Mariah Rankine-Landers Speaking Topics

• Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? Creative Education for Social Change

  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.

  Attendee Results:

  Practical Strategies:

  • Gain actionable techniques and strategies that educators and practitioners can immediately implement in their classrooms.
  • Explore thinking protocols, writing exercises, and storytelling as powerful tools to activate meaningful learning experiences while challenging unconscious biases.

  Creative Dialogue:

  • Learn how to leverage creative dialogue to foster embodied learning, encourage introspection, and promote identification among students.
  • Unlock the potential for deeper engagement and understanding through artistic research and dialogue.

  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.

  Engaging All Students:

  • Explore innovative approaches to engage all students in the learning process. Mariah Rankine-Landers will share insights on how to employ artistic research, dialogue, and deep listening to reach every learner and unlock their collective wisdom and potential.

• Unveiling the Canvas of Change: An Interactive Keynote on Transforming Education

  "Teaching is political". We'll embark on a transformative journey through the landscape of contemporary education, challenging the alignment of our practices with a past that no longer aligns with our rapidly evolving future.

  To fully grasp the present, we must first understand the historical context that has contributed to the barriers hindering cognitive development in education. We'll shed light on how these historical legacies continue to shape and perpetuate systems of harm within our educational systems.

  But our talk doesn't stop at highlighting the problems. Instead, it will illuminate actionable steps we can take to create cultures of thinking that transform both educators and students alike. We'll explore the pivotal role of the arts in bridging the gap between the abstract world of thinking and our shared and personal cultures, paving the way for a more inclusive and dynamic educational landscape.

  We can do the work of navigating the complex intersection of politics, history, and culture in education, and use fresh perspectives and concrete strategies to pave the path for a brighter, more equitable future in learning and teaching.

  Attendee Results:

  • Learn how to use creative dialogue, gesture and character development as proposed actions for embodied learning.
  • Activate the use of thinking protocols in the classroom to explore history, art and hard conversations.
  • Strategies for creative practice
  • Practices in creating a culture of thinking.

Unlocking Your Inner Artist: Transforming Education with Creativity

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.

Attendee Results:

• 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.