Art-Connect is a tool to strengthen our Art for Educator program effectiveness by adopting low-tech intervention digitizing our engagement with our educators. Try our Chatbot here! An interactive chatbot tool by Saturday Art Class that enhances our engagement with educators across India. It efficiently disseminates resources and collects real-time data, driving program enhancement. As a pivotal component of our Art-for-Educator program, it creates access to multilingual resources and live support on WhatsApp, supporting educators to effectively implement Visual Arts and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) classes for children. Understand more about the resources we dissiminate through out chatbot here! Our curriculum Understand more about our Art for Educator Program here! Art for Educator

Our programs work to strengthen and enhance the creative and social-emotional development of children through visual arts! Click here to understand our work better At Saturday Art Class, we partner with educational Institutions and organizations across the country to impart arts education. Through our three flagship programs, we build capacity in educators and students through visual-arts integrated learning to strengthen and enhance creative and social-emotional development. These programs are designed to build scale, depth, and advocacy for visual arts in the education sector so that every student is provided the access to opportunities that inspire creativity! Introducing our three flagship programs- Art for Educator Art for Educator is our flagship , year-long training program for all educators in the Indian education ecosystem. Our trainings focus on visual art through a social-emotional learning approach. Through this program, educators are capacitated to become 'Creative Visual Art Facilitators' for their students. Reach out to us! Art Labs Art Labs is our research and development program, pioneering in-depth study into inferring student outcomes , best practices and insights from classrooms achieved through engagement in visual-arts in our current context. Through research and development, we capture growth of our children on lifelong learning outcomes they are engaged in visual arts, identify unique behaviors centered around creative facilitative practices of educators that enables the building of outcomes for children, and gather other relevant proof points that emerge when children are engaged in visual arts and social emotional learning spaces. Art-a-day Art-a-day is our workshop program. Our workshops cater to children, educators/paraeducators, caregivers and/or adults. Through our workshops, we aim to give participants an immersive and joyful experience of a Saturday Art Class intervention through visual arts and social-emotional learning. Click here to learn more about this program

Aiming to build skills in educators through a visual arts and social-emotional learning approach to equip them as Creative Visual Arts Facilitators for their students. Reach out to us! A training program for all educators! Aiming to build skills in educators through a visual arts and social-emotional learning approach to equip them as Creative Visual Arts Facilitators for their students. The program focuses on teachers' training, mirroring NEP's emphasis on empowering educators for effective teaching and recommends integrating art as an important part of classroom learning. We partner with non-profit organizations and schools to train educators in low-income communities for a 9-month period . Partner with us We provide our curriculum, tools, and resources to support this process. Know more about our curriculum here! Our curriculum Impact is measured through assessments of educator and student growth throughout the year. Our curriculum and resources are shared through Art Connect our easy to use WhatsApp bot Know more about Art Connect here! Art Connect Artworks from our partner organizations' classrooms around the country!

Workshops that offer a safe and supportive environment for individuals of all ages to express themselves creatively through visual art and social-emotional learning-based activities. If you would like us to host an Art - a -Day Reach out to us here! Art-a-Day is our short-term engagement program offering art workshops that aim to give participants of all age groups an immersive and joyful experience while creating awareness of the need for Visual Arts and Socio-emotional Learning (SEL). We have organized art engagements in diverse spaces, including museums, art festivals, and various organizations. To date, we organised workshops for 37 partners engaging 3000+ participants in unique art experiences. Our workshops inspired by artists and art forms made art accessible for both adults and children. At the launch of Museum of Solution in December 2023, we organized a paper sculpture workshop where children reflected on space design and what it makes them feel. Exploring that spaces can be designed beyond mere boxes, they re-imagined and crafted sculptures of their favourite places using paper sculpting techniques. Their designs were reflective of their own interpretations of a playground, bedroom, or the city they call home. We facilitated a portrait workshop for young children attending the festival. They reflected on their personalities and how objects or symbols can be used to creatively represent them. Participants created fun whimsical self-portraits to express who they are as individuals. We organised workshops for SVP India’s Mumbai and Pune chapter where artist Henri Matisse and his iconic ‘Drawing with Scissors’ style was explored. In the immersive workshop, participants crafted paper collages about significant moments of their lives. We also sensitized them about the need of creativity, social emotional learning and arts in main stream education. For Pride Month, we facilitated a youth workshop that explored gender norms and representations through the medium of movie posters and how they shape our understanding of identity and sexuality. The youth re-created movie posters by creating a collage with imagery from old magazines and represented stories that were more gender equal, inclusive and stories from reality.

