Experiential learning is essential in our work to promote human connection and understanding.
The Book!
Teaching is more than a profession—it’s an act of love, creativity, and liberation. Do Your Lessons Love Your Students?offers a transformative approach to education, blending art, culture, and social justice to create learning experiences that truly see and honor every student. Whether you're an educator, artist, or changemaker, this book will inspire you to design classrooms where learning is alive, meaningful, and deeply human. Published 2024.
Work With Us
Studio Pathways provides an inquiry-based approach to culturally responsive teaching and learning. Our work addresses the root of social inequities operating within education, work, and organizing systems, while attending to the critical need for reflection and healing. Through a variety of arts integrated learning experiences, our clients deepen their understanding systems, relationships, and norms that perpetuate patterns of inequity so that they may be dismantled.
Curriculum developed for the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley aa part of the 2019 Othering & Belonging Conference.
Curriculum Development
We create curricular frameworks and learning experiences rooted in a creative inquiry drawing upon neuroscience and cultural and contemporary art practice. Our work navigates pathways from patterns of harm toward reconciliation, inviting the artist within us all to lead for love and liberation.We utilize an in-depth understanding of how the brain and body work, applying the ways that arts support the brain to encode information for long-term memory, for example, as well as how the brain processes information in short bursts, through consistent protocols and cultural portals (the arts) for optimal retention.
A few samples of our curriculum development work include U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Othering & Belonging Curriculum; World Trust and W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Healing Curriculum; and Super Awesome: Giant Robot Interdisciplinary Unit for Oakland Museum of California.
Some of the resources we draw up on in our work.
Consulting & Strategic Planning/ Organizational Development
Studio Pathways serves as pedagogical advisors for professional arts organizations, educational & research partners, non-profits, universities, LLCs and individual educators at large. This work incorporates our efforts towards collectivism - an understanding of the collective nature of how learners learn and how teachers teach and the belief that ideas that shape the world are best crafted by the hands of many.
Some of our work in this area includes work with Art Corp’s Arts Integration Summer Institute; Turnaround Arts California in partnership with The Kennedy Center for K-8 educators; The Kennedy Center Social Impact Department, The Apollo, National Arts in Education Association, The Compton Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, Youth in Arts, Young Audiences National, Chapter 510 and more.
Learning moment from the Conference on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and the Arts at Stanford University.
Training & Professional Development
We maintain a menu of powerful professional development workshops that can be adapted to meet the unique needs of your learning environment. Our most popular signature training workshops address culturally responsive pedagogy in the arts and have been successfully presented to groups of educators throughout the state, including teams at Stanford University.
Other professional development workshops and learning themes include schoolwide implementation of integrated learning pedagogy and strategies for administrators to increase regional and county impact through the arts. Current Offerings
Rise Up! An American Curriculum Featured Project
Rise Up! An American Curriculum uses creative inquiry to explore Hamilton: An American Musical. Lessons help students to understand and critically examine Hamilton themes and artistry, and to express their own personal narrative through writing and performance. The Rise Up! curriculum includes standards-aligned modules for high school students in Theatre Arts and English Language Arts. Check out the work here.
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Gallery
Women sitting on a wooden floor, engaged in drawing or writing on large sheets of paper laid out in front of them.
A woman holding a microphone sits in front of a TV screen displaying a dance video. She is engaged in a conversation with an audience. The screen behind her shows a man mid-movement in a dance studio.
Brown paper with handwritten notes and diagrams, including words like "resources," "strength," "storytelling," "purpose," and "life source." A partial paper plate with food appears in the corner.
Beads and craft supplies on a table, including colorful skull planters, small yellow flowers, and containers of various beads and string.
Group of people participating in a team-building exercise in a room with chairs and whiteboards.
Handwritten note on blue heart shape with quote: "artfully wrestling with the past... for a better future," attached to a fabric board with gold tape.
Mural on a white brick wall featuring large gray letters spelling "TRUTH," with a colorful portrait of a woman wearing a headscarf. Below the word, it reads "Truth is Powerful and it Prevails."
A paper with hand-drawn notes on systems and community, featuring interconnected terms like "community," "systems," "DNA," "purpose," "body," and "functions." Various phrases are written in different colors, connected with arrows and lines, exploring concepts like "large purpose," "healthy children," and "well-being." There are questions like "How are communities created?" and ideas related to community as a system.
Two women smiling and drawing on paper with markers during a workshop or collaborative event.
A poster with handwritten text asking about the connection between arts education and equity. It includes handwritten notes on tickets, discussing the impact of art on students and its healing properties. There are also several photos of raised hands and phrases like "art lets us see each other," alongside notes about creativity and diversity. The design is informal, with various writing styles and colors.