Программы и инициативы GIVE

GIVE Workshops and Professional Learning

The GIVE team has facilitated professional learning workshops for a wide range of arts educators including Teaching Artists, Classroom Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Arts Education Administrators, and Artists. In these workshops, participants use the GIVE guide, an extensive library of resources that support educators in creating inclusive learning spaces and liberated learning environments for students with and without disabilities, as a basis for learning. GIVE workshops are designed, planned, and facilitated by experienced GIVE Trainers who aim to model inclusive practices in their facilitation and center participant voice, experience, and peer to peer collaboration. Participants leave workshops having identified barriers to access in their practice and with specific goals to center inclusive practices utilizing GIVE resources.

The GIVE Team has facilitated workshops for organizations including: 

• New York City Public Schools – Arts Office
• New York City Department of Cultural Affairs 
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• City Lore Inc. 
• Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, Arts & Literacy Program 
• Connected Arts Network 
• Educational Theatre Association 
• Студия "Маркиз 
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 
• Студия в школе NYC 
• USDAN Summer Camp of the Arts
• Young Audiences of New Jersey 

 

Interested in a workshop? Please complete our workshop inquiry form.

 

Программа GIVE с Департаментом образования Нью-Йорка

The Teach with GIVE Team collaborates with the NYC PS Arts Office to design and facilitate inclusive professional learning for visual arts, music, dance, and theater educators, paraprofessionals, principals, and collaborating arts organizations across all five boroughs. 

These workshops engage educators in authentic arts experiences, tangible strategies, artist talks by artists with disabilities, collaborative planning, and reflective discussion focused on inclusive curriculum design, accessibility, and representation.

Starting in 2022 the Teach with GIVE team has successfully delivered full-day, multi-session, and virtual professional learning that builds educators’ capacity to respond to student needs, interpret behavior as communication, and implement strategies that increase access and participation in arts classrooms. Their work consistently reflects an understanding of the instructional realities of NYCPS schools and aligns closely with our goals for inclusive and equitable arts education.

 

FY25:

Teach With GIVE: Disability Awareness in Performing Arts Classrooms: 

A full-day dedicated to making music, theater, and dance classrooms more flexible and supportive spaces for learning. This workshop included a performance and artist talk by an artist with a disability and time for educators to consider how disability is represented in their curriculum. Participants engaged in art making experiences and collaborative discussions around planning for inclusion in their art form. This workshop offered strategies and tools for responsive teaching to make lessons more accessible when challenges arise. 

Goals: Arts teachers will:

• Consider the representation of disability in the arts curriculum 
• Consider what needs student behaviors might communicate and discover strategies that support students’ needs
• Participate in two different performing arts experiences that model these strategies in arts instruction & collaboratively debrief these lessons
• Understand how to use the GIVE Guide as a resource and have time to explore and apply a resource to their own teaching practice
  • Bronx: January, 2025 
  • Queens: December, 2024
  • Brooklyn: December, 2024
  • Staten Island: January, 2025 
  • Manhattan: January, 2025 

Teach with GIVE Visual Arts Workshop 

A full-day dedicated to making visual arts classrooms more inclusive spaces for learning. This workshop included an artist talk with an artist with a disability and  time for educators to consider how disability is represented in their curriculum. Participants engages in art making experiences and collaborative discussions around planning for inclusion. Learn strategies and tools for responsive teaching to make art lessons more accessible when challenges arise.

Goals: Art teachers will:

• Have authentic arts experiences
• Consider the representation of disability in the arts curriculum
• Explore ideas around disability, inclusion, and access in society, the arts and in education
• Consider what needs student behaviors might communicate and discover strategies that support students’ needs
• Participate in arts experiences that model these strategies in arts instruction & collaboratively debrief these lessons
• Understand how to use the GIVE Guide as a resource and apply a resource to their teaching practice
  • April 2025
  • March, 2025
  • April, 2025 
  • March, 2025
  • March, 2025

 

FY24: 

GIVE DOE Full-Day PD Workshops -Visual Arts

Supporting Students with Disabilities in Visual Arts Classrooms 

A full-day dedicated to making your visual arts classrooms more inclusive spaces for learning.  Attend an artist talk by an artist with a disability and consider how disability is represented in your curriculum. Participate in art making experiences and collaborative discussions around planning for inclusion. Learn strategies and tools for responsive teaching to make art lessons more accessible when challenges arise.

• March 2024

Supporting Students with Disabilities in Performing Arts Classrooms

A full-day dedicated to making your music, theater and dance classrooms more inclusive spaces for learning.  Consider how disability is represented in your curriculum. Participate in art making experiences and collaborative discussions around planning for inclusion. Learn strategies and tools for responsive teaching to make art lessons more accessible when challenges arise.

• March 2024

Teach with GIVE: Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Practices in the Arts

Participants focused on learning how to recognize trauma in students and how to incorporate Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered teaching techniques into their classroom. Together we explored ways we can support our students’ ability to express and process emotions through visual arts, theater, dance and music. Discover rituals, routines and strategies that support students’ (and teachers’) healing.

• May 2024

 

FY 23:

Teach with GIVE: Redefining Classroom Management (SERIES A)

This two-part series explored collaborative approaches to classroom management. Together, we activated teachwithgive.org resources to create and support dynamic arts classroom culture. Engaged with peers on strategies for co-generating classroom communities with students, and responses to common classroom management challenges.

