Texas Fine Arts Summit 22: Leading Resilience & Recovery through Fine Arts
June 15–August 1, 2021
As an entire year of remote or hybrid teaching draws to a close, CEDFA continues to support fine arts educators with safe options for professional learning. At the virtual Texas Fine Arts Summit 22: Leading Resilience & Recovery through Fine Arts participants will prepare for the challenges and opportunities surrounding the return to classrooms this fall.
At the Summit, fine arts educators will learn how they can lead their students, classrooms, campuses, and communities through this transition—to healing, recovery, and growth. “Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress,” according to the American Psychological Association, “As much as resilience involves ‘bouncing back’ from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth.” (1) Summit 22 will explore these opportunities by focusing on four core components of resilience that are deeply embedded in fine arts practices—connection, wellness, healthy thinking, and meaning. Furthermore, the Summit will foster efforts to create and sustain environments rich with inclusion, diversity, equity, and access to the fine arts. Composed of integrated asynchronous online sessions, the Summit will be supported through guided online discussions and structured networking opportunities.
Session One: Fine Arts & Resiliency at the Individual Level explores research on pandemic-related stress, adversity’s impact on learning, and how to mitigate and overcome these effects through the fine arts. Discipline-specific deep dives will help participants understand how to cultivate habits of mind that build resiliency and hone students’ self-awareness and self-management skills.
Session Two: Fine Arts & Resiliency at the Classroom Level engages participants with strategies for creating learning experiences that foster empathy, perspective-taking, and relational trust in environments full of safety and belonging. Deep dive courses delve into specifics for culturally responsive teaching in each of the fine arts areas, as well as lessons that tap into wellness while strengthening students’ social awareness skills.
Session Three: Fine Arts & Resiliency at the Campus Level broadens the scope to the campus as a learning organization and integrates school-wide methodologies such as trauma-informed practices within fine arts. Deep dive breakout sessions tackle some of the finer points on supporting inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) for all student populations as well as identifying campus-level supports to help students, teachers, and families form meaningful connections.
Session Four: Resilience at the Community Level situates each fine arts teacher-leader in the larger context of the community and introduces them to professional conversations modeling community partnerships, therapeutic supports such as through art/music/movement therapies, and each individual’s role as a leader in their communities.
Online learning sessions will be open from June 15–August 1, 2021!
(1) American Psychological Association. (2020, February 1). Building your resilience. http://www.apa.org/topics/resilience
Registration:
Pricing:
Individual or small group registration (1-24) : $125
Groups of 25-74: $100 per registration
Groups of 75+: $75 per registration