Creative Community of Practice for Hayward Unified School District Secondary Teachers.

Our Changing Planet professional learning series supports teachers and school leaders to deepen curiosity about local environments and utilize creative strategies to collaboratively strengthen our communities' climate resilience.  

This 16-hour, hybrid series incorporates frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero Research Institute aligned with culturally responsive teaching practices. Through in-person sessions in natural environments and online sessions that include the work of contemporary artists, designers, scientists, activists and Indigenous practitioners, OCP inspires and informs ongoing practices that develop environmental awareness and advocacy in classrooms, school communities and across learning organizations. 

Our Changing Planet professional learning series supports teachers and school leaders to deepen curiosity about local environments and utilize creative strategies to collaboratively strengthen our communities' climate resilience.  

This 16-hour, hybrid series incorporates frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero Research Institute aligned with culturally responsive teaching practices. Through in-person sessions in natural environments and online sessions that include the work of contemporary artists, designers, scientists, activists and Indigenous practitioners, OCP inspires and informs ongoing practices that develop environmental awareness and advocacy in classrooms, school communities and across learning organizations. 

Our Changing Planet professional learning series supports teachers and school leaders to deepen curiosity about local environments and utilize creative strategies to collaboratively strengthen our communities' climate resilience.  

This 16-hour, hybrid series incorporates frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero Research Institute aligned with culturally responsive teaching practices. Through in-person sessions in natural environments and online sessions that include the work of contemporary artists, designers, scientists, activists and Indigenous practitioners, OCP inspires and informs ongoing practices that develop environmental awareness and advocacy in classrooms, school communities and across learning organizations. 

Using creative practices can be an effective equity strategy when approaching problems of practice in educational leadership as it lifts up the voices of all stakeholders and supports transformational change within the collective educational community. Tools of creativity and equity support leaders to make the changes in their sites that are people centered, and become a model for more systemic changes in their districts.

Releasing the Imagination: Creating an Impactful Leadership Practice is a collaborative learning space that explores the integration of visual and performing arts into leadership practices. Through Creative Inquiry strategies for deep reflection and to spark curiosity, leader participants forge new connections. By incorporating creative pedagogies, we support educational leaders in enhancing school site and student outcomes and using learning spaces to foster mindfulness and healing.

Creative Community of Practice for Hayward Unified School District Secondary Teachers. Guest Artists Berkeley Repertory Theater.

Strategies for Creative Educational Leadership is a UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education 21CSLA Alameda Regional Academy. This Community of Practice is designed to support school, district and county office of education leaders aiming to cultivate equitable and transformational change in education through a multilevel lens of Arts-Centered Integrated Learning, best practices, and leadership, and creative thinking as a tool for leadership to address equity through Arts-Centered Integrated Learning.