Kyla McKoll

Kyla McKoll is ArtsConnection (AC)’s Director of Professional Learning, a multidisciplinary artist, and member of the Arts for All Abilities Consortium steering committee. McKoll has a Masters from NYU in Educational Theater, focused on educational equity and community building. Her 20+ years in arts education have been spent as an arts educator teaching theater, movement, and puppetry in public schools, working with diverse learners, coaching and facilitating PD, and administering programs. McKoll 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) 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 AC’s pedagogy for Joyful & Liberatory Arts Education. McKoll 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, and has extensive experience teaching students with disabilities, early childhood education, and trauma informed, inclusive and anti-racist practices in arts education.