A working understanding of the Brain Dance and  dance elements, and understand how to use them as a movement integration strategy to encourage language learners.

Understand and experience movement as a powerful, well-researched tool to promote language development and comprehension.

Gain specific movement strategies for deepening student language development focusing on areas such as; increasing vocabulary, spatial concepts, words parts/ syllables and grammatical structures.

Leave the workshop with an idea of how these ideas can be adapted to work for their own students and teaching contexts.

A working understanding of the dance elements and how to use them as a movement integration strategy to explore their classroom content.

Understand and experience movement as a powerful, well-researched tool to promote social and emotional learning and

increase student understanding, comprehension and engagement.

Gain easy strategies for deepening student understanding of poetic forms through movement using embodied reflection, movement improvisation and collaborative dance-making.

Leave the workshop with an idea of how these ideas can be adapted to work for their own students and teaching contexts; a ready-to-go plan.

Understand the intersectionality of music exposure and music integration.

Create a playlist ready to use for classroom objectives or content support.

Collaborate with other educators to collect successful practices used in their spaces.

Learn creative theatre skills for easy scene-making in the classroom.

Learn new strategies for retelling and remembering stories.

Learn to integrate arts and science content in a single lesson.

Learn how to utilize drawing and guided drawing to help reinforce learning in any subject.

Learn how to build confidence in my students and myself for using drawing as a means to explore and demonstrate learning.

Begin building out ideas for using drawing in their own classroom.

Experiment with familiar materials in new ways.

Create without a predetermined outcome; using curiosity and exploration as guides.

Learn practical strategies for fostering individual and collaborative creativity across subjects, themes, and grade levels.

Learn effective approaches to classroom setup, cleanup, and management.

Understand through hands-on experiences the layout of the program(s) and the creative possibilities of the tools.

Explore opportunities for constructing understanding of curriculum standards using digital art tools.

Investigate how the digital art tools and tasks can be adapted and applied across learning contexts.

Learn management tips to teach in an active classroom environment.

Experience kinesthetic and artistic ways to explore vocabulary and concepts from multiple disciplines and grade levels.

Collaborate to create discipline-specific physical examples of content.

Reflect on this work and on its pertinence to their practice.

Reflect on the ways they might assess this work.

Experience multiple dance/movement activities based on PK–5 math standards.

Explore dance props to learn in a bodily-kinesthetic fashion.

Play and learn with their colleagues just as their students would do.

Create their own art-integrated lessons to use in their classrooms. 

Experience how guided practice in arts observation across music, film, visual arts, and dance can launch inquiry.

Explore how the arts connect across content areas, eras, and cultures.

Discover how their classroom content might be enlivened through the arts.

Distinguish between impulses that need to be curbed and those that should be encouraged, and how to use play to help students build deliberation as the underlying skill.

Learn several theatre-based impulse response exercises that they can facilitate with their own students, including how to scaffold and adapt each one for different comfort levels.

Apply low-disruption tools to manage enthusiastic or impulsive responses in their own classroom without derailing instruction.

Adapt exercises from the workshop to fit their own grade level, content area, or classroom routine.

Experience the engagement, collaboration, and higher order thinking that tableaux work generates.

Value tableaux as an effective technique for learning and feel confident to try it out in their classrooms.

Discover all the ways to use tableau to teach their curriculum, whether it’s literature, science, math, social studies, art etc. 

Identify simple, bite-sized art experiences that can be integrated into a variety of curricular activities

Apply practical strategies for using visual art to reinforce and deepen learning in subjects such as ELA, math, science, and social studies

Develop short, engaging art activities that require minimal materials, preparation and time. 

Participants will be able to use AI as a planning partner to incorporate Arts Education, Arts Integration, and Arts Exposure (the NC Comprehensive Arts Education framework) into classroom lessons and projects.

Arts Exposure: Participants will learn to use AI to curate authentic artistic works and cultural resources that introduce and contextualize concepts across subjects.

Arts Education: Participants will learn to use AI to break down and understand sequential arts standards, artistic vocabulary, and core discipline-specific concepts.

Arts Integration:  Participants will learn to write targeted AI prompts that merge non-arts academic standards with creative artistic expression to build dual-assessed projects.

Arts Exposure: Participants will learn to use AI to curate authentic artistic works and cultural resources that introduce and contextualize concepts across subjects.

Experience science through movement, using the body to investigate concepts such as force and motion, heat and energy transfer, and mechanical physics.

Build and reinforce science vocabulary through physical experience, connecting terms such as force, energy, transfer, friction, gravity, momentum, balance, and acceleration to observable actions and everyday experiences.

Humanize abstract science concepts by exploring where physics lives in our bodies, our environments, and our daily lives—making rigorous content more accessible, relevant, and memorable for students.

Adapt a movement-based investigation to their own grade level and science standards, identifying the science concept, vocabulary, and movement experience they can use with their students.

Experience simple, accessible structures for incorporating movement into classroom learning.

Explore improvisation and choreography as tools for engagement, collaboration, creativity, and demonstrating understanding.

Build confidence facilitating movement without needing prior dance experience.

Adapt a movement structure to their own grade level, content area, students, and learning goals.

Explore direct connections between the habits of mathematical thinking and the elements of music.

Discover how tempo, rhythm, and pitch in music naturally reinforce mathematical patterns, ratios (fractions), and arithmetic functions.

Experience the engagement, collaboration, and higher order thinking that tableaux work generates.

Value tableaux as an effective technique for learning and feel confident to try it out in their classrooms.

Discover all the ways to use tableau to teach their curriculum, whether it’s literature, science, math, social studies, art etc. 

Discover the life and work of Minnie Evans, one of the most important visionary artists from North Carolina.

Connect, create, and respond to the colorful patterns of flora and fauna throughout Evans’ imagery while learning about the social landscape of the coastal south in the early 1900s.  

Experience Evan’s work as a reminder to honor our dreams and our differences, and to leave no one as an "outsider."

Explore and expand upon bite-sized lessons for your classroom.

Identify simple, bite-sized art experiences that can be integrated into a variety of curricular activities.

Apply practical strategies for using visual art to reinforce and deepen learning in subjects such as ELA, math, science, and social studies.

Develop short, engaging art activities that require minimal materials, preparation and time. 

Apply the Universal Design for Learning framework and differentiated instruction elements to create learning experiences with multiple pathways to engage students.

Explain how arts-integrated experiences can encompass key elements of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and differentiated instruction (DI) to support diverse learners.

Design an arts-integrated learning experience that incorporates Universal Design and differentiated instruction to provide meaningful opportunities for all students to demonstrate learning.