Anyone who knows me, know I love dance! And I bring movement into my classroom any chance I can – which can be difficult to do sometimes. Here is this week’s guest blogger, Lauren Bailey to discuss some of the great things dance and movement can do. Hopefully this will motivate you to do more [...]
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I’m completing a online wellness challenge through my school’s health insurance. Overall, I’m logging in my time exercising each day and weight each week, but each week there is also some other challenge. One week it was to eat up to 9 servings of fruits and veggies, the next it was to keep a food [...]
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This week, I wrote a guest post for Jessica Balsley’s website Art of Education. She is an art teacher who provides many resources and ideas for other teachers interested and invested in arts education. I decided to stay with my focus on arts integration and cater to her major audience – art teachers. Here is [...]
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Every year at this time, our fourth grade team starts to prepare our students for their “Fourth Grade Celebration.” It is not a graduation, but rather a time when the students and teachers create a performance that celebrates their time at the Cashman Elementary School as they prepare for middle school. Our theme this year [...]
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At the beginning of the school year, teachers want to send a message to their students: “We are a community of learners, together we will challenge each other and share with one another.” We have a variety of ways to go about doing this and for some, they try to do it through the arts. [...]
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This past week, a group of teachers that work in my district got together for our monthly (3 months strong!) PLaiC meeting. This is a PLC (Professional Learning Community) session that centers around Arts Integration. The format for this session was different than that in the past and I believe it was very effective. We [...]
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PLaiC: EXPERIENCE, REFLECT, APPLY A group of Amesbury teachers PreK-12 meet as a PLC (Professional Learning Community) to discuss arts integration and its impact on students.
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