Episode 19: Culturally Connecting & Celebrating
Connecting students to a culture through art is a powerful way of valuing the history and heritage of a culture. “It’s important to learn about art traditions in their own right and n ...
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Episode 18: Engaging Students in a Virtual or Hybrid Classroom
Engaging students in a virtual or hybrid classroom takes imagination. It’s hard right now, be as kind to yourselves as you are to your students and consider goals for the year from a different a ...
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Episode 17: Building Relationships with ALL of Our Students
The Anti-Racist Art Teachers work towards removing biases, stereotypes, and false narratives in art education. Having an anti-racist curriculum “isn’t achieved with a checklist,” it ...
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Episode 16: Building EQ – Emotional Intelligence through Visual Storytelling
Students (and teachers, administration, parents, all of us) are struggling to process what is happening in the world these days. How can visual storytelling and creativity in general help? In this epi ...
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Episode 15: Creating Diversity through Character Development
Art is storytelling. Creating authentic, honest, and real characters takes research, patience, and a whole lot of being careful. This week, The Creativity Department speaks with sequential artist and ...
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Episode 14: Discussing Art with Students
Generally speaking, we all struggle with open-ended discussions. More than ever, we are afraid to be wrong. This week, The Creativity Department speaks with Trevor Bryan (@trevorabryan), author of The ...
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Episode 13: AP & IB Art Topics
Investigation, experimentation, and communication are skills used by all artists and designers. Developing these skills is the focus of AP & IB Art programs. This week, high school art educator Co ...
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Episode 12: Graphic Novels and Visual Narratives
During this episode, Michael Hernandez (educator, speaker, and author) comments “students are hungry to do something that is relevant, meaningful, and that has purpose.” Listen in to ...
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Episode 11: Student Empowerment
The difference between engaged and empowered students boils down to what you do for them versus what they do for themselves. In today’s world of constant distraction, students must be intrinsica ...
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Episode 10: C4 - Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities
Empathic curiosity, radical imagination, design thinking…these skills are essential for developing well-rounded students prepared to live in the world. In this episode, The Creativity Departmen ...
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