Strategies
Drama Adds Up to Literacy with CBRT
Do you want to integrate drama into your classroom in a simple but highly effective way?
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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Approaches
Earn Some Extra Cash for your Class
Have no fear! Your ideas don't have to be shuttered - there are fantastic new ways that you can get the artful funding you need to pay for the projects.
Approaches
How Rich Are You?
There are some easy ways we can all discover our true wealth management measure and invest in strategies that will bring us even more richness.
Organization
Mantras for Sanity
"Baby steps” combined with “keep it simple” have proved to be useful mantras when my enthusiasm overrides my reason and human limitations.
Organization
Who Exactly Does the Integrating?
WHO exactly does the integrating? arts integration lesson is one where the content and fine arts standards are being taught and assessed equitably.
Assessment
Write Like an Artist!
Have you tried using artist statements as assessments in your classroom?
Curriculum
The Performing Arts of Early Childhood
Early Childhood Curriculum Terms Map, which connects terms found in the Pre-K and Kindergarten Curriculum with natural connections to the performing arts.
Strategies
The Shape of Cause and Effect
Discover how this cause and effect activity integrates the arts into curriculum.
Educator PD
Attention to Detail
I was working with a team of elementary teachers to develop a series of arts integrated writing activities that would provide students a targeted practice.
Educator PD
Preparing Students for Changing Careers
Career-based education in the next few years, as more stakeholders begin to realize that we are no longer preparing students for a single, lifelong job.
Resources
The Integrated Educator’s Tweet and Pin Guidebook
We've developed a tweet and pin guidebook for educators as our Free Friday tool this week.
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