Upcoming Webinars

Webinar: Re-entering the Arts Classroom; Transitioning back to the physical classroom

 

Tuesday, July 28th | 10:00am - 12:30pm EST

 

As we anticipate the coming school year, it is necessary for arts educators to plan for the unexpected ways that our students, our classes, and how we ourselves have changed in response to the current pandemic and racial injustices. Art plays a unique role in recovering from chronic, collective, and historic trauma and building the necessary resiliency to promote post traumatic growth.

 

During this 2.5 hour workshop, participants will explore:

• Identifying barriers to success and what the COVID slide may look like (cognitively & behaviorally)

• Building creative solutions to overcome those barriers

• Implementing brain-based strategies and techniques into lesson planning and physical classroom spaces

 

Small group break-out sessions will provide experiential activities to reinforce ideas presented in this workshop.

 

$25 per person.

Workshop is limited to 20 participants

 

Presenters: Jenny Bopp is Dance Program Director at Westown School in West Chester. Amy Grebe is Director of Education at Girls First. Grebe and Bopp’s work meets at the intersection of arts, education, and post traumatic growth. Their research and musings can be found on the blog, Arts in the Other 23, as well as in the academic publication, Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners.

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Webinar: Using the Arts to Re-Prime the Brain for Learning

 

Thursday, July 30th | 10:00am - 12:30pm EST

 

With arts programs typically the first to be cut during an economic recession, it is time for classroom teachers to rethink their teaching methodology for the upcoming school year. Additionally, we can anticipate an increased number of students demonstrating adversity or trauma related behaviors.

 

Arts-integrated learning can simultaneously re-prime the brain for learning, helping students re-adjust into the physical classroom setting successfully while providing tools to express and release feelings of anxiety and fear.

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During this 2.5 hour workshop, teachers will learn about the benefits of arts-based learning and how to successfully implement new strategies and techniques into their current curricula.

 

$25 per person

Workshop is limited to 20 participants

Presenters: Jenny Bopp is Dance Program Director at Westown School in West Chester. Amy Grebe is Director of Education at Girls First. Grebe and Bopp’s work meets at the intersection of arts, education, and post traumatic growth. Their research and musings can be found on the blog, Arts in the Other 23, as well as in the academic publication, Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners.