Aleah Black is a teacher at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. They teach Social & Emotional Learning to 3-14 year olds and to a host of adults online. They have also taught theater, music, and visual arts. Aleah attempts to create radical, joyful, liberatory curriculum. Their work focuses on interdisciplinary lessons that teach to people’s hands, heads, and hearts.
Workshops for students
Aleah has taught workshops around inclusion, compassion, and social change (with a focus on LGBTQ issues and identities) in community centers, schools, and national conferences. Contact them to request a class for your school or organization.
Stories/Festivals
Aleah is a masterful storyteller and can bring seasonally and developmentally appropriate stories for people of any age. Inspired by Waldorf curriculum and a rich performance background, Aleah’s therapeutic stories can do anything from helping a child struggling with grief, creating a joyful birthday party, addressing bullying in a classroom, or enriching a festival. Click HERE!
Curriculum development
As a 1st-8th educator, Aleah has designed Social & Emotional Learning, performance, music, and art classes /curriculum. If you are building an SEL, theater, music, or art program at your school, Aleah can help you create meaningful, developmentally appropriate curriculum for your school.
Workshops & Community events for adults
Aleah hosts community song circles, teaches Social & Emotional classes to adults, as well as creating LGBTQ Pedagogical workshops. Please reach out to them for a list of topics or to bring them to your institution/community.
Aleah storytelling with the Brooklyn College Orchestra for students of their school.
Quarantine Stories