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CONSULTING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

I currently offer individual teacher coaching, community/organizational consulting, professional development workshops, and retreat facilitation. 

The purpose of consulting, professional development, and group facilitation is to foster community-centered learning collectives that center equity, justice, and liberatory transformation of culture over time. 

My approach is collaborative, community centered, humanizing, and abolitionist. I work with participants and organizations by centering the needs of community members as I guide and support them through various somatic, reflexive, educational, and practical actions towards collective critical consciousness and un/learning.

 

Who is this work for? I have national and international experience providing educational consulting work with contact improvisation collectives, community garden collectives, pre-service and in-service early childhood/elementary educators, and dance and performing arts educators.

Location: I am able to provide teacher and educational consulting services in person and digitally through technologies such as Zoom.

During the early stages of COVID-19, I worked with the Core Scope of The Everything Space Garden Project, a ShiftMeals Grow Team site, to reshape their values, vision, and positionality statement to better reflect their embodied-community approach to food and environmental justice.

Read about my beliefs and approach to teacher education in contact improvisation here.

INDIVIDUAL TEACHER COACHING

I will work one to one with an individual educator to develop a justice-oriented approach to pedagogy and curriculum building. I am excited to work with teachers in local communities, schools, and festival teachers. We will work together to design a personalized coaching plan that can include practices of consulting, co-learning, observation, and teaching materials/portfolio building. 

Please contact me to set up an initial meeting to get to know one another, to clarify your motivational interests and needs, and to see if working together would be a good fit!

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COMMUNITY CONSULTING

Are you a teaching collective in a local contact improv community? A jam or festival organizer? A school or group of PreK-12 educators? A private dance studio? I will work with your teaching community to develop a justice-oriented approach to pedagogy and curriculum building for your particular community. We will work together to design a community education and consulting  plan that can include strategies for centering the needs of your community, crafting a teaching philosophy, and designing a collective curriculum. The plan can include educational and practical workshops, teacher observation, and teaching material building.


Please contact me to set up an initial meeting to get to know one another, to clarify your motivational interests and needs, and to see if working together would be a good fit!

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GROUP PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Are you a school or studio administrator/leader? Are you a jam or festival organizer/organization in the CI community? A group of critically minded educators? Based on your interests and needs, I will provide a professional development workshop intensive on the need for and practical applications of a liberatory approach towards your group or organization's goals. Ideally, the intensive would be community-situated and intended to lead to longer term professional and community development. Intensives can be a mixture of educational talks, guided practice workshops, community discussions, and teaching material generation. 

 

Please contact me to set up an initial meeting to get to know one another, to clarify your motivational interests and needs, and to see if working together would be a good fit!

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