TEACHING ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

About the 2023 Program

As we move into 2023, our priority through this program is to provide services that ensure children across Greater Cleveland have access to high-quality arts programs in their neighborhoods that help them develop the qualities they need in adulthood. Teaching Artist Professional Development Program 2023 (TAPD.23) seeks to recruit and train 15 artists from Northeast Ohio of various experiences, races, and perspectives, ensuring those we work with are a true representation of our community.  

All participants who complete the modules and the corresponding assessment piece will be awarded a total stipend of $1000 and a digital certificate to communicate and authenticate their expertise. Stipends are paid in 4 equal installments upon completion of the core modules and their assessments.

Once accepted into the program, each new artist in our TAPD.23 cohort will be assigned a mentor in their artistic discipline to receive real-time feedback from those in the current field of arts integration who have experience with CAL programs across a variety of settings and youth ages.  

In order to apply for our TAPD.23 artists must be available for all dates outlined below for the entirety of the time and commit to at least 1 hour per month of digital meetings with their mentor Teaching Artist.

Questions? Please contact Senior Director of Arts Education Emma Parker emma@arts-inspiredlearning.org  or via phone at 216-561-5005 x 23.

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

Check back soon for our next cohort.

Teaching Artists Course Components

Each course outlined below will train TAs in best practices and strengthen their understanding of the needs of youth participants.

  • When: Friday, March 31st, 11 am-2 pm

    During this introduction session, artists will be introduced to the teaching artist industry.

    Participants will:

    • Explore its history, impact, and pathways of connecting to youth in grades Prek-12th throughout various venues.

    • Better understand the workforce skills to be successful in becoming teaching artists.

    • Meet their mentor Teaching Artists to hear of their successes and challenges within the field.

  • When: Friday, April 14th, 11:00 am-3:00 pm

    Presented by our partners at the Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio

    This foundational workshop serves as a starting point for diversity and inclusion programming. It explores the phenomena of unconscious bias and how professionals can minimize its effects on colleague and student relations.

    Participants will:

    • Learn how their own unique identities shape their experiences and impact their day-to-day interactions with others.

    • Learn strategies for minimizing the effects of unconscious bias, which can manifest in the form of verbal, non-verbal, and environmental micro-messages.

    • Examine the role they play in communicating micro-messages both interpersonally and organizationally and build skills that will aid them in addressing micro-inequities when they occur.

    • Gain greater confidence in their ability to communicate value and have a positive impact through micro-affirmations.

    • Gain skills to aid them in creating an inclusive space where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated.

  • When: Friday, April 21st, 9:00 am-3:00 pm; Friday, April 28th, 9:00 am-3:00 pm; Friday, May 5th, 9:00 am-3:00 pm; Friday, May 12th, 9:00 am-3:00 pm

    The Program Development session will help to bridge the gap from working professional artists to becoming teaching artists.

    Participants will:

    • Explore ways to develop and write a lesson plan as it connects to the Ohio Department of Education standards in cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development.

    • Ensure their curriculum is trauma-informed and culturally responsive ensuring equity and inclusion for all youth.

    • Receive new strategies and techniques for program creation and real-time feedback from their peers, mentors, and CAL staff ensuring the creation of a well-rounded program for whole child development.

    • Gain the skills and confidence to create a program in arts integration for youth in grades Prek-12th grade.

  • When: Friday, May 19th, 11:00 am-3:00 pm

    Presented by our partners at the Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio

    This is a LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) focused workshop,

    Participants will:

    • Explore the social and cultural impacts in the U.S. for LGBTQIA+ youth in the educational system.

    • Explore concepts such as gender pronouns, definitions of sexual orientations, explanations of preferred/updated language, and statistics regarding the implications of LGBTQIA+ discrimination for youth.

    • Prepare to address biased language and inequities toward the LGBTQIA+ community.

    • Examine how intersecting identities impact the way people navigate a variety of environments and investigate manifestations of privilege through interpersonal and systemic experiences.

    • Gain confidence in creating programming which is respectful, inclusive, and affirming for all.

  • When: Schedule will be determined by artist, youth community partner venue, mentor TA and CAL staff. These may occur in Summer or Fall of 2023

    Program Implementation allows Teaching Artists the opportunity to apply their program created in previous sessions to youth with one of CAL’s partner venues.

    This gives Teaching Artists and CAL the opportunity to explore and implement this program with youth. Teaching Artists the opportunity to put into practice what they have learned in previous professional development sessions.

  • When: July 31st - August 4th, August 7th - 11th 2023

    TAPD.23 cohort artists will observe mentor Teaching Artists providing arts-integrated programming to youth in a summer camp setting.

    Participants will see how the arts-integration and the techniques they’ve learned over the course of the spring can be incorporated into out-of-school time programs for youth grades K-5th.

  • In the Fall of 2023, CAL will provide Artists-in-Residencies programming at local schools that create consistent, safe, exploratory, arts-learning environments for well-rounded educational experiences that connect to student curriculum and classroom priorities.

    Participants will have the opportunity to plan and implement programming in collaboration with a mentor Teaching Artists in a local school setting for an additional stipend amount.

  • Following the completion of the course and artist-in-residency program, individuals will have the opportunity to join the CAL roster as a contractor and begin creating and implementing programming across Northeast Ohio.