Kyla McKoll

About Kyla McKoll

An arts and education professional with years of experience working as an administrator with nonprofit and community-based organizations and teaching K-12 schools. Passionate about professional learning, youth development, and building socially just programs that engage in partnership with communities.Skilled in non-profit management, staff development, team management, coaching, curriculum & course development, strategic leadership, project management, department leadership & supervision, external partnerships, and IDEA practices. Strives to create art and education programs that engage, entertain, empower, and uplift. Passionate about accessibility and inclusion practices, arts integration, and ongoing learning. Has developed and contributed to four national professional learning resource websites.Kyla has worked on multiple educational research arts integration programs: Creating Bridges, DELLTA (Developing English Language through the Arts), Teach with GIVE (Growing Inclusivity for Vibrant Engagement), Active Learning Leads to Literacy, and E.A.S.E.(Everyday Arts for Special Education) for which she has been an administrator, curriculum developer, facilitator, and a teacher coach. She is the lead developer of The ArtsConnection Framework to create joyful & liberatory arts education. Kyla has been a featured presenter at multiple professional conferences & organizations including the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, Connected Arts Network, Arts for All Abilities, Everyone Reading, and NYC Public Schools. This year alone she has facilitated and curated 89 professional learning opportunities for 4328 participants - this includes school administrators & principals, classroom teachers, arts teachers, teaching artists, and arts organization staff.

Experience

1. Director of Professional Learning

   Artsconnection

   Aug 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Create, Facilitate, and Direct our Professional Development Programs - including workshops, coaching, peer learning groups, arts inclusion practices - for literacy and social emotional learning, equity & accessibility practices, teaching strategies including feedback protocols, classroom management, and curriculum design for our internal teaching team of 100 teaching artists, and externally for of NYC Public School Educators and Principals. Create and maintain digital learning content - including the TeachwithArtsConnection.org and TeachwithGIVE.org websites, and asynchronous courses on LMS such as Canvas.

Education

• Muhlenberg College

  BA, Theatre: Performance & Performance Studies

  2002 — 2006

• New York University

  MA, Educational Theatre

  2008 — 2010