Authenticity in the Classroom™
Every day, we ask big things of our students. We ask them to take academic and emotional risks. We ask them to tackle challenging problems, to make connections, and to work together. In order for our students to deliver on these big asks, it’s essential we create ways for them to feel seen and heard. But this can only happen when we, as educators, show up as our authentic selves first. Achieving this is serious work. It’s about bringing our full selves into our teaching practice—mind, body, and spirit.
Our professional development programs help educators create a culture of authenticity in their learning environments.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Self-Care For Educators
Weekly Sessions Available
This one-hour weekly workshop is designed to help teachers tap into the passion for their craft to address stress in their professional and personal lives. Explore a variety of self-care techniques, create a self-care plan, and build a community of support.
Fundamentals of Authenticity Based Social-Emotional Learning
Learn what it takes to create a culture of authenticity in your classroom. Discover how to incorporate lessons, routines, and discussion techniques that foster authenticity into your existing curriculum and set concrete goals implementing these new techniques in your practice.
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Authenticity in the Creative Classroom
Next class starts July 27th
This workshop takes a compassionate, student-centered, culturally-responsive approach to creative instruction. We will co-create practices for fostering a culture of authenticity in the classroom that supports the social-emotional and academic growth of every student and ensures that all members of your learning community thrive.
Authentic Advisories: Building Communities to Support Students
Next session starts August 3rd
Advisory groups can offer critical support for high school and middle school students, but only when their members feel safe enough and brave enough to be their authentic selves. This hands-on workshop will help you create and facilitate strong advisories where students feel safe, validated, and heard.
Authenticity in the Remote Classroom
Next session starts August 9th
This workshop takes a compassionate, student-centered, culturally-responsive approach to remote instruction. We will co-create practices for fostering a culture of authenticity in the remote classroom that supports the social-emotional and academic growth of every student and ensures that all members of your learning community thrive.
Creative Classrooms: Art Teacher Meetings
Creative Classrooms is a unique community of arts educators that meets once a month to share ideas, generate lessons, and create meaningful conversations about the role of creativity, authenticity, and social-emotional learning in children’s lives.
Authenticity in the Classroom: Level II
This follow-up course builds on your understanding of authenticity-based social-emotional learning and gives you the opportunity to use design thinking to create a customized action plan for your practice. In order for you to implement and analyze your action plan effectively, this course takes place over two weekends a month apart.
What sets us apart?
Our workshops are interactive. Whether online or in-person we engage our participants with hands-on teaching methods that support all learning styles and experience levels.
Our workshops are Learner-Centered. We know that every educator brings a unique perspective to their work. We center teacher’s voices by actively encouraging all our participants to share their personal experiences and expertise.
Our workshops are informed by Culturally Responsive Teaching practices. The Authenticity-based SEL approach asks participants to examine their own identities and the identities of their students.
Our workshops build community. Throughout our courses, we help you build a community of support for future implementation.
Our workshops help you make a plan of action. All our participants come away with specific action steps for implementation generated by their work in the session.
Partnerships
We work with schools and organizations to customize programs that develop educators’ skills and to coach them through the implementation process.
In addition to our pre-existing offerings, we work with schools and organizations to create programs to meet their specific needs. You can reach us at hello@childrensartsguild.org
Is there an educator in your life whom you would like to thank for all their hard work? Give them the gift of a Children's Arts Guild course.
Purchase your $150 gift, nominate an educator in your life, and we’ll take it from there.
The educator you nominate will receive a gift certificate from the Guild for one of our live, interactive 16-hour courses which includes access to templates, a handbook, and monthly community meetings.
Gift certificates are good for one year from the date of purchase, as well as notifications about upcoming professional development opportunities.
You will receive great thanks!
Children's arts guild is a New York State certified CTLE provider. Get your CTLE credits with us.