Professional Development
Practical, participatory workshops
Customized instructional coaching
Workshops for Classroom Educators
Reimagine curriculum and instruction to grow learning communities that are active, arts-infused, creative, and confident.
Schools, districts, independent schools, or intermediate units (pre-k through MS)
Discrete or sequential short sessions (45 min to 2 1/2 hours), in-depth residencies (1/2 day to multi-day), or ongoing coaching and professional development
Topics include:
The Power of What If? Cultivating a Culture of Curiosity
Engaging Embodied Learners
Teaching for Creativity
Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning through the Arts
The Question Formation Technique
Kindergarteners making body alphabet shapes
Students collaborating on Kandinsky-inspired instrumental composition
Workshops for Music Educators
Gain ideas and strategies to cultivate creative, thoughtful, vibrant, inclusive, and joyful music learning communities.
Topics include:
The Power of What If? Cultivating a Culture of Curiosity
Playing in 6/8: Using Movement and Creativity to Build Student Understanding
Giving Them Wings: Structuring Creative Experiences in Elementary Music
Integrating Improvising and Composing
Building Music Literacy Skills
Teaching Children to Match Pitch
Children’s Choir Best Practices
Caution! Brains at Play: Thinking in the Music Room
Introduction to Orff Schulwerk
Playing with Zoom puppetry
It is so refreshing to have a professional development seminar that presents tools and strategies that I can implement right away!
~ middle grades teacher
Your flexibility allowed us to expand/reduce in "real time". Thanks for your attentiveness to the staff need/interest.
~ middle school math teacher
Roxanne, you are a wonderful teacher and your ideas are greatly appreciated. I already used the mystery bag idea and my kids responded with enthusiasm. I plan to use many of your other ideas in the weeks and months to come.
~ kindergarten teacher