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Analyze This!
By integrating the arts into the core curriculum, the students get more practice with those skills of analyzing text and supporting answers with examples.
Amanda Koonlaba
Amanda Koonlaba, Ed. S. is an educator and educational consultant with over 12 years of experience teaching both visual art and regular education. Her career has been driven by the power of the arts to reach all learners. She is a published author and frequent speaker/presenter at education conferences. Amanda was named the Elementary Art Teacher of the Year for the state of Mississippi in 2016 and received the Arts Integration Service Award from the Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative (Mississippi Arts Commission) in 2015. She holds an Elementary and Middle Childhood Art certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. As a coach for The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM, Amanda is on a mission to ensure every student in America has access to a high-quality arts-based education. She blogs at partyintheartroom.com.
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Strategies and Standards
When looking at integration, whether it be Arts Integration or STEM, it is important to recognize where you as a teacher or a school are in the process.
Educator PD
2013 Connectivity Arts Integration Conference: The HeART of the Core
Connectivity Conference is the only National Virtual Arts Integration Conference.
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Finding an Arts Integration Buddy
Why not employ the same technique for creating Arts Integration lessons by finding an Arts Integration Buddy?
Approaches
Build-a-Brand Infographic
We've been discussing how to build your own brand a lot here lately.
Approaches
Blogging to be Better
If you are looking for a tool to encourage you to reflect and fully articulate ideas you have around your teaching craft, commit to blogging.
Approaches
Building Your Brand as an Educator
How do you brand yourself as an educator? It seems a little funny to think about the idea of an educator having a brand, but it's something we should think.
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Are You a Provocative Educator?
We need provocative educators who are unafraid and unashamed to push their students to go beyond the "right answer" and to find their OWN answer.
Strategies
Now That’s Getting Personal!
When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.
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What’s Your Ship Date?
Time between the dream and the reality is the pursuit of perfection, but all artists know that without a ship date, their dream will never become a reality.
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