Model Making provoking school leaders and learning environment designers to increase student agency on every #AISDProud campus at ATX's #ShakeUp!

Hats off to these incredible educators in the Creative Teaching Leadership Pathway! They spent time in their summer thinking about the ways they can amplify student agency and voice through Creative Teaching.

CLI Insigina Reunion was a space of collaboration and joy! So grateful to work along side these amazing people. Pics show us critically thinking through the CLI strategy Line Journey and Avid's Bend the Line.

St. Elmo 4th graders brought the past and the future to life through visits to Mission San José & Tx State University! Thanks to @AustinISD, @CLIAustin, @AustinEdFund (USDE grant & Rep. Doggett) for making this field trip a day to remember! #StElmo_MightyMustangs

"Which object best represents how you engage with new learning?" Honored to present @AISD Talent Strategy's PL Workgroup to think about the multiple ways AISD engages learners!

Put your hands together 👏 for Austin State Hospital's 🌳 Campus Teacher of the Year, Ms. DeMarsh! 💚 CLI Associate Christy Davis & Coordinator Sloan McLain were honored to have the opportunity to deliver goodies, alongside Principal Mills, & celebrate the goodness of Ms. DeMarsh. Congratulations!

Glimmer, glimmer, send some shimmer ✨ to Pickle Elementary's 🐧 Campus Teacher of the Year, Ms. Santos! 🌟 CLI instructional coach Laura Clay was overjoyed to shower Ms. Santos with celebratory gifts and smiles alongside her students, colleagues, and administrators. Congratulations!

Introduuucing your March Creative Teaching strategies of the month! First up, it's all about the fundamentals: Hot Seating. And your MVP: Town Hall Meeting. Both drama-based strategies use improv & team work to make the dream work! Austin ISD staff: Find these strategy cards & more @ link in bio

Last month, Sadler Means YWLA social studies collaborated with Austin Soundwaves on a one-of-a-kind lesson, adapting the Creative Teaching strategies Soundtrack & Music Supervisor to score presidential precedents. Watch: youtu.be/TKzwnM_-i34 Details: creativelearningatx.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/s...

Last week 2,200+ students, staff, & caregivers from 26 Austin ISD schools attended Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández at The Long Center. Thank you to The Long Center for generously donating all tickets as part of the Long Reach for the Arts program. Take a look! youtu.be/dL_3oy2oD5M

Thankful & proud to announce: Austin ISD has been approved to receive a $100,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment of the Arts for the Creative Learning Initiative! Congrats to all Central TX orgs among this list. Our students are greatly served by your work! bit.ly/3Wf7ylq

As a welcome to Monday’s professional learning (PL) with Northeast elementaries, Ms. Holub shared this awesome testimonial about Creative Teaching and her students, as a PPfT Leadership Pathway participant & math interventionist for our PL host Walnut Creek. Take a listen! youtu.be/IhgNRtrzxBA

Happy new year, Austin ISD! To kick off 2025 & support multimodal learning in January, try Visual Brainstorming or Idea & Movement with your learners. Resources for these & all Creative Teaching strategies are in the CLI tile in the Austin ISD portal. Looking forward to collaborating in '25!

Arts partners & CLI campus account techs & bookkeepers: Join us Wednesday Jan. 15, 9:30-10:30am for a mixer! Come build relationships & share/learn about programs & events for this spring & beyond. Breakfast provided by MINDPOP. Other available & interested campus staff welcome! RSVP links in bio.

Welcome back, Austin ISD! In December, we invite you to try Model Making with your learners, then build to Curate a Collection. Our complete Strategy of the Month calendar is on our staff resource hub (via the CLI tile), with suggested pacing for implementing Creative Teaching strategies.

On Saturday, we had a blast repping CLI and Austin ISD at Texas Book Festival's teen tent, thanks to an invite from Anderson and LASA High Schools' librarians. Dozens of festival-goers joined us for literary-themed activities, adapted from our instructional strategies.

We'll be at the Texas Book Festival tomorrow morning with literary-themed arts activities for teens — stop by and see us at the Camp TTBF tent! texasbookfestival.org/schedule/imp...

At the Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl, there will be a Banned Book Bash, Black Women Writers Showcase, and more for the over-21 crowd.