Webinars

Through our Champion Creativity professional learning community on edWeb, we offer monthly, educator-developed webinars covering a variety of art-connected topics and techniques. Find the current schedule and connect with colleagues here and around the world who share your passion for art education and creativity.

STEAM: Innovations That Solve Real World Problems

Explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) and the foundational pillars of this project-based learning approach: Create. Present. Respond. Connect. Join us for this webinar and consider why STEAM is an approach, not a curriculum.

Education Week - Creative Journey

Arts integration has opened new paths to engagement, cultural transformation, and more joy in learning everyday at Prince George's County Public Schools. Join us for this webinar and take a creative journey with us. Learn about the continuum for implementing art across the curriculum, and explore the strategies and tactics that can help your schools and district begin an arts integration journey.

Education Week - Draw on the Power of Creativity

Join us for this webinar and see how arts-integration programs and art-infused math and language arts lessons work to boost comprehension, engagement, and achievement.

Ages/Stages of Children's Creative Development

Attendees will leave this webinar with a better understanding of the stages of children's creative development and how to articulate these insights to others.

Draw Families Into School: Creativity Conversations with Parents

Creative experiences are a wonderful way to draw families into schools and build the sense of partnership between educators and parents. In this webinar, panelists will share practical tips and resources to help parents and educators build creative confidence, so together they can help children make thinking visible.

Student-Led Game Making and Learning

Jordan Shapiro, renowned expert in game-making provides the rationale of "why to" and inspiration for "how to" use games in classrooms. You'll be inspired to: create-present-respond- and connect game-making to curriculum in innovative ways that boost engagement and deepen learning.

Creativity Connects Schools and Families: Increase Parental Engagement

In this webinar, explore how Creative experiences are a wonderful way to draw families into schools and build the sense of partnership between educators and parents.

Creativity Connects the World: Art Builds Global Understanding

This webinar will offer attendees powerful ways to use art to improve students' understanding of the world. Enjoy this journey with a global lens!

Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects

In this webinar, panelists will help educators discover new approaches to shared leadership in schools. Hear about self-awareness building projects where children embrace the unknown, take informed risks, and make their leadership capabilities visible.

Coaching Educators Builds Creative Capacity

In this webinar, learn how to engage adult learners and see what happens when they are asked to "make their thinking visible."

Art as a Persuasive Language

Understand how we are persuaded by images and use these insights to help students reach their own conclusions/be better decision makers. Gain practical ideas on how to teach the skill of reading art and to understand how visuals can convey meaning.

Reading Art Enriches Writing

Explore how art and literacy are intrinsically linked and enrich each other. Participants will read children's artwork, decode the drawings and paintings for meaning, and use the art as a springboard for many types of writing.

Art: Essential in a Well-Rounded Education

Education leaders know the impact art has on student achievement and engagement. Our challenge is to convince others. Presenters Cheri Sterman and Shauna Kauffman will dive into this topic during this webinar.

Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today

Join, best-selling Author Richard Gerver and Crayola Director of Education Cheri Sterman, as they present topics raised in Gerver's book, Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today: Education-Our Children-Their Future. Together, Richard and Cheri address core questions and explore education perspectives for next generation leaders, arts leaders, and student learners.

Teaming Up on STEAM Opportunities

In this webinar, P21's and Crayola's panel of experts teamed up and discussed the importance of STEAM in Early Education. Also learn about the effectiveness of partnerships, between schools and companies that encourage and supports children on a pathway to careers in STEAM.