowledge biased responses, and better serve students and their school communities. Invest in developing habits to improve a sense of belonging for students, staff and families.

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Benefits

Learn how unconscious biases and microaggressions can affect how we interact with others. This includes how we make judgments, and even impacts important decisions in areas like hiring, interpersonal relationships, and how we develop a sense of belonging for our students.

  • Offers ongoing training and development opportunities for educators.
  • Cultivates empathy and understanding through targeted workshops and activities.
  • Helps individuals understand their own biases and cultural identities.
  • Delivers interactive and engaging workshops to promote active learning.
  • Promotes inclusivity and respect within the school community.

Goals

  • Gain new information and explore how it impacts your daily professional practice
  • Engage in a workshop that breaks down barriers, creates shared understanding, deepens sense of community 
  • Develop an understanding of how unconscious bias and stereotypes in the U.S. create
  • inequitable experiences for historically marginalized communities of people
  • Understand the connection between awareness and trust and how that results in the reduction of behavior referrals, increase in achievement and student engagement
  • Recognize microaggressions and learn how to interrupt them
  • Harness a creative thinking process and produce art to elevate feelings of contentment, belonging, and happiness 
  • Leave with a personally created photograph that represents your deepened understanding

Outcomes/Deliverables

  • The Kennedy Center’s definition of arts integration: “Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which participants construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Participants engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.”

  • Full day hands-on workshop with three consultants from varied backgrounds.

  • Understand the connection between awareness and trust and how that results in the reduction of behavior referrals and increases achievement and student engagement.

  • Recognize microaggressions and learn how to interrupt them.

  • The photograph you create will serve as a framed marker of your understanding at this point in time. It can be displayed in your workspace as a reminder of your commitment to growth and understanding. 

  • Support one another with feedback and reflection through a gallery showcase.

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