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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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Art Extensions for the Book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
If you choose to read this book art with students, there are many ways to extend and enrich student learning.
Assessment
A New Twist on Feedback Forms
Discover the effectiveness of meaningful student and teachers feedback forms.
Educator PD
Bring on the STEAM in 2017
If you’re looking for a way to advocate for bringing STEAM in 2017 to your school, try this issue of STEAMed.
Strategies
Whole Brain Thinking: Tell It/Sell It Strategy
This offers students to use Whole Brain Thinking Strategy to present an idea, solution, or position.
Resources
Arts Integration Plan to Jumpstart Your Efforts
This will provide a 30-day Arts Integration Plan that jumpstarts your efforts, and gets you the empowerment and support you need FIRST.
Classroom Management
First 5 Days Framework
In those first 5 days, you're going to need to cover behavior management plans, emergency procedures, grading policies and some actual lessons!
Organization
Effective Bulletin Board Ideas for Teachers
Make your bulletin boards work for you in your classroom!
Resources
A STEAM Wishlist: 5 Tools for Creative Play
As the holidays quickly approach here are some great creative play tools to add to your professional wishlist or for the artist in your home be inspired.
Resources
Using Name Generators for Arts Integration: Winter Edition
Snowperson Name Generator, an outline of how to create name generators with your class, and how to use arts integration with names and even Social Studies.
Classroom Management
52 Weeks of Joy: A New Kind of New Year’s Resolutions
Instead of a traditional New Year’s Resolutions, we explore the idea of something new.
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