On-Demand Professional Development
For Dance, Moving Image, Music, Theater, & Visual Arts Educators
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Welcome to the NYC Public Schools Arts Office On-Demand PD Launchpad! A blended-learning environment has been designed exclusively for NYC DOE dance, moving image, music, theater, and visual arts educators to provide online professional development, collaborative opportunities, and resources that complement and extend professional learning sessions. This affords arts educators greater autonomy, time and space, and community support when seeking and participating in professional learning.
Using the below menu, arts educators can self-select asynchronous PDs they are interested in and complete them at their own pace. New asynchronous PD will be added several times a year.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE, February 6, 2024
The NYCPS Arts Office is delighted to share that New York City Public Schools now offers professional development using ProLearner, which combines Protraxx + Canvas. ProLearner is accessible to all current NYCPS arts educators on TeachHub.
All NYCPS arts educators can use ProLearner to enroll and engage in online professional learning (PL) sessions and some face-to-face professional learning opportunities. In using ProLearner, you will be able to:
Enroll in professional learning sessions
Engage in online professional learning sessions
Access your personalized account to view and print electronic professional learning certificates, which are produced in compliance with NY State Education Department (NYSED) requirements for Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE).
If you an NYC DOE arts educator, you already have an account! ProLearner is Single Sign-On (SSO) and accessible through TeachHub. First, log on to TeachHub using the same NYCPS username and password you use for Outlook. From TeachHub, search and click the ProLearner Icon. You will then be able to quickly jump to a professional development using the hyperlinks below.
Info sessions about Online PDs will be offered by the Arts Office. Click here to view the Calendar of Offerings and register for an info session.
If you are a Connected Arts Networks (CAN) community member, click the link below to access your virtual PLC space: https://artsnyc.instructure.com
For the free app, please download Canvas Student at:
Once the app is downloaded, click Find My School, type in NYCPS, and hit return. Sign-in is required only once.
Dance
Dance
Tracing Footsteps: Native American Dance History in NYC – Roots to Branches
The Native American Dance History in NYC- Roots to Branches is part of the DEL Tracing Footstep curriculum. This asynchronous PD guides participants through the K-2 Native American Dance History in NYC unit while introducing them to the DEL teaching methodology and philosophy.
6 CTLE hours
Tracing Footsteps: Salsa Stories - Honoring Diverse Voices Through Dance History in NYC
This course introduces participants to the 9-12th grade Tracing Footsteps Salsa Stories curriculum. Salsa Stories: Art & Activism of Salsa considers New York Latin dance and Latin dance foundations grounded in the ideas of art and activism. This unit gives opportunities to explore the clave and musical time signatures of different styles of Latin music from multiple countries and Latin dance styles/movements.
5 CTLE hours
Instructional Technology
Instructional Technology
Bitmoji In The Arts Classroom
This asynchronous PD looks at Bitmoji, its features, and a variety of ways to use for teaching and learning in the Arts.
2 CTLE hours
Flipgrid & The Arts
Explore Flipgrid, its features, and a variety of ways to use it with students.
2 CTLE hours
Coming soon
Google Classroom & The Arts
This asynchronous PD introduces Google Classroom as a tool for teaching and learning in the arts, its features, and applications.
2 CTLE hours
Coming soon
Google Forms & The Arts
Explore Google Forms, its features, and a variety of ways to use it with students.
2 CTLE hours
Coming soon
Google Slides & The Arts
This asynchronous PD looks at Google Slides, its features, and a variety of ways to use it with students.
2 CTLE hours
Coming soon
Lights, Camera, Capture the Action- Editing in iMovie
Learn about and apply skills related to editing and sharing videos using Apple’s iMovie application for teaching and learning in arts classrooms and studios.
*Coming Soon
Padlet In The Classroom
Learn about Padlet, its features, and a variety of ways to use it with students
2 CTLE hours
Coming soon
Multilingual Learners
Multilingual Learners
Creating Equitable and Effective Instruction for Multi-Lingual Learners
Explore language learning processes and effective techniques and strategies for enhancing instruction for students that are Multi-Lingual Learners (MLL). Upon completion, this P.D. will award participants 6 CTLE hours towards the NYSED required hours for MLL.
6 CTLE hours
Planning & Implementing Instruction
Planning & Implementing Instruction
The Critical Response Process®: Optimizing Feedback in Arts Learning
What makes good feedback good? How can arts educators nurture classroom feedback to motivate students and deepen their learning? This asynchronous professional development (APD) introduces the Critical Response Process (CRP) as both a structured protocol for feedback on creative work and a toolkit of principles that enhance the human interactions at the heart of arts learning. Through demonstration, teacher interviews, and stimulating workbook exercises, this APD sets a context for feedback’s role in life and learning, introduces the four steps of CRP, and shares variations that put its principles into action in K-12 arts learning.
