Community Arts Partner

Experience

Previous School Partnerships

A sample of Washington schools and organizations that we’ve trained recently; College Place Elementary, You Grow Girl!, RAYS, Recovery Café, Auburn SD, Rising Star Elementary, Highline SD, Lake Stevens SD, and Renton Boys and Girls Club. A sample of Washington schools using our resources; College Place Elementary, Auburn SD, Rising Star Elementary, Highline SD, Issaquah SD, Tyee School, Ryther, Friends of Youth, Seattle Publics Schools, Snohomish Discover Center, and Meridian School, Kent SD, and Renton SD.

WA State TAT Lab Graduate

No

Other Trainings or Certifications

Sample Lesson Description: Student / Classroom Residencies

Learning is a direct line to empowerment for both kids and adults. At artwithheart.org/learn, you’ll find a sample of resources we use in training designed to empower you and help you confidently lead Art with Heart programs with kids. Click lesson titles to see the lesson and more in-depth information Feelings Mask Lesson 9-12th grades: SEL Focus: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, and Relationship Skills Description: This activity encourages youth to examine their identity while building empathy and self-awareness. Personal Rain Cloud Lesson 6-8th grades: SEL Focus: Self-management and responsible decision-making Description: This activity encourages supports kids in exploring and developing personal values while reconciling conflicting emotions. Paper Chain of Support Lesson 4-5th grades: SEL Focus: Social Awareness and Relationship Skills Description: This activity encourages kids to identify their support systems and build relationship skills. Critter Collage Lesson K-3rd grades: SEL Focus: Self-management and social awareness Description: This activity explores collage techniques while building empathy, identity, and emotion identification.

Sample Workshop Description: Teacher Professional Development

Art with Heart’s professional development training will help attendees learn how to integrate creative expression with confidence in their work with kids, whether 1:1, in a classroom or other group. They will learn activities and facilitation techniques from one of our curricula based on the developmental age range of their kids. The skills they learn will help kids use creative expression to name and manage their emotions, develop strategies for coping, build Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills, and learn strategies to build healthy connections and communicate through creative expression supporting Seattle Public School’s goals of 21st-Century Learning. Art with Heart’s resources are based on therapeutic modalities such as art, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative therapies. Each training is designed to prepare participants to immediately integrate creative expression with confidence in their work with kids, whether one-on-one, in a classroom, or other group settings. Each attendee receives an age-appropriate 180+ page curricula that are a companion to one of Art with Heart’s therapeutic art activity books. These curricula, which can be used alone or with the books, are a turnkey resource that provides robust information of facilitation, program structures, art lessons and session structure for each page in our books, and more. These curricula are the base of our training and will be a powerful support tool for attendee’s post-training. Learning objectives: Learn how to use AwH resources to facilitate integrated creative expression into programs or classrooms through age-specific activities and facilitation techniques. Learn the structure of Art with Heart programming and resources and how to adapt it to classroom culture and student needs. Build proficiency and confidence using a variety of art materials and methods. Understand and experience how creative expression helps kids name and manage their emotions, develop strategies for coping, build SEL skills, learn strategies to build healthy connections, and communicate through creative expression.