Professional Development
Teaching artists for REACH are recruited from partner arts organizations and have expertise in dance, theater, music, visual arts, media arts and literary arts. They participate in, and in some cases lead, professional development offerings for teachers in both the Saturday workshops and the Summer Institute.
Saturday workshops both in-person and virtual focus on arts integration, equity, and effective teaching strategies. PDs enhance teachers’ art knowledge, skills, and ability to integrate arts into core subject areas in their classrooms.
Creative professional learning through research & experience
This national project in components under its second objective provides intensive and sustained professional development activities on the arts and their connections to academic content and digital tools, over the five years of the project, with quarterly Saturday intensives, on-going coaching from teaching artists, and participation in the immersive summer institute, as well as on-going, on-line sharing across school districts nationally and in-person convenings when all of the LEA laboratories meet to share and explore the quality work they have been undertaking.
