By Grace Millar - Program Coordinator | Program Coordinator
Your support makes such an impact in communities!!
Thank you for your giving!!
We are tremendously excited as the new year draws near because with it comes the launching of our updated website in 2016 and the structure for our virtual classroom. Our team is working diligently to make it user-friendly and fully of great information. Below is an example of an experience were we provided a handbook to a workshop. We want to have it and other tools, online and accessible to more then one workshop at a time. Your support is bringing this into reality.
Recently we had a Professional Development Workshop at The Lab School of Washington, and had such a wonderful experience. The chance to present our inclusive arts integration program was exciting, and at the same time daunting. Here was a group of 50+ teachers and artists who used inclusive arts integration every day and were eager to learn new skills and techniques to later implement in their classes. Would we have something more to share with them? Would we add to their knowledge, or would they feel we were telling them stuff they already knew? The answer is overwhelmingly “YES!!” We prepared an 80+ page handbook to train and engage with during the workshop, which will remain with each of them to use as a reference going forward.
One of the leaders said this about the experience and tools:
“Wonderful workshop!! I loved becoming the moisture in the air (a group activity). [These are] Great skills and tools to start using right away. Thanks so much!!!”
We love these comments and are so grateful for the opportunity to train and teach professionals new skills. It was the success of seeing the process being adopted by these amazing educators that really made all the prep work with the handbook more than worth it. Even with many more workshops, professional developments and other events completed with satisfaction this year, we are SO VERY EXCITED about the success of this one. We can't wait to unveil the Virtual Classroom and enlarge the access to these tools.
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