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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
NJPAC’s Professional Development and Social Justice Learning Series offer information that can inspire, educate, and reinvigorate your teaching strategies!
upcoming
A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Hip Hop, Black Aesthetics, and the Arts of Social Justice
Centering Indigenous Voices in Arts Education – Wed, Dec 6 @ 3:30-5pm
Talk on “Till” – Wed, Jan 24, 2024 @ 3:30-5pm
Women in the Arts – Wed, Mar 27 @ 3:30-5pm
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.
new jersey wolf trap professional development
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
past Social Justice Learning Series events
Archeology of the Self with Yolanda Sealey Ruiz
combating ableism in the arts classroom
Exploring Social Justice Issues in the “Post-Covid” Arts Classroom
Support for Arts Education Professional Development programs is provided by: Mars Wrigley, Panasonic, TD Charitable Foundation, Turrell Fund, Wolf Trap, the Victoria Foundation and the Colton Family.