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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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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.

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.

Educator PD

Found Poetry

"Found Poetry" What is it? How can you use it in the classroom?

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.

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