Dr. Patty Bode
Education Consulting

Anti-racism /Anti-bias,
Art Education,
Arts Integration,
Critical Multicultural Education,
Curriculum Transformation,
Educational Leadership,
Social Justice Education
Teacher Education.
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Photo credit: JOHNPOLAKPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
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Book: Affirming Diversity: The Socioploitical Context of Multicultural Education, co-authored with Sonia Nieto. (2018).

NEWS & UPDATES  

I will be delivering the keynote address:
"The Power of Teachers"
at Nevada State College, Las Vegs, NV.  October 17, 2019
at their summit focused on 
"Why Teach? A Celebration of Teaching" 

MAEA Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference
November 9 & 10, 2019.   Beverly, MA region.   Hosted by Montserrat College of Art. 

I will be presenting:
Countering Islamophobia in K-12 Art Education on  Saturday November 9th from 9:00am - 10:15am as a solo presenter.

Also with Amanda (Held) Davis I will be co-presenting:
The Power of our Stories: How Immigration Stories Weave the Fabric of our Contemporary Society on Saturday November 9th from 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Sacred and Secular Entwined:

I presented a talk at The Yoga Center Amherst on September 13 through photos, story-telling and poetry about  intersections of the sacred with the secular; the spiritual with the physical; and the inner dialogue of the internal camino with the outer landscape of the external camino.
See my TEDx Talk
I gave a TEDx Talk at TEDxOhioStateUniversity.
​I titled the talk: "Art Education as  Civil Right." The video is available for viewing online.