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Creative Interventions os a professional development series for educators and high school students meant to stop student pushout through the cultivation of strong relationships between students and teachers. Using a unique process rooted in both creative arts and organizing wisdom, the program tackles student engagement by centering the people closed to the problem as the closest to the solution.
Creative Interventions is a professional development program for teachers and student leaders focused on stopping student pushout through strong student/teacher relationships. Developed in partnership with the ACLU of Arizona’s Demand to Learn Campaign with seed funding from Vitalyst Health Foundation, this program has a strong impact on both students and teachers who participate and the long term health of our school communities. The program brings together cohorts of students and teachers who enter into a shared learning space, ultimately bringing tools and resources back to their own school communities.
Arizona’s high school dropout rate is the highest in the country, with just 74% of students graduating according to the US News and World Report. We know this statistic has huge repercussions for young people in our state and the community we live in. We also know this dropout rate is directly connected to larger systems of student pushout (often described as “the school to prison pipeline”) that overwhelmingly impact low-income students, students of color, and students with disabilities.
Creative Interventions was built to address systemic issues at the ground level, through relationship-building between students and teachers. Drawing on restorative justice practices and storytelling as a connection tool, the project creates a community-wide network of support.
Participants in the Creative Interventions program reported having more tools to engage and advocate within their school community, both as students and as teachers.
Creative Interventions cohorts are teams of high school students and educators who enter a shared learning program to develop specific tools and skills that they can bring back to their school environments. shared space of learning, organizing, and power building to end student pushout.
The cohort learning learning series will cover topics like conflict & restorative justice, trust building, power & accountability and more as we build tools and creative interventions that can be implemented in the classroom immediately. Using creative interventions in facilitation, storytelling, visual art, movement, theatre, film, and more the cohort will build community, analysis, and action through:
The Creative Interventions Professional Development model can be brought to your school and adapted to the specific needs of your learning community. We'll work directly with teachers to provide tools for strengthening relationships based on restorative justice practices, histories of the education system, operating in an asset based framework, and imagination and vision building. This series is meant to strengthen long term relationships and support school culture.
Creative Interventions Activity Writeup_ Asset Mapping (docx)
DownloadCreative Interventions Activity Writeup_ Community Agreements (docx)
DownloadCreative Interventions Activity Writeup_ Image Theatre (docx)
DownloadCreative Interventions Activity Writeup_ River of Life (docx)
DownloadCreative Interventions Activity Writeup_ Roots and Leaves (docx)
DownloadCreative Interventions Activity Writeup_ The Big Wind Blows (docx)
DownloadThe 100th Day was an original theatre performance created by Rising Youth Theatre in partnership with ACLU Arizona's #Demand2Learn Campaign. The play takes place on the 100th Day of School, and examines the ways in which young people have access to education. The play centered around the core belief that all students in Maricopa County have the right to learn in safe and supportive environments and positions young people as leaders in exploring how this can become a reality for all Arizona youth
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Seeking youth and adult artists (ages 10 and up) for our annual production of The Light Rail Plays!