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Jaime Patterson is the Director of Content for The Institute. She understands educators need practical, time-saving ideas for bringing creativity into their classroom. These articles offer resources on the top issues facing educators today.
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The Art of Creating Community
Building community through the arts creates deeper, lasting connections by creating safe and enriching environments for children.
Classroom Management
Classroom Management and Relationships Go Hand-In-Hand
You might not think it, but classroom management and building relationships with your students go hand-in-hand.
Curriculum
Watercolor Optical Illusions Lesson
Optical illusions are a natural way to integrate visual art and science.
Advocacy
3 Essential Steps to Building Valuable Relationships With Parents
Gone are the days of reaching parents with a sheet of paper filled with words.
Advocacy
The Power of Positive Relationships in Schools
Building parent teacher relationships on your campus will help to help free up valuable classroom time constraints to allow for more creativity.
Advocacy
Conferencing to Build Community in Your Arts Program
Being an arts educator during conference time can be lonely but when we reach out and build community through the arts, we form a village.
Advocacy
5 Ways to Empower Yourself
Forming a teacher student relationship (or teacher/teacher) can be tricky, but we have some great tips that will reward you handsomely.
Strategies
5 Ways to Integrate with Music
Use these 5 strategies to help integrate with music during your classroom instruction.
Resources
4 Effective Ways to Use the Single Most Powerful EdTech Tool
” The trainer’s response? The camera!
Classroom Management
Hyperlinked Planning and Instruction
Hyperlinks give us a way to effectively collate materials for planning and present possibilities to students in instruction.
Classroom Management
3 Ways to Make Your E-Life More Manageable
It's no better to have unorganized digital data laying around than it is to have papers and clutter everywhere!
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