​Creative Education Symposium- March 25, 2023
Map and agenda for the day

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter
Dr. Susie Wise-Design for Belonging

Susie uses design thinking to help improve schools.  She is motivated by the simple belief that humans are, by nature, designers.  She coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design.  She has a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford University and is the author of Design for Belonging. 
Registration has closed.  Call Amanda Thompson (707) 441-4504 to enquire about late registration.

Workshop presenters

Daniel Barash-Shadow Puppetry
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Daniel Barash is a National Consultant with Focus 5, Inc., an arts education consulting company. He holds a master’s degree in education from New York University, and has pioneered the use of shadow puppetry in diverse formal and informal educational settings.

 Shadow puppetry, with its bold shapes, vivid colors, and dramatic movement, is a highly engaging art form that naturally lends itself to the Arts Integration approach to teaching and learning.

 Daniel leads residencies for students K-8, presents workshops for teachers, and as the Director of Firelight Shadow Theater, conducts assembly programs of best-loved folktales from around the world. He has been a National Teaching Artist with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 2010.

 Daniel performed a one-man educational theater program for more than 100,000 students across the United States, and has worked with students in Belarus, India, Laos, and Lithuania.

NOTE:
ArtSEL participants should not sign up for shadow puppetry as you'll be working extensively with Daniel during the 2024-25 school year.

​Daniel is offering two workshops.  The Introductory workshop is for teachers who have not done shadow puppetry in the past.  You'll learn the creative process to make shadow puppets an approach to teaching.

The Social Studies workshop is for teachers who have taken one of Daniel's workshops or are familiar with the creative process used in arts integration with shadow puppetry as the art form.  In the Social Studies workshop, Daniel will skip the foundational work to focus entirely on how Social Studies can come alive when students tell the stories of history through shadow puppets.
Introductory Workshop- for teachers using shadow puppetry for the first time in their classrooms
Social Studies Workshop -for teachers who've taken one of Daniel's workshops previously
Jason Nious-Step It Up! Teamwork Through the Art of Stepping

More than ever, creating a cooperative classroom community where students feel they belong and that their voice matters is crucial. The art of stepping creates the perfect context for this to happen. Stepping is a percussive, highly-energetic art form where the body becomes an instrument to produce complex rhythms. In this session participants work with Jason Nious, Focus 5 teaching artist, performer with Cirque du Soleil, Stomp, Molodi, and the International Body Music Festival.  Experience for yourself how seamless the elements of teamwork such as nonverbal communication, leading/following, and creative problem-solving are integrated and embedded in the creative process of stepping. Get ready to stomp, clap, and move as you see how to create a dynamic and cooperative step team in your classrooms while reinforcing social and emotional learning.
Laura Muñoz-Creative Movement

​Laura Muñoz, Round Story Coordinator & Enlace Comunitaria from the Arcata Playhouse will share practices and games for expression, embodiment and social-emotional learning through movement.  
Dr. Susie Wise-Design for Belonging: Your Turn
Keynote speaker Susie Wise is offering two workshop sessions that go deeper into Design for Belonging for your situation, whether that is as a teacher, administrator, staff, or community member.  Through a series of interactive exercises, Susie will help you make belonging a key part of creating the community you strive for.  
Bill Funkhouser- Introduction to Art + SEL concepts
How are visual art, social emotional learning (SEL) and thinking routines connected?  This question is at the heart of the the first year of training for participants in ArtSEL, a federal grant working in seven Humboldt schools:  Morris, Maple Creek, Honeydew, Mattole Elementary, Triple Junction High School, Peninsula, and Laurel Tree.

​While the workshop is designed for new hires at the seven schools, it is open to anyone wishing to learn new approaches to integrating visual art with SEL and various ways of thinking.

Note: this workshop is only offered during the 2nd Session (1:45-4:00)
Registration has closed.  Call Amanda Thompson (707) 441-4504 to enquire about late registration.
Sequoia Conference Center
​901 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka
Sign in begins at 8:30 AM
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