‘Where's the Well-being?’ presenter, 21st Century Learning Conference, (Hong Kong) 2024

‘Squash Book Making,’ workshop co-presenter, ARWAE (HCMC) 2023

‘Where’s the Wellbeing in Distance Learning?’        (online) 2022

SE Asia IB PYP Network ‘Visual Arts in the PYP’ workshop co-presenter, (online) 2022

Co-presenter 'Empowering our Artists Through the SDGs,' ARWAE (Manila) 2019

Everyday Artroom ep.143 (USA) podcast ‘Reopening Safely and Securely,’ guest speaker, (online) 2020

The Power of Artist Trading Cards, ARWAE (HK) 2018

This session will look at how well-being was made a focus of a distance learning art program and how this led to more intentional social-emotional learning opportunities for students upon their return to in-person school. Sharing the background, strategies, protocols, and thinking routines we introduced as part of our ongoing commitment, we will explore some ways in which well-being can be placed at the heart of our planning for meaningful learning experiences.

Squash books are a great tool for students to create and can be used to collect samples of work, develop problem-solving and construction skills, and are an excellent tool for developing fine motor skills. This co-presented workshop facilitates the making of these origami books and shares how we use them with our art students. (2023)

A workshop for local teachers in Vietnamese Elementary schools: How can we facilitate social-emotional development through art-making? A workshop examining strategies and activities that can be used to enhance children's social-emotional development though the art process.

Visual Journaling is a creative way to express and record experiences, feelings, and emotions through images and text. Sharing how I introduced these ideas to students and the explorations that took place as a result with the creation of mini-journals and folding, origami journals. 

How do we, as elementary educators, create conditions for our students to achieve balance? How do we encourage creativity, fine motor skills, and interaction with materials, in essence keeping the real world alive, without denying the importance of technology? An invitation to participants to imagine how they can better balance the creative opportunities offered to students through technology, with those that are physical and sensory. (2023)

A workshop exploring the DEIJ background to my art  “How do you feel?” slides were provided, followed by discussion and an opportunity to create resources that respect diverse perspectives, through the lens of identity-centered learning.

A co-presentation for South East Asia PYP Network, facilitating discussion about art integration in the PYP, units of inquiry and the Approaches to Learning, art for action, special school events for art advocacy, and the logistics of a distance learning art program. (2022)

How wellbeing was made an intentional focus of the upper ES art program during our recent, fourth round of distance learning. Presented at both the Vietnam Tech Conference and Learning Together, this workshop focused on the inclusion of SEL into our art program. (2022)

An art for well-being workshop for UNIS teachers, looking at processing emotions through expressive art-making. Sharing activities, therapeutic exercises, and strategies to focus on areas of social-emotional development through art-making (2021.)

Guest speaker on the Everyday Art Room podcast episode 143 (USA), discussing an initial return to the in-person art room after the first Covid19 school closures (2020) 

A Seesaw global community online webinar, sharing distance learning activities for art to motivate and engage during online school during Covid19 closures. (2020)  

A look at the ways in which our visual arts team embraced the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals within our art program. Discussing different units, events, and resources to share how we have brought the Global Goals (SDGs) alive for our students, through art. (ARWAE, Manila, 2019) 

Guest speaker on the Everyday Art Room podcast episode 112 (USA), talking about the use of Seesaw as a digital art portfolio (2019.)

A presentation for the Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM online Summer Conference (USA). Focused on student agency and arts integration within PBL, looking at how students created art gallery presentations for the community; sharing their knowledge, skills, and understanding of a variety of inquiry units. (2018) 

Presented at Asia Region Workshops for Art Educators, a session about artist trading cards, a global ATC swap and the many benefits in creating and sharing these mini-artworks for students and educators. (ARWAE, HK, 2018)

A YCIS HK workshop, presented in Hong Kong to 50 educators, about the benefits and use of Art in STEAM and Integration programs. (2017) 

Presented at Asia Region Workshops for Art Educators (Beijing), this workshop shared an after-school program project integrating science and art through NASA images of the solar system. Participants engaged in a range of art-making inspired by interpretations of the wonders of outer space. (2017)

21CLTeachMeet (HK) 'Emptied Gestures' project presentation about an integration unit, in collaboration with a Phys Ed colleague. A look into commonalities between PE and Visual Art vocabulary, concepts and how the two can work together to hone both fine and gross motor skills in early childhood units of inquiry. (2017) 

A school-based PD workshop for elementary educators, focused on how art can be a meaningful tool for integration within units of inquiry, developing creativity and innovation through hands-on problem-solving, creativity and art exercises. (2016)

A presentation, in Italian, about the 3 phases of the "At School with Guggenheim' project for which I was the lead teacher. Detailing art units that followed visits to the Guggenheim Collection in Venice, this presentation focused on the mixed-media responses and personal portfolios students built, along with the benefits of engaging first-hand with gallery visits and artworks. (2005)