Student Groups
Meeting the Needs of Advanced Learners
What happens when you meet an advanced learners who already knows the majority of the content you're teaching?
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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Student Groups
Action Art Making Strategies: Visual Art, Music, and Movement
Invigorate your students with a lesson plan that beautifully combines movement and art.
Resources
The Power of an Audience: Social Media in the Classroom
A classroom is a captive audience and social media in the classroom is a powerful way for students to have a voice, that should be used effectively.
Advocacy
Social Justice & The Arts
Social justice is center stage today. As educators are job is to present facts without bias.
Strategies
Line Graph Listening Map Strategy
You can incorporate the math of graphing and the science of sound, while creating a piece of abstract art, with this line graph strategy.
Educator PD
What Not to Say About Art In Front of Kids
What adults say when they talk to kids about art, creativity and artistic abilities or inabilities can shape how children start thinking about their own.
Curriculum
How to Connect through Media Arts with Don Goble
As educators we often find ourselves sitting in a presentation like Media Arts, learning from fellow teachers and if you’re lucky you think to yourself.
Strategies
Invitation Not Expectation: Encouraging Participation from Reticent Students
But we educators need to remember that we have to create an environment that is encouraging participation from students by allowing them to choose their pat
Strategies
Level Up Your Integration of the Arts: Map Skills
Are you looking for ways to engage your students during social studies?
Classroom Management
Who’s Really At Risk?
At risk is an adjective used to describe some of our challenging students.
Educator PD
3 Creative Ways to Introduce STEAM Challenges
Explore our classroom warm up activities that introduce STEAM challenges or program education in a fun and memorable way.
Strategies
Text Space Dance Arts Integration Lesson
Teaching the foundational skill of text space to our youngest learners can be a true challenge.
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