Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Drama
Offer some parameters for creating arts centers drama for exploration and investigation through each of the arts areas.
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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Obtaining a 3D Model: Community of Makers
One of the ways to obtain a 3D file is to download an already created 3D model from an online database.
Resources
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Arts
The arts are a natural way to provide culturally responsive teaching.
Strategies
Adding Details to Writing with Degas
Helping students develop content for their narrative writing can be challenging.
Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Music
Discover how a classroom arts centers can liven up your classroom.
Strategies
Going Rogue for Creative Discourse
As educators, we are all about planning and creating with student outcomes.
Strategies
So You Want to Produce a Musical? Part VI: The Final Chapter
It is done. All the rehearsals, all the meetings, all the strategizing and brainstorming, all the costumes and make-up.
Strategies
Living Totem Poles: Using Dance to Extend Learning of the Northwest Coastal Native Americans
One of my favorite activities was having students create “Living Totem Poles”, our research on the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.
Curriculum
A Reflection on Curriculum Design
We have spent the last six months on our Curriculum Design series where we explored the why and how of curriculum design via an Arts Appreciation.
Strategies
Picture Books for the Arts Integrated Classroom
I’m turning the focus back to those books on the shelves of your classroom libraries, as I share seven picture books for the arts integrated classroom.
Classroom Management
Am I an Artist? The Answer Is YES!
We are quick to say we are not an artist but that in fact is a lie!
Curriculum
STEAM Integration Unit: Joyful Noise Poems for 2 Voices
Music and poetry have a natural connection, and they are explored together in the brand new unit, Joyful Noise.
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