Strategies
Process Drama Ideas to Try
Process drama is an integrated theater technique that allows students to experience events and topics from the curriculum in an authentic 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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Arts Integration Student Placemats
Help students refer to arts elements, literacy strategies, math practices and the engineering design process with these student placemats.
Student Groups
Find Your WHY for the New Year
A new year is a great time to develop new behavior habits.
Educator PD
Junk Art: Project Based Learning Lesson
This early childhood project based learning lesson connects science and art through recycled materials.
Resources
We Are the Role Models for Lifelong Learning
We've all heard "be the change you want to see in the world" and if you think about it, that very much applies to lifelong learning as well.
Strategies
Simple Ways the Arts Can Help Make Algebraic Concepts Easier
Not sure how the arts and algebra add up? Try these tangible strategies to help create a solid mathematical foundation in algebraic concepts!
Classroom Management
To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate?
How do you feel about celebrating holidays in school?
Student Groups
The Purposeful Principals: Leadership with Heart
Reminders about purpose are definitely beneficial to morale so take a moment to check out this chat with The Purposeful Principals and get inspired!
Classroom Management
Keep Holiday Art Projects Real!
Holiday art projects do not need to dilute the focus of art integration in your classroom.
Strategies
Telling Stories with Sound
There are countless opportunities to turn a wordless book into a multimedia extravaganza at any grade level with sound stories.
Strategies
Mapping Pattern: A Trepak Listening Map
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