Free Teacher Workshop: L.E.A.R.N. = Let's Explore Artful Reenactment Now

Get hands-on ideas for props, tools & interactive experiences that spark genuine student discovery!

About the Workshop

Envision the teacher as an actor or performer.  It's not far off.  You give 120% to hold the attention of your students, not for a couple hour show but often for an entire work day.  You have a "script" of materials and language you need to get across to your students in order to call it a successful day.  Since the school district won't hire a stunt double to parkour the walls to your teacher's desk or rappel through the ventilation system as you prep students for midterms, it's time to get scrappy and DIY your students' epic adventure. 

Centering on a foundation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this workshop offers ideas and suggestions for creating props, interactive experiences and tools for actively engaging students in the joyous act of discovery.  Let's build a blue whale with string, celebrate interdependence using multiplication, do a word dance, draw a manga style historic figure and then set out to discover that Oscar (or apple?) winning "Aha!" for your next lesson plan.

Workshop Timeline

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Workshop

6:00 PM - 7PM | Chat and Shop with your fellow teachers

All teachers will receive $25 of materials for free.

Our Free Teacher Workshops qualify as Prop G Hours

Learn more about SCRAP's Educator Support Programs here

PLEASE NOTE:

This event is free, but you will be charged a $5 refundable registration fee. After attending our free teacher workshop, this amount will be refunded. We have been dealing with last minute no shows and dropouts from these workshops, so in order for us to have an accurate count for the workshop, we are implementing this system. If you're unable to attend, please cancel your ticket 48 hours before the workshop!

About SCRAP

We at SCRAP breathe new life into old arts & crafts supplies and reduce waste by diverting over 200 tons of materials heading to landfill every year. To learn more about SCRAP and our mission to make art materials & education more accessible to all, please visit our website at www.scrap-sf.org

About the Artist

Maia Scott is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator who teaches accessible theater, movement and arts classes at City College of San Francisco and Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired. She is also a certified labyrinth facilitator offering meditative arts practice labyrinth workshops. Maia's labyrinth artwork has appeared at the Palo Alto Art Center, Root Division, and at national and local conferences. Currently, a couple of Maia's tactile creations travel between San Francisco Library branches as part of Museum of Craft & Design's Mobile Make Art program. A passion for access and inclusion sends Maia in yet other directions such as working as an audio description consultant with Gravity Acces Services, serving as Vice Chair on Guide Dogs for the Blind's Alumni Board, serving on the Fine Arts Museums' Access Committee and consulting with the CA Academy of Science on co-designing a new accessible hands-on space.