6 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Formative Assessment 101
This mini-course provides a basic overview of formative assessment and its impact on teaching and learning in the Arts. Upon completion, this course awards 3 hours of CTLE credit.
3 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Formative Assessment 102
This mini-course continues the exploration that begins in FA101 and takes a deeper dive into formative assessment strategies for dance, music, theater, and visual arts instruction. Upon completion, this course awards 3 hours of CTLE credit.
3 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Lights, Camera, Capture the Action- Using Technology to Tell the Story of Student Learning
Explore how to use technology and the language of the moving image to tell the story of student learning in the Arts.
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Using Learning Targets and Success Criteria
Designed by Sue Brookhart, this asynchronous P.D. looks at learning targets and success criteria, key elements in their design, and how to use them in face-to-face and remote arts education settings.
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Questioning and Discussion
This self-paced course explores questioning and discussion strategies and their benefits.
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Moving Image
Moving Image
Remote and Blended Documentary Filmmaking
Explore approaches to remote and blended instruction through documentary filmmaking. Upon completion, this asynchronous professional development will award 5-hours of CTLE hours to participating educators.
5 CTLE hours
Music
Music
Introduction to the Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in Music
This course looks at the language, structures, and features of the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning for Music. Upon completion, this course awards 5 hours of CTLE credit.
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Perspectives on K-5 Music Curriculum Design, Part I
This asynchronous course supports music teachers in reimagining their curriculum with a more inclusive and intentional approach by grounding their planning in the NYC Music Education Anchor Values.
6 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Radical Creativity in the Music Classroom
This asynchronous course engages music teachers in exploring identity and positionality and understanding how these concepts relate to music education and affect our daily choices in our music classrooms.
5 CTLE hours
Instrument Repair for Music Teachers
In this asynchronous course, instrumental music teachers will gain the knowledge and expertise to perform many common basic repairs on woodwind, brass, and string instruments
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
The Engaged Band: Techniques for Elevating Student Learning
As music teachers journey through four asynchronous course modules, they explore how classroom organization and routines promote student achievement in band.
4 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
A Journey of Three HS Choral Pieces: From Day One to Concert Performance
This asynchronous course presents various rehearsal strategies when working with three types of high school choral ensemble: soprano-alto chorus, tenor-bass chorus, and mixed chorus.
4 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
The Arc of Choral Learning: From Planning to Performance
In this asynchronous course, music teachers learn how to foster creativity and critical thinking through music composition in the choral setting.
3 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Classroom Management for Music Educators
Through a rich, interactive learning experience, music teachers explore how to develop and implement organizational systems and routines that support learning and thriving.
3 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Rehearsal Strategies for Strings
In this asynchronous professional development, music teachers explore strategies to maximize rehearsal time and leverage technology so that students are constantly engaged and are empowered to take ownership of their own learning.
4 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Telescope to Microscope: Planning for Instrumental Ensemble
In this asynchronous PD, music teachers utilize backward design to plan a semester of units, lessons, and learning targets.
5 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Cultivating Creativity through Music Composition in Chorus
In this asynchronous professional development, music teachers learn how to foster creativity and critical thinking through music composition in the choral setting.
3 CTLE hours
Coming Soon
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Caring for Ourselves and Others Through SEL and the Arts (SEL100)
This introductory workshop uses the tenets of SEL to explore the root causes of stress and to discover individualized techniques for revitalization. Upon completion, participants will be awarded 5 CTLE hours.
5 CTLE hours
Social Emotional Learning and Arts Education (SEL101)
This introductory workshop explores intersections between Social-Emotional Learning and Arts Education. Upon completion, participants will be awarded 5 CTLE hours.
5 CTLE hours
Theatre
Theatre
Superhero
Explore how to use, develop, modify, and engage with a unit focusing on performance and design techniques in the theater classroom. Upon completion, this APD will award 3 CTLE hours to participating educators.
3 CTLE hours
Visual Arts
Visual Arts
Incorporating Poetry into Your Visual Arts Instruction
Explore artwork and poetry, understand the connections between both art forms, and discover ways to integrate poetry into your instruction. Upon completion, this asynchronous professional development will award 6-hours of CTLE hours to participating educators.
6 CTLE hours
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