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Empower Yourself with SEAL

Empower Yourself with SEAL

by Elizabeth Peterson | SEAL: Social-Emotional Artistic Learning

Do you feel EMPOWERED in your classroom? Woah, that’s a loaded question, right? Well, that’s what this 30 minute mini-workshop teaches us. It was originally given live on Facebook to help teachers understand how they can effectively empower themselves.  If...
Music at the Core Resources

Music at the Core Resources

by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration

Today I am excited to be presenting at the second annual Connectivity Conference hosted by Susan Riley of educationcloset.com.  Her site has many wonderful resources for teachers who want to begin or continue integrating the arts into their work.  If you haven’t...
Take Charge of Your Own PD

Take Charge of Your Own PD

by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics

When you become a teacher, you NEVER leave school.  I don’t just mean you go to school every day, I also mean you never stop having to take classes.  Teachers are life-long learners in the most pure sense of the phrase.  We are constantly learning new methods,...
Teacher Art Retreat – Plan Ahead, Save Big, Earn Credit

Teacher Art Retreat – Plan Ahead, Save Big, Earn Credit

by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration

Plan ahead for the Teacher Art Retreat: Save Big and Earn Credit! Teacher Art Retreat eNews 2013, Issue 2 It’s time to plan ahead for the Summer Teacher Art Retreat We have great announcements, so read on! This summer’s Teacher Art Retreat is promising to...
Create and Celebrate

Create and Celebrate

by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration

This past week was the second annual Teacher Art Retreat and it was a “wonderful three days!” as one of the participant wrote.  We sang, danced, drew, glued, told stories, listened to music, drummed, looked for math in nature, acted, ate, relaxed, played...
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Learn 4 Tried and True Arts Integration Strategies you can use Tomorrow! Includes: ideas in music, visual art, dance and drama ideas for science, social studies, ELA, math and SEAL; objectives and assessments for the art and content area; a rubric to use for each strategies

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