Art Education Coaching
I believe that every educator is an artist. My professional development workshops and coaching support teachers and administrators in fostering personal creative expression, enabling them to develop and implement their own artistic visions in the classroom.
As a guide rather than an instructor, I encourage educators to design creative lessons through a process-oriented approach that aligns with both curricular and personal goals. These workshops introduce innovative strategies for learning, assessment, engagement, and interaction, all through the lens of art-making.
My coaching and professional development centers around Socio-Emotional Learning, Arts Integration, and Process-Based Learning through the Visual Arts.
I can help schools accomplish their goals through one-on-one teacher coaching, professional development workshops, curriculum writing, and grant writing/review.
Wildlife Puppetry Puppet theatre - science based lesson, puppet theatre created collaboratively with students.
Keith Haring "super stick figures" - learn about anatomy, students pose in an emotional gesture, indicate various bones and joints. For Middle School Special Needs.
Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story Comics
Completed beginning, middle, and end of a story comic books
Weather Memories - learn about the weather by recalling a memory about that day. Evokes memory, sensory awareness, and storytelling.
Found Object Accordion Books
Letter Z comic books for Kindergarten
Gestural Creative Movement Dances to show Character Development in a story
personification though gesture of the parts of a story
Cardboard building construction - height estimation
architecture and measurement sculptures
Gargoyles workshop, in collaboration with Rebecca Kelly
collaboration with teacher Monica Voinov, mandala poems
Abstract drawings to music
Learning predictive reasoning and storytelling through shibori
Exploring parts of a story though clay
Fact and Opinion comic books about Jellyfish