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Making Connections: How Different Forms of Art Relate
How do we get students there? We must do it ourselves first, so check out my tips on making connections between art forms.
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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SmART Ideas: Create Your Avatar
today's video tip, I'm sharing how to use this idea of creating an avatar to better understand and craft character development.
Organization
Get Organized with Shoebox Kits
If a teacher can create a shoebox kits for each experiment they plan throughout the year, all he or she has to do is pull out the shoebox.
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STEAM-ER Series: Deep Inquiry
Welcome to the STEAM-ER series! Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing engagement through rigor for each of the STEAM content areas.
Educator PD
January 2016 Issue of STEAMed Has Arrived!
Our January 2016 issue of the FREE quarterly digital magazine, STEAMed, has finally arrived just in time for your holiday reading pleasure!
Curriculum
Unpacking ESSA
What about ESSA? it's a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), a 1965 civil-rights law signed by President Lyndon B.
Strategies
Episode 35: Integrating Mindful Movement with Sheena Jeffers
In episode 35 of our SparkChasers podcast, we talk with dance expert Sheena Jeffers about mindful movement in the classroom.
Educator PD
Colorful Arts Integration Ideas
So, you want to do some colorful arts integration with your young students, but don’t know where to start?
Classroom Management
Go TEAM! How to Have Productive Groups
We have our students participate in a poductive group works all the time, and they do it quite efficiently.
Educator PD
SmART Ideas: Conversation Cards
In today's video tip, I'm sharing with you how I created some of these conversation cards (it's super simple) and how I use them with students.
Educator PD
The Nutcracker Project: Unit Outline, part 2
In part two of the Nutcracker project, you will find the Arts and informational writing components of the project, which complement the language arts.
Strategies
STEAM-ER Series: Engagement
Over the next few weeks we will be discussing engagement through rigor for each of the STEAM content areas in our STEAM-ER Series.
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