Pioneering in-depth study into inferring student outcomes, best practices and insights from classrooms achieved through engagement in visual-arts in our current context. We aim to identify best practices and gather insights and narratives from our classrooms that can inform how visual arts & SEL can be a crucial medium to build lifelong learning skills and agency to thrive in children. To study this in-depth, we intervened with students from a local government school by providing them regular access to Visual arts and SEL from Grades 1-8 Opportunities for exposure through excursions Book a Smile India invited us for a unique art workshop led by renowned Italian artist Lorenzo Vitturi as a part of the Olympics In Reel Life Festival by the Film Heritage Foundation. Through Art labs we took 5 children for this workshop where they gathered materials from the ground - waste, leaves, feathers, and more - to create unique collages. Lorenzo captured and guided the children to click portraits, merging everything together to create artwork from their imagination. The result? Extraordinary masterpieces! Book a Smile India invited us for a unique art workshop led by renowned Italian artist Lorenzo Vitturi as a part of the Olympics In Reel Life Festival by the Film Heritage Foundation. Through Art labs we took 5 children for this workshop where they gathered materials from the ground - waste, leaves, feathers, and more - to create unique collages. Lorenzo captured and guided the children to click portraits, merging everything together to create artwork from their imagination. The result? Extraordinary masterpieces! Know more about Our Research Approach with Art Labs Research Reports

Read our Research Report on 'Evidence of the Impact of Visual Arts & SEL within the Indian context' here! Adding He(art) to education Our vision is to create a world where every child is inspired to create with confidence Our mission is to work with and within the system to implement visual art and SEL programs to build skills to thrive in children. Click here to see how we do it! Know more about the work we do Our Media & Publications

Help us bring the arts closer to our children! Opportunities Program Associate We are looking to hire a Program Associate to join the Saturday Art Class team, who will work as a art facilitator in our model school to help us in enhancing and capturing the creative and SEL outcomes for children across Early Childhood Education & Grades 1-8. Will also be working with BMC stakeholders such as principals and educators to ensure our visual arts curriculum is effectively implemented across Grades 1-5. Will be responsible for visiting classrooms regularly, capturing data, and providing on-ground support to the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) educators in the schools assigned to them to ensure the successful implementation of the BMC-aligned Saturday Art Class Curriculum. Click on the link below to read the entire description of the role: Program Associate Apply now Training Associate As a Training Associate, you will work with educators and other stakeholders to enhance awareness, compassion, and creative outcomes for students across Nursery to Grade 8 to bring about a change in their personal, and interpersonal lives along with making a community impact. The Training Associate will work directly with the Training Senior Associate to capture data and build and provide training to all partner organizations to ensure the successful implementation of the Saturday Art Class Curriculum. Click on the link below to read the entire description of the role: Training Associate Apply now Training Sr. Associate As a Training Sr. Associate, you will work with educators and other stakeholders on enhancing awareness, compassion and creative outcomes for students across Nursery to Grade 8 to bring about a change in their personal, and interpersonal lives along with making community impact. You will capture data and build and provide training to all partner organizations to ensure the successful implementation of the Saturday Art Class Curriculum. Click on the link below to read the entire description of the role: Training Sr. Associate Apply now Volunteer with us Volunteering with Saturday Art Class will give you the opportunity to reflect and learn about yourself, allowing you to work with different teams and verticles where you can gain meaningful exposure! Please fill out the form by clicking on the "Apply here!" button and we will be in touch with you. Apply now Partnership At Saturday Art Class, we believe in the power of partnerships to create wide-reaching impact and provide children and educators across India the access to engage in visual arts integrated learning. If you are a non-profit, social-education organization or school looking to empower children and educators in visual arts, let's join forces to make education inclusive of the arts and creative expression! Write to us at info@saturdayartclass.com Corporate The arts are for all! Our work has reached far and wide through immense support and engagement received by organizations across various sectors. You can continue to support us with funds, enabling our flagship programs to reach farther and wider, or even reach out to us to experience a Saturday Art Class by collaborating with us through our programs. Write to us at info@saturdayartclass.com

