Course Description: Interested in exploring anti-bias education strategies? Before you start, get familiar with key terminology to help you discuss equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice with confidence.

Facilitator: Alysia Lee

Bio: Alysia Lee is the Coordinator Of Fine Arts for MSDE. For Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, Alysia Lee, her role as an artist, arts educator, teaching artist, and arts advocate, gives her a broad perspective of the arts ecosystem. Alysia's work has received national and local recognition for advancing access, equity, visibility, representation, and power-sharing between artists, organizations, and communities. Key to her method is leadership development, building strong partnerships, and intersectional approaches to engagement while centering artistic excellence, creativity, and justice.

Key Teaching and Learning Strategies explored in this course: 

• Facilitator Role - TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION: Align technology tools to learning goals.

• Artist Communities - COLLABORATIVE LEARNING STRUCTURES: Adopt collaborative learning structures to deepen learning goals.

To download the full MSDE Fine Arts Office Professional Learning Framework, please click here.