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Creative Interventions
a justice informed creative process for students and teachers
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.
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About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
Bring Creative Interventions to Your School
About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
Bring Creative Interventions to Your School
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About Student Pushout and the Demand to Learn Campaign
Bring Creative Interventions to Your School
About THE PROGRAM
What is Creative Interventions
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.
Elements of the program include:
- Relationship-building between youth and adult cohort members, developing tools that can be brought back to schools and classrooms
- Building skills in organizing, facilitation, leadership, collaboration, and artistic practice
- Identifying and redistribute resources to support young people
- Building community and power together by weekly sessions where we will discuss readings, exchange ideas, share self-care and coping strategies
- Engage in reflection, learning, and healing together through ongoing projects
Why this program matters
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.
According to the ACLU of Arizona’s Demand to Learn Campaign:
- Latino students in charter high schools are SIX times more likely than their white peers to receive out-of-school suspensions.
- African American students in charter high schools are EIGHT times more likely than their white peers to receive out-of-school suspensions.
- Students with disabilities in elementary and middle schools are TWICE as likely as students without disabilities to receive in-school suspensions.
- In district schools neighboring tribal communities, Native Americans students are up to TEN times more likely than their white peers to be suspended.
Participants in the Creative Interventions program reported having more tools to engage and advocate within their school community, both as students and as teachers.
Learning Cohorts
You can join a learning cohort as a student or as an educator!
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:
- Entering into a shared space of learning, unlearning, reflection, and healing together
- Centering community wisdom, and young people’s lived experience in building visions for ending student pushout
- Co-designing and testing a professional development and learning exchange structure that the cohort members will bring back to their schools
- Co-designing and testing a professional development and learning exchange structure that the cohort members will bring back to their schools
- Creating pathways for the extended Creative Interventions community to support one another and stay connected over time.
Professional Development Series
We can bring the Creative Interventions Professional Development Program to your School or District
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.
