Artful Community
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. In [...]
Summer Learning, Something’s Begun
In February, upon returning from Educon I blogged about the importance of building relationships in education-and in life. This is true in the classroom, in your school, your district, your community, your family-wherever you are in life. Maybe that is why social networking apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Ning, and a host of others have reached a critical [...]
Working with Audacity
Recently, I taught two workshops using the open source audio editing software, Audacity through the Somersworth, NH School District. @brophycat (AKA Cathy Brophy, a good friend and colleague) invited me to share my knowledge of the software with preK-12 teachers and make it practical for their teaching. I was excited to do [...]
Collaboration at #ntcamp
Summer workshops are fun. You do them on your own time, connect with other teachers and learn in a stress free environment. Over the past week and a half, I was able to participate in a couple workshops, both presenting and participating.
This past weekend, I traveled down to Philly to participate in the first #ntcamp. [...]
Jazzy DADA
This month we celebrate POETRY and JAZZ. Here is an activity I would like to share with you that you can use immediately with your students to celebrate jazz, poetry and promote freedom in structure!
DADA poetry was first written by artists and poets in Paris France. They clipped words from newspapers, [...]
Musical Experiences – Composing in the Classroom
In the spirit of Music in Our Schools month, I would like to reflect some more on how music can build community, this time through composition. With MCAS (Massachusetts’s high stakes test) next week, I think it is necessary to give my students a balance of testing with play. We WILL go outside [...]
Community Built Through the Arts
One very effective way to build community in the classroom is through the arts. You may be an arts teacher or a general ed teacher, a special ed teacher, a musician, an arist or not. It doesn’t matter! If you have a group of students in your room then using the arts to build that [...]
Integrating Music into Your Core Curriculum (K-6)
Learn how you can integrate music into your core curriculum to motivate and capture the interest of your students, even if you are a not a musician yourself. Including music in meaningful and practical ways doesn’t need to be overwhelming. In this workshop you will learn a variety of [...]
Building Creativity, Community and Character Through Music
Learn how you can utilize music in your
classroom to build community, instill
strong character and inspire creativity
while teaching your core curriculum, even
if you are not a musician yourself!
Norman Rockwell – End Notes
This is part of the Norman Rockwell integration blog series. To gain access to all the blogs in this series, click the tag “Norman Rockwell”.
Doing this blog series, showed me the possibilities of Norman Rockwell’s paintings. The expanse of Rockwell’s works seem limitless – what an amazing collection of masterpieces. They always entertain [...]
