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Listening with Intention: Building Better Listeners through Improvisational Dance
We can make that analogy for students between being constructive conversationalists, and active listeners and being good improvisational dance partners.
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The Arts as Core Content for 21st Century Learning
Where do the arts fit in, especially in building connections?
Strategies
Inspiration and Affirmation
Every now and then life hands you an experience that helps serve as both inspiration and aspiration.
Educator PD
Moving, Shaking, and Music-Making: Providing Creative Release During Testing Season
How can we integrate the arts into testing season to provide our students with some sort of creative release?
Curriculum
Test Prep: How the arts can assist in the process
High stakes test prep is the way of educational life, and whether we support that vision or not, it's here to stay.
Strategies
Core Music Anchor Standard 1
This is the first in an 11-month series where we shall break down the Core Music Anchor Standard for General Music.
Organization
Test Creative Ideas with a 90-Day Cycle
Consider a structure to Test Creative Ideas and innovations with a 90-Day Cycle of Networked Improvement.
Educator PD
Happy Happenstance! Finding New Uses for an Old Game
Once I started to think about how else this old game could be used, I found lots of possibilities.
Strategies
Unpacking the Dance Standards: Standard 7
In unpacking this dance standards we need to analyze what our students need to know, understand, and be able to do.
Strategies
The Umbrella of Inquiry: Problem, Project, and Passion-Based Learning
The umbrella of inquiry includes Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, Passion-Based Learning, where do we begin?
Strategies
I Like to Move It: Combining Gesture with Speech
Many of us unconsciously use gestures as we speak, but it turns out gesture may actually be an important aspect of language development and has implications for educators on increasing effectiveness of instruction.
Strategies
Technique, or not to Technique?
How we establish our programs, where we place the focus, & our future visions are always going to vary.
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