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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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Strategies
Using Collage to Teach Math
Use this math collage activity and free resource to integrate art and math in your classroom!
Strategies
Using the Conferring Technique to Nudge Students to Success
Conferring is one of the main ways we can challenge students to think deeply while personalizing learning.
Strategies
6 Ideas: Student Independence in the Art Studio
Stumped on fostering student independence? Managing materials and supplies in an elementary school art room can be difficult so check out these 6 ideas!
Resources
SEL and the Arts: Social Awareness
Social Awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others.
Classroom Management
5 Classroom Management Hacks for the New Year
Try these 5 classroom management hacks you can use in the new year to stop stressing and get back to teaching with arts integration and STEAM.
Approaches
Listen to Learn
Integrating music is a great way to get arts education and arts integration to work together and foster student learning and growth.
Educator PD
Teachers Deserve Professional Development that Matters
Meaningful professional development for teachers isn't just a buzzword.
Strategies
Surprise Scientific Drawings for Arts Integration
Surprise drawings not only make scientific drawings more interactive, but they can be used to bring Arts Integration into your classroom and content area.
Educator PD
Are Your STEAM Lessons Authentic Enough?
STEAM and STEM challenges are all the rage right now.
Strategies
One Fail-Safe Strategy to Elevate Movement and Performance
Video and other forms of visual image are the one of the strongest ways to inspire and elevate the quality of movement in students.
Strategies
Picture Books and Music: A Beautiful Partnership
Picture books help develop story sense, pattern, rhythm, and rhyme (among others).
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