In this workshop, lead by Inspired Child’s Valerie Carroll, participants will learn how to find and amplify the musical qualities of a book to create an engaging and active experience. These musical elements hold the attention of the class and invite them to become part of the storytelling.

Adapted from her award-winning book, "The Dramatic Difference,” Inspired Child teaching artist Sarah Pleydell, gives teachers hands-on experience using multi-sensory props and stimulation plus simple storytelling techniques to enhance their reading of much-loved children's books. 

Inspired Child teaching artists Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner (a.k.a. Magpie) provide teachers with tools and strategies for instilling in their children a love for and sense of wonder about the natural world around us.

Inspired Child’s renowned teaching artist, Mama Sylvia, leads participants through a combination of African dance, creative movement, music, children’s literature, and crafts, incorporating auditory and kinesthetic ways of learning to achieve early childhood goals. Come prepared to sing, dance and have fun! 

This is a hand-on workshop and participation is encouraged. Keeping it simple, we’ll use lots of recycled materials. Join supportive workshop leader, Karen O. Brown in this useful and essential idea building class.

Tap into the power of rhythm and movement to teach young children counting, cardinality, and positional number sense. Begin by learning how a musical steady beat is fundamental for developing one-to-one correspondence and accurate counting. Then, learn to use your chanting and moving skills to introduce counting, inclusion, and number cardinality.

Auntie Oye tells the story of her four animal friends: Elephant, Lion, Giraffe, and Pepe the bilingual Mouse.

In this workshop, participants explore new art tools and projects to strengthen students’  fine motor skills and three-dimensional thinking. Using everyday materials including recyclables, we make simple, reusable looms and practice weaving with cardboard strips and yarn. Next, we’ll learn to expand paper weaving into larger classroom projects inspired by West African textile traditions.  

Inspired Child teaching artists Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner (a.k.a. Magpie) bring decades of hands-on classroom experience and artistic collaborations with teachers to this engaging, music infused workshop.

Using steady beat, simple props and other arts-based techniques to create engaging story time.

In this participatory workshop we will explore and practice simple songs and strategies to use music in your classroom in multi-purpose ways.  We’ll play with rhythm, rhyme, sound and movement.

Join Inspired Child’s teaching artist Marcia Daft, in this workshop and learn how to tell simple stories that bring Early Childhood Mathematics to life! First, learn the storyteller’s craft of creating voices, facial expressions, and gestures that are woven throughout the story. Then, discover how to animate small toys and simple objects while leading students in the telling of a story.

This session will facilitate the use of theater practices and movement strategies that address social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom.

Adapted from her award-winning book, "The Dramatic Difference,” Inspired Child teaching artist Sarah Pleydell, gives teachers hands-on experience using multi-sensory props and stimulation plus simple storytelling techniques to enhance their reading of much-loved children's books. 

This interactive workshop with renowned vocalist and Inspired Child teaching artist, Imani Gonzalez, demonstrates how well-loved children’s books provide the springboard for arts infused activities that support social-emotional development while students are learning virtually or in the classroom.

During our hands-on workshop, participants learn to make lively puppets using simple, recycled materials. Fine motor skills are strengthened through cutting, gluing, tearing, braiding, coloring, twisting, and threading.

Join Inspired Child teaching artist and professional dancer, Sylvana Christopher, for a holistic storytelling that focuses on our natural ability to reimagine stories that awaken the imagination.

Inspired Child's interactive workshop will give early childhood educators the tools to use music, theater and movement to develop children’s literacy skills, love of books and passion for reading.

Inspired Child's interactive workshop will give early childhood educators the tools to use music, theater and movement to develop children’s literacy skills, love of books and passion for reading.

In partnership with Inspired Child, Teatro La Bolsa, a bilingual and educational Latin American theater company for children, youth and adults, presents a professional development workshop creating educational experiences using different arts-based techniques that engage children in the early childhood classroom while promoting social-emotional and cognitive learning.