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What To Do With An Overload of Ideas
An overload of ideas from a fellow teacher on how to organize your thoughts.
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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2016 Summer Connectivity Conference Recap
Did you miss the 2016 summer Connectivity Conference?
Resources
STEAMing into Summer Learning
It's never too early to start thinking about what new lessons to add to your repertoire for next year.
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5 Technology Tools that Support Arts Integration and STEAM
Discover the five classroom technology tools that will help blend visual arts and technology for your students.
Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Drama
Offer some parameters for creating arts centers drama for exploration and investigation through each of the arts areas.
Resources
Obtaining a 3D Model: Community of Makers
One of the ways to obtain a 3D file is to download an already created 3D model from an online database.
Resources
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Arts
The arts are a natural way to provide culturally responsive teaching.
Strategies
Adding Details to Writing with Degas
Helping students develop content for their narrative writing can be challenging.
Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Music
Discover how a classroom arts centers can liven up your classroom.
Strategies
Going Rogue for Creative Discourse
As educators, we are all about planning and creating with student outcomes.
Strategies
So You Want to Produce a Musical? Part VI: The Final Chapter
It is done. All the rehearsals, all the meetings, all the strategizing and brainstorming, all the costumes and make-up.
Strategies
Living Totem Poles: Using Dance to Extend Learning of the Northwest Coastal Native Americans
One of my favorite activities was having students create “Living Totem Poles”, our research on the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.
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