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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Article: Take Two: Teaching Revision Through the Arts
Find tips on how the arts support revision in the writing curriculum, and differentiate the writing process using the arts
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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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Article: A Team Effort: Volunteers in Arts Classrooms
Learn how to successfully manage volunteers in your arts classroom. Get tips from one visual art specialist who works with dozens of volunteers a year
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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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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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