Educator PD
3 Creative Ways to Introduce STEAM Challenges
Explore our classroom warm up activities that introduce STEAM challenges or program education in a fun and memorable way.
Rob Levit
Rob Levit, an acclaimed musician and artist and 2013 Innovator of the Year from the Maryland Daily Record, has created award-winning innovative "Life-Skills Through The Arts" programs for adults with mental illness, the homeless, adults in drug and alcohol recovery, youth in domestic/sexual abuse counseling, foster children, hospital patients, veterans and many more. He is currently Executive Director of Creating Communities and was the first Artist-In-Residence at Hospice of the Chesapeake, where he created and infused healing activities for the well-being of staff, families and patients. Email Rob.
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Strategies
Text Space Dance Arts Integration Lesson
Teaching the foundational skill of text space to our youngest learners can be a true challenge.
Classroom Management
Behavioral Literacy: Building Student Self-Regulation and Social Competency
The hope of most educators is that, we don’t have to spend much more time and energy on managing Behavioral Literacy of students.
Classroom Management
Making Beauty Out of Life’s Stains
While she was creating beauty and intricate artwork, I started to think about how the concept behind her work is PERFECT for the growth mindset culture.
Classroom Management
Flexible Seating for Secondary
Flexible seating is the latest trend in classroom environment.
Resources
Digital Time Capsules
Get to know your students in an innovative way that integrates technology skills, creativity, and digital literacy.
Organization
Rearrange your Planning Time
Today's video shares how I get rid of all that stress and instead, maximize your planning time so that you stay in your own creative flow.
Educator PD
Art: Product or Process?
Should art focus on product or process? I have always looked at my students' art works as products, but in the last few years my students taught me.
Advocacy
Turning Around a School Through the Arts: A Journey
This plan has never been more important than it is now.
Classroom Management
ABCs of Classroom Management
Strong classroom management tools are essential for student success.
Assessment
Checking Prior Knowledge without the Diagnostic
We often scoff at more testing, yet we are so quick to use a traditional paper/pencil styled diagnostic test to check our students' prior knowledge.
Classroom Management
Classroom Management: How to Value Our Students
Students are the most important components to our jobs as teachers.
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