Series: Arts Integration
The Kennedy Center's perspective on the principles and best practices for arts integration
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Tipsheet: Art Critiques Made Easy
One-word answers and grunts don't count as student critiques of art. How to foster interesting and authentic discussion in the classroom
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Article: Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Educators offer voter- and data-driven advocacy
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Take Five: Arts in the 21st Century Classroom
The skills our students need can be readily integrated into arts lessons and vice versa
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Tipsheet: Beyond Food & Fiestas
Practical ideas for creating authentic cultural experiences for your students
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Article: Constructivism: Actively Building Arts Education
A brief introduction to constructivism and how arts educators can utilize it effectively
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Article: Creative Conflict: Resolving & Avoiding Conflict in Group Art Projects
Explore ways to handle conflicts among students while teaching them that voicing their opinions matters, as well as being able to negotiate and compromise
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Take Five: Cultural Connections
Enliven and enrich your cultural heritage month observances through the arts
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Tipsheet: Dance and Historical Events
Dance helps students better understand the far-reaching impact of historical events on many areas of a nation’s life
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Article: Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
How can arts educators provide engaging and useful feedback? Here are seven suggestions to get you started
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Article: Encouraging Your Students to Become Choreographers
Use these great ideas to get your students choreographing at your school
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Tipsheet: Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Get your students up with these games that are great for any size class and classroom
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Tipsheet: Five Easy Social Dances for Early Elementary
Channel your students’ love of movement with these easy social dances
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Article: Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition
Help students build techniques to interpret what they see into written words using art
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Tipsheet: Going Public
Here are the best and safest ways to share your student's work with the world!
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Article: How Dance Can Teach Literature
How to incorporate dance into a traditional English classroom
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Article: Inspired Classrooms
Need to battle off those creativity killers? Here are seven simple steps for educators to create a classroom environment that is friendly to creativity
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Article: It Takes a Village: Parent Volunteers
Learn how parent volunteers can contribute to the learning environment with the right goal-oriented guidelines
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Article: The Key to a Strong Workforce
How to help students learn skills essential to the 21st century workforce in and through arts learning
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Take Five: Music Matters
Incorporating music makes content lessons more exciting and memorable. And it's easy to do!
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Article: New Paths to Learning
An introduction for educators to differentiation instruction through the arts for academically gifted students
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Article: Opera-tunity Knocks
A guide for all opera newbies, both young and old, with some hints as to how to calm the opera skeptic
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Article: Poets and Puppets: Learning English
Help English-learning students build language and communication skills through poetry and puppetry
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Article: Portfolios: Assessment Across the Arts
An introduction for arts educators to portfolio assessment
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Article: Process Drama: Taking a Walk in Someone Else's Shoes
Process drama is an imaginative tool for non-arts teachers and students to explore issues and solve problems
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Article: Reaching Out to School Board Members
Use these tips to connect with school board members in meaningful ways to ensure they make arts education a priority
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Tipsheet: Reading Into Action
Make reading part of your physical education class and exercise students' bodies and brains!
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Article: Reading Through the Arts
How theater and visual arts can help to engage your students to read
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Article: Rhythm and Raga
Learn how to incorporate and teach Indian music in your classroom
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Tipsheet: Shall We Dance?: Foolproof Ways to Bring Dance into Your Classroom
Try these five easy ways to use dance and movement in your classroom
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Tipsheet: Social Dances for Upper Elementary
Some fun social dances to try with your upper-elementary-level students
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Article: Speak Up for the Arts
As a teacher you can help parents become strong arts education advocates
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Tipsheet: Stories Brought to Life
Learn about ways to increase student participation and skill building during interactive read-alouds
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Article: Supporting Artistically Gifted Students
Learn about artistically gifted students and how can others can help them reach their potential
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Series: Take Five
Tips and tricks about how to enhance and improve your teaching and classroom
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Tipsheet: Teaching Students about Self-Assessment in the Arts
Introduction to self-assessment strategies involving observation and reflection
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Tipsheet: Teaching Students to Critique
Helping your students learn how to creatively critique each other's work
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Tipsheet: Thinking Outside the Test
Introduction to performance assessment, which provides educators with "real-world" arts assessment strategies
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Take Five: Thought-Provoking Art
There’s no need to divide critical thinking from creativity. The two easily meld into classroom activities with art as the starting point
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Series: Tipsheets
Tips for bringing the arts into your daily practice
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Article: Why and How to Engage English Language Learners Through the Arts
Enhancing instruction with performing, visual and language arts can build skills, confidence, and understanding for ELLs
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Tipsheet: What Do I Say?
For the young theater student, a teacher’s feedback can inspire or crush in a matter of minutes. Learn how to assess your student’s work responsibly
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Article: What’s in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
This article provides an overview for users of the KCAAEN Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit
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Article: When Music Goes Marching to War
Explore music’s important role in the American Civil War. Includes activities for the classroom
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