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Arts Integration ideas offer an approach to teaching and learning through which content standards are taught and assessed equitably in and through the arts.
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Educator PD
Best Degrees for the Traveling Soul
Some people graduate from seminary schools and then spend their lives traveling through these “third world” areas, helping to build them up.
Resources
Managing ePortfolios through the Cloud
ePortfolios are going to change the way that we assess students, beyond the arts classes, across all contents.
Resources
Creating Courses through Pinterest
Our focus today is using social media giant Pinterest and teaching you and others how we succeed creating courses through Pinterest.
Educator PD
Nurturing Your Creative Self: A Fun New Year’s Resolution
I'm talking about nurturing your creative self, doing what it takes to take your creative mind to new heights, goals and success.
Resources
How to Ask Interesting Questions using the Creative Process
Students must be able to find and craft interesting questions in order to truly be invested in what and how they learn.
Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
Strategies
Tessellations Go Digital
Tessellations are mosaics using small squares to make repetitive patterns.
Curriculum
Founders Drama Lesson
Written for high school students, this lesson correlates 10th grade Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards with Drama processes
Strategies
Opening it up to the Forum
In this technique, students enact a scene and the audience can introduce new characters at any time.
Strategies
From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.
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