Resources
5 Shades of Integration
For today's Free Friday, we're offering you a new infographic that provides insight into 5 different shades of integration.
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.
New here? Start with the essentials
What is Arts Integration?The complete guide · 7 min readWhat is STEAM Education?The complete guide · 23 min read
Teaching another subject? Browse all free lessons
Browse the library
Approaches
Why the Tortoise Always Wins
How can meet the needs of each and every child in our classrooms?
Strategies
Intention…That’s What’s Missing!
There is something that you feel your students lack, or your lessons lack?
Resources
The Step AFTER Differentiation
Often, the step after differentiation is the most critical - and overlooked - piece to moving a child forward in their journey to true success.
Curriculum
A Balanced Composition – STEAM Lesson Seed
Today’s Free Friday is a new STEAM lesson seed, following our week’s theme of balance.
Approaches
5 Ways to Bring Balance To Student Work
Here are 5 ways that you can encourage students to develop their ability to bring the art of balance to their student work.
Organization
Balanced Engagement: Giving Every Art Form Its Share of the Pie
In an arts integrated classroom, we want to be giving as much equal and balanced engagement in the various arts as we can.
Resources
Transforming from Traditional to Tradigital
We live in a world where technology is becoming more and more prevalent, and being released with new innovations every year.
Resources
8 Ways to Create a Networked Classroom
There is no reason that in the 21st century we shouldn’t be seeing an explosion of the networked classroom as a standard of good teaching.
Strategies
The Beauty of Simple Structure
This simple structure allowed their own ideas to be channeled and freed and allowed me the opportunity to really observe each child.
Approaches
Tour the New Institute Website!
We’re shifting from a blog to an online magazine that showcases articles, lessons, and hot educational topics daily.
Educator PD
Best Degrees for the Traveling Soul
Some people graduate from seminary schools and then spend their lives traveling through these “third world” areas, helping to build them up.
See all 1,812 items
You’re viewing 6 of 1,812 items. Unlock the whole library free with our weekly email, or look yourself up if you already get it.
Signups open when the new site launches.
Free. We respect your inbox. Privacy Policy
Join 50,000+ educators. You’ll get our weekly email with free strategies and tools. Unsubscribe anytime.
We’ll look you up and get you back to the full library.
Latest Art Works for Teachers podcast episodes
Learn how to successfully integrate the arts in any classroom.
Learn how to successfully integrate the arts in any classroom.
Join 50,000+ K-12 educators receiving creative inspiration, free tools, weekly strategies, and practical tips once per month in the Monthly SmART Ideas Digest.