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Dolph Petris

Dolph holds a Bachelors of Science, Product Design from Art Center College of Design and a Masters degree in Education. He has spent most of his teaching career as a 6th grade teacher in the elementary school setting with a focus on Gifted and Talented Education and is currently teaching a 5/6 combo in Fullerton, California. He and his wife have several four-legged kids: Bonnie and Clyde, Golden Retriever litter-mates, a street-rescued stray that looks like ‘Benji’ named Noel, Athena the cat, and two American Quarter horses.

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Art Making: Concentration with Imagination

Art Making - As I have shared on a number of occasions, visual art is not my forte but I am loving having the opportunity to teach art for art’s sake.

Approaches

GAIN: A New Arts Integration Network

GAIN is the Global Arts Integration Network and its founder, Maria Barbosa, is a brilliant Arts Integration Specialist and STEAM pioneer.

Approaches

STEAMaker Classroom Ideas

In celebration of this week's announcement about our summer STEAM conference, we're discussing STEAMaker classroom ideas.

Curriculum

Responding Syllables Arts Integration Lesson

This K-2 syllables lesson focuses on providing kindergarten through second grade students with a ways to respond to multi-syllabic words through music.

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Strategies

Are you getting MYST-y?

One new one that I learned is called MYST and I like it because it involves reflective practice for teachers - the core of my educational philosophy.

Strategies

Arts: The Great Unifier

I was reminded how important the arts are to celebrations and how lucky I am to be a part of a family that values and participates in the arts.

Strategies

Paul Gauguin and the Three Questions

Paul Gauguin and his painting asks us to look deeply at our past, present and future not so much to answer questions but to search deep within ourselves.

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