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Transitions: Guiding the Flow of Learning
Transitions, they can be quite a challenge, and sometimes a gift for students.
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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Creating vs. Imitating
The artist and the educator in me long to make space for creative process.
Educator PD
Smile for the Camera! Revising Pieces in the Performing Arts
It's harder to revise & review the performing arts than it is the visual arts.
Strategies
Arts Integration: It May Be Closer Than You Think
Need some help with arts integration standards alignment?
Classroom Management
A Recipe for Seasonal Sanity
Amidst all the craziness of the season, there are ways to maintain your seasonal sanity in and out of school so long as you dedicate yourself to it.
Resources
Gratitude and Generosity: Being Role Models for One Another and Our Students
Gratitude and Generosity. With these two attributes, we can not only become better people, but better role models for our students.
Strategies
Your Brain on Music: Why We Need to Teach Music in Schools
here is amazing work done in the area of neuroscience showing how to teach music.
Strategies
Circle Up and Sing! Creating Unity in the Classroom
Creating unity in the classroom, it can be a daunting task.
Strategies
How Graphic! Using Comics to Teach and Learn
We're discussing graphic using comics to teach and learn in the classroom.
Resources
Think Like An Artist
Think Like An Artist! Today, we're helping students examine and explore how artists are inspired to create work and how they bring that work to completion.
Strategies
What’s in a Song?
What’s in a Song? Today, we'll discuss what exactly goes into a song, as well as the content of a song.
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