Maryland Micro-Credentials for Creative Classrooms: Arts Education through a Trauma-Informed Lens

February 12, 19, and 26, 2023 from 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
All sessions will be virtual

This course will be limited to 24 participants. All interested participants must submit an application by January 27th, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. to be considered for this cohort. Participants will be selected and all applicants will be notified of their status by February 6th, 2023.

Successful completion of Maryland Micro-Credentials for Creative Classrooms: Arts Education through a Trauma-Informed Lens will result in one (1) MSDE CPD credit and a certificate of completion upon request.

Facilitator: Betsaleel (Bets) Charmelus and Candy Alexandra González

Description: This training will provide an introduction to trauma-informed practices as they relate specifically to arts educators. The training will begin with a foundation in stress, trauma, and its potential impact on individuals. The course will explore how stress and trauma connect to some key areas of brain theory that demonstrate when the brain is - and isn't - primed to learn, and what they can do as facilitators to help students engage, retain, and apply learning. The course will connect the five basic needs often impacted by trauma to how an art form can both challenge and grow these areas for students. Finally, we will consider how social dynamics (present in both in person and remote learning) can trigger fight-flight-freeze response, and what participants can do in curriculum structures and facilitation practices to account for these dynamics and create a safe space for all. Time to process, question, and brainstorm using sample tools, reflective free-writes and small group discussion will be threaded throughout the presentation to help arts educators connect these behavioral theories to their arts educator practice.

This course is presented by Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.