Founder And Executive Director
Artsnow/Creating Pride
Chicago, Il And Atlanta, Ga
Grew this $800K+ education arts non-profit organization from 1 school in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago to serving 18 school systems, 120,000 students, 4,000 teachers in Atlanta.- Identified the arts as a vehicle for positive change and created the school wide “Creating Pride Model” empowering teachers to maximize existing resources to bring creativity into the daily instruction, a proven strategy for student success. - Developed ArtsNOW, in collaboration with the… Show more Grew this $800K+ education arts non-profit organization from 1 school in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago to serving 18 school systems, 120,000 students, 4,000 teachers in Atlanta.- Identified the arts as a vehicle for positive change and created the school wide “Creating Pride Model” empowering teachers to maximize existing resources to bring creativity into the daily instruction, a proven strategy for student success. - Developed ArtsNOW, in collaboration with the Director of Curriculum at the Atlanta Public Schools and local university “Strategic Collaborators” to build the confidence and skills of educators to integrate the arts into the daily curriculum across all grades & disciplines. - Created a project-based learning "Corporate Art Program" connecting students to the business community, thus bringing workplace relevance into the classroom. This was enjoyed by thousands of students in over 300 projects for executives in four cities (Chicago, Atlanta, LA, DC)- Designed and published innovative “Ignite Curriculum Guides” in answer to teacher demand for simple, (but beautiful) teaching tools to help ignite their own creativity; - Inspired teacher excellence as a motivational speaker contracted by teachers to participate in meetings, conferences and various workshops (A+ Schools/OK; Georgia Department of Education; Learning Forward/GA; Southern Regional Education Board; among others);- Launched an e-learning platform that combined in-studio video production with a web-based individual training platform to supplement live training for school teams to share with others. Show less