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About the Webinar

How do you design arts learning that meaningfully engages and connects with the variety of students in front of you without watering down the artistic learning or rigor?

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Culturally responsive arts education isn’t about simply adding more diverse artists and content, only teaching what students already know, or making the learning easier. It’s about understanding your learners well enough to create meaningful entry points so that all learners have access to rigorous learning that expands what they know, understand, experience, and can do.

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In this hands-on, participatory webinar, you’ll learn a simple three-part design process for building those connections intentionally while keeping rigorous artistic learning at the center.

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Come ready to work! Bring one artistic learning goal, lesson, unit, rehearsal, or project you’re working on and begin applying the process during the session so you can leave with something you can implement right away.

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By the end of the webinar, you will:

1. Know what culturally responsive arts education is (and isn’t) so you can move beyond common misconceptions about diversity, students’ interests, and rigor.

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2. Explore how understanding your learners can help you design meaningful entry points into rigorous artistic learning.

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3. Be able to apply a simple three-part design process to one of your own learning goals, lessons, units, rehearsals, or projects so you can create a stronger connection and more access to rigorous learning for the students in front of you.

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Attend live and get the Relevant & Rigorous Arts Learning Planner!

A practical tool designed to help you take what you understand about your learners and apply it to one artistic learning goal so you can build a stronger, more meaningful pathway into rigorous artistic learning for your students.

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Limited time replay available to registered participants. One-hour PD certificate available for participants who attend the full live session.

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**Check out the full 2026-2027 webinar schedule!**

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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Ashley Cuthbertson (she/her), M.Ed, NBCT, is an arts education consultant, author, and former K-12 music educator who helps arts educators and leaders turn big ideas about culturally responsive, equitable, accessible, and high-quality arts education into practical classroom and program practice.

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Through the Arts As a Vehicle™ framework, professional learning, curriculum development, and strategic support, she helps arts educators and leaders create learning that connects with today’s diverse and ever-evolving learners while making high-quality arts learning visible, measurable, and sustainable.