Whole Child, Whole Day: Heart, Mind, and Body

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Dr. Martin Luther King said, “Our goal is to build a beloved community. This will require a qualitative shift in our hearts, and a qualitative shift in our lives.”

Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment with kindness and curiosity, and a step towards a shift in our hearts. Research shows that mindful awareness practices help us uncover our implicit bias and unconscious ideas, thoughts, and beliefs. Drawing on the work of Ruth King, author of Mindful of Race, as well as other teachers, we will explore mindfulness practices to uncover our unconscious biases and thoughts as a stepping-stone toward change and growth. How can we care for ourselves in this process, which may be difficult, with love and compassion? This session will include safe spaces, caucuses, for people who identify as BIPOC and people who identify as white.  

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Join us for an exploration of youth development through hands on activities that positively impact students’ sense of belonging and promote inclusivity in a classroom or out-of-school-time program. In this workshop, Arts Corps teaching artists and program staff will lead participants through an exploration of strategies for using creativity to foster positive mindsets across programs, age groups and venues, and the role creative youth development plays in achieving greater justice and equity in education.

Update!: During the session, presenters, staff, and attendees shared additional resources in the chat which built on workshop content and conversations. The links to these resources have been added below!

• How one Seattle teacher kept his kindergartners engaged through the coronavirus closures (July 4, 2020)
  
• COVID-19 and student learning in the United States: The hurt could last a lifetime (June 1, 2020)
• Arts Corps - Make Art Anyway: Healing Through Art 2020 - Activity Workbook
• Quick Connections - LIVE with Arts Corps Teaching Artists (05.05.2020)
• Quick Connections - Community Chat with Teaching Artists from Arts Corps (May 2020)

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In this workshop, attendees will explore marginalized groups and implications for change in the educational setting. We will examine the foundational elements of and approaches to multicultural education as the underpinning to the development of cultural competence. Attendees will increase their awareness of their own biases and experiences with differences; explore how power and privilege impact student learning; and learn how to infuse various teaching practices to foster a safe and inclusive classroom to maximize student potential.

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If the only constant were change, why do humans living inside organizational systems, resist change? It’s because change signals danger to the primitive part of our brain, the part that’s wired to keep us safe. This means that whatever “change initiative” you are leading has little chance of succeeding without addressing the impact of the deeply held organizational beliefs and stories that often thwart every change effort. If you are a part of an organization that is pushing for culture change towards trauma informed practices, equity, reducing exclusionary discipline, or any other change, give up the struggle. Learn tips on how to begin to engage in ongoing “change & transition” conversations in order to effectively shift your organizational culture.

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“If they [teachers] really had an expectation, they would’ve helped a little more… I don’t know, sometimes I even thought it was a racist thing.” Nearly 2,000 youth in South King County are pushed out or leave high school without earning a diploma every year. When addressing the individual and systemic barriers that lead to disengagement, system leaders typically overlook insights from youth themselves. This workshop shares a project designed to amplify the experiences and voices of students of color who have been failed by the education system created to serve them. This cross-sector project team (non-profit, direct service provider and university) will share approach, methods and findings, including youth recommendations on how to create equitable learning environments that help them succeed.

With current events in our nation, it is becoming more crucial to create an inclusive and empathetic K–5 classroom. In this interactive workshop, we will explore the use of multicultural literature to cultivate cultural empowerment and cross-cultural empathy in our students. Participants will leave the workshop with a knowledge of how to select and use multicultural literature for the classroom based on The Spectrum for Multicultural Literature and how to navigate Colorful Pages as a resource for racial equity.

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We are compelled by the transformative moment we live in to share our stories, make space for the stories of others, and have more fearless conversations about race, justice, community and health with our young folks and among adults. But PAUSE (record scratch!). Take a deep breath. Okay, unpause. "(We fail when) we try to teach our brains to think better about race..." writes Resmaa Menakem (author of My Grandmother's Hands) "... if we are to survive as a country, it is inside our bodies where this conflict needs to be resolved." Only through connection to our bodies, can young people and adults alike begin to heal and make brave spaces to tell our stories, create fearless learning communities, and find joy in our movements. As educators we must learn to embody (literally) mindfulness, movement, visual, oral and written engagement in ways that students can see and believe. Take time with us today to be in your body and feel good. You'll learn some easy and meaningful movement and storifying practices to carry with you today and in your learning places, in all the spaces that you move through.

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This session showcases examples of new, hyper-relevant arts-integrated Ethnic Studies curriculum. Participants experience first-hand the transformative power of exploring content through Theatre of the Oppressed. In the lesson, students research history and current issues around gentrification and segregation in Seattle, through text, video and discussion. They express their own ideas and learn about other perspectives through the technique of machines: Students choose words and gestures to express an aspect of gentrification’s policies or impact. Students collaborate by connecting their words and gestures with others to create a machine to represent their concepts. Students use the same process to imagine potential alternatives, resistance and solutions, to transform the machine into a machine of change, and consider their own role in transformation.

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In this workshop we will explore healing-centered approaches to conflict that are rooted in restorative and transformative justice. We will work to undo domination-based binaries of right/wrong, good kids/bad kids, and victim/perpetrator as we disentangle practices of accountability from those of punishment. With a grounding in neuroscience, we will share techniques for fostering de-escalation, while deepening our understandings of the root causes of challenging behaviors. We will practice shifting from Reactions, often rooted in our own histories of trauma, oppression, and privilege, to Responses that make room for the unique experiences and needs of the youth in front of us. Participants will be supported to consider how they can lead their programs away from punitive approaches and towards the individual and collective possibilities of conflict transformation.

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How can we build on youth's assets to facilitate understanding and learning and promote agency?

Come and hear directly from the youth in the Youth Leadership council as they share their stories of organizing, advocacy and how we at Young Women Empowered fulfill our mission at the intersection of race, class and gender. Our programs explicitly link racial injustice to environmental and economic injustice, as well as patriarchy and homophobia. These forces are part of the daily lived experience of many Y-WE youth and community members. We interrogate pervasive assumptions of racism and sexism while exploring the power of creative dialogue and action to deepen our lives as global citizens, connected to each other. Our programs offer deep learning and resources for resiliency and create healing community space with our diverse participants. This enables powerful and compassionate action for change. Participants will learn how to develop programs that are intersectional in their approach, to center youth voice, and to create a diverse environment that center BIPOC.