Active listening is one of the most valuable skills that an educator can bring into the classroom in order to … More
Category: Education
Activating Art and Education for Activism
“Art isn’t functional.” Too often, I hear that statement (or a variation of it) when I engage in a conversation … More
Artful Assessment: Depicting the Problem, Visualizing the Solutions
Education is intrinsically an art form in practice. There is no single way to instruct, teach, or learn. As discussed … More
Differentiation and Multiple Intelligences
In the educational environment, differentiation of instruction is a vital methodology educators use in order to ensure that students are … More
Transcending Boundaries
Art transcends borders, which is evident from just a quick survey of gloabal art history. Ideas, movements, techniques, and materials … More
Expressing Memory Through Art – Experiential Living/Learning
When we think about memory in an educational context, we might recall cramming dates, people, places, formulas, vocabulary, and mnemonic … More
Making Our Space / Documenting Our Place – Building and Maintaining a Better World
In the traditional capitalist method of production, the finished product is the only element of value to the producer. The … More
Summer Reading List
It’s that time of the year when both educators and students are dreaming of long days on the beach (or … More
Living in a Digital (Material) World
Within the ever developing digital world, one might predict that we are becoming more untethered from material constraints. This was … More
Embodied Learning Makes ‘The Classics’ Relevant
Embodied Learning is a Constructivist educational theory and practice that integrates sensory and cognitive responses in order to solve a … More