"The arts are about the qualities of human experiences. Through music, dance, visual arts, drama, and the rest, we give form to our feelings and thoughts about ourselves, and how we experience the world around us." -Sir Ken Robinson Our Current Reality Today in India, the National Education Policy, 2020, recommends a holistic & art integration approach in education, but the reality on ground is, 300 out of 400 schools in Metropolis city of Mumbai do not have an art teacher. Nationwide availability remains uncertain. Educators are expected to conduct art class, but lack tools & support hindering their ability in classrooms. There is absence of visual art & SEL curriculum that focuses on mindset building & fostering wellbeing. What happens to a child because of these problems? A child within such a system, experiences the lack of an outlet to voice out what they truly want in their education journey. They are not exposed to working with tools and methods that feed into creative thinking, imagination and collaboration. They often grow up to experience low levels of confidence, struggle with communication, building and maintaining healthy relationships & collectively problem solving. This deprivation of holistic and creative learning, hampers their journey as a student in the education system. How does it also affect an educator? Educators feel helpless not knowing how they can create safe and joyful spaces of learning for their students. This is due to the lack of contextualized resources and training in order to cater to student's current needs. Educators also feel overburdened by numerous responsibilities and find themselves unable to learn and grow This restricts them from adopting and practicing innovative learning methodologies. Our Solution To bridge the gap of art education, we implement policy recommendations for holistic learning through visual arts & SEL education, partnering with state governments, educational institutions & grassroot non-profits. Visual Art & SEL Curriculum development Research & Development in visual arts & SEL education Teacher Training, with real-time technology support Stakeholder Engagement & Awareness workshops Our relevance in the National Education Policy 2020 The National Education Policy lists several benefits of a higher quality education system that promotes multidisciplinary learning. It highlights the need for setting up an education system that promotes the holistic scientific and creative development of individuals. The Saturday Art Class School Curriculum and our model approach for our flagship programs directly contributes to the National Education Policy and addresses various components of the policy, specifically talking about bringing arts into our schools. Following are some key statements that align with 'Our Why' : 4.7 As a part of the thrust on experiential learning , art-integrated education will be embedded in classroom transactions not only for creating joyful classrooms, but also for imbibing the Indian ethos through integration of Indian art and culture in the teaching and learning process at every level. 22.3. The arts form a major medium for imparting culture. The arts - besides strengthening cultural identity, awareness, and uplifting societies - are well known to enhance cognitive and creative abilities in individuals and increase individual happiness.

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Introducing our unique visual arts curriculum that takes every child on a journey to various artists and art forms across the world! The Saturday Art Class curriculum is designed as a combination of visual art-based milestones and various topics that helps children build exposure to the outside world as well as develop the following outcomes: Communication Critical Thinking Collaboration Joy Imagination Perseverance Our curriculum topics ensure that children can understand themselves and are exposed to the world around them; along with inculcating skills of imagination and self-expression ! The curriculum encompasses grade-appropriate art milestones and art objectives that children can achieve through the art class plans. The curriculum is designed from Preschool 1 to Grade 8 (age group 2 to 14 years) Indian Art Children explore art from various parts of India and explore the work of Indian artists. Our art class plans under this theme focus on contemporary and former Indian artists and art forms. Through the development of a strong sense and knowledge of Indian art, this theme of our curriculum aids in building a positive perspective of cultural identity and self-esteem within children. Global Art Children are exposed to a wider range of artists who use different forms and techniques. This topic will focus on art and artists from across the world both from the present and the past. It is through the development of a strong sense and knowledge of global arts that children can build a holistic perspective about themselves and the world. Craft Students explore the use of various materials to create things like collages, origami, and other craft-related activities. The art class plans under this theme will focus on craft-related activities that refine the children's motor skills and put an emphasis on children using their imagination and creating activities related to craft work. Self-expression and imagination-based activities Students are provided with prompts in the form of inquiry-based questions . These questions are designed in a way that compels them to use their imagination and express themselves in their own unique manner. Students are able to think about different situations and will express what they imagine bringing them to life through self-expression. Through the development of their imagination and self-expression, we build creativity in children.

