Arts Integration
Creativity and Academics: The Power of an Arts Education
Increased self-confidence and self-understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition are among the many reasons for teaching the arts.
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Arts Integration
How to Infuse the Arts Into Core Curriculum (and Why It Matters)
Successful arts integration includes approaching your Curriculum like an artist, a rich process for a rich product, cultivating artist-researchers, and combining content with art.
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Growth Mindset
Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback.
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Student Engagement
The 8 Minutes That Matter Most
Like a story, lessons deserve compelling beginnings and endings. From pop culture connections to finishing with a level...
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School Leadership
How Leaders Can Improve Their Schools’ Cultural Competence
Helping students learn to accept differences is one way to overcome the hate we see in so many facets of our society...
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Learning Environments
6 Tips for Supercharging Your Learning Stations
Switching between activities can shake students up, turning them into active rather than passive learners.
5-Minute Film Festival
5-Minute Film Festival: 7 Video Writing Prompts for Young Authors
Looking for a new way to spark creativity in your students' writing? Try these video writing prompts.
Brain-Based Learning
Laughter, Learning, and Why Teens Are Such a Tough Crowd
Laughter, risk, and novelty stimulate the teenage brain. Make these elements work for you by incorporating the strategies and rhythms of stand-up comedy into your teaching.
Game-Based Learning
Gamifying Your Class to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Introduce game dynamics like leveling up and earning badges into your classroom to boost student engagement.
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Growth Mindset
Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback.
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Critical Thinking
Mastering Self-Assessment: Deepening Independent Learning Through the Arts
Develop your students' ability to self-assess by showing them examples of mastery, equipping them with technical vocabulary, and providing them with opportunities to practice peer critique.
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Advisory
Support Seminars: How to Prepare Students for High School and Beyond
Learn how New Mexico School for the Arts structures, schedules, and staffs daily support seminars to make their students college and career ready.
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Communication Skills
Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk
School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.
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The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Literacy
3 Strategies to Fire Up Hesitant Writers
Young writers often feel blocked by the act of writing itself. Use these ideas to help get their thoughts flowing.
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Student Engagement
Motivating the Unmotivated
A simple, no-cost video chat program motivates unruly, disengaged elementary and middle school students through relationships with high school students who demonstrate the value of education.
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Arts Integration
Arts Integration: Resource Roundup
All points of arts integration -- from benefits and implementation to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia blog posts, articles, and videos.
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Student Engagement
3 Ways to Be Less Boring
To avoid turning into that boring teacher, try waiting longer for student responses, teaching "do not call on me" signals, and enjoying these young people for who they are.
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5-Minute Film Festival: 7 Video Writing Prompts for Young Authors
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Game-Based Learning
Gamifying Your Class to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Introduce game dynamics like leveling up and earning badges into your classroom to boost student engagement.
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Game-Based Learning
3 Ways to Use Game-Based Learning
There are several strategies for gamifying your classwork, and they’re not mutually exclusive—you can combine them.
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Lesson Plans
A Student-Led Pokémon Go Project Transforms a School
Inspired by the augmented reality game, students welcome mutants into their school -- and learn about collaboration and...
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Game-Based Learning
Action Video Gameplay: Benefits and Dangers
While evidence suggests that action video games enhance higher-order brain functions, the violence built into most...
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Teacher Development
The Risks of Guesstimating Homework Time
Studies show that homework is ineffective beyond a certain amount per night.
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Literacy
Using Graphic Organizers Correctly
It’s much more important for a student to practice writing -- the only way to build writing fluency -- than to fill in...
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Parent Partnership
5 Ways to Create a Strong Parent Partnership
A former middle school teacher and parent of a middle school student shares her regrets in hopes of helping other...
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Teacher Development
Myth-Busting: "If I Just Had Better Students"
How to avoid falling into the trap of thinking student success has only to do with the students.
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