PLaiC is now a new venture for me. It is a Professional Learning Community centered around Arts Integration. What a wonderful example of community. In this case it was a community of teachers getting together to talk freely about their profession and their passion for seeing true arts integration in their teaching. There were a [...]
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Course Description: This 2 hour workshop is designed for the PreK-12 ELA teacher who wants to integrate music into their curriculum in a meaningful and practical way. You will learn how to use the active listening strategies in the book Inspired by Listening to motivate and capture the interest of your students, even if you [...]
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March is Music in Our Schools month. So let’s focus a couple of blogs on it! It is not an accident that we chose “community” as the focus for this month either, because music is a very powerful community builder! Years ago, I came across this wonderful quote: “No art form creates community as quickly [...]
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Inspired by Chopin’s Prelude in A Major Op.28, No. 7 (48 sec.) This is a special collection of poems composed by workshop participants at the TIC Workshop “Building Creativity, Community and Character Through Music” on Saturday 3/6. These and other works can be found under the Resources tab – Examples of Work Enjoy! The Mountain [...]
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Teachers collaborating, sharing ideas and resources to bring all the arts into their teaching. This week’s focus – Building Community through the Arts.
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This month, The Inspired Classroom is happy to announce our teacher feature blogger, Ayanna. She is a teacher, a musician and a poet! Ayanna Gallant is a graduate of UNH with a B.A. in Music Education. She is a Master of Education candidate of Lesley University where she is studying Curriculum and Instruction Through Integrated [...]
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Join us at the Press Room in Portsmouth for Larry Simon’s Beat Night – jazz and poetry 7-8 p.m. and readings 8-9 p.m., on the second floor. (Hosted by my good pal, Ayanna Gallant!) Meet us at 6:30 in front of the building to get a table together. Sit for the evening with a cocktail [...]
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Education, in some areas is changing and, if it’s not, it needs to be. I firmly believe that in order for this to happen successfully, we teachers need to be the driving force. No longer can we sit back and have change happen from the top down. Instead change needs to happen from the ground [...]
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My biggest need as a professional is time, and in particular, time to collaborate with other teachers. There is just no time to do what I really want to do at the level of quality that I would like to do it. I am fortunate enough to have an hour long prep time each day. [...]
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