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8-week online course for K-12 Arts educators beginning on January 26, 2026.
Reimagining art, music, drama, and dance instruction through a
CBI lens
CONCEPT-based INQUIRY IN THE arts
Do you want relevant professional development that makes arts learning exciting and inspiring for your students?
This is an intensive 8-week online course for those looking to learn to create engaging units and lesson plans that feature active arts learning and use skills as the foundation for transferrable understandings - helping students take their arts learning into their lives and into the world.
Arts Instruction can be different...
here's the thing:
Frustrated with the lack of availability of Concept-Based professional development?
Feeling like you’ve wasted lifetimes sitting through planning meetings that do not apply to arts education?
Feeling alone or out on a limb as one of the only arts educators you know?
In a curriculum leadership position but need help with how to guide the professional development of your specialized arts team?
Struggling to write arts units that actually mean something?
Struggling to plan a unit at all?
Are you:
Meet your coaches,
Nyssa Brown and Lauren Zeigler
- Nyssa Brown is an international arts education consultant who works with educators around the globe to build student-centered, Concept-Based, inquiry-driven arts curriculum. Nyssa served on the writing committee for the National Core Arts Standards and is an Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Certified Trainer. With 25 years of teaching experience with students and adults, Nyssa empowers learners of all ages to build on their current knowledge and envision new possibilities. If you value understanding and transfer-based learning, Nyssa will show you how to up-level your arts units to take arts learning to the next level in your classroom.
- Lauren is a Theatre and English educator who feels privileged daily to be a part of young people's learning journeys. Over the years, she has taught students at all levels, from early childhood to senior students, and is passionate about developing and delivering purposeful curricula. In addition to her classroom role, she has served in various capacities as a teacher-educator, assessor, curriculum writer, and committee member for educational organizations. Lauren is an Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Certified Trainer and works with Professional Learning International as a consultant and coach. Currently, she spends most of her days in the classroom and serves as the Concept-Based Learning and Teaching Leader at Cornish College, Melbourne, Australia.
Your Course Facilitators
Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction is a comprehensive, step-by-step course designed by an arts educator FOR arts educators and arts-supportive curriculum leaders.
This course provides helpful frameworks and numerous arts-based examples and offers specific and accessible application ideas to help you create Concept-Based, inquiry-driven learning in your arts classroom.
The program that brings your arts classroom to life
Discovering Concept-based arts
You’ll work on developing your first Concept-Based Arts unit and lesson and have an opportunity to troubleshoot and refine these with a private coaching session with Nyssa to receive feedback on the lesson you create.
One-on-One Coaching
Five self-paced video modules that set the groundwork for Concept-Based Arts Instruction guiding you through the lesson design process, and demonstrating lesson design in action.
Video modules
Self-paced learning to enhance your
unit planning
THE COURSE INCLUDES
Weekly group support calls with Nyssa and fellow course participants - offered at two different times to accommodate time zones. You'll even have the opportunity to observe a lesson plan from start to finish.
You will receive your own Digital Resource Bank (templates, arts-specific content, and examples) to keep.
Group Calls
Resource Bank
You’ll work on developing your first Concept-Based Arts unit and lesson and have an opportunity to troubleshoot and refine these with a private coaching session with Nyssa to receive feedback on the lesson you create.
One-on-One Coaching
Five self-paced video modules that set the groundwork for Concept-Based Arts Instruction guiding you through the lesson design process, and demonstrating lesson design in action.
Video modules
Self-paced learning to enhance your
unit planning
THE COURSE INCLUDES
Weekly group support calls with Nyssa and fellow course participants - offered at two different times to accommodate time zones. You'll even have the opportunity to observe a lesson plan from start to finish.
You will receive your own Digital Resource Bank (templates, arts-specific content, and examples) to keep.
Group Calls
Resource Bank
IS THIS RIGHT FOR ME?
In this course, arts educators will learn:
How a Concept-Based Inquiry approach enhances and strengthens teaching and learning in the arts.
The step-by-step process of creating Concept-Based units of study in arts classrooms.
A framework for considering when units of study should be interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
How self-reflection and artist statements can be used as tools for demonstrating understanding and assessment.
Transform your approach to Arts instruction for only €650.
The cost of the 8-week course and 1-1 coaching is €650.
Groups of five or more participants from the same school can register each participant for €600.
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YOUR INVESTMENT
what educators are saying
"As a PYP teacher of over 20 years and now a PYP workshop leader, this has been the most helpful PD for teaching the Arts in a PYP school. I feel like I finally understand how to help my students use the arts as a lifelong and skilled learner. "
GINA MANSLEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
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- Creating transferrable, conceptual understandings that guide arts teaching and learning.
- Scaffolding inquiry through guiding questions and the Concept-Based Inquiry Cycle.
- Creating backward-designed units that align big-picture learning, assessments, and day-to-day classroom experiences.
Your students and their learning are at the heart of this.
You'll learn to create transferrable, conceptual understandings that guide arts teaching and learning.
You will discover how to scaffold inquiry through guiding questions and the Concept-Based Inquiry Cycle.
You will create backward-designed units that align big-picture learning, assessments, and day-to-day classroom experiences.
Gain greater confidence in working with concepts and leading your students to construct their own conceptual understandings.
Why enroll?
Frequently Asked Questions
This custom-designed course will build from the ground up, so no prior knowledge of Concept-Based is required.
If you have completed Module 1 and do not love this course by the end of your first week, we will offer you a full refund - no questions asked.
Enjoy a generous 10 weeks of access to our materials and online portal, providing ample time for strategic planning in your learning journey and the successful completion of your unit plan.
This extended access period is designed to allow you to pace yourself comfortably and maximize the benefits of the resources provided.
(Still have questions? Email us at admin@prolearnint.com)
If you are ready to make literacy learning more dynamic and holistic, leverage student agency and meaning-making, and guide your students to develop transferable conceptual understanding that they will value for years to come… enroll now.
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Everything you need to transform your literacy and language classroom.
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