Design & Entrepreneurship
Remix The Kicks
Remix The Kicks transforms the creative energy of sneaker culture into an engaging Healing Arts experience for K-12 students. Through hands-on sneaker design, storytelling, and reflection, students explore personal identity, emotional expression, and career-connected creative skills.
A Healing Arts Sneaker Customization Workshop.
Grades K-12
Guided by teaching artists and wellness mentors, participants learn to design, paint, and present custom sneakers that express who they are and what they stand for. The process cultivates focus, patience, collaboration, and pride, while connecting art, culture, and entrepreneurship.
Student learning
What Students Will Do
Students learn by doing through hands-on activities, creative projects, collaboration, and real-world experiences designed to build skills, confidence, and meaningful connections to the program’s focus.
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Design fundamentals and customization techniques
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Personal storytelling through visual art
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Creative entrepreneurship and branding basics
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Focus, patience, and craftsmanship
Real-world application
Connects to careers in fashion, product design, branding, and entrepreneurship while reinforcing creativity as a viable economic pathway.
How it runs
Program Specifications
Grades, delivery formats, and the pathways this program feeds: everything needed to check it against a master calendar.
- Grade range
- Grades K-12
- Category
- Design & Entrepreneurship
- Delivery formats
- In-SchoolDuring the instructional day. Pathway programming embedded in electives, advisory, or dedicated blocks.
- AfterschoolAfter dismissal. Sustained weekly sessions that build toward a finished body of work.
- IntersessionBreaks and summer. Intensive multi-day creative sessions during off-calendar weeks.
- Career & Job TrainingOngoing. Workforce-aligned skill building, certifications, and industry contact.
Student outcomes
What The School Gets Back
Every program is designed backwards from its finish. These are the things that exist at the end of it.
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Increased confidence and self-expression
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Development of creative identity and cultural awareness
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Strengthened attention to detail and perseverance
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Portfolio-ready creative work
Related pathways
Where This Program Leads
Programs are how a pathway gets taught. These are the disciplines and career routes this one opens up.
Bring This Program to Your School
Tell us the grades, the block in the schedule, and the number of students you have in mind. We will come back with what Remix The Kicks looks like on your campus.