Empowering creativity in schools and communities everywhere.
Let’s get creative…
Ginger helps teachers and staff develop an education philosophy that places creativity at its core.
The overarching goal of Ginger’s Professional Development offerings is to nourish the educator, giving them permission to alter their own education mindset. It is by changing this mindset and developing an education philosophy that places creativity at its core that teachers and staff can truly revolutionize attitudes toward curriculum planning, training, and classroom environment.
Ginger efficiently and effectively guides teachers through different processes of integrating creativity directly into school curriculum through hands-on experiences (individual and collaborative), classroom design (set up and clean up) and classroom management techniques. Participants develop new tools for their repertoire, gain a foundation in the principles of design thinking, and engage their own creative voices. These workshops go well beyond suggesting creative exercises and provide participants with the opportunity to connect and empower one another.
Both Visual art and Design have been proven to enhance cognition, social emotional skills, self-expression, perception, cultural awareness, and aesthetics. The PD workshops options below offer hands-on creative experiences that can be woven into subjects being taught in the classroom as well as used as tools for social emotional support for students and teachers.
WORKSHOP CAN BE CUSTOMIZED FOR:
Individuals, Teaching teams, Whole school
Pre-K through 12th grade
1 to 4 hours / half day / full day - depending on size and scope
In person or virtual options available
Customized to explore your teacher(s) / school(s) desired focus of integration
A glance at some of Ginger’s PD offerings
Tools + Techniques
Integrating Art and Design into the Classroom Curriculum
Offering simple, yet unique ways to weave creative processes into many subjects
Early Childhood Educators (Pre-K / ages 3-5)
Elementary Educators (K-5 / ages 5-10)
2-3 hours, all materials included
Wellness + Reflection
Create + Connect Circles
a creative practice offering teachers [and/or students] space to breathe, create and connect together
Find our more about Create + Connect Circles Experiences
Grade 3 and up
1-2 hours, all materials included
Team-Building: Collaborative Community Portraits
offering teams the opportunity to reflect on mission, vision and community together
Find our more about Create + Connect Collaborative Team Experiences
High school / College / Teaching teams / Administration / All School
1-3 hours, all materials included
Customized Options
creative curriculum subject integration, classroom materials and space set up, specific art or design techniques, etc…
From talking about custom creative curriculum integration, your classroom space design, meet as a teaching team to brainstorm, or do more hands on development with art and design tools and techniques with your school’s teaching teams - Ginger can also create customized Professional Development programming to fit your needs.