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Meeting the Needs of Advanced Learners
What happens when you meet an advanced learners who already knows the majority of the content you're teaching?
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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Action Art Making Strategies: Visual Art, Music, and Movement
Invigorate your students with a lesson plan that beautifully combines movement and art.
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Strategies
Video Self-Modeling: The Power of Image to Create Behavior Change
The premise is pretty straight forward; people who see themselves performing a positive behavior change tend to continue to exhibit that behavior.
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The Power of an Audience: Social Media in the Classroom
A classroom is a captive audience and social media in the classroom is a powerful way for students to have a voice, that should be used effectively.
Advocacy
Social Justice & The Arts
Social justice is center stage today. As educators are job is to present facts without bias.
Strategies
Line Graph Listening Map Strategy
You can incorporate the math of graphing and the science of sound, while creating a piece of abstract art, with this line graph strategy.
Educator PD
What Not to Say About Art In Front of Kids
What adults say when they talk to kids about art, creativity and artistic abilities or inabilities can shape how children start thinking about their own.
Curriculum
How to Connect through Media Arts with Don Goble
As educators we often find ourselves sitting in a presentation like Media Arts, learning from fellow teachers and if you’re lucky you think to yourself.
Strategies
Invitation Not Expectation: Encouraging Participation from Reticent Students
But we educators need to remember that we have to create an environment that is encouraging participation from students by allowing them to choose their pat
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Level Up Your Integration of the Arts: Map Skills
Are you looking for ways to engage your students during social studies?
Classroom Management
Who’s Really At Risk?
At risk is an adjective used to describe some of our challenging students.
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