Approaches
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.
Social Emotional Learning
In a time when schools are facing issues with bullying, poverty, and intense expectations, social emotional learning is more important than ever. As a tool for making meaning and communication, the arts can have a profound impact on the social emotional health of our students. In this section, you'll find resources and tips for integrating SEL with the Arts in your own classroom. Want more? Explore our online SEL and the Arts course for 25 PD hours.
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Strategies and Standards
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.
Educator PD
2013 Connectivity Arts Integration Conference: The HeART of the Core
Connectivity Conference is the only National Virtual Arts Integration Conference.
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Finding an Arts Integration Buddy
Why not employ the same technique for creating Arts Integration lessons by finding an Arts Integration Buddy?
Approaches
Build-a-Brand Infographic
We've been discussing how to build your own brand a lot here lately.
Approaches
Blogging to be Better
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.
Approaches
Building Your Brand as an Educator
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.
Resources
Are You a Provocative Educator?
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.
Strategies
Now That’s Getting Personal!
When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.
Resources
What’s Your Ship Date?
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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