Educator Hour

Date: October 13, 2026

Location: Oxford Pennant - 775 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14210

Time: 3:30 to 5:00 PM

Come explore the manufacturing facility of Oxford Pennant and engage in a tour for educators. Come prepared with any questions you'd like to know about the manufacturing process and the business to share back with your students and connect to your classroom instruction.

https://oxfordpennant.com/

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Date: November 12, 2026

Location: Starlight Studio and Art Gallery - 340 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202

Time: 4:00 to 5:30 PM

Starlight Studio is a progressive art studio that supports individuals with disabilities, promoting inclusion in the arts. Come join our artists exploring a writing prompt, watercolor, and collage. You will have an opportunity for discussions with Starlight Studio artists to share their experience's, achievement's and creative process in interactive discussion.

https://www.starlightstudio.org/

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Date: December 10, 2026

Location: Arts for Learning WNY - 2495 Main St #443, Buffalo, NY 14214

Time: 4:00 to 5:30 PM

Join Arts for Learning for a hands-on Educator Hour designed to provide easy tools for integrating the arts into any classroom!
Learn about Arts for Learning’s mission to inspire, expand learning, and strengthen our community through engagement with the arts, and get an overview of workshop offerings, performances, and customizable residencies.

Then, experience a series of interactive arts-integrated lessons led by Master Teaching Artist Kristin Brandt. This session will go over a series of quick tools and activities to implement arts integration into your classroom right away. These will include:

- The importance of environment (wellness rooms, or corners - safe spaces)
- Paper dance - choreography with one simple tool
- Movement and breath - in and out of the classroom
- Mandalas and Math - the various ways we can use mandalas to teach fractions, seasons, colors, and more.
- Story tableau - using still frames to illustrate text
- Body Science, kinesphere, and contour study

No matter what grade or subject you teach, you’ll leave with a better understanding of how the arts can be used as a powerful learning tool in any classroom.

https://www.artsforlearningwny.org/

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Date: January 27, 2027

Location: Explore & More - 130 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14224

Time: 4:00 to 5:30 PM

Educators will receive a tour of the three floors of fun at Explore & More followed by a brief discussion on how to book a field trip (information on bus stipends, lunch opportunities and pricing will be provided).  Educator will then take part in a hands-on STEAM activity and learn how it can be modified for successful classroom use with a wide range of grade levels.

https://exploreandmore.org/

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Date: February 11, 2027

Location: Buffalo AKG Art Museum - 1285 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222

Time: 4:00 to 5:30 PM

Join us at the Buffalo AKG for a guided experience and hands-on activities to explore a special exhibition (not yet announced!) that debuts significant recent acquisitions to the museum’s Collection. The works in this exhibition invite viewers to explore the varied ideas of home and what it means to them. In addition to the artworks on display, the environment plays a major role by using lighting, props, color, and sound. You will experience storytelling through space and atmosphere to explore classroom connections through fun engagement and artmaking. Please meet us in the lobby of the Jeffrey E. Gundlach building.

https://buffaloakg.org/

Registration opens January 4, 2027

Date: March 23, 2027

Location: Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Welcome Center - 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218

Time: 4:00 to 6:00 PM

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens is a living museum dedicated to deepening the connection between people and plants through beautiful gardens and extraordinary experiences. In this engaging workshop, educators will explore gel printmaking while utilizing our expansive plant collections as inspiration. Participants will also learn about student field trip and program offerings while exploring our brand-new classrooms in our recently renovated campus.

https://www.buffalogardens.com/

Registration opens January 4, 2027

Date: April 15, 2027

Location: The Martin House - 125 Jewett Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14214

Time: 4:30 to 6:30 PM

Educators will receive a tour of the Martin House concentrating on the Japanese influences and Japanese woodblock prints that are hung throughout the house. They then will receive a crash course on printmaking by creating their own designs on linoleum block, carving them, and printing them! Similar offerings can be scheduled for student tours at the Martin House.

https://martinhouse.org/

Registration opens January 4, 2027

Date: May 5, 2027

Location: Kenan Center Civic Arena - 433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY 14094

Time: 4:30 to 6:30 PM

Facilitating Play in the Classroom with Tyler Davis.

In this collaborative session, educators will dive into the principles of bringing more creativity and playfulness into their classroom. You will spend time playing, reflecting, and coaching; experiencing firsthand how structured play fosters safety, promotes inclusion, strengthens social bonds, unlocks creativity, and enhances educational lessons.

We will discuss how to establish rules and boundaries while maximizing participation across all activities and groups of students. Educators will leave this session with practical strategies for conflict resolution, tools to empower peer leaders, and transition and cool-down techniques.

During the session, we will learn a handful of games that are adaptable to any age group or classroom scenario, role-play facilitation scenarios, practice reinforcement and scaffolding techniques, and brainstorm solutions to specific challenges we have faced or may face in our classrooms.

Sneakers, comfortable clothing, and an open, playful mindset are highly recommended; you will be moving around during this session!

https://kenancenter.org/

Registration opens January 4, 2027

Date: June 10, 2027

Location: Burchfield Penney Art Center - 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222

Time: 4:30 to 6:30 PM

Join the Burchfield Penney education team to explore more ways to incorporate art into the classroom. Educators will get a guided tour of an exhibition by artist Stacey Robinson, who creates graphic novels, art exhibitions, and other multimedia works exploring the idea of "Black Utopias" through an Afro-Futurist lens. Following the tour, educators will take part in a hands-on activity inspired by Robinson's work.

https://burchfieldpenney.org/

Registration opens January 4, 2027