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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.
NJPAC’s Professional Development and Social Justice Learning Series offer information that can inspire, educate, and reinvigorate your teaching strategies!
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Arts IgnitED
This social justice learning podcast delivers honest conversations about the intersection of arts and education through a social justice lens. These conversations will give listeners the tools to create more equitable classrooms and navigate the realities of school and community programs.
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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
B.R.A.G.: Hip Hop as a Tool for Self Exploration, Community Connection, and Collaboration
Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Hip-Hop, Language Arts, SEL
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Training and Research in the Arts
Creating Collaborative Choreography
Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts, Social Studies
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Training and Research in the Arts
Creative Assessment Through the Arts
Grades:
K-12
Curriculum Connections:
All Artistic Disciplines
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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
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Training and Research in the Arts
Introduction to Arts Integration
Grades:
K-12
Curriculum Connections:
All Artistic Disciplines
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Training and Research in the Arts
Journey Into Jazz: Creative Jazz Strategies for the Elementary Music Classroom
Grades:
3-8
Curriculum Connections:
Music, History
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Training and Research in the Arts
Movement for Multi-Lingual Learners
Grades:
3-8
Curriculum Connections:
Literacy, Dance
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Training and Research in the Arts
Music Education for the Modern Ear
Grades:
6–12
Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies
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Training and Research in the Arts
Neurodiversity in Arts Education
Grades:
K-12
Curriculum Connections:
All Artistic Disciplines
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Training and Research in the Arts
Page to Puppet Stage: Supporting Literacy Through Puppetry
Grades:
K-8
Curriculum Connections:
Theatre, Literacy, Language Arts, SEL
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Training and Research in the Arts
Pure Imagination! Exploring Creative Approaches to Music and Art in the Early Childhood Classroom
Grades:
K–5
Curriculum Connections:
Music, Theatre, Literacy, Language Arts, Visual Art
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Training and Research in the Arts
Recorder Fundamentals
Grades:
3-5
Curriculum Connections:
Music
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Training and Research in the Arts
Teaching Literacy Through Theatre
Grades:
3-8
Curriculum Connections:
Theatre, Dance, Literacy, Language
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Training and Research in the Arts
The Culturally Responsive Music Classroom
Grades:
6-12
Curriculum Connections:
Music, Literacy, CRT
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Training and Research in the Arts
Words That Move and Lessons That Groove: Integrating Music and Movement into Early Childhood Literacy
Grades:
K–5
Curriculum Connections:
Literacy, Theatre, Movement
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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