Strengthen your educators’ culturally responsive teaching practices by encouraging the design of lessons that lead to equitable, humanized outcomes. In this powerful talk, Mariah Rankine-Landers reveals how centering love, through engaging in artistic research and creative inquiry across grade levels and arts disciplines, can help access learners’ collective wisdom and potential in the world.
In this interactive keynote, Mariah invokes methodology centered in a love ethic, and describes the elements of a lesson design framework for centering culturally responsive teaching and learning through the arts, showing how and why these iterative processes lead to liberatory outcomes.
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Building Belonging and Justice: Embrace new tools and considerations for nurturing a sense of belonging and justice within your educational environment. Discover methods for creating inclusive spaces where every student feels valued and heard.
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Step into a dynamic, interactive keynote that centers the creative process as a powerful pathway for social change. Mariah Rankine-Landers—artist, author, and visionary educator—guides participants through a liberatory framework where imagination becomes strategy, and artistic practice becomes a means of collective healing, transformation, and justice. Drawing from Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? and decades of experience at the intersection of education, culture, and creativity, Mariah invites educators, leaders, and changemakers to build learning environments that are courageous, loving, and alive with possibility.
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There was a time when Mariah, a dedicated teacher, felt stifled by rigid lesson plans, losing her passion for teaching and leaving her students with uninspiring learning experiences. However, everything changed when Mariah embraced her creative spirit, inspired by the legacy of teachers before her. This shift in mindset transformed her teaching approach, fostering critical thinking, promoting inclusivity, and advancing equity in her classroom.
Can classrooms become hubs where creativity and critical thinking become essential for student success? In 2022, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) introduced creativity as a new global assessment criterion. This begs the question: Can the United States prepare its students to compete in a future that demands creativity?
Explore Mariah's journey and insights, which can revolutionize classroom teaching practices and ignite creativity throughout a school. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your inner artist and witness the tangible improvements in your students' learning experiences.
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Learn the types of thinking involved in creative pursuits and how to develop them in students.
How to incorporate contemporary, cultural, and historical forms of art into lesson design.
Practice gesture and movement for encoding learning for long term retrieval in the brain.
Learn steps used to bridge from rigid lesson plans to creatively inspired and joyfully designed learning experiences.
“The keynote was incredible. I felt so inspired by Mariah talking about the vibes!”
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- Apr 08 2025
"Thank you. This is the most grounding presentation I've experienced!"
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- Apr 08 2025
In this episode, Mariah Rankine-Landers, an advocate for transformative education and co-founder of Studio Pathways, shares her profound insights on how returning to a creative process for living and learning can help us address the root of social inequities that manifest in our education, work, and organizing systems.
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