Professional Development

In-person and virtual professional development workshops for local, regional, and national PK-12 school teachers

Summer Teacher Institutes

"Once again you all have created and provided great content that I will be using in my classes right away. I love having a fresh look with The Phillips Collection, helping me keep things new and exciting for my students. By far the best programs I have been able to be a participant of for me as an art educator."

Patchwork Perspectives: Exploring the Complexity of Collage-Informed Art

Educators explored the diverse applications of collage and its ability to convey the intricate tapestry of cultures and individuals.

Focal Point: Shifting Perspectives through Photography

Educators considered how their personal identity, culture, and life experiences impact how they see the world, making connections to social-emotional learning (SEL) in their teaching environments.

The Meaning We Make

Through printmaking, educators explored how our students and each one of us—as educators—bring our own perspectives to everything we do.

Seeing Differently: You, Your Students, and Arts Integration

Develop skills for seamlessly integrating the arts into the curriculum, while adapting teaching and learning for your specific students.

15-hour Teacher Courses

"I looked forward to the class every week... I was amazed at the knowledge and insight of the facilitators. I look forward to the next course!"

Educators expressed personal voices, considered multiple points of view, and explored deeper meaning through a variety of arts-integrated writing prompts and activities.

EmpowerED: Art & Wellness

Using SEL, artful thinking, and mindfulness techniques, teachers considered how we can support ourselves as educators so that we can better support our students.

Point of View: Art + Primary Sources

Using archival materials and works of art, how can we take these 20th-century narratives and reframe them to find power and meaning today?

How Materials Shape Us: Integrating Art + Science
Educators focused on curricular connections through cycles to understand how materials can be an expression of culture and identity.

Let's Make Friends
How can we experience works of art through the perspective of other people? How can art help us to connect more deeply with ourselves and with others?

Educator Workshops

“You have the MOST comprehensive teacher professional development program that I have ever seen in an art museum!”

Expanding Perspectives: Intentionality in our Artwork Choices

Meaningfully consider students’ complex perspectives, cultures, and interests when selecting art to use in our teaching contexts. Challenge our own biases and blind-spots as we strive for inclusive and equitable learning experiences.

Artists’ Big Ideas

Considering identity, social issues, and artistic influences, how do we look at a work of art and understand the artist’s big idea and come up with a big idea when making our own art?

Human Impact on the Environment: Integrating Art & Science

Consider how we can use art to explore human impact on the environment and walk away with ideas to refresh how we can teach about the environment in our classrooms.

Cultivating Mindfulness, Perspective-taking, & Problem-solving
Celebrate Alma Thomas’s legacy by exploring the ways in which her life and art can help us cultivate mindfulness, perspective-taking, and problem-solving in ourselves and in our learners.

Using Arts Integration to Foster a Culturally-Responsive Classroom
Integrating art with math, counter-storytelling, and empathy, cater teaching to students' distinct background, experiences, and ways of knowing

45-hour Continuing Education

"I would like to thank Hilary for her dedication and for those well-thought presentations... This course reminds me to always do arts integration because it really makes learning/teaching more meaningful."

Connecting to the Core Curriculum: Building Teacher Capacity for Arts Integration through Prism.K12

In collaboration with the University of Maryland, The Phillips Collection offered three-credit (45-hour) courses for PK-12 educators to integrate the visual arts seamlessly into the core curriculum using the Phillips’s Prism.K12 arts integration strategies and resources. This course offers professional development for educators looking to expand their understanding of and ability to implement arts integration in the classroom.