| Course Number: | EDX 5710 S33 |
| Instructor: | Lindsay Pontius, Ed.D., and Craig Maravich, M.F.A. |
| Location: | Online |
| Dates and Times: | March 3- April 11, 2025. Zoom meeting dates: 03/03/25 5-7pm, 03/10/25 5-7 pm, 03/17/25 5-7 pm. The rest of the course is held in an online environment using Canvas. |
| Credits: | 3 Graduate Credits |
| Tuition: | Set by and payable to Courageous Stage |
Courageous Stage (www.courageousstage.org) presents Teaching With Courage as a positive and reinvigorating opportunity for teachers to dive deep, reflect upon your chosen profession and learn new models and new ways and practices to activate your students’ and your own creativity and collaboration skills.
Our predominantly online approach offers several layers of instruction including video segments with theory, examples and practical invitations, a curated reading packet with connection questions, a strategic relationship planning workbook and fun multi-disciplinary projects. There are three full cohort Zoom sessions and a small group zoom requirement to encourage peer to peer learning and support. Through the above, students will further develop their classroom as a safe container inviting creativity, intrinsic motivation and collaboration. Students will practice methods for class regulation and meeting each student where they are while attending to the classroom as a whole. The course emphasizes skill building in creative capacities and a strength-based perspective.
Audience: This course is targeted to all grade levels and subjects who want to build their capacities in a creative and collaborative approach and who hold an earned bachelor’s degree
Course Goals: Teachers will come away with new practices for establishing a mindful, fully present and strength-based approach to classroom management. They will build opportunities for to practice the following capacities in their classroom: generating ideas, awareness of process, experimenting and understanding multiple perspectives. Finally, they will finish the course with a SMARTER (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time bound, Evaluable and Revisable) plan for building relationship and classroom resiliency.
Course Objectives: Course objectives are as follows:
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Me and My Class
Readings: Palmer, Packet: Brentro, Muhammed
Assignments: 3 Journal responses over week, reflecting on Circles and Signals
Complete Evaluation, due Sunday
Week 2: Me as Learner
Readings: Palmer, Pontius pamphlet Packet:
Assignments: Discussion, Me as a Learner, due Monday, 2 journal responses on Strength-based Approach.
Project: Dreamscape due Sunday
Week 3: Me and Process
Readings: Packet: Booth, Rilke
Assignments: Reflection on Creative Capacities due Sunday, Evidence of collaborative time with partner via Canvas on “ Letters”
Projects: Begin “Letters” project based on a TED TALK
Week 4: We as Learners
Readings: Packet: Lederach, Brown
Assignments: Reflections on Me as Artist and list of community agreements
Projects:” Letters” completed project and bibliography due on Friday, Relationship Plan Workbook due Sunday.
Weeks 5 & 6: We as a community of learners
Readings: Muhammad
Assignments: Strategic Relationship Plan completed Friday of week 6.
Booth, Eric. Making Change: Teaching artist and their role in shaping a better world (2023). Betteryet Press.
Muhammad, Gholdy. Unearthing Joy: a guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. (2023) New York: Scholastic.
Pontius, Lindsay (2024). Relationships matter: Lessons from a half-ton teacher, Middlebury College.
Courageous Stage. Teaching with Courage Packet (2024) with readings from
Brentro, L. (2017), Palmer, P. (2020), Rilke (2017 ed.), Lederach, J.P. (2005), brown, a.m. (2017)