Creative Communities are Thriving Communities
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We believe in the transformative power of creativity, innate in all people, and in its flexibility to be guided into activities that create lasting change.
Project Design Lab project with The Salisbury School — Lindsay Pontius, Teaching Artist
Project Design Lab
REGISTRATION OPEN
June 24-28 / University of Vermont, Burlington
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​Five courses to choose from for PreK-12 educators who want to improve the culture of empathy, respect, and belonging in their classroom and school community.
Earn three graduate credits or 40 hours of relicensing credits. Attend solo or as a team from your school or district.
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Interactive workshops with acclaimed Guest Artists, teaching artists, and facilitators who will activate your creativity and inspire your project designs.
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"This week has given me new ideas about how to build community, relationships, and belonging with my new group of students."
– Amie Milizia-Fisher / Math & Science, Browns River Middle School
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In The Forest School
In May 2023, Teaching Artist Evie Lovett and educators at Newbury Elementary School in Vermont led students to explore and express their connections to their Forest School.
They learned group collaboration skills, how to respect the ideas of others, and how to advocate for what you believe in.
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The Forest School project was designed at the Project Design Lab. Learn more about how you can attend the Project Design Lab and build a project plan with a teaching artist to strengthen your school's culture of respect, empathy, and collaboration.
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We bring people of all ages together in projects that activate their creativity to imagine and build more just and thriving communities.
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Project Design Lab project at The Lincoln School — Erin Maile O'Keefe, Teaching Artist
Community Engagement Lab is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Engagement Lab is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, an initiative of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with major funding from the federal CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan Act from the National Endowment for the Arts.