by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, Social-Emotional Learning and ARTS
What better way to teach students about Social Emotional Learning than through the ARTS? A colleague of mine said it best: “Art IS SEL!” And if music is an expression of humanity, then music is a way we can learn about our abilities to love and be...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, Social-Emotional Learning and ARTS
For the last two months, my class has been doing something special each Friday: Friendly Fridays. These are small activities that build on Social Relationships between classmates. In the past they have made notes and pictures for each other and practiced writing and...
by guest blogger | Arts Education and Integration
In our technological world, music education is being offered less and less in many school systems. Unfortunately, many schools have begun to exclude music from their curriculums to make room for other subjects. Music is an extremely important subject for all children...
by guest blogger | Arts Education and Integration, Teacher-Centered PD
I began the retreat hoping to rekindle my creative spirit and renew my interest and passion for integrating the arts in the curriculum. Art is an expression of one’s self and at the start of the retreat I was nervous to share my art–myself–with my...
by guest blogger | Arts Education and Integration
A rebus is a puzzle or story that combines words with pictures. Have your students work on drawing and conceptualization skills with this fun project that will turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they...
by Jen Daileanes | Arts Education and Integration, Teacher-Centered PD
Our summer retreats are build for teachers to rekindle a love of learning, so that they can bring that into the lives of their students. I am always amazed by the creativity of all the educators that attend the retreat and am so happy when they share their experience...
