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Collaborate?! When? How?
One of the hardest things about teaching is the lack of time to actually talk/collaborate/share with colleagues.
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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Assessment
Assessment: Arts Enhancement and Arts Integration
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Classroom Management
Reflection – Don’t Leave a Project Without It!
One of the biggest missed opportunities in a lesson is leaving time for learning reflections.
Strategies
Art Gems in the Oscar Short Film Nominees
Spoiler alert! If you are planning to see the films that were nominated for an Oscar in the Short Film category this year, don’t read this article.
Educator PD
It’s Time to Celebrate Arts in School
To celebrate arts in schools is often a challenge to fund.
Educator PD
It’s Arts Enhancement… not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between arts integration versus arts enhancement?
Educator PD
Changing Brains to Foster Success
Change thinking sounds off-putting but to change students thinking, we foster their brains for success.
Strategies
Keep It Simple! Maximizing the Joy in Learning
One lesson I seem to have to keep learning no matter how long I’ve been teaching is to keep it simple in order to maximize the joy in learning.
Strategies
From Pictures to Tableau: An Arts Based Strategy
Need an effective instructional arts based strategy for students?
Strategies
The Show Must Go On!
When you don't have the ability to do a full musical production show sometimes it is better to look at alternatives such as musical revues.
Strategies
Music, Movies, Autism, the Brain and the Human Experience
Children with Autism are all different. It's important to remember that something may work for one child may not work for another, that's human experience.
Classroom Management
Cultivating Courage
Courage is something that we often shy away from because we are afraid.
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