ITAC Releases New Think Tank Content

The International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC) invited six innovators to build tools and resources that foster connections in order to support the broader teaching artistry field where Creative Generation was selected to produce the “Knowledge Sharing and Digital Learning Project.” Across multiple deliverables, the project engages volunteers in the teaching artistry field from around the world to collect and disseminate best practices in a number of capacities. 

This week, we are excited to announce that the second round of learning modules from 2019 and 2020 Think Tank sessions are live! 

Not only do these learning modules include the archived content from the original Think Tank session dates (video or audio recordings), but they also contextualize and connect the work of the speaker(s) to their broader fields. 

These feature teaching artists who work in Uruguay, Argentina, Scotland, United Kingdom and the United States:

  • February 2019 - Monique Van Willingh: Originally from South Africa, Monique Van Willingh is a musician, educator and advocate for social justice through teacher training and creating spaces of belonging, with cultural humility as the central approach.

  • July 2019 - Carmen Oleachea: She explores alternative methods to further establish collective and all-inclusive processes of transformation by using art as a way to access the collective unconscious towards the construction of new ideas.

  • August 2019 - Rasia Frieder: Professor invoked at the Graduate School of Dramatherapy at the Graduate School, Faculty of Arts, Universidad de Chile.

  • September 2019 - Clara Bloomfield: Clara is a Lecturer at Performing Arts Studio Scotland, Edinburgh College and this year sees the launch of their new joint honours degree with Kingston University.  As part of this degree they offer Scotland’s on Applied Theatre strand, educating the Next Generations of Teaching Artists.

  • February 2020 - Simon Sharkey: Simon Sharkey who is best known as one of the original team that built The National Theatre of Scotland and shaped their "Theatre Without Walls.”

  • March 2020 - Tricia Tunstall: Tricia Tunstall is an author and music educator. Her book Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music was published in January 2012 by W. W. Norton & Co. Her previous book, Note By Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson (Simon & Schuster, 2008) explored the particular joys of the student/teacher relationship within the tradition of the music lesson. Tunstall has published in The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, and New Jersey Monthly, among many other publications. She has taught elementary school music and college-level music history and appreciation, and currently maintains an active piano studio in the New York area.

If you are interested in learning more and staying up to date with the launch of additional Learning Modules and all things ITAC, visit ITAC’s website to sign up for their newsletter and check out the Think Tank’s Landing Page. Live Think Tank sessions occur monthly at varying times to accommodate the growing international network of teaching artists.