Consultancy Models

• Immersion Model: 1–5 day sessions of professional development for educators
• LCI Residencies: Workshops for K-12 students with professional development for educators
• Phone Consultancies
• Multi-year Immersions
• Multiple organization Collaboration
• Conferences and Seminars: Guest speaking and participation in panel discussions

Who Should Pursue a Consultancy?

K-12 Teachers/School Administrators  
LCI’s Consultancies with K-12 teachers and school administrators are designed to introduce LCI’s approach to Imaginative Learning to educators whose schools are not in partnership locally with LCI. 

Artists, Teaching Artists with Cultural Organizations  
They are offered professional development experiences that develop the dual creative and educative roles that the profession by definition requires. Artists connect to the LCI approach because of its relationship to the artistic/creative process and find that it challenges them to think deeply about their own work. 

University Faculty and Students  
These participants from schools of education as well as all disciplines, explore interdisciplinary and arts-integration methods for teaching and learning in support of developing, in students, skills necessary for the 21st century workforce. 

All constituents share certain foundations of the LCI Consultancies
LCI’s rigorous, inquiry-based methodology weaves together art making, questioning, reflection, and contextual information and research. Using a work of art, participants engage in experiences that emphasize skills and strategies to help cultivate creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking.

Our workshops model arts integration strategies to enable participants to implement LCI’s approach in their classrooms and show how a work of art can lend itself to authentic connections and a deepened understanding of curriculum. Teachers leave revitalized with new perspectives about their own approach to teaching.

LCI Consultancies are appropriate for educators and students from all disciplines and grade levels who are interested in developing the Capacities for Imaginative Learning. The Capacities are identified outcomes of LCI’s approach that relate to the Common Core Standards, aid in the building of critical and higher order thinking skills, and can be applied to learning in all subject areas.