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Typography and Elements of Design
By arming students with an awareness of how typography can affect an audience, students can create effective presentations and become adept communicators.
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Bringing History into the Classroom
Acess to history archives, video, documents, and other tangible items that will get your history lessons out of the textbooks into students' imaginations.
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Time: A “Four Letter Word” in Education
Time is the only thing that allows things to be done well.
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How to Catch a Shark – Getting Your Students To Use Descriptive and Specific Language
At every opportunity ask students to dig deeper into their observations and rationales by using descriptive and specific language.
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Touchpoint Ideas for Effective Classroom Experiences
Discover the educational benefits of an effective classroom layout.
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Designing a Difference
Learn to work with others to create real change, however small, in the world.
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Putting Words into Art
Words or ideas that come to mind as we examined the painting carefully.
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Creating Context and Relevance Part II
Creating Context and relevance process after being inspired by the book Making Learning Whole by Project Zero founder David Perkins.
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Getting Serious about Having Fun
Teaching and learning are very serious business but because they are so important, we educators must get serious about having fun.
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Arts Integrated Learning Stations
I have used learning stations very successfully at both the middle school and elementary levels.
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Teaching the Arts Teaches Communication
The truth is that you can't teach communication without teaching the arts.
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