Workshops for Your Teaching Team
Tell us your grade levels, priorities, and available time, and we'll tailor a hands-on workshop to your standards, curriculum, and team. Teachers leave with practical strategies they can use the next day. Prices start at $450 (CAD) and vary with group size, travel, and materials, so contact us for a custom quote. Planning around a PA or pedagogical day? Reach out early, as dates fill up.
Art Integration Fundamentals: Using Works of Art in ELA
Best for: Grades K-8 classroom teachers and literacy educators
Works of art are some of the richest texts a classroom can use. Teachers learn how to look closely at a painting, sculpture, or photograph and turn that looking into rich discussions, writing, and critical thinking. Together we practice routines for observation, inference, and evidence-based discussion, plus prompts for narrative and descriptive writing. Teachers leave with: looking-and-discussion routines, writing prompts linked to artworks, and a lesson plan they can use right away.
Offered: 2-hour block
Studio Basics for the Elementary Classroom
Best for: Elementary generalists and art teachers
You don't need to be an artist to teach art with confidence. This hands-on studio session covers core skills in drawing, painting, and mixed media, plus tips for setting up materials, managing a busy classroom, and giving feedback that builds young artists' confidence. Teachers leave with new techniques they've tried themselves, simple classroom set-up strategies, and a bank of low-cost project ideas.
Offered: half-day (3.5 hrs) or full-day (6 hrs)
STEAM Learning: Architecture and Furniture Design
Best for: Grades 3-8, STEAM, math, and design-focused teams
Students meet design problems the way real designers do. Teachers explore how architects and furniture makers think about form, function, and structure, then build their own prototypes with simple materials. Along the way, we connect the work to math, science, and engineering standards. Teachers leave with a design-challenge framework, a build-and-test lesson sequence, and ideas for showcasing student work.
Offered: 2-hour block
Art as a Tool for Social-Emotional Learning
Best for: Grades K-8 classroom teachers, homeroom teachers, and school counsellors
We begin by exploring works of art together, using visual thinking strategies, sketching, and reflection to slow down and notice what we feel. From there, teachers create their own reflective piece, connecting the process to self-awareness, emotional regulation, and community-building. This workshop works equally well as a framework for the classroom or as a moment of well-being for teachers themselves. Teachers leave with: a visual thinking and reflection routine they can use with students, a calming art-making practice for their own well-being, and a collaborative project that builds trust and belonging in the classroom.
Offered: 2-hour block