Put a Little Love in Your Art: Using the Creative Arts for Social-Emotional Learning Opportunities in the JK-12 Classroom
Date: Monday, February 27, 2023
Updated Timing: 8:45 am - 3:15 pm
Location: Hanahau‘oli School Professional Development Center, 1922 Makiki Street, Honolulu, HI 96822
Cost: $200 per person. Scholarships and neighbor island travel stipends are available! Inquire here.
Educators working with grades JK - 12 are increasingly aware of the importance of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in developing students’ competence in the areas of self-management, personal goal-setting, and responsible social decision-making. The creative arts can provide a rich adjunct to teaching efforts aimed at increasing self-awareness, empathy, and emotional expression in students of all ages. Arts-based processes can be used in a variety of ways to increase individual self-expression and to facilitate interpersonal skill-building in groups and classrooms. This workshop will present educators (of all grade levels), and other helping professionals working with children and adolescents, with the opportunity to experience firsthand the power of the creative arts in Social-Emotional Learning activities.
In addition to being exposed to the theory and research behind this work, the facilitators will lead participants through a variety of experiential processes utilizing the creative arts to underscore the learning content from SEL and theories of expressive arts therapy. Participants will be led through the process of planning and implementing arts-based interventions for their students and classroom environments.
Lunch will be provided.
About the Facilitators:
This workshop is presented by teachers, for teachers, as part of the Hanahau'oli School Professional Development Center's commitment to building upon Hanahau'oli's rich 100-year progressive education tradition to support the development of school communities that promote a better future society for today's children. With an approach to Social-Emotional Learning that is integrated into all facets of the school experience, Hanahau’oli School presents a team of three faculty members who will offer a few of the many methods they employ for enhancing emotional well-being and community. Learn with:
John B. Kim, LCSW, JK-6th Grade School Counselor
John earned an MA in social work from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His past professional experience includes work in child/adolescent behavioral health and in social work training and education. Since obtaining a second MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2003, John has incorporated arts-based interventions into his clinical therapy practice with children, adolescents and families, as well as his teaching work with behavioral health professionals at all levels of training from social work, psychology and psychiatry. He has developed and conducted many expressive arts based groups with children, families and adolescents in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Lauren Okano, JK-6th Grade Art Teacher
Lauren received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, as well as a license in Art Teaching for Elementary through Secondary Schools from Hunter College in New York. She went on to achieve an MA at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in East Asian Art History and Japanese Language and Calligraphy, as well as an AMS Certification for Montessori Preschool from Chaminade University. Lauren has always been captivated by the power and beauty of abstract black and white forms that emerge when painting and calligraphy become one, and as a professional artist she utilizes oil, acrylic, tempera and sumi ink in an endless exploration of dynamic color combinations, lines, bold forms and a celebration of Eastern and Western influences. In 2007 Lauren was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to return to Japan where she previously studied Japanese calligraphy and painting with a master calligrapher, to further investigate how art and cultural traditions are learned, preserved, perpetuated and practiced by the children of Japan. In addition to serving as the Art Teacher for grades JK-6 at Hanahau‘oli School, Lauren is an instructor at the Downtown Art Center and Art Tent Studio, and teaches summer school courses at Punahou School. She has been the recipient of multiple awards for her artwork, and has held exhibits throughout O‘ahu, including Louis Pohl Gallery, the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, Fishcake Gallery, and Honolulu Hale.
Leah Abbe Bloem, JK-6th Grade Music Teacher
Leah earned a BA in Music Education from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. She has her teaching license for K-12 Classroom and Instrumental Music Education through the state of Minnesota. Following St. Olaf, Leah earned her Orff Schulwerk Certification through St. Thomas University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Leah has taught students grades K-12 in both Orchestra and classroom Music and is currently in her eighteenth year of teaching. She believes in the importance of play, creativity, and empathy within a music classroom and works to ensure that each student feels valued as a person and musician in the process of making music each and every day.