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SEL Professional Learning

What is Artistic SEL?

Artistic SEL intentionally embeds life skill development into artistic processes and practices in service of student empowerment to enrich both artistic fluency and human development.

Identity Belonging Agency. The Heart of the Arts

Our Professional Learning Offerings

Our support includes peer to peer professional learning and community building to meet the needs of school administrators, teachers, and community educators. We focus on supporting art educators as well as more general audiences seeking to embed arts practices to engage students, pre-k-16, through powerful SEL practices. All professional learning can be offered in-person or remotely.

Introductory Experiences

Beginning the discussion of Artistic SEL starts with one planning meeting / call to design any of the following offerings:

Keynote presentations:

  • Inspirational, engaging talks for targeted audiences
  • Typically 60 minutes or less

Conference sessions:

  • One or more interactive sessions
  • Typically 60 - 90 minutes
  • One or multiple interactive sessions can be built out to offer more depth

Half or Full-day Introductory Workshop:

  • 3-6 hours of interactive engagement

Targeted Experiences

Deepening and applying Artistic SEL includes:

  • Customized in-depth sessions for your organization / school / district
  • Ideally features a two-day introduction by at least 2 center team members for 6 hours / day.
  • Ongoing support at multiple touchpoints
  • Sessions sequenced for cohorts of educators (i.e. grade-band; disciplines) to support greater culture change.

Can be augmented to include individualized coaching

Intensive Experiences

Designed for deeply specialized and personal growth in Artistic SEL in a short time period

  • Customized intensive engagements
  • Graduate level coursework
  • In depth, collaborative work spread over a semester or a summer intensive

Sustained Experiences

Deepening and applying the work of Artistic SEL

  • For one or more years the Center team can support systemic change, assessment design and measuring SEL outcomes.

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Our SEL Professional Learning Objectives

All of our offerings will help participants:

  • Define SEL broadly and translate it for their practice
  • Experience Artistic SEL
  • Reflect upon how Artistic SEL can be embedded in their practice

Specific learning objectives, depending on the length and depth of engagement, will help learners:

  • Develop a stronger understanding and common vocabulary of Artistic SEL
  • Translate SEL for teaching context and learning community
  • Connect to others to develop personal approaches to Artistic SEL in community
  • Create and design intentional Artistic SEL learning experiences and materials as embedded artistic processes and routines that define their arts learning culture
  • Implement and receive feedback from Artistic SEL teaching opportunities
  • Strategize for sustainability and ongoing teacher support

Engage with our team to co-create a plan that will help identify and achieve the learning objectives that will address your goals within your schedule and budget.

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