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Building Leadership in the Classroom
Building leadership in the classroom is an amazing way to really place responsibility, ownership, and accountability into the hands of the students.
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Pat Klos taught middle school foreign languages and served as an arts integration specialist in MD. She shares how to connect literacy and the arts through visual thinking strategies.
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Core Music Anchor Standard 8
As part of our year-long series unpacking the Core Arts Standards for General Music, today we are looking at Core Music Anchor Standard 8!
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Adding Play and Maker Education to the Equation
Play and Maker Education create such a natural intersection.
Educator PD
SparkChasers Podcast: Connecting to Your Creative Genius
In today's episode of SparkChasers, we're investigating how to find your creative genius and use it as the fuel to reignite your classroom.
Classroom Management
Art and Teaching for Transfer
Art and Teaching for Transfer - By having students express learning through art, they can foster minds that are flexible, critical and ready to express.
Classroom Management
Foolproof Ways to Add Music to Your Classroom
Here's 3 foolproof ways to add music to your classroom that can be modified for any classroom -- without needing any musical ability.
Strategies
Practicing Procedures: Part II
Practicing procedures are essential to the structure of the classroom.
Strategies
Rooted in Inquiry: Problem Based Learning
Implementation of Project and Problem Based Learning is rooted in inquiry, fidelity to standards, and aimed at authentic student engagement.
Educator PD
SparkChasers Podcast: Scared of Your Reflection?
For the creative process to be most effective, reflection is the crucial step.
Educator PD
5 Easy Elementary Art Integration Ideas
Need some elementary art integration ideas for your elementary school?
Strategies
Expanding Sentences with Seurat
The lesson I found, written by Bruce Stewart, uses Seurat's art to teach the skill of expanding sentences to create meaning and imagery.
Strategies
Practicing Procedures: Part I
This week we are going to take a look at some creative ideas for each of the practicing procedures listed in last weeks' article.
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