GET YOUR LEARN ON.

Expand your teaching skills, deepen your curriculum and give yourself a creative boost with our professional development program. These leading-edge workshops are part of NJPAC’s Colton Institute for Training and Research in the Arts. PDs are for teachers all the way from pre-K to high school, and include hip hop, dance, storytelling, theater, music and more. Not only will you learn something… you’ll have fun and be inspired. Don’t see what you want? Reach out and let us customize a PD to meet your needs.

Why choose NJPAC professional development?

  • Creative, fun, cutting-edge topics
  • In-person and online trainings
  • Customizable to meet your needs
  • Designed with your requests and feedback in mind
  • We design PDs based on your needs and feedback

Contact us to start the process of bringing these programs to your school virtually or in person.

Ashley Mandaglio

Associate Director, Professional Learning and Program Development
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NJPAC’s Professional Development and Social Justice Learning Series offer information that can inspire, educate, and reinvigorate your teaching strategies!

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Conversations

Celebrating and Advancing Women Leaders in Arts and Education

Mar 27Arts Educationprofessional developmentSocial justice
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past professional development events

ConversationsVirtual

Archeology of the Self with Yolanda Sealey Ruiz

Sep 29Social justiceEducationalprofessional development
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ConversationsVirtual

combating ableism in the arts classroom

Nov 17Social justiceEducationalprofessional development
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bring PD to YOUR SCHOOL

Our team is standing by to customize these PDs for your teachers, your needs and your interests! Contact us to start the process of bringing these programs to your school in-person or virtually.

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Grades: : Pre-K and Kindergarten
Price: 
5 sessions: $1,000
16 sessions: $2,400
Curriculum Connections: Language Arts/Literacy, Social and Emotional Development, STEM, Visual and Performing Arts

Creating Collaborative Choreography

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts, Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Creative Intersections Presented by Carolyn Dorfman Dance

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Dance, Health & Physical Education

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Cultural Connections Through Hip Hop: Infusing the Arts in Every Classroom

Grades:
6–12
Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies, ELA

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Dance It Out: Ideas for Integrating Dance, Community Building and Emotional Intelligence

Grades:
K-5
Curriculum Connections:
Social-Emotional Learning/Arts Integration

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Finding Math in Every Space and Every Place: Linking the Arts and Mathematics in the Early Childhood Classroom

Grades:
PreK–2
Curriculum Connections:
Math

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Hip Hop Poppin’ Art

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

In Perfect Harmony: Strengthening Young Voices Through the Power of Ensemble Singing

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts, Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Music Education for the Modern Ear

Grades:
6–12
Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Musical Equations: Music and Math Connections for the Arts Integrated Classroom

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Math

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Playing Pictures: Intersection of Art, Music, Dance and Imagination

Grades:
PreK–5
Curriculum Connections:
Math & Science

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Playing Pictures 2: Intersection of Art, Music, Dance and Imagination

Grades:
PreK–5
Curriculum Connections:
Literacy & Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Pure Imagination! Exploring Creative Approaches to Music and Art in the Early Childhood Classroom

Grades:
PreK–2
Curriculum Connections:
Literacy, Math

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Storytelling Through Creative Movement: Inspiring Original Narratives Through Dance

Grades:
 K-8
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts/ Literacy

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Supporting the Song

Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts, Social Studies

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Teaching Literacy Through Musical Theater

Grades:
6–12
Curriculum Connections:
English Language Arts

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

Words That Move and Lessons That Groove: Integrating Music and Movement into Early Childhood Literacy

Grades:
PreK–2
Curriculum Connections:
Literacy

Colton Institute for
Training and Research in the Arts

                          

Generous support provided by The Joan and Allen Bildner Family Fund, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., The Arts Education Endowment Fund in honor of Raymond C. Chambers, Jennifer A. Chalsty, Judy and Stewart Colton, Toby and Leon Cooperman, Mimi and Edwin Feliciano, The Izzo Family, Don Katz & Leslie Larson, McCrane Foundation, Inc., care of Margrit McCrane, The MCJ Amelior Foundation, Albert+ and Katharine Merck+, NJ Advance Media, David & Marian Rocker, The Sagner Companies/The Sagner Family Foundation and an anonymous donor

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