The Tobin Center’s THIRD ANNUAL Arts Integration Conference!
Monday, June 15th, 2026
Harvey E. Najim Arts Integration Program
For Teachers PreK - 12th grade and Arts Specialists
FREE professional development in Arts Integration!
Credit (3 hours per workshop) is provided upon completion of each session.
Coffee, Snacks, and Free Parking!
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Generation NEXT provides both live and virtual professional development, featuring nationally and internationally operating Teaching Artists.
CPE credit available
VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
On your own time, at your own pace
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All workshops are available August 5, 2025 and close June 30, 2026
Defining Arts Integration: The What and Why
(PK—12)
This session unpacks the definition of arts integration and explores the characteristics of quality integration that align with best practices in education. What does quality look like in practice? Join the co-author of the Kennedy Center’s internationally adopted definition for an informative, practical, and inspiring workshop that helps teachers and administrators deepen their understanding of how to weave the arts into core instruction with purpose and impact.
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Acting Right - Building a Cooperative, Collaborative, Creative Classroom Community Through Drama
(PK-12)
This step-by-step approach integrates engaging aspects of drama with effective elements of classroom management to empower students to take ownership of their own behavior. Used in classrooms across the country, these strategies help students develop the behavioral literacy needed to concentrate, cooperate, collaborate, and establish a sense of calm, focus, and balance in the classroom. Teachers will learn drama-based tools that support responsibility, focus, and positive participation.
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Cut Paper: A Pathway to Creative Writing
(K-6)
The process of writing stories can be challenging for young authors. In this workshop, teachers will explore how students can use scissors, glue, and construction paper to create artwork that bridges the gap between unformed ideas and unique, descriptive stories. By working with elements of art—shape, color, and space—students make concrete connections to story components like character, setting, events, main idea, and details. Participants will leave with workable, accessible tools to help students generate ideas, think divergently, and write creatively.
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Jessica DiLorenzo
Creatively Moving Through SEL Part 1: Feelings and Awareness
(PK-12)
Our emotional states shift as we move through the events of our day. This workshop explores a step-by-step process that connects the elements of movement to social-emotional learning skills like self-management, mind and body awareness, and self-expression. Participants will gain tools to introduce creative movement and mindful breathing techniques that help both students and teachers tune into and transform emotions in healthy, constructive ways.
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Harlan Brownlee
Moving Through Weather: Exploring the Atmosphere with Dance
(3-6)
Combining his training as a pilot and choreographer, Harlan Brownlee leads you through an interactive exploration of weather that you can bring back to your classroom. Learn strategies that connect motions of the body and elements of dance to the structure of the earth’s atmosphere and to cloud formations that create wind and weather conditions. This workshop helps students embody science concepts while building collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Wear comfortable clothes for movement!
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