Strategies
Drama Adds Up to Literacy with CBRT
Do you want to integrate drama into your classroom in a simple but highly effective way?
Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning (also known as PBL), is an approach that connects inquiry, solving real-world problems and meaningful hands-on experiences. This is a perfect opportunity to integrate the arts! But be careful - there's more to this than just fun projects. In this comprehensive area, you'll find everything you need to connect PBL and the arts with integrity. Want to learn more? Try our Project Based Learning in the Arts online class in our Accelerator membership and build a PBL lesson while getting 25 PD hours.
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Approaches
Earn Some Extra Cash for your Class
Have no fear! Your ideas don't have to be shuttered - there are fantastic new ways that you can get the artful funding you need to pay for the projects.
Approaches
How Rich Are You?
There are some easy ways we can all discover our true wealth management measure and invest in strategies that will bring us even more richness.
Organization
Mantras for Sanity
"Baby steps” combined with “keep it simple” have proved to be useful mantras when my enthusiasm overrides my reason and human limitations.
Organization
Who Exactly Does the Integrating?
WHO exactly does the integrating? arts integration lesson is one where the content and fine arts standards are being taught and assessed equitably.
Assessment
Write Like an Artist!
Have you tried using artist statements as assessments in your classroom?
Curriculum
The Performing Arts of Early Childhood
Early Childhood Curriculum Terms Map, which connects terms found in the Pre-K and Kindergarten Curriculum with natural connections to the performing arts.
Strategies
The Shape of Cause and Effect
Discover how this cause and effect activity integrates the arts into curriculum.
Educator PD
Attention to Detail
I was working with a team of elementary teachers to develop a series of arts integrated writing activities that would provide students a targeted practice.
Educator PD
Preparing Students for Changing Careers
Career-based education in the next few years, as more stakeholders begin to realize that we are no longer preparing students for a single, lifelong job.
Resources
The Integrated Educator’s Tweet and Pin Guidebook
We've developed a tweet and pin guidebook for educators as our Free Friday tool this week.
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