Strategies
Core Music Anchor Standard 10
As part of our year-long series unpacking the Core Arts Standards for General Music, we now look at Core Music Anchor Standard 10.
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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Episode 31: Driving Artistic Inquiry in the Classroom
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Looking to do 3D Printing in the classroom? The key to 3D printing is the design process.
Strategies
An Arts Integrated Thanksgiving Project
Instead of a traditional Thanksgiving lesson, I extend my instruction using the book How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving project Story by Eve Bunting.
Curriculum
Arts Integration Lesson: The Four Seasons of Sound
Kindergarten-2nd grade students use Vivaldi's Four Seasons of Sound to explore the changing seasons through reading Fletcher and the Falling Leaves.
Advocacy
Parent/Teacher Conferences as Vehicle for Arts Advocacy
Parent/Teacher Conferences are an opportunity to educate parents about what their children are learning and creating in the arts.
Strategies
Tech: Making the Most of What You Have
Sometimes, it's all about making the most of what you have to work with.
Assessment
Creating Student Ownership
It is important to guide students down this path so they may take student ownership of their learning and responsibility for their education.
Curriculum
Arts Integration Lesson: Personification in Art
Allow K-2 students to stretch their creativity with this personification lesson using Leaf Man.
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