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TAP Custom Training

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Bring the Teaching Artist Project to your organization.

We can create custom professional development trainings tailored specifically to your organization’s needs, whether for new and beginning or master Teaching Artists, arts administrators, classroom teachers and more. Our trainings include, but are not restricted to:  

  • Creative elements and teaching the creative process
  • Curriculum development
  • Lesson planning and scaffolding
  • Classroom culture
  • Art as Activism
  • Teaching for social justice
  • Co-teaching
  • Teaching philosophies
  • Social-Emotional Learning 
  • Career development
  • Accessibility and inclusivity 
  • Inquiry and reflection
  • Assessment
  • Grant-writing for Teaching Artists
  • And much more

Check out some samples below of what we have offered in the past. If you’re interested in a customized training, please write to us at TAP@communitywordproject.org for more information.

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National Dance Institute

Teaching Artist Project staff facilitated a workshop with the National Dance Institute (NDI) in Harlem, NYC. This two-hour professional development seminar with the dancers of NDI focused on blending dance and poetry with the goal to teach dance to students of multiple intelligences.

Read About Our Work with NDI

Sarah Lawrence College

Teaching Artist Project staff created a special training for the teachers in Sarah Lawrence College’s Child Development Institute that focused on gender identity training.
“The workshop really opened my eyes toward gender bias in the classroom and the role it plays in our children’s lives. It was a very informative workshop and I truly appreciated it!”
-Workshop Participant
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Memphis Music Initiative

During this year’s Summer Institute, in addition to wonderful participants from all over the country, Community-Word Project (CWP) had the pleasure to host staff members from the Memphis Music Initiative (MMI). Five staff members traveled all the way from Tennessee to not only partake in the rich social justice training provided during Summer Institute, but to explore how that work could impact their organization directly with an additional customized training day.
Read About Our Work with MMI

Armed Services Arts Partnership

Teaching Artist Project facilitators consulted with the Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) staff to create and facilitate a workshop for novice and advanced Teaching Artists. The training focused on trauma -informed teaching techniques, in order to meet the needs of the veteran population that ASAP serves.
“TAP Staff made a great effort to understand our organization’s needs without creating additional work for our staff. Their personal investment in our initiative’s growth and development was invaluable.”
– Ana Gonzalez, Program Manager, Armed Services Arts Partnership
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Binghamton University

Teaching Artist Project staff are available for virtual workshops across the country. In the fall of 2020, TAP staff created a series of custom workshops for the creative writing teachers of Binghamton University.
“I found the discussions and group work to be most helpful, exploring the ways we bring values into the classroom and how activism can be incorporated into art making.”
-Workshop Participant