Teaching Artist Academy
The Teaching Artist Academy offers the opportunity to teach in Arts for Learning's summer, after school, and in-school arts-integrated programs.
Though we are not currently offering this training, if you would like to be notified when we are, please complete this form.
About the Teaching Artist Academy
Foundational Training for Creativity in Classrooms
The Teaching Artist Academy is a joyful, comprehensive, high quality, and holistic professional development program for practicing artists who would like to work in various Arts for Learning arts integration programs and who want to understand the processes and dynamics of co-teaching arts-integrated lessons with an educator.
This PAID professional development program is for practicing artists who want to:
+ Learn how to authentically integrate your art form into classroom instruction by learning to collaboratively plan with practitioners.
+ Impact the education and lives of students through the joy and power of arts integration.
+ Be part of a community committed to understanding the impact of institutional and structural racism.
+ Consider the small acts of resistance you can practice as you reimagine teaching in abolitionist ways that elevate students' voices, critical thinking, artistic expression, and joyful learning.
+ Be given priority consideration for full or part-time positions in Arts for Learning’s summer, after-school, and in-school arts-integrated programs.
About The Teaching Artist Academy
Foundational Training for Creativity in Classrooms
The Teaching Artist Academy is a joyful, comprehensive, high quality, and holistic professional development program for practicing artists who would like to work in various Arts for Learning arts integration programs and who want to understand the processes and dynamics of co-teaching arts-integrated lessons with an educator.
This PAID professional development program is for practicing artists who want to:
+ Learn how to authentically integrate your art form into classroom instruction by learning to collaboratively plan with practitioners.
+ Impact the education and lives of students through the joy and power of arts integration.
+ Be part of a community committed to understanding the impact of institutional and structural racism.
+ Consider the small acts of resistance you can practice as you reimagine teaching in abolitionist ways that elevate students' voices, critical thinking, artistic expression, and joyful learning.
+ Be given priority consideration for full or part-time positions in Arts for Learning’s summer, after-school, and in-school arts-integrated programs.
Application Criteria
All applicants must:
- Believe unwaveringly that all students can achieve high standards in and through the arts;
- Provide opportunities for students to develop powerfully articulate voices through art forms and honor their creative processes along the way;
- Collaborate and reflect by learning from and with each other at every step of the process.
- Be willing to examine established systems and biases, as well as personal beliefs, to understand the structural racism that stifles Black and brown children, and impacts your actions; and
- Encourage the development of critical thinking, problem solving, inquiry, imagination, and creativity.
- Be excited about working with students.
- Be available for ALL sessions.
When asked what was most valuable about our training, participants shared…
"I am energized by this training and I feel like I’ve grown leaps and bounds in such a short amount of time!!! Thank you!!"
"This program has been exactly what I needed to restore my energy as an artist. THANK YOU!!!"
"The training has had quite an impact on my work in the classroom. I am exploring new mindfulness techniques and new classroom management techniques. I have been implementing new techniques shared during training. For example; I have been expressing compassion in new ways with students towards the different perspectives and experiences they have in life and in the classroom. This has led to a calmer and more attentive classroom."
"This training has been inspiring, informative, funny and invigorating. The influence of the training is already showing in my growth and success as a teaching artist for which I will be forever grateful."
"Thank you! So appreciate all you put into these sessions, and being together with teachers and teaching artists to share and model skills, experiences, and ideas."
"You reminded me of my worth as a teacher and that I can have fun!!! I am energized by this training and I feel like I’ve grown leaps and bounds in such a short amount of time!!! Thank you!!"
"An open and supportive community of artist/teachers modeling a way of living those ideals in the classroom."
"Seeing teacher pairs in action! All the examples and different styles of teaching was so so helpful. The mindful moments and journaling at the beginning and end of the sessions were also so amazing."
“This training gave me newfound confidence to call myself a 'teaching artist'!!!”
“The training has enriched my experience as an educator and artist in many ways. I'm more confident, knowledgeable, patient, skilled, and most of all I'm excited to take on the challenge and opportunity of being at SALA and to meet and engage with my students.”
“For me, the connection to this community has been priceless. What we shared as a collective, both live and virtual, sits in my own sense of self as a forward thinking force. I need more practice in the planning, but my ideas and how I see others in the grand scheme of things has been influenced exponentially. There is so much to appreciate both in realizing what I bring to the table, and how the tables are constantly being turned.”