Active listening is one of the most valuable skills that an educator can bring into the classroom in order to…
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…
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…
Differentiation and Multiple Intelligences
In the educational environment, differentiation of instruction is a vital methodology educators use in order to ensure that students are…
Transcending Boundaries
Art transcends borders, which is evident from just a quick survey of gloabal art history. Ideas, movements, techniques, and materials…
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…
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…
Summer Reading List
It’s that time of the year when both educators and students are dreaming of long days on the beach (or…
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…
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…
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