The Arts Educator Leadership Accelerator is a high-impact leadership training program designed for practicing arts educators ready to expand their impact and lead beyond their classrooms. This immersive program develops the strategic, instructional, and leadership skills needed to step confidently into roles such as team lead, instructional coach, mentor, curriculum coordinator, or district arts leader.

Teachers engage in sustained learning, coaching, and real-world application focused on systems thinking, adult learning, instructional leadership, and advocacy for equitable, high-quality arts education. Rather than one-off professional development, this supports deep capacity-building to help meet school-wide and district-wide needs. It helps arts teacher-leaders translate vision into action, influence decision-making, and lead initiatives that strengthen arts programs across schools and districts.

Built with educators, schools, districts and organizations in mind, this program is perfect for:

• Arts educators identified as emerging or freshly-established leaders in the classroom

• Team leads, those responsible for curriculum oversight, committee chairs, instructional coaches and mentors

• Schools and districts looking to expand capacity in the arts while creating a leadership pipeline from within

• Schools, districts and organizations experiencing leadership gaps, initiative fatigue and inequitable access to arts education

• Schools, districts and organizations that want to align leadership development with district goals: instructional coherence, equity, teacher retention, and program quality

Topics addressed in this program include:

• How adults learn differently than children

• Creating and sustaining positive working relationships with colleagues

• Establishing your identity as a teacher leader

• Leading teams and PLCs

• How to observe, coach and support arts instruction

• Identifying, designing and facilitating effective and relevant arts-specific PD

• Supporting colleagues without positional authority

• Aligning arts instruction to district priorities without diluting artistic integrity

• Identifying systemic barriers in arts access

• Leading/participating in curricular visioning and district-wide initiatives

• Mentoring early-career arts educators

• Advocating for resources, tools, and district-wide strategies that will promote equity in the arts

This program is available in two options:

• A 6-week “Jump Start”: Summer introductory intensive (takes place in July and August) where we dive into the basics of arts education leadership and take the initial steps necessary to start the year off right 

• Year-long option: Includes 6-week Jump Start (in July and August) + year-long sustained leadership development, training, coaching, and community to deepen skills and support the needs of teacher-leaders in real-time

Meetings for the Jump Start take place on Monday evenings at 8 - 9:30 pm EST on the following dates:

7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12

For those continuing onto the year-long program, meetings take place monthly in the evenings (generally on Mondays or Tuesdays).

A total of 20 teachers will be accepted into this program.

Absolutely! If you want to create your own package offering, please reach out and we can discuss what that might look like.

Yes! If you are looking to register your teacher or team of teachers for this program without the summer Jump Start, please reach out to see how this program can be designed to fit your needs.

Jump Start Program (6-week Summer Program = $1500 per teacher.

The year-long support package (which includes the 6-week intensive) is $7000 per teacher.

For schools or districts that want to enroll multiple teachers = Group pricing is available. Please reach to learn more about that.

Option #1 (6-week Jump Start):

• 6 online teacher-leadership workshops (live)

• Done-for-you starter templates - goal setting, reflection tools, district-wide roadmaps, strategic sessions

• 90-day plan for the beginning the year (teachers create a “lead and act” plan that will directly guide their work in schools and districts

Option #2 (Long-term support and growth):

Everything in Jump Start, plus -

• 4 additional online workshops

• Advanced done-for-you templates - Slide deck templates, PD planning templates and facilitation guides, instructional coaching protocols, observation tools, teacher and teacher-leader reflection logs, curriculum-mapping assets, progress-tracking tools, etc.

• Year-long leadership strategy workshop planning session (big-level roadmap)

• 1-1 leadership support coachings

• Online community with collaborative meetings

• Email support

Support, continued development, and community of fellow arts educators continuing on the development journey with you! Teachers who participate in the summer-only option will create a plan for the first part of the year. Teachers who enroll in the year-round option will develop the plan, refine it, and get leadership coaching, consultation, and collaborative engagement to meet their needs year round as they put their leadership plan in motion.

Registration is open for teachers now, and will remain open until all spots are filled.

Registration will close May 15th for those looking register for the Jump Start Program.

For schools/districts/organizations looking to offer this program for their team of arts teachers during the school year, please reach out about pricing, program structure needs, etc., no later than July 5th.

There are two ways to pay for the Accelerator:

• Directly online with a credit card through the registration form on this site

• Schools and organizations may pay directly through a check (an invoice will be sent)