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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Educator PD
Arts-Inspired Ways to Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day
Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day is right around the corner, here are some fun ways to include poetry to other aspects of the arts!
Educator PD
Week 9: Designing the Theatre Performance Season
In this lesson, the main focus is solidifying the theme for each student's theatre performance season, and determine the theatre pieces.
Educator PD
Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry: Responding
We will look at the anchor standards in the responding strand, and how to put them to good use in the classroom through Arts-Based Inquiry.
Resources
3D Art Cart
Why would someone decide to push around a 3D Art Cart printer on it all day long?
Resources
Are You Using Projects or Project-Based Learning?
Sometimes, we're using project-based learning and other times, we're just doing projects.
Strategies
Coordinating the Singing, Dancing and Acting in a Musical Production
I promised I would keep you informed on our process of producing our very first musical production, Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids.
Curriculum
Composing Order: STEAM Lesson
This STEAM lesson is for K-2 students and focuses on composing order in objects of various sizes.
Strategies
“You Can’t Use Fiction and Say You’re Teaching Science.”
My school district is in the beginning stages of updating our K-8 science curriculum.
Educator PD
Week 8: Viewing and Discussing Theatre
In week 8 of our Theatre unit, we move from talking and discussing theatre by looking at it from an arts perspective and its fundamentals.
Classroom Management
Expository Writing with Van Gogh
Need a way to engage your students in expository writing?
Classroom Management
Books for Personal and Professional Development: Volume 3
As educators, we are always putting our best foot forward for our students.
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