Educational Consulting & Workshops
With over 15 years of experience as an educator, Shanelle Gabriel, M.Ed has provided services for both middle school-college students, helped others establish and expand youth programs, and facilitated professional development workshops on diverse topics. She has also taught creative writing to all levels of learners, infusing critical literacy, culturally responsive practices, and socio-emotional learning into her lessons.
PAST WORKSHOPS & LECTURES:
New York University- Steinhardt, Georgia State University, Nuasin Charter School, NYC Department of Education CIty-Wide Middle School Quality Initiative, Britannica Learning Center, and more.
Here are just a few of her offerings:
Student-Facing Workshops
Spoken Word 101 is a creative writing workshop series for youth (and for adults!) that can be adapted to fit various themes and programmatic goals
Finding Pathways is a workshop using hip-hop & poetry for participants to explore goal-setting and finding opportunities for resilience.
Finding Your SELF in Your Sorority is a collegiate workshop that explores ways for members of Greek organizations to become the leaders in their chapter and to embrace the diversity of their fellow members.
Adult/Educator Trainings
What’s Your Culture is a series of trainings that explore how our social and positional identities can relate and impact others. We will offer opportunities for self-reflection, create safer spaces to learn more about the experiences of others, and open the floor for much needed dialogue on how our positionality can manifest itself in our classrooms, companies, and with our colleagues. By the end of the series, we will establish and co-generate ways to reflect upon our own identity, develop protocols to make our spaces more inclusive, and to be true allies with our students and our work community.
How You Show Up, How I Show Up is a session that examines some of the various ways our experiences outside can impact reactions within. Through expanding our understanding of the ways the mind and body can react to various traumas and interactions, we can discover ways to recognize triggers and triggered students and colleagues. This session explores ways to create safe(r) spaces where all can practice self-care.
Inserting Art & Heart is a session that supports teachers in creating culturally responsive sustaining and student centered curriculum by repositioning students at the forefront of the class. Where are there spaces to encourage dialogue, narrative, and the contexts of those we serve? This training illustrates ways that poetry, hip-hop, and the arts can support creating spaces for genuine connection and engagement within various classrooms.