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Student, Teacher or Both? Lessons Learned in the Discovery of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Best Practices for Effective, Organic Application
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Culturally Responsive Teaching
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a four part series by Nafeesah Symonette on the important topic of culturally responsive teaching. Be sure to check out her first post
Continue ReadingCheryl L. Poole: Helping Our Evaluators Understand
Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment agency, arts education, arts instruction, Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness, early career, educator evaluation, MAEIA assessments, storytelling, teacher observation
Eavesdropping on a Teacher’s Conversation Recently, I had the opportunity to be present with a small group of art and music teachers. They were young and relatively new to their career. Their...
Continue ReadingBarb Whitney: Advocating for Students through the Arts
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, Arts Education Field Guide, Arts Education for America's Students, Arts Education Partnership, ArtScan, Barb Whitney, Creative Many Michigan, Critical Links, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art, ESSA, Imagination Project, James Catterall, Lansing Arts Gallery and Education Center, MAEIA, UCLA
Access to the arts for students in schools offers an avenue for self-expression and a source of inspiration. Beyond that, the arts develop students’ critical thinking skills. Additionally, numerous studies prove the arts benefit academic...
Continue ReadingFormative Assessment and Fine Arts Education: Embracing Assessment to Support Student Needs
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Formative Assessment
Editor’s Note This is the second of a three part blog series by Tara Kintz exploring the intersections of formative assessment and the fine arts. In this blog she prompts us...
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