- RAAD Products: Transforming Arts Education Through Culturally Sustaining Curriculum
- RAAD is developing a transformative suite of Arts-Based Learning (RAAD ABL) curricular resources that addresses a critical gap in educational equity: the absence of culturally sustaining, community-responsive arts education for Black and Brown students and access to deeper learning approaches.
- Our RAAD Learning Model and comprehensive curriculum suite—including Social Justice Units, Theater Units, and Arts Essentials Units—will equip educators with the tools to transform classrooms into innovative, creative, and inclusive spaces.
RAAD Products: Transforming Arts Education Through Culturally Sustaining Curriculum
RAAD is developing a transformative suite of Arts-Based Learning (RAAD ABL) curricular resources that addresses a critical gap in educational equity: the absence of culturally sustaining, community-responsive arts education for Black and Brown students and access to deeper learning approaches.
Our RAAD Learning Model and comprehensive curriculum suite—including Social Justice Units, Theater Units, and Arts Essentials Units—will equip educators with the tools to transform classrooms into innovative, creative, and inclusive spaces.
RAAD programming is multilayered and students will have the opportunity to learn in a variety of ways, as determined by program participants. Students may learn standards based content and skills about core and arts concepts. As students learn about a particular subject, the core content and skills are delivered through the arts (RAAD ABL). In addition, students will learn academic and social emotional skills, and demonstrate their knowledge by, for example, presenting projects, creating original content and/or various art in Essentials programs (specific to theater, music, dance, visual art, and/or creative writing) and ABL (cross-curricular content).
Some programs may focus on just the Arts, for example in Visual Arts programming, a student may learn about craft (e.g. media, techniques, history, etc.) through analysis and creation of art/works that perhaps elevate consciousness or initiate political action by inspiring others in performance.
- RAAD Professional Learning & Development: Transforming Arts Education Through Cultural Responsiveness
- RAAD’s Professional Learning & Development (PL&D) services address a critical gap in educational equity: the neglect of culturally responsive practice in arts education. While diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts have begun to transform core academic subjects, arts education has remained anchored in traditional, Eurocentric approaches that fail to serve Black and Brown students.
- Our comprehensive PL&D offerings transform this landscape by equipping educators, leaders, and teaching artists with the RAAD Learning Model—a community responsive, culturally sustaining approach to Arts-Based Learning (ABL).
- Professional Learning & Development (PL&D) and Training in RAAD Learning Model is for:
-Schools (private, traditional public, and charter)
-Leaders
-Teachers of traditional core content
-Arts educators
- Individual artists who teach/teaching artists
- Community organizations
-RAAD Professional Learning & Development: Transforming Arts Education Through Cultural Responsiveness
-RAAD’s Professional Learning & Development (PL&D) services address a critical gap in educational equity: the neglect of culturally responsive practice in arts education. While diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts have begun to transform core academic subjects, arts education has remained anchored in traditional, Eurocentric approaches that fail to serve Black and Brown students.
-Our comprehensive PL&D offerings transform this landscape by equipping educators, leaders, and teaching artists with the RAAD Learning Model—a community responsive, culturally sustaining approach to Arts-Based Learning (ABL).
-Professional Learning & Development (PL&D) and Training in RAAD Learning Model is for:
-Schools (private, traditional public, and charter)
-Leaders
-Teachers of traditional core content
-Arts educators
- Individual artists who teach/teaching artists
- Community organizations
