CBJA relies on several types of Teachers for its curriculum.   These include Nashville-based Teachers who teach one or more of our core, elective and progressive track courses.  They also include our Artists-In-Residence who return to Nashville two or three times a year to teach courses tightly coordinated with our specified curriculum.  In addition, CBJA sponsors workshops we feel will be of interest to our students, as an adjunct to our curriculum and its underlying philosophy.   These workshops are taught by both local and out-of-area Instructors, usually for a period of 1 to 3 days.   Often these workshops consist of 2 or more separate classes targeted at groups with different skill levels.

Teachers are selected based on their:
a) experiences with the particular technique
b) teaching experiences
c) willingness to provide written instructions, supply lists and physical examples for each class, where appropriate and desired

Teachers who would like to apply to the CBJA to teach are requested to send a prospectus (see For Each Course... )about each course they would like to teach, a profile on themselves and their experience, and information about what compensation and cost-reimbursements they would want.

For instructors interested in presenting a workshop at CBJA, please review our policies and procedures in both our Student Guide and our Teacher Guide.    Also please review our Sample Workshop Proposal and Sample Workshop Contract .    When thinking about proposing a workshop, please consider how it coordinates with any part of our curriculum, as well as what "value-added" qualities it brings to our curriculum.

Courses and workshops are chosen based on their "value-added" qualities.   That is, the question is asked:  Does the course further the teaching of a new skill, or substantially expand on the teaching of a currently taught skill.    The second question asked:  Does the course substantially contribute to the comprehensiveness of the whole, given the currently designed program for any particular topic?

Our courses utilize projects as contexts within which to learn skills.    Any newly selected course must be justified in terms of the skills learned, not just the project taught.