The Culturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) Workout is a free, eight-week curated asynchronous and synchronous experience that focuses on developing the capacity of educators and administrators to think about how culturally relevant and responsive approaches can shift curricula, instructional content and teaching practices to represent and validate all students’ cultures and lived experiences more effectively.

• Registered participants will receive curated prompts over eight weeks that focus on individual, interpersonal and institutional aspects of CRAE. Prompts include articles, videos and reflection exercises that will help you learn about, reflect on and develop a CRAE practice and culturally responsive curriculum.
• Opportunities for journaling and artmaking to chronicle and deepen your learning.
• Opportunities to assess curricula through a culturally responsive lens with the CRAE Curriculum Scorecard adapted from New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.
• Optional 90-minute guided conversation with other Workout participants on Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., on weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8.
• Optional discussion in a Google Classroom will support inquiries and sharing of ideas between individuals as well as curriculum-writing teams.

Location and date: Virtual – Jan. 16-March 10

Registration fee: Free

More information: Email CRAEWorkout@gmail.com. Visit artsednj.org/CRAEWorkout to register.