2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

Crossing Senses: Using Comics to Explore Memory and Sensory Information With Nate Powell [TICKET REQUIRED]

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

TICKET REQUIRED

Join Nate Powell, NAEA25 Keynote Speaker and National Book Award-winning cartoonist for this hands-on workshop! Delve into how you can turn up the volume on your own self-expression and convey feelings and experiences through comics you may not have thought possible before. Practice conveying non-visual details (such as sound, texture, smell, touch, taste, emotion, or intuition) in a visual way using a four-panel comic.

Presenters

Nate Powell

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel “Fall Through” and a new comics adaptation of James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” civil rights icon John Lewis’s “Mar... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

Host Organization Ticket Required
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2:00pm EDT

Differentiating Creativity for Exceptional Learners

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

It is daunting to design accommodations and construct universally accessible creative learning opportunities to meet all students' needs. This interactive investigation of differentiating instruction will present three students that have intellectual disability, emotional disturbance, and learning disability. Practice creating art-based accommodations and leave with a bank of cocreated resources.

Presenters

University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Guy Trainin

Professor of Education, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

UNL Tech EDGE MissionTo create a generation of teachers who are effective and confident using new technologies to prepare the students of Nebraska to participate and lead in tomorrow’s global society. Necessary technology integration skills suggested by skilled practitioners along... Read More →

Kimberly D'Adamo

Lecturer, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Megan Pitrat

University of Nebraska Lincoln - ArtTeams

Special Education Teacher at Syracuse Middle SchoolTeacher-Researcher with UNL ArtTeamsMTSS-SELBEmbedding AI in a Constructivist Special Education Setting Creative Inquiry and Emerging Media ArtsTrauma-Responsive Pedagogy Universal Design for Learning

NAEA 25 differentiating creativity for exceptional learners pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

Art in Special Education Interest Group, Skills Toolbox

3:00pm EDT

Empowering the People: The Role of Museums in Shaping a Democratic Public Sphere

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

What classifies "democratic practices" within 21st-century museums? This session presents theories, case studies, and mapping strategies to gain an understanding of how to shape ethical, egalitarian programming that welcomes open conversations and active community histories into museum settings, as well as examine how power is distributed within cultural community ecosystems.

Presenters

Alexia Lobaina

Danielle Henn

Jeffery Guin

Molly Fulop

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

Museum Education, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Cross-Level Collaboration and the Importance of SEL in the Art Room

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

Join us for an exploration of a collaborative initiative among Andover Public Schools teachers aimed at enhancing cross-level collaboration and SEL through artmaking. Discover how to structure cross-level projects and how using the "mood meter" has inspired artist intention and interpretation. Gain strategies to implement cross-level projects in your classrooms.

Presenters

Sean Walsh

Cross Collaboration and SEL Lesson Plan docx

Cross Collaboration UbD Lesson (1) docx

2025 NAEA Presentation SEL across grade level Andover pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

Elementary, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Policy, Theory, and Practice: Global Currents in Art Museum Education

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

This session offers an introduction to contemporary policy, theory, and practice of global art museum education by noting policy trends from the International Council of Museums; elucidating a networked, technology-centered approach to communication and representation; while providing timely examples of issues in international education and public practice in international museum spaces.

Presenters

2025 NAEA National Convention

12:00pm EDT

Nate Powell

2:00pm EDT

University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Guy Trainin

Kimberly D'Adamo

Megan Pitrat

3:00pm EDT

Alexia Lobaina

Danielle Henn

Jeffery Guin

Molly Fulop

4:30pm EDT

Sean Walsh

5:00pm EDT

Amanda Ripley

Dana Carlisle Kletchka

Julia Harth