About Artroots Integration

Social/ Emotional Skills Workshops and Groups

Artroots Integration provides innovative social skills groups and workshops for students in K-8. These groups allow students to learn social skills such as cooperation, problem solving, and communication, as well as coping strategies and resources for anxiety management within the classroom. The social skills and anxiety workshops and groups are supported using arts integration (dance, drama, music, and visual arts) as, well as content areas (math, science, social studies, and language arts). The combination of social skills, art, and content allows for an authentic student experience. This experience allows students to take the lessons that they learned in a social skills group setting and apply them to the classroom.

Educator Trainings

Teachers and schools are supported by innovative educator trainings. These trainings focus on diverse learning opportunities that include supporting students with Social/Emotional Learning, Arts Integration, and STEAM. School workshops are tailored specifically to the school’s needs and an information session with teacher and administrators is conducted by Sheila Garth to ensure that students and educators receive the most meaningful, educational, and engaging experience possible

About Sheila Garth

Sheila Garth is the founder of Artroots Integration. She is passionate about the social/ emotional, creative, and academic growth of students Sheila holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in education with a focus on school counseling from the University of West Alabama. Sheila has had the opportunity to train adults to work collaboratively and creatively in the field of education. Her experience as an educator for fifteen years, nine years as a teacher with experience in elementary, middle, and high school, as well as six years as an elementary school counselor has given her a diverse understanding of social, emotional, academic, and creative differences among a diverse population of students. Her career experience allows her to understand the developmental and educational needs of students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. Her role as an arts integration specialist has allowed her to train other adults in fostering communication, creativity, and innovation within their careers. She has presented at the local, state, and national level regarding the impact that using Social Emotional Learning, Arts Integration, and STEAM in academic curriculum and school counseling has on student academic, social and emotional progress. Her county wide trainings, based on improving cooperation, collaboration, creativity, and innovation, provide educators the necessary tools to use social emotional learning, the arts, and STEAM in their own professional careers as they foster their learned skills within the workplace. As an author with Youthlight Publishing, Sheila has provided school counselors a workbook resource (Integrating Arts in School Counseling) to use to help them integrate counseling standards, art standards, and content standards within their lessons. Her passion is to help as many students, educators, and schools as possible move forward in implementing programs that foster growth in social emotional learning, creativity, content, and 21st century skills…it’s her passion!!

A note from Sheila: I wanted to thank you for taking the time to look at Artroots Integration. Working with students and educators that support students is my passion! I look forward to hearing from you!

Sheila Garth, M. Ed
Author
Arts Integration Specialist
Founder of Artroots Integration
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