Instructional Strategies

Have you ever felt your students’ attention and interest wane when working through long units? Sometimes it feels good to...

COVID has reshaped online learning and the use of video conferencing. A year into the pandemic, over 1.2 billion students...

Regardless of grade level or content area, SEL is a term that keeps popping up in conversations ranging from those...

We hear all the time about how our students should be working together and how we need to give them...

Nic has been working with Special Olympics Minnesota recently to design a poster series that will be in elementary schools...

Teaching kindergarteners is always a challenge. But what does it look like this year, when many kindergarteners are coming to...

Do you want to try something new on the first day but feel stuck? An engaging way to get students...

As social and emotional learning becomes more important in our classrooms, many art teachers have wanted to explore art therapy....

The beginning of the new school year brings a lot of energy, excitement, and change. We know the first days...

For many, art is inherently therapeutic. The act of creating can be a form of self-care, and it can also...

Have you ever felt as though you’re alone on an island as an art teacher? Some of us are the...

Teaching with comics offers so many opportunities for us in the art room, and so many avenues for our students...