Reimagining the arts as a vehicle for success in learning, career, and life.
Someone in your arts professional learning community (PLC) meeting asks, “how is culturally responsive practice showing up in your classroom?” Teachers all take turns sharing and the answers are warm and genuine: students love coming to class. The energy is amazing. The students can tell the teacher cares. None of that is wrong. But also, … Read more
I remember the moment I realized we had a bigger problem than what I originally thought. I was facilitating a professional development session and asked the room “what does culturally responsive teaching look like in your classroom?” The responses varied, but were ultimately all pretty similar: diverse repertoire, artists of color, student choice. All important, … Read more
Today’s students are tomorrow’s decision-makers. The students in our arts classrooms today, in music rooms, visual art studios, dance studios, and theater programs, are more culturally, linguistically, and experientially diverse than any generation before. They also have more options than the generations before them. New technologies and AI are increasingly putting creative tools directly in … Read more