Learn. Create. Relate.
The Arts Professional Learning Institute’s mission is to provide professional learning opportunities to New Jersey’s teaching artists, classroom educators, and school administrators. APLI aims to engage the arts educator in inclusive, progressive, arts-based professional learning experiences so that the whole student can be reached, inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and ability.
Year 4 APLI participants partake in a workshop with the Institute of Music for Children, April 2023. Photo courtesy of Driven by Design Creative Agency LLC.
What we’re about.
Teaching Artist Dustin Ballard (top left corner) leads participants in a creative writing exercise during an APLI Alumni call, January 2022.
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 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
APLI’s unique design pairs teaching artists and school educators around the state in exclusive, innovative, and important content, led by the state’s arts educational leaders.
APLI Fellows will participate in collaborative workshops and will work together to share implementation strategies via follow-up webinars and through 3-day residencies. APLI Fellows will also be given entry into Connect, the statewide teaching artist professional learning conference held by the New Jersey Arts Education Collective. Connect provides fellows the opportunity to learn from statewide and national leaders in arts education, the ability to network with artists throughout the state, and a time for reflection of the APLI program.
Due to the collaborative nature of the work, fellows will receive a stipend which includes attendance at workshops and webinars, participation in evaluations, and commitment to residency work.