A passion of mine is providing experiential, sophisticated, and joyful training and professional development experiences for teaching artists, arts educators, artists, and classroom teachers.
Current Projects:
Ingenuity, Inc. (Chicago, IL) - Designing and facilitating Rules of Engagement: Activating Student Learning in October an March and Making Meaning: Cultivating Student Reflection in the Arts Classroom in December and February for Chicago-based arts teachers, administrators, teaching artists, and arts education administrators.
International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC) - A member of the inaugural working groupdedicated to building the community of artists, increasing awareness of ITAC, sharing information and useful opportunities, fostering social connectedness.
Past projects include:
Lincoln Center Education (New York, NY) - Designed and facilitated 10-day advanced pedagogy training, Developing Your Practice II, for arts educators from around the world
Piloted and facilitated Introduction to Lincoln Center Education’s Teaching Artist Fundamentals for Chicago arts education community
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) - Designed and facilitated professional development trainings for cohort of teaching artists around specific works of art produced by Steppenwolf Education
Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning (Cambridge, MA) - Created facilitation training materials for undergraduate students and faculty
Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)- Trained undergraduates to implement project-based, arts integrated learning experiences with 4—6 graders
VSA Massachusetts (Boston, MA) - Developed Teaching Artist organizational protocols and orientation training materials
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX), Miami University (Oxford, OH), Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA) - Guest artist/lecturer for graduate and undergraduate students on devising original performance and teaching artistry practice and history
Areas of Expertise:
Building social justice focused arts programming/initiatives
Teaching Artist practice: inquiry-driven processes, crafting scaffolded questions, aesthetic education pedagogy, integrating personal artistry into educational work, project-based pedagogy, designing educational experiences with artistic choice-making at the center
Building community and camaraderie amongst arts staff and creating a culture of constructive feedback, integrating self-care and mutual gratitude into arts education trainings and practice
Arts integration and project-based learning for classroom teachers in all academic content areas
Nuanced facilitation training and technique
Building opportunities for artists to connect and create across disciplines