Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, arts educator testimonials, community building, create, creative process, cynthia crump taggart, experiential learning, MAEIA, music education, professional development, professional learning, reflection, response, ryan d. shaw, SAEDAE, standards, stuart chapman-hill

If you want to get a group of educators chattering in a hurry, walk into a teachers’ lounge and toss out a favorite educational “buzz” word or phrase. One of my favorites, as a middle...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, arts education, artsedweek, becauseofartsed, impact of the arts

Have you heard? It is National Arts Education Week!  September 11-17, 2016. The National Arts Education Week page on the Americans for the Arts website offers three...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment art making, arts education, class engagement, classroom management, creative process, creativity, professional development, student engagement, teaching, teaching the arts

I am a reader. I am at my best when I have new information to process and to apply to my teaching and my life. Recently, a mentee asked me to provide a list of...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment SEL, Social Emotional Learning

Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles on social-emotional learning in and through the arts. Previous posts introduced: