Equity in Arts Education Webinars
SEADAE was proud to present Equity in Arts Education: Cultivating SEL for Arts Educators, Supervisors, and Administrators, a three-part professional learning series. We are grateful to those who joined us for sessions on August 11, August 18, and September 29, 2021.
Featuring leaders from across the field of arts education and other creative industries, these sessions addressed the fundamental question of "What does it mean to be anti-racist in arts education?"
Questions about past sessions? Email info@seadae.org.
PAST SESSIONS
Session # 1: Wednesday, August 11th 3:00-4:30 pm EDT
The Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Art Room (ABAR): Curriculum & Instruction in Praxis
Led by Anti Racist Art Teachers, this panel discussion will focus on what anti-bias, anti-racist curriculum & instruction looks like in praxis. Each panel member will provide examples of lessons and teaching strategies that they utilize in the classroom. There will be opportunity for collaboration and conversation among the panelists and participants as we discuss what it means to move from reflection to reformation of our curriculum and instruction.
Session # 2: Wednesday, August 18th 3:00-4:30 pm EDT
Promoting Equity from Coast to Coast
This panel will share examples of how Maryland, New York, and Seattle Public Schools promote culturally responsive and anti-racist arts education for all students through: New York’s Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Framework and policy statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Maryland’s Anti-racist Educator’s of the Arts Learning Lab; and Seattle Public School’s Culturally Responsive Antiracist Arts Framework.
Panelists: Alysia Lee (Maryland State Department of Education); David Seligman (New York State Education Department); Gail Sehlhorst and Christopher Mena (Seattle Public Schools)
The Anti-Racist Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME) Classroom
Wednesday, September 29th 6:30-8:30 pm EDT
SESSION 3 FLYER (PDF)
What does it mean to be an anti-racist Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME) teacher? What are the specific tools and resources that will support us in this work? How can we build strategic alliances and engage in meaningful dialogue with other teachers about building an inclusive and anti-racist AME pathway?
Please join us for a special professional learning event that explores pathways to creating an anti-racist Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME) classroom. Moderator Dr. Denise Boston (Equity and Restorative Practices Manager for Howard County Government, Maryland and former Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at the California Institute of Integral Studies) will be joined by panelists Danielle Drake (California Institute of Integral Studies), Alison Trope (Critical Media Project), and Sebastien Elkouby (View Park High School).
Following the panel, we will break into our Communities of Practice, discipline-specific discussion groups that will help us lean into this work of developing culturally aware content creators, supporting increased representation in the creative industries, and becoming the extraordinary educators we are meant to be!
This series was organized by SEADAE's Equity Work Group and has been made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.