Teacher Workshops
Residencies and workshops that connect to academic standards and creative classroom strategies, paired with professional development workshops that center the arts in teaching and learning.
SmART Integration
SmART Integration is all about mixing the magic of the arts—like painting, music, movement, and drama—into everyday classroom learning.
The Arts Collide with SmART Integration
SmART Integration is all about mixing the magic of the arts—like painting, music, movement, and drama—into everyday classroom learning. Through exciting, standards-based residencies and workshops, educators pick up strategies they can easily weave into their lessons. The result? Curious, engaged students who think deeply, get creative, and connect with what they’re learning in totally new ways. Learning has never been this fun—or this SmART!
SmART Integration is accomplished through collaboration with more than 20 teaching artists, multiple school districts, and national partners, including the Kennedy Center, Focus 5, and Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.
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- Engage
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- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
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- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
- Engage
- Creative
- Confidence
- Integrate
- Immerse
- Collaborate
- Transform
- Inspire
- Activate
- Empower
- Connect
Residencies
Residencies and workshops that connect to academic standards and creative classroom strategies, paired with professional development workshops that center the arts in teaching and learning.
Resources
From traveling exhibitions to educational kits, these arts-integrated resources support in-classroom curriculum.
95% of teachers report SmART Integration helped them re-engage with the subject matter they teach.
93% of teachers felt confident in integrating strategies into their classroom after participating in the program.
Education Residencies
Wolf Trap Early Learning Residencies
Looking for fun, creative ways to engage early learners? Our trained teaching artists demonstrate joyful, active learning through music, movement, storytelling, and puppetry. Teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to immerse students in their learning through an art form.
- Length: available in 5 or 16 sessions
- Grades: Preschool–1
- Cost: $500 and up
Activate Learning
Students embody learning when lessons include kinesthetic learning strategies, such as tableau and movement. By choreographing movement sequences to music, students will enjoy engaging classroom content and demonstrating understanding. Activate Learning can be adapted to various subjects, including science, English language arts, and social studies.
- Length: five 50-minute sessions
- Grades: 1 and up
- Cost: $500
Composer in the Classroom
When students synthesize text through music, they gain literary comprehension while building confidence that anyone can be a composer. Professional musicians guide students to explore how sounds convey meaning and songs tell stories. The experience culminates with performances of original music inspired by a classroom text.
- Length: five 50-minute sessions
- Grades: 3 and up
- Cost: $500
Picturing Story
Pictures come to life as students read illustrations, deciphering narratives conveyed through composition, images, and colors. By the conclusion of this five-day residency, each student will create a picture dictionary storyboard to inspire recall and retell of a classroom text.
- Length: five 50-minute sessions
- Grades: 3 and up
- Cost: $500
Poetry: Personal to Performance
Professional poetry and spoken word artists engage students in writing that supports positive self-image and builds a strong classroom community. Students will connect with poetry by identifying literary devices in pop music lyrics and uplifting words of contemporary writers.
- Length: five 50-minute sessions
- Grades: 6 and up
- Cost: $500
SmART Integration Teacher Workshops
These workshops introduce SmART Integration, a flexible teaching approach that weaves visual arts, music, movement, and drama into your academic instruction to deepen student learning.
Led by expert teaching artists, these hands-on, evidence-based workshops will equip you with practical tools to seamlessly integrate these strategies into your existing curriculum and lesson plans.
*Workshop length varies depending on school or district needs. Great for any grade.
Cost: $500 and up
Sample Workshops
Arts Integration: Beyond the Basics
In this workshop, you’ll learn specific techniques for integrating art into the curriculum through tailored lesson development. Through group exercises and one-on-one coaching, by the end of the workshop, you will have a lesson you can take into your classroom the very next day!
Foundations of Arts Integration
This workshop is intended for non-core classroom teachers, teachers new to arts integration, or those who need an overview and refresher. By the end of the workshop, you will understand the impacts of arts integration, practice using a variety of strategies, and be able to incorporate techniques into lessons and connect to standards right away with your students. Strategies shared will include music, movement, tableaus, puppetry, sculptures, reading visual art, and STEM activities.