This professional learning community supports school and district leaders whose aim is to create equity-centered transformational change in public education through the lens of school-wide arts-centered integrated learning, best practices for teaching, learning, and leadership. Putting creative practices at the center of leadership is an equity strategy that foregrounds personal interpretation, imagination, and invention in approaching problem solving by lifting up individual ideas and voices in a collective community.
With a focus on creative thinking as an aspect of leadership for equity, Arts centered integrated learning is grounded in three core intersectional frameworks: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Arts Learning and Arts Integration practices, and Educational Research and Planning that provide a common language for conversation, problem solving, observation, anti-racist practices and growth of school communities that support positive student outcomes.
In this series, participants will:
- Explore creativity as a practice of education leadership and pedagogy
- Examine creativity as a tool of critical thinking in school design
- Learn to incorporate the creative state of mind in leadership practices
- Use creative processes to guide transformative strategies implemented in the school site
- Explore of the value of art-integrated curriculum in academic achievement, particularly for historically-underserved students
- Investigate creative processes in pedagogy that support improved student outcomes
- Shift leadership mindsets to foster creativity across the school site and improve outcomes for underserved students
- Use creativity to facilitate mindset changes in teaching practices
- Develop tools and practices based on your own context to support the implementation of arts integration at your site
- Use creative strategies to engage in dialogues around race, identity, and justice with staff and community