
Analyze This!
By integrating the arts into the core curriculum, the students get more practice with those skills of analyzing text and supporting answers with examples.
Laura and Matt Grundler are art educators from Plano, Texas. They are also proud parents, bloggers and founders of the popular Twitter Chat #K12ArtChat. After teaching middle school art, high school art and working as an assistant principal, Laura has moved into the role of district Visual Arts Coordinator. Matt started out as a graphic designer; however after finding the commercial side of design to be unsatisfying, he soon found his niche as a K-5 Art teacher. Both Laura and Matt are passionate about raising their three creative kids, sharing their love of art education with their professional learning network and continuing to grow everyday.
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By integrating the arts into the core curriculum, the students get more practice with those skills of analyzing text and supporting answers with examples.

When looking at integration, whether it be Arts Integration or STEM, it is important to recognize where you as a teacher or a school are in the process.

Connectivity Conference is the only National Virtual Arts Integration Conference.

Why not employ the same technique for creating Arts Integration lessons by finding an Arts Integration Buddy?

We've been discussing how to build your own brand a lot here lately.


If you are looking for a tool to encourage you to reflect and fully articulate ideas you have around your teaching craft, commit to blogging.

How do you brand yourself as an educator? It seems a little funny to think about the idea of an educator having a brand, but it's something we should think.


We need provocative educators who are unafraid and unashamed to push their students to go beyond the "right answer" and to find their OWN answer.

When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.

Time between the dream and the reality is the pursuit of perfection, but all artists know that without a ship date, their dream will never become a reality.
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