At our nonprofit, we are dedicated to empowering educators by offering mentorship and professional development opportunities designed to help them excel in delivering high-quality art curricula.
Our Impact
Through our comprehensive programs, teachers gain the skills and confidence they need to bring creativity and innovation into their classrooms. A key component of this initiative is our "Doodles Art Room" document, a dynamic resource filled with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that inspire both teachers and students alike. By fostering a supportive community of educators, we ensure that every student has access to an enriching and impactful art education.
Art-Focused Professional Development That Inspires
Doodles Academy is currently offering dynamic professional development sessions—both in person and at conferences—designed to equip educators with the tools and confidence to bring artful learning into any classroom. These hands-on workshops introduce teachers to our process-based curriculum, show how to integrate art with literacy and social studies, and provide practical strategies for encouraging student voice, creativity, and critical thinking. Whether you're an experienced art teacher or a general educator looking to enrich your lessons, our PD sessions make art accessible, impactful, and fun.
Past Custom Projects
We created an online workshop to support classroom teachers:
Through the ‘Coffee and Conversation’ program hosted by Student Achievement Partners, we discussed how hands-on art integration can be used in the classroom by educators of all backgrounds to enrich student learning and prompt students to make meaningful connections.
We sequenced artworks for students in grades K-8 to study and discuss:
The Core Knowledge Sequence is a detailed outline of recommended content knowledge and skills to be taught in language arts, history and geography, visual arts, music, mathematics, and science from preschool through grade eight.
We worked with the Core Knowledge Foundation to update their Visual Arts sequence (more info here), which consisted of analyzing the existing sequence, then suggesting an expanded list of artworks that could support students in cross-content learning, while also increasing the diversity and perspectives represented in the sequence.
We designed creative challenges that could be read as radio broadcasts during the pandemic:
We worked with an African-based school network that saw students falling dramatically behind during school closures. In response, they developed a 20-week program of ready-to-air radio scripts that could be adapted for different communities. We conceptualized some ‘creative challenges’ that supported the content-learning and could be read as part of the radio broadcasts.
We developed an image-based ‘text set’ to support students studying WWII:
Text sets are intentional groups of resources focused on a specific topic. Educators use them to quickly build knowledge and vocabulary through a volume of reading. Text sets need not be limited to traditional reading materials, and Student Achievement Partners commissioned us to create an image based text set to support students studying WWII. You can learn more about this project, and find links to download the text set for free, here.
We created a Curriculum Guide for a California school district:
We worked closely with district art teachers to create a district-wide curriculum guide for grades 7-12. This curriculum guide helped provide consistency across schools by creating a system used across the schools, including establishing standard names and descriptions for classes, establishing benchmarks for content, vocabulary, media, and skills, and offering rubrics and guidance around assessment.