Empowering Teachers Through the Arts
For Educators
Engaging, hands-on professional development for individual educators, teams, and whole-school faculty designed to build confidence in using the arts as a powerful tool for teaching, learning, and student engagement.
Plan professional developmentTHE EXPERIENCE
Teachers become the artists.
Educators have the opportunity to engage in the arts themselves: creating, performing, responding, and connecting while gaining practical strategies they can immediately bring back to their students and classrooms.
- Designed for
- Educators & school teams
- Format
- Workshops or learning series
- Approach
- Experiential & customized
What we explore
Practical tools. Creative possibilities.
Professional development can be customized to meet the goals and needs of your school or district and may include:
Our experience
Supporting Arts-Forward Schools
Executive Director Michele Hillen-Noufer, M.Ed., is a former Turnaround Arts: California Coach who has supported schools and educators in building arts-forward school communities where the arts are integral to teaching, learning, and school culture.
Michele also serves as a University Supervisor for Sacramento State’s Single Subject Teaching Credential programs in Theatre and Dance, mentoring future arts educators. Her experience in K–12 arts education, teacher preparation, arts integration, and whole-school transformation informs NorCal Arts’ professional development, connecting research and standards with practical strategies educators can use in the classroom.
Plan a workshop
Build it around your school.
Professional development can be designed as a single workshop, staff development day, professional learning series, or whole-school arts initiative. Tell us your goals, staff size, preferred timeframe, and the subjects or approaches you want to explore.