Participants as part of the Integrated Learning Specialist Program (ILSP) of the Alameda County Office of Education are required to complete 30 hours of course work from folks in the community in order to receive their ILSP certificate. Here is how the process works.

1. Understanding the ILSP
Electives Process
Presented by Lynn Johnson, Director of Membership & Programs
Teaching Artists Guild
www.teachingartistsguild.org

2. ILSP Electives: The Big Picture
How can we collectively transform
public education through the arts to
create a better future for everyone?
 Collective Impact
 Schools/Community
Connect
 A Better Future for
Everyone
Learn more about the work of the Alliance for Arts Learning
Leadership at http://www.artiseducation.org/aboutus/alliance-arts-learning-leadership

3. ILSP Electives
 Learning beyond the Core Courses
 Take courses from the community
 Deep, meaningful engagement
 Choose the courses that fit your
needs/interests and stretch your
learning

4. Arts Immersion Playground
 Stretch your current understanding and
skills
 Hands-on/embodied instruction
 Visual, performing, literary, media/digital
 Taught by professional artist
 6 hours, an immersive experience
 Intentional with beginning, middle, and
end
For a deeper
exploration into
your relationship
with art-making

5. Equity and Social Justice
 Critically evaluates and deepens your
understanding
 Self-reflective processes
 Taught by qualified academic,
professional, or organization
 6 hours, an immersive experience
 Intentional with beginning, middle, and
end
For a deeper
exploration into how
issues of race,
gender, class affect
you & your teaching
practice

6. Creative Inquiry
 Stretch your current understanding of
teaching/learning frameworks
 Common
Core/ELA/Science/Technology/Mathematics
 Taught by qualified academic, professional, or
organization
 6 hours, an immersive experience
 Intentional with beginning, middle, and end
For a deeper
exploration into a
diversity of
learning
frameworks

7. Finding Courses: TAG Website
Make sure to search
under “ILSP Elective”
www.teachingartistsguild.org/events

8. Finding Courses: TAG Website
Share good ideas with
other participants!
www.teachingartistsguild.org/events/community/add

9. Finding Courses: Art is Education Website
Make sure to search
under “ILSP Elective”
www.artiseducation.org/calendar

10. Finding Courses: Art is Education Website
Share good ideas with
other participants!
www.artiseducation.org/calendar/submit-your-event

11. Finding Courses: Other Sources
 Your Favorite Theaters,
Museums, Cultural Institutions
 Adult Schools, Continuing
Education Programs
 Teachers for Social Justice
 Craigslist
 Thumbtack

12. Finding Courses: Social Media Links
 Facebook: Art is Education,
Teaching Artists Guild
 Twitter #ILSP: @artised,
@teachingartists
 LinkedIn: Teaching Artists Guild
(Group)
 Sign up with TAG to receive
regular emails
www.teachingartistsguild.org/membership

13. Reflection & Reporting
 One per course
 Signature of the Instructor
 6 hours = 1 CEU
 Reflect on your experience
 What you learned
 How you changed
 How did it deepen your ILSP
experience?

14. How do I get my ILSP certificate?
In addition…
3 Core
Courses
ILSP
Certificate
30 Hours
Electives
• CEU’s through Mills
College
• Graduate Units through
Lesley University
• ILSP Apprentice Trainings

15. Keep in Touch
Teaching Artists Guild
Lynn Johnson
Director of Membership & Programs
www.teachingartistsguild.org
ilsp@teachingartistsguild.org
membership@teachingartistsguild.org