Interactive, arts-based professional learning opportunities for school educators and teaching artists.

Interactive. Arts-based. Holistic.

 

The Arts Professional Learning Institute (APLI) is New Jersey’s arts education professional learning opportunity that pairs teaching artists and school partners in collaborative, engaging workshops throughout the state.

The Arts Professional Learning Institute (APLI) is a co-sponsored project of Young Audiences Arts for Learning NJ & Eastern PA, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. It is generously supported by the Grunin Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Thank you to our funders…

 
 
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Workshops in 2024

Stacking Joy!

Facilitated by Creative Praxis, this interactive workshop will focus on how school educators and teaching artists can counteract burnout and compassion fatigue in their teaching practice.  Participants will also explore practical, actionable ways that they can infuse joy into the work they do with their students, and how to appropriately empower students to process and understand challenging social dynamics while still enjoying their lives.  APLI cohort members will also discuss ways that their specific art form can be utilized to address these issues. 

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An Introduction to Neurodiversity and Various Learning Modalities

Join Susan Coll-Guedes for an engaging workshop about Universal Design for Learning, constructivist teaching approaches, and strategies to understand and increase student engagement.  In addition to discussing various ways that the arts can foster various forms of education and engagement, participants will learn about ways to develop more democratic and inclusive learning environments, and they will also discuss teaching strategies that increase student independence, and self-efficacy.

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Teach with GIVE: Exploring Artistic Equity and Inclusive Practices

In this workshop, led by members of New Victory Theater, participants will explore inclusive practices through 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. GIVE Facilitators will lay the foundation of this work through an active exploration of Disability History and Justice. Participants will then reflect on arts access for students with disabilities in their learning spaces, vision the arts access they’d like to see, and find GIVE resources that can support their vision of access. GIVE workshops aim to model inclusive practices in their facilitation and center participant voice, experience, and peer to peer learning. 

Incorporating Culturally Affirming Curriculum

Join Count Basie Center for the Arts for our final workshop which will focus on how school educators and teaching artists can align their teaching practices with information and resources that amplify and center the historical context, lived experiences, and cultural legacy of their students.  Not only will participants explore ways to showcase the art forms that have been traditionally excluded from educational settings, but they will also explore ways that their particular art form can be leveraged to investigate and explore many facets of their students' culture.    

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“APLI has emphasized an importance for fostering a creative environment for student benefit and engagement and that begins when ALL members of a learning community are effectively included and valued.”