"The arts are about the qualities of human experiences. Through music, dance, visual arts, drama, and the rest, we give form to our feelings and thoughts about ourselves, and how we experience the world around us." -Sir Ken Robinson The Problem Children in India are deprived of access to joyful learning spaces created through art and expression-nurturing classroomsdespite the Indian National Education Policy of 2020 advocating for the integration of art and SEL into education, the implementation lacks a clear roadmap, disproportionately affecting children from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This problem affects over 250 million children attending government and low-income private schools, (Ministry of Education, Government of India, 2020) who lack safe spaces for expression and the agency to thrive. The Gaps in India’s Education System? 99th Lack of Art Teachers The UNESCO Report (2021) highlights the nation-wide deprioritization of art education, leading to academic educators at these schools to conduct art class without necessary tools and support Absence of Curriculum The lack of a government prescribed curriculum focusing on mindset building hinders schools from effectively implementing learning opportunity, depriving children of essential development tools. What happens to a child because of these problems? A child within such a system, experiences the lack of an outlet to voice out what they truly want in their education journey. They are not exposed to working with tools and methods that feed into creative thinking, imagination and collaboration. They often grow up to experience low levels of confidence, struggle with communication, building and maintaining healthy relationships & collectively problem solving. This deprivation of holistic and creative learning, hampers their journey as a student in the education system. How does it also affect an educator? Educators feel helpless not knowing how they can create safe and joyful spaces of learning for their students. This is due to the lack of contextualized resources and training in order to cater to student's current needs. Educators also feel overburdened by numerous responsibilities and find themselves unable to learn and grow This restricts them from adopting and practicing innovative learning methodologies. Our Solution Saturday Art Class works as the bridge to solve problems at the systemic level as well as solve problems faced by children in Indian Education. Our programs aim to strengthen and capacitate systems of education that are inclusive of children and educators. This enables children to develop key skills such as communication, collaboration, perseverance, imagination and critical thinking that will help them thrive creatively, socially and emotionally. Our relevance in the National Education Policy 2020 The National Education Policy lists several benefits of a higher quality education system that promotes multidisciplinary learning. It highlights the need for setting up an education system that promotes the holistic scientific and creative development of individuals. The Saturday Art Class Curriculum and our model approach for our flagship programs directly contributes to the National Education Policy and address various components of the policy, specifically talking about bringing arts into our schools. Holistic Development Section 4.2: Expands on the holistic development goal by providing clearer directives for developing empathy, resilience, ethical values, and social skills, in addition to cognitive and academic growth. It also calls for curricula that integrate these elements more explicitly into everyday learning. Integration of Arts and Sports in Curriculum Section 5.6: Strengthens this recommendation by mandating the integration of arts and sports at all levels of education, making them central to the daily curriculum. It highlights experiential learning through these activities as crucial for holistic development. Early Childhood Education and Holistic Learning Section 3.1: Provides guidelines for ECCE, emphasizing the inclusion of creative arts and hands-on learning activities from early childhood to promote comprehensive development across cognitive, social, and emotional domains Teacher Training for Holistic Education Section 10.1: M andating specific training in social-emotional learning, child psychology, and diverse pedagogical strategies to better equip teachers for fostering holistic development. The policy mandates regular teacher training programs focused on understanding child psychology, SEL, and diverse teaching strategies that promote holistic growth. Teachers are encouraged to use pedagogical techniques that foster a safe and supportive learning environment where students feel valued and motivated.

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