Description: 4C LAB is a 501(c)3 arts organization based in Los Angeles, California, that provides arts immersion programming led by professional teaching artists.
Everyday Arts prides itself on delivering fun, hands-on workshops that include collaborative art-making, group discussion, reflective practice, and lesson-planning. Participants learn inclusive teaching strategies, utilizing music, visual arts, drama, and movement activities aligned to the California Arts Standards.
Our curriculum is adaptable for a wide range of populations, including students with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, emotional disturbance, and learning disabilities, and has been shown to have a positive effect on reaching Individualized Educational Plan goals in self-contained classrooms as well as inclusion settings. To date, Everyday Arts Programming has reached 816 teachers and 42,331 students.
Our methodology improves outcomes in academic learning, social-emotional learning, and arts learning by emphasizing student engagement; once students are engaged, their capacity for all learning is exponentially increased. We utilize the principles of Universal Design for Learning, a research-backed framework that optimizes teacher practice by providing multiple means of engagement for their students, as well as the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning “Core SEL Competencies,” which en