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7 Reasons You Need a Photo Booth in the Art Room

The lighting in schools can be horrible. Whether it’s old fluorescent lights or windowless classrooms, finding good light in the...
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6 Tips on How to Make the Best Rubric

Have you ever scored a student’s artwork on a rubric only to add up the points and disagree with the...
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3 Quick Ways to Assess Student Learning in the Art Room

How do you know your students are learning? How can you quickly and simply assess student learning? What assessment techniques...
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2 Ways to Use Take-Home Assessments in the Art Room

Assessment can be an overwhelming word. That word can put a lot of pressure on our students, and it can...
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3 Practical Ways to Assess Student Growth

Educators are expected to demonstrate student growth in their classrooms. For art teachers, this can be daunting because we are...
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Podcast

Digital Portfolios and So Much More . . . (Ep. 112)

Digital portfolios are an incredible tool for both learning and advocacy, but they are also intimidating if you don’t know...
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How to Engage Your Students’ Portrait Superpowers

Portraits are a staple of almost every art curriculum. There are several ways to approach this project at each grade...
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Podcast

Using Games for Assessment (Ep. 106)

Assessment can be difficult. But when you do them right, they can turn your art classroom into a more fun,...
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Podcast

Banishing Those Boring Critiques! (Ep. 172)

It can be difficult to run successful critiques in your classroom, and find ways to get all your kids involved....
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Article

5 Superpowers All Art Teachers Have

Administrators often call on art teachers when they want a public art display in the building, art for their office,...
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An Authentic Way to Show Student Growth in the Art Room

It’s easy to think showing growth in the art room in a meaningful way is difficult. After all, with an...
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5 Ways to Make Giving Student Feedback Simple

Giving students feedback is important, but it can also be time-consuming. Plus, sometimes students don’t even glance at your feedback...
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