• Becoming Trauma-Informed

    Arts Education Conference
    Presented by Jacob Dancer III, LCSW / 16/12/2016

    This keynote speaker deck provides a primer on trauma-informed practices including: recognizing the importance of being trauma informed, understanding the symptoms of trauma, the impact of trauma on youth, the Universal Precautions Approach to trauma, and how your role can make an impact.

  • Bloom’s Verbs to Use

    Curriculum Institute
    Ingenuity, presented by Karen Erickson, Creative Directions / 07/07/2015

    This document provides a list of measurable, observable, and actionable verbs to help describe and classify observable knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, and abilities.

  • Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi “How to Be an Antiracist”

    Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi, Unlocking Us

    In this podcast, professor Ibram Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, discuss racial disparities, policy, and equality, and How to Be an Antiracist.

  • Capturing the Sublime: Lesson Planning that Works

    Arts Education Conference
    Hubbard Street Dance / 16/12/2016

    This presentation covers best practices in creating engaging lesson plans that capture 'Big Ideas', essential understandings, and alignment with learning standards and goals.

  • Changing the Dynamic: Creating a Healthy Organizational Culture

    Changing the Dynamic: Creating a Healthy Organizational Culture
    Ingenuity, presented by Morten Group, LLC / 22/03/2019

    This participant handbook outlines all information pertaining to the Ingenuity institute, Changing the Dynamic: Creating a Healthy Organizational Culture, and includes a list of terminology, practical learning scenarios, and additional activities and resources to support learning and advocacy on issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Child Development and Arts Education: A Review of Current Research and Best Practices

    The College Board for the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

    This report is divided into a series of four literature reviews, addressing the disciplines of dance, music, theatre, and visual art. The reviews are further divided by grade band. Within each grade band, information on both general and discipline-specific developmental characteristics of students are offered, as well as a series of recommendations of specific pedagogical practices that address social, emotional, and/or cognitive needs and abilities of students of that particular discipline and grade band.

  • Choosing the Right Assessment Tools

    Curriculum Institute
    Janet Fulks, Bakersfield College / 07/07/2015

    This document, designed to help educators and organizations select assessment tools, offers examples of various assessment tools in a table format.

  • Clap Once if You Can Hear Me: Setting Expectations and Creating Boundaries

    Clap Once If You Can Hear Me: Setting Expectations and Creating Boundaries
    Ingenuity, presented by Reginald Harris, InContext Advising, LLC / 05/02/2019

    As educators, it is quite common to come across student defiance, power struggles, and student meltdowns while in the classroom. Because the classroom environment is partially dependent upon students (who may be responding to stress and/or trauma in their lives), it's important to create quality, responsive instruction, consisting of setting clear expectations, mutually-understood boundaries, and a safe space for exploring artistic practice.

  • Clap Once if You Can Hear Me: Setting Expectations and Creating Boundaries

    Clap Once If You Can Hear Me: Setting Expectations and Creating Boundaries
    Ingenuity, presented by Reginald Harris, InContext Advising, LLC / 02/05/2019

    As educators, it is quite common to come across student defiance, power struggles, and student meltdowns while in the classroom. Because the classroom environment is partially dependent upon students (who may be responding to stress and/or trauma in their lives), it's important to create quality, responsive instruction, consisting of setting clear expectations, mutually-understood boundaries, and a safe space for exploring artistic practice.

  • Classroom Management Strategies in the Framework for Teaching for Teaching Artists

    Classroom Management Institute
    Ingenuity, presented by Ron Anderson, The Danielson Group / 10/09/2015

    This document provides classroom management strategies for teaching artists through the lens of the CPS Framework for Teaching.

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