• February and March 2023

Teach with GIVE: Designing Activities for an Inclusive Classroom (SERIES B)

In this workshop participants got familiar with the GIVE Activity Bank and its short activities or skill-based tasks that already include supports and accommodations to meet a range of students’ needs. Together, we unpacked the process of developing and leading activities that support students with disabilities. We explored case-studies of implementing these activities and discussed the challenges that may and do come up.

• March 2023

Teach with GIVE: Exploring Artistic Equity

As a culmination for our workshop series, we came together to celebrate artists and educators from the disability community and think about how we can embrace disability as a central part of artmaking and education. 

• April 2023

Teach with GIVE – for Principals & Arts Liaisons

Hear from educators who’ve applied GIVE: Growing Inclusivity for Vibrant Engagement to support all students in inclusive arts spaces. We’ll each have the chance to try some of the ideas and practices in The GIVE Lab—a place to play, to experiment, to imagine — and we’ll look ahead to the ways each of us will carry the knowledge, strategies, and tools out into our classrooms and the world.

Teach with GIVE: Arts Residency Classroom Partnerships 

Supporting all of the learners in a classroom is a collective effort that requires skilled and thoughtful partnership. In this workshop, you’ll come together with other Arts Partnership Grant recipients to explore TeachWithGive.org resources focused on topics such as collaborative goal setting, co-planning and teaching, and supporting all of the students in your room. Together we’ll address questions including: What are our separate and shared goals in the classroom? What collaboration skills and techniques do we want to model for students? How can we collaborate to create inclusive and supportive spaces for all? When you leave the workshop, you’ll be equipped with additional tools and conversations to deepen your partnerships, arts residencies, and support inclusive instruction. 

Teach with GIVE: An Intersectional Approach to Supporting Students in the Arts – for Paraprofessionals

Explore strategies and enhance how we respond to student behavior in arts experiences. When you leave the workshop, you’ll be equipped with tools, resources, and adaptive materials that can be utilized to empower students to feel seen, heard, and participate in a supportive environment from designing a presentation in science class to singing in choir. Let’s activate Teach with GIVE  to imagine—and build—an even more inclusive, more vibrant future for education.

 

FY 22:

Professional development pilot workshops for DOE Arts Specialists in these three key GIVE content areas:

• Планирование инклюзивного урока
• Межсекторный подход к поведению и культуре в классе; и 
• Совместная постановка целей, осмысление и корректировка

 

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Конференции

• Развитие инклюзивности в театральном образовании. (сентябрь 2023). Образовательная театральная конференция 2023: Сила ВАС, Сент-Пит-Бич, США.
• От кастинга до занавеса: Центрирование инклюзии на протяжении всего опыта театрального образования. (September 2023). 2023 Educational Theatre Conference: The Power of YOU, St. Pete Beach, U.S.A
• Учите, отдавая. (May 2023). NYCDOE Arts and Cultural Education Services (ACES), New York City, U.S.A
• Учите с GIVE: Советы, инструменты и стратегии для инклюзивного образовательного театра. (Апрель 2023). Образовательный театральный форум Нью-Йоркского университета 2023: Коллективное видение, Нью-Йорк, США.
• Преподавание с GIVE: набор инструментов для преобразования проблем в возможности в инклюзивном художественном образовании. (Апрель 2023 года). Конференция ABLE Assembly, Бостон, США.
• Мы лучше вместе: Смена парадигм в инклюзивном художественном образовании в Нью-Йорке и за его пределами. (Апрель 2023). Лицом к лицу, Круглый стол по вопросам искусства в образовании, Нью-Йорк, США.
• Изучите ресурсы, предназначенные для поддержки создания Освобожденной учебной среды в классе. (Март 2023). Национальная конференция "Цельная девочка", Нью-Йорк, США.
• Можете ли вы "протянуть" мне руку? Творческие подходы к микро- и макроколлаборациям для инклюзивного художественного образования. (October 2022). Arts for All Abilities, New York City, U.S.A.
• Искусство как катализатор перемен. (Сентябрь, 2022). Шестая Международная конференция преподавателей-художников (ITAC6), Осло, Норвегия.
• Учите, отдавая. (май 2022). NYCDOE Arts and Cultural Education Services (ACES), Нью-Йорк, США
• Мост, здание, принадлежность. (May, 2022). The NYC Museum Educators Roundtable 2022 Conference, New York City, U.S.A.
• Инклюзивные практики и разработка ресурсов для преподавания доступного искусства в режиме реального времени. (November, 2020). Grantmakers in the Arts, New York City, U.S.A.
• День обучения GIVE. (November, 2021). NYC Museum Educators Roundtable Conference, New York City, U.S.A
• GIVE: Растущая инклюзивность для активного участия. Определение партнерства. (Ноябрь, 2019). Искусство для всех способностей, Нью-Йорк, США
• GIVE: Растущая инклюзивность для энергичного участия. (Апрель, 2019). Face to Face, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, New York City, U.S.A.

Исследования и оценка программ

Предварительное исследование GIVE, проведенное весной 2021 года компанией WolfBrown, showed that Teaching Artists who participated in training to use the GIVE resources improved in creating a welcoming and inclusive classroom more substantially than a control group of Teaching Artists working in similar environments. There is also evidence that Teaching Artists who engaged with the GIVE materials taught students to use digital tools and platforms more effectively than their untrained peers. For more information about our preliminary research, visit страница О GIVE.