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Fostering Grit with a Growth Mindset
It is time to practice what I preach and truly develop a growth mindset toward not only all of my students but also to myself.
Deirdre Moore
Deirdre is a teaching artist and AI coach in the San Diego public schools dedicated to helping classroom teachers make arts an integral part of their teaching. Deirdre has an MEd in Arts Integration and over twenty years of classroom and performing arts teaching experience. Email Deirdre.
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Reflection – A Key to Professional Development
Being a good practitioner means being reflective of your teaching.
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New Orleans? Now That’s What I Call Integration!
What should a school look like that is implementing Call Integration approach to education?
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Building a Thriving Arts Culture: It Takes a Village
Building a thriving arts culture? You bet!
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Time: Don’t Spend It All In One Place
Reflecting and sharing give due respect to the time and effort the students invested and deepen the learning.
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Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day! Group Dancing for some Classroom Fun
Whatever music or cultural tradition that inspires you like St.
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Theatre Games: They’re Not Just for Theatre Anymore!
Need something fun to spice up your classroom?
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Listening with Intention: Building Better Listeners through Improvisational Dance
We can make that analogy for students between being constructive conversationalists, and active listeners and being good improvisational dance partners.
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Inspiration and Affirmation
Every now and then life hands you an experience that helps serve as both inspiration and aspiration.
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Happy Happenstance! Finding New Uses for an Old Game
Once I started to think about how else this old game could be used, I found lots of possibilities.
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I Like to Move It: Combining Gesture with Speech
Many of us unconsciously use gestures as we speak, but it turns out gesture may actually be an important aspect of language development and has implications for educators on increasing effectiveness of instruction.
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Engagement: Creating Access to the Arts
Engagement - that’s a huge buzz word these days in so many industries.
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