SY24-25 Arts Education PD Collaborators

The Ryan Learning Center

Professional Learning grounded in student-centered, dialogic, inquiry-based, and multi-modal pedagogy with a focus on literacy and the close-reading of images.

Changing Worlds

Providing Healing Centered Engagement (HCE) offerings and ongoing professional learning around curriculum development, introduction and certification in HCE, and instructional adaptation to support migrant students.

Court Theatre

Multi-day professional development training opportunities engage classroom teachers in art integration and dramatic literacy.

Forward Momentum Chicago

Dance-focused in discipline for Trauma Informed Learning, Healing Centered Engagement, Making the best TA/School Match, and Bridging the Gap: Building a Better Community for Teaching Artists and Students delivered in person or virtually.

Idea Box

Introducing educators to student-safe crafting tools for project making, adaptable maker/performance curricula, and arts-based methods for their classrooms.

International Children's Media Center

ICMC’s media arts workshops are designed to help parents and teachers accelerate student learning and combat the negative effects of children's screen use. This proven pedagogy teaches two approaches: (1) Fast, fun brain-body exercises and creative activities that strengthen students’ focus and self-regulation; (2) Close analysis of media texts to build students’ literacy skills, empathy and higher order thinking.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Professional development sessions include academic lectures, artist-led workshops, tours of self-taught art collections, work time and field trips to museums, galleries and artist studios. Teacher Fellows serve as an advisory council for Intuit as the museum develops resources (e.g., videos, field trips, materials, etc.) for students.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company - Education & Engagement Department

All participating high school classroom teachers and Steppenwolf teaching artists receive free and extensive professional development opportunities, logging between 15–50 hours of training with Steppenwolf Education & Engagement annually - all available for Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDU

Thursday, August 29, 10am-12pm

Chicago Cultural Center, 5th floor

Native Award-winning musician, composer, and celebrated historian, John Arnold, will share Toboggan and “Trinibago” songs and history from the island nation in an interactive workshop. Educators will gain firsthand knowledge and resources to aid instruction and performance! The music is adaptable for all choral voicings! Learn more about John Arnold here!

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Providing timely high value resources to ideate and create engaging curriculum and foster responsive youth and personal development in the classroom, MCAC is focused on sharing resources and providing workshops led by artists, cultural leaders, activists, and wellness practitioners that give teachers toolkits to manage their personal development, mental health, and capacity.