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Microsoft Excel can be daunting on its own, but even more so when combined with the complexities of creating and managing a budget for your organization or project.  This month CultureWorks’ very own Liz Sytsma offers her expertise in tackling Excel and learning to love it.

Learn the value and process of circles — a practical and effective tool for creating a positive classroom climate in both secondary and elementary schools, which you will be able to use immediately.

A circle is one of several versatile restorative practices that can be used proactively, to develop relationships and build community or reactively, to respond to wrongdoing, conflicts and problems. The circle has a wide variety of purposes: conflict resolution, healing, support, decision making, information exchange and relationship development. Circles offer an alternative to contemporary meeting, disciplinary & problem solving processes that often rely on hierarchy, win-lose positioning and argument. Circles can be used in any organizational, institutional or community setting and have been widely used in primary and elementary schools for many years and more recently in secondary schools and higher education.

Using Circles Effectively gives parents, teachers, youth & family workers, police, administrators, and government officials practice in the use of circles for a variety of scenarios, and provides techniques through experiential learning that can be used immediately. 

Discover restorative concepts and learn effective strategies for managing student behavior and teaching students to take responsibility for their actions.  

The social science of restorative practices is an emerging field of study that enables people to restore and build relationships and community in an increasingly disconnected world. Taking its beginnings from the Restorative Justice movement, restorative practices is a practical approach to interacting with students, and is a set of techniques and philosophies that can be applied in any context. In schools, the use of restorative practices has been shown to reliably reduce misbehavior, bullying, violence and crime among students and improve the overall climate for learning.

Introduction to Restorative Practices introduces parents, teachers, youth workers, police, administrators, and government officials to restorative practices, and provides techniques that can be used immediately. Certificate is provided upon completion.  

Drexel University will host a one-day conference on museum leadership on Friday, March 15.

BuildaBridge Institute is a training and applied research academy designed to prepare artists, youth workers, community and congregational leaders, teachers, social service professionals, and nonprofit organization personnel to integrate the arts effectively in education, social services and community development.

The Institute includes two simultaneous tracks: a Foundations track for first-time participants and an intermediate track for second time participants. First track courses include Foundations for Arts in Transformation; Arts, Creativity and Human Development; Arts in Education; Art and Spiritual Development; Organizing for Community Arts including collaborative work and fund-raising. Second track courses include Arts in Healing, Arts in Social Services, and Leadership Practicum.

Participants of both tracks will attend 1) Skills Development Workshops in different art mediums (transformational drama, visual arts, conscious drumming, etc., 2) Integrated site visits to community arts organizations and arts programming in action and 3) Dinner Forum, a Saturday evening dinner with presentations from Institute alumni sharing how the concepts they learned at the Institute have been applicable in their life, experience and work.

Specialized one-day courses for June 11 include Arts Relief and Introduction to Restorative Practices.

A recent TRG survey suggests that if you’re stressed out by competing critical priorities and dealing with too many challenges to achieve them, you are not alone. The survey shows a snapshot of arts practitioners pulled in many directions – too many to focus on and still meet big objectives around patronage and revenue. 

The Cultural List Cooperative is one of the many tools that the Cultural Alliance provides to help organizations grow their impact through better understanding of audiences and strategic direct marketing. This program helps organizations:

The Cultural List Cooperative is one of the many tools that the Cultural Alliance provides to help organizations grow their impact through better understanding of audiences and strategic direct marketing. This program helps organizations:

The Cultural List Cooperative is one of the many tools that the Cultural Alliance provides to help organizations grow their impact through better understanding of audiences and strategic direct marketing. This program helps organizations: