As another new school year begins, anxious and excited feelings and thoughts flow through the minds, bodies and souls of…
Physical Distance Learning: Resources, Materials and Lesson Plans
To all the teachers, administrators, school staff, students and guardians who are embarking on another unprecedented school year; know that…
Turning the Dismantling of Monuments Into Teachable Moments
The recent iconoclasm via the removal, distortion and/or defacement of statues, plaques and reliefs dedicated to historical figures who have…
Find Your Way Back
In the era of 23andMe, Ancestry.com and other personal genomics and biotechnology companies, the age old question ‘where am I…
Creating Refuge by Living, Loving and Learning Artfully
Pandemics, social and political upheaval and climate change have all poignantly shown us how unpredictable life is. The lack of…
Education and Empowerment via Entertainment Justice
Generations of human beings have taught and learned valuable lessons from songs that are created within the community and are…
Nature’s Classroom
Forest schools are a popular pedagogical method and physical educational environment throughout Scandinavian countries, beginning in Sweden and Denmark during…
Maintenance Art: Ecology, Civility and Empathy through Artful Learning
With the pandemic still looming large throughout the world, especially here in the United States, it is important that we…
Chutes and Scaffolds
In 1973, contemporary artist and elementary school art teacher, Ana Mendieta, created a performative work of art called Parachute, in…
‘Funktional’ Art Education
I’m not a religiously observant Jew, but my Jewishness is a large part of who I am today. My realization…
Artfully Learning 