Strategies
CCSS & Dance: Using the Common Core Standards to inspire Dance Literacy
The use of the Common Core ELA standards can greatly foster dance literacy.
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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Digital Organization: Maximizing Your Teaching Resources
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Writing SLOs flowchart can help you measure student growth.
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Inquiry Based Learning through the Arts
Where to start with PBL? Between Projects and Problems, there lies the middle ground of inquiry-based learning.
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Strategies
Human Claymation: Using Theatre to Model Class Rules
How do human claymation and theatre go together?
Assessment
SLOs in the Arts: Setting Goals with the Arts in Mind
SLOs in the Arts - many schools are implementing Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) as part of defining student growth and teacher evaluation.
Student Groups
STEAM Leadership: How Good Is Your Problem Solving?
As more teachers step into STEAM and the arts, one thing is for sure: problem solving is at the core of being a STEAM leader.
Organization
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One of the most powerful ways you can encourage and build STEAM in and through your classroom is by utilizing the Studio/Lab environment setup model.
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