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Get Your Nerd On!
If you love science, music, arts integration or brilliant people, you definitely do not want to miss this YouTube sensation!
Dyan Branstetter
Dyan is a fifth grade teacher in a public school district in Lancaster, PA and has over 16 years of classroom experience. With a Masters of Science Education and a passion for dance and music, she strives to integrate the arts into the curriculum whenever possible. Dyan has a background in teaching advanced learners, and is devoted to using project based learning to help her students achieve 21st century learning skills and master the PA Core Standards.
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Strategies
Using Collage to Teach Math
Use this math collage activity and free resource to integrate art and math in your classroom!
Strategies
Using the Conferring Technique to Nudge Students to Success
Conferring is one of the main ways we can challenge students to think deeply while personalizing learning.
Strategies
6 Ideas: Student Independence in the Art Studio
Stumped on fostering student independence? Managing materials and supplies in an elementary school art room can be difficult so check out these 6 ideas!
Resources
SEL and the Arts: Social Awareness
Social Awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others.
Classroom Management
5 Classroom Management Hacks for the New Year
Try these 5 classroom management hacks you can use in the new year to stop stressing and get back to teaching with arts integration and STEAM.
Approaches
Listen to Learn
Integrating music is a great way to get arts education and arts integration to work together and foster student learning and growth.
Educator PD
Teachers Deserve Professional Development that Matters
Meaningful professional development for teachers isn't just a buzzword.
Strategies
Surprise Scientific Drawings for Arts Integration
Surprise drawings not only make scientific drawings more interactive, but they can be used to bring Arts Integration into your classroom and content area.
Educator PD
Are Your STEAM Lessons Authentic Enough?
STEAM and STEM challenges are all the rage right now.
Strategies
One Fail-Safe Strategy to Elevate Movement and Performance
Video and other forms of visual image are the one of the strongest ways to inspire and elevate the quality of movement in students.
Strategies
Picture Books and Music: A Beautiful Partnership
Picture books help develop story sense, pattern, rhythm, and rhyme (among others).
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