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4 Truths Your Budding Artists Discover From Service Learning Projects in the...
Service Learning In The Art Room Have you ever wanted to make a change in your community, but felt like your efforts wouldn't make a difference? Well, lucky for you, YOU are a teacher, who changes the...
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3 Tips For Managing A Service Learning Project In The Art Room
Have you ever wanted to do something exciting with your Artists, but then when it came down to crunch time, everything became very overwhelming? Because that's what happened to me! But, I worked...
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5 Easy Ways to Celebrate Youth Art Month
1. Seek endorsements Endorsements are just basically your local leader's autographs on a paper that says they support your cause. You can get a signature from your school superintendent, principal,...
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5 Reasons To Post Your Students' Artwork
The other day, I ran into a few of my Art teacher friends at an art museum workshop. After catching up about our current projects and local art shows, we were discussing the different ways that we...
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3 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Spring Survival in the Art Room
Ah, spring... The smell of flowers in the air, the sound of birds in the distance... and the feeling that you're STUCK inside with the madness that IS your students' spring fever right now! Art shows,...
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Convention + Connections
Phew, talk about a busy convention! I felt like my brain was about to explode. And that was just after the first day!There were connections, of course, including chats, both online and in person with...
View ArticleService Learning Reflections
Whew! This has been one of the busiest Aprils so far of my entire teaching career! There are a few reasons why I've been in quite a frenzy, but one of the largest projects to put the final touches on...
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Last week, my Service Learners took a trip to a local park to plant a native garden.We worked with a local organization, who serves the community with meeting the need we defined during our...
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The last step in the process of Service Learning is Demonstration.Demonstration celebrates and recognizes the hard work of the students. They are given the opportunity to culminate their project with a...
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Budget Writing Tips for Grants
While prepping the budget for this year's Service Learning Project grant, I found a few tricks along the way that helped me to work with the figures and get the project adequately funded. Here are...
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Back At It! And A Major Announcement!
I don't know about you, but for me, time seems to slip through my fingers in the summer. All school year long, we watch the clock, counting down to the next class, maximizing the minutes in the...
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How to Manage Your Back to School Jitters!
Back to school jitters aren't just for kids! Art Teachers definitely get them, too! Between the classroom and supply prep and the demands of back to school responsibilities, the fear for the year...
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The Easiest Art Show I've Ever Hung
Tri Fold Presentation Board + Zip Glue + Tablecloth Roll = Art Show! This was the first Art Show I've hung that I have not stressed over day and night for weeks! I had some presentation boards...
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Abstract Zoom: A Beginning Value Study for Middle Schoolers
Based on a Realism exhibit and a Museum Art Educator's Workshop, I challenged my Middle Schoolers to a Value Study. We discussed the difference between abstract and realism in art and in photography....
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Beginning Realism: First Scaled Still Life Project
Through a unit focusing on abstract vs realistic art, I decided to provide the experience for my middle school students to try a still life for the very first time. And WOW was I impressed! First, I...
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My Very First Live #K12artchat on Twitter
Last week, I participated in my first #K12artchat on Twitter. I first heard about this whole thing at the National Art Education Convention '15 in the spring here in New Orleans when I popped in to...
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Quick Fix: A Sink Shortcut for the Art Room
My Solution For Eliminating the Line at the Sink After Painting I have a problem. A very common Art Teacher problem. My sink is oh so VERY small! After a particularly busy clean-up day working with...
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Journey to Journaling: Part I
I've always liked the idea of mixing Literacy and the Arts. After all, Art is the universal language through which to communicate.Literacy and the English language is just a subset of communication...
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How We Do Printmaking in the Art Room
Printmaking in the Art Room sounds really messy and also sounds like a lot of work. Which is exactly why I had avoided doing it as a class activity for years... But, last year, I decided just to GO...
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Invitation for Creation: October
The lessons I teach in K-5 Art are typically highly structured, meaning they are usually teacher-led. But while planning lessons during a busy week before a seasonal break, I first saw an opportunity...
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