
Feeling the Festivities
With this holiday-inspired discovery lab, ignite your students' curiosity and enthusiasm as they learn about different cultures and traditions in our world.
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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With this holiday-inspired discovery lab, ignite your students' curiosity and enthusiasm as they learn about different cultures and traditions in our world.

Persevering when we encounter a productive struggle can be a difficult concept for students.

Whatever you teach, an artist call can help your students apply it better to the real world.

" They are Habits of Mind - skills we need to develop in order to function intelligently.

Integrating Habits of Mind with the arts into classroom instruction isn't as scary as it sounds.

Developing good habits for yourself first will benefit your students and set the rest of your school year in the right direction.

Sparking ingenuity in student teachers starts with encouraging and challenging them.

Mentoring student teachers helps to shape their instructional practices...


When working with student teachers, the two most important aspects are classroom management and the basics of Arts Integration & STEAM.

We can spark creative mindsets through hands-on professional development with pre-service teachers.

Real world teaching experiences are something that your preservice teachers will benefit from most.
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