
Rubbing Elbows with Artists: Arts Immersion To Do List Week 7
So we are getting down to the wire, only 4 weeks left of my Arts Immersion To Do List.
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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So we are getting down to the wire, only 4 weeks left of my Arts Immersion To Do List.

The overall theme this summer was STEAM, the process of combining STEM teaching & Arts teaching.

In this lesson plan, students use the poetry of Robert Frost to help synthesize how choices are made by curating a museum of the arts.

As long as learning new stuff is this fun, improvements in technology can only be beneficial to the growing minds of today’s society.

Jazz is simply a metaphor for democracy! How you may ask?

Critique often equals being critical & this is not helpful.

I have been sharing arts integration strategies I learned while participating in professional development at the Maryland Artist Teacher Institute.

we invite you to get some professional development live and in real-time.


Just allowing myself a few hours of making music helped remind me how satisfying art-making and making music can be.

This week I will talk about two additional strategies I learned this summer at arts integration professional development camp.

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