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STEAM Leadership: 4 Tips on Fostering Innovation At Your Door Step
One of the things that we fail to do is truly take the time to define the components of fostering innovation as STEAM leaders.
Holly Valentine
Holly Valentine is the Director of Curriculum and Assessment for the Institute for Arts Integration and Steam. Prior to joining the Institute, Holly worked as an Arts Integration and Classroom Teacher for 20 years in a suburb of Rochester, NY. She is a certified Arts Integration Specialist and has served as an Arts Standards Writer for the New York State Education Department. Holly has been a recipient of the NYC Broadway League's Apple Award for her work in Arts Education. She also serves as the Director of Education for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, where she has created nationally recognized programs and develops standards-based curriculum for touring Broadway shows in order to bring the theatre to classrooms and classrooms to the theatre. Holly holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology as well as a Masters degree in Education from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, where she currently lives.
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Creating vs. Imitating
The artist and the educator in me long to make space for creative process.
Strategies
4-Read Strategy: A tangible way to teach annotating and analyzing text
The 4-read strategy will assist your students in analyzing text.
Organization
Technology Drawing on STEAM: Using the Wacom Intuos Pro
We would like to show you a new piece of technology for the classroom: the Wacom Intuos Pro!
Curriculum
The Arts Intersection
My first month of articles will focus on arts intersection, as I believe that, making the case for the arts is vital step in building arts integration.
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.
Approaches
EdCloset Year in Review
As we close out 2014, we want to take a look at our year In review, all we've accomplished this year, and all of the "firsts" we experienced along the way.
Strategies
5 Musical Works for the Literacy Classroom
Just in case your Arts Integrated wish list isn’t long enough, today I’d like to share a list of must-have music resources for creative individuals.
Organization
STEAM Leadership: 8 Innovative Resources to Explore in 2015
As we all begin to wrap up 2014 and look forward to the new and exciting possibilities of 2015 we have outlined 8 innovative resources that are worthy.
Strategies
Arts Integration: It May Be Closer Than You Think
Need some help with arts integration standards alignment?
Resources
STEAM Goes Interactive
One of my favorite tools, ThingLink offers the ability to take any static image and transform it into an interactive learning experience.
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