Build a Creative Culture
Ginger coaches admin, teachers and staff to develop an education philosophy that places creativity at its core.
The overarching goal of Ginger’s Curriculum Design and Professional Development offerings is to nourish the educator, giving them permission to alter their own education mindset. It is by changing this mindset and developing an education philosophy that places creativity at its core that teachers and staff can truly revolutionize attitudes toward curriculum planning, training, and classroom environment.
Ginger efficiently and effectively guides teachers through different processes of integrating creativity directly into school curriculum through hands-on experiences (individual and collaborative), classroom design (set up and clean up) and classroom management techniques. Participants develop new tools for their repertoire, gain a foundation in the principles of design thinking, and engage their own creative voices. These workshops go well beyond suggesting creative exercises and provide participants with the opportunity to connect and empower one another.
Both Visual art and Design have been proven to enhance cognition, social emotional skills, self-expression, perception, cultural awareness, and aesthetics. The PD workshops options below offer hands-on creative experiences that can be woven into subjects being taught in the classroom as well as used as tools for social emotional support for student, teachers and administration.
With over 25 years of experience teaching, collaborating, and leading a school - and years of developing innovative curricula that integrate creativity into classrooms from Pre-K to college level - Ginger offers a wide range of creative curriculum and consulting opportunities.
CURRICULUM DESIGN
Ginger’s approach to creative curriculum consulting and advising is to match a thorough assessment of the required objective with a detailed action plan — aligned with state standards if desired— including tools and materials to formulate sustainable success.
Explore with Ginger your current course study and brainstorm new techniques to infuse art, design and creativity into all subject matters. Ginger believes that hands-on education along with the exploration of project-based learning techniques and methods, brings lasting results for student development. She can come observe teachers in their element, connect via video, or work virtually…either way she will offer a plethora of ideas to keep the creative juices flowing!
OPTIONS: Consulting for K-12, Summer Camps, After-school or Pre-k programs / Ready-made curriculum frameworks for Creative Pre-k, Afterschool Design Labs, Summer Creativity Camps
SEL / WELLNESS CURRICULUM
Ginger’s CREATE + CONNET CIRCLES process is a hands-on, creative practice designed for all members of the educational community—students, counselors, teachers, and administrators. With the use of tactile tools, this process encourages deeper connections, promotes emotional expression without words, and fosters fresh perspectives on curriculum topics. Using collage and color - Ginger’s signature mediums for her own work - this process offers multiple ways to offer conversations beyond words. Repeated over time, it becomes a powerful method for social-emotional reflection and insightful discussions in a variety of educational settings.
OPTIONS: Curriculum trainings for teachers, admin, staff, and/or student leaders to become facilitators of this process to utilize indefinitely with your entire school, district or organization
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
Ginger’s Foundational Principles for Creative School Leaders series is a powerful collections of hands-on conversations around ten powerful principles that formed the foundation and guided her work as the Director of her school Roots + Wings School of Art and Design. Participants will use creative tools to process, document and reflect on concepts such as relationship, kindness, resilience, expectation, collaboration and curiosity (to name a few). We will discuss the impact of how a creative culture built on these foundations has the potential to truly change the landscape of a school and community.
OPTIONS: Offered in person or virtual workshop - offering unique space for administration teams to use materials and methods that classroom teachers use as they ponder foundational principles of being a leader
NEW PROGRAM | SCHOOL SET UP
Work with Ginger Huebner to develop (or breathe new life into) an an art education curriculum for your public, private, homeschool, or hybrid school environment OR your after-school or summer program (or the one you are thinking about starting)!
Ginger is an incredible asset to the setting up of new programs/schools (preschool, after-school, summer camps. Her consulting will offer one-of-a-kind insight from her many years of experience in the creative education field, including the founding and directing of her own school that space pre-k through adults for 15 years.
OPTIONS: K-12 Curriculum Design, Administration Keys, Enrollment, Space set up, Materials (hands-on learning with art+design tools and techniques, Community/Relationship Building, Hiring, etc.