Build a CREATIVE Culture.

Creativity for the WHOLE School

Ginger coaches admin, teachers and staff to develop an education philosophy that places creativity at its core. 

The overarching goal of Ginger’s Professional Development offerings is to nourish the educator, giving them permission to alter their own education mindset. It is by changing this mindset and developing an education philosophy that places creativity at its core that teachers and staff can truly revolutionize attitudes toward curriculum planning, training, and classroom environment.

Ginger efficiently and effectively guides teachers through different processes of integrating creativity directly into school curriculum through hands-on experiences (individual and collaborative), classroom design (set up and clean up) and classroom management techniques. Participants develop new tools for their repertoire, gain a foundation in the principles of design thinking, and engage their own creative voices.  These workshops go well beyond suggesting creative exercises and provide participants with the opportunity to connect and empower one another.

Both Visual art and Design have been proven to enhance cognition, social emotional skills, self-expression, perception, cultural awareness, and aesthetics. The PD workshops options below offer hands-on creative experiences that can be woven into subjects being taught in the classroom as well as used as tools for social emotional support for students and teachers.

  • "As administrators, we often find ourselves in workshops where we're just spoken to, with little opportunity to engage creatively or use our hands. Ginger's session was a wonderfully refreshing change — an experience that truly sparked our creativity!"

    Principal participant in the Foundational Principles for Creative School Leaders series

  • “I just loved Ginger's simple yet effective structured freedom approach to weaving creative tools and techniques into ANY classroom curriculum!”

    Teacher participant in PD conference workshop

  • ”I cannot wait to try this in my classroom!”

    Classroom teacher participant in PD workshop integrating creativity and Math

  • "Refreshing, Different AND Fun!"

    Admin participant in the Foundational Principles for Creative School Leaders series

Professional Development
Coaching + Workshop Sampling

Ginger has a large suitcase full of creative Professional Development options for admin, teachers, staff and schools of all scopes and sizes.

Check out the offerings below, but know that Ginger can create a customized experience for professional development for admin/teachers/staff, continuing education, whole school/grade art projects, specialized early childhood art education, art teacher rejuvenation and more!

Early Childhood / Elementary / Middle School / High School / College / Administration

TOOLS + TECHNIQUES + MATERIALS

Ginger loves to talk about how to expand the creative tools a teacher can have in their repertoire. From exploring new mediums to playing with how and where to place materials in a classroom to brainstorming different and new ways to set up a classroom space - Ginger is game to talk about it all! She also has multiple workshops that connect to subjects and can help teachers find fun and impactful ways to weave creativity into upcoming lessons and units.

ADMINISTRATION TEAMS

Ginger’s Foundational Principles for Creative School Leaders series is a powerful collections of hands-on conversations around ten powerful principles that formed the foundation and guided her work as the Director of her school Roots + Wings School of Art and Design. Participants will use creative tools to process, document and reflect on concepts such as relationship, kindness, resilience, expectation, collaboration and curiosity (to name a few). We will discuss the impact of how a creative culture built on these foundations has the potential to truly change the landscape of a school and community.

SEL , WELLNESS, CREATIVE REJUVENATION

Ginger’s Create + Connect process is a hands-on, creative practice designed for all members of the educational community—students, counselors, teachers, and administrators. With the use of tactile tools, this process encourages deeper connections, promotes emotional expression without words, and fosters fresh perspectives on curriculum topics. Using collage and color - Ginger’s signature mediums for her own work - this process offers multiple ways to offer conversations beyond words. Repeated over time, it becomes a powerful method for social-emotional reflection and insightful discussions in a variety of educational settings.

  • Classroom Workshops with students

  • Teacher Wellness + Development

  • Create + Connect Circles WHOLE School Wide Curriculum Facilitation **available as a series of School Wide Training for teachers to become facilitators of this process to utilize indefinitely with students

Professional Development Coaching
Options + Details

  • 1 hour minimum / half-day / whole-day / monthly

  • Can work with one person (admin, teacher, staff), a teaching team, entire grade level, or whole school

  • Utilizing one of Ginger’s options or Ginger can create a customized experience to explore your desire focus / subject / area(s) of creative integration

  • Begins at $300. Dependent on timeframes, scale, structure, scope and number of participants. (+ materials costs)