Mariah Rankine-Landers
About Mariah Rankine-Landers
““The keynote was incredible. I felt so inspired by Mariah talking about the vibes!””
Speech 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.
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Media coverage
Creative Process for Social Change with Mariah Rankine-Landers
In this episode, Mariah Rankine-Landers, an advocate for transformative education and co-founder of Studio Pathways, shares her profound insights on how returning to a creative process for living and learning can help us address the root of social inequities that manifest in our education, work, and organizing systems.
Books by Mariah Rankine-Landers
“Do Your Lessons Love Your Students?” (2023)
Strengthen your culturally responsive teaching by designing curricula that leads to equitable, humanized outcomes. In this powerful new book, Jessa Brie Moreno and Mariah Rankine-Landers reveal how artistic research and creative inquiry across subject areas and grades can help you access your learners’ collective wisdom and potential. Moreno and Rankine-Landers describe the SPIRAL framework for centering culturally responsive teaching and learning through the arts, showing how and why these iterative processes lead to liberatory outcomes. You’ll learn how to use creative inquiry to address power dynamics in teaching and learning, and how to critically reflect on your curriculum, including investigating whose narratives are centered, whose have been erased, and which marginalized stories can be brought forward. You’ll also find out how to alter the learning space to set a container for creative practice, which is key to navigating cultural shifts, building trust, and setting a collaborative and collective mindset. The book offers a variety of practical activities you can implement right away, such as using visual art making, writing, and storytelling as prompts to activate meaning making and to disrupt unconscious biases, as well as using creative dialogue and character development for embodied learning, introspection, and identification. With the addition of this book to your professional library, you’ll have new tools for building belonging and justice, and engaging all students through artistic research, dialogue, and deep listening.
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