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How to Take Letter Grades Out of Your Art Room to Refocus on Learning

Do you ever feel like grading is a thorn in your side? Many art teachers do! Giving a letter grade...
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How to Motivate Your Students Beyond Grades

Students come to your art room from many diverse backgrounds. They have different home lives, cultures, religions, and, of course,...
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27 Ways to Design an Inviting, Functional, and Flexible Art Room

The art room is a special place where form must meet function. After all, it is a production facility! Students...
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6 Exhilarating Classroom Management Games You’ll Want to Play in the Art Room

Every teacher wants to start their school year off on the right foot. Why not do it with a great...
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16 Things I Wish I Knew About Teaching as a New Art Teacher

Congratulations! You are officially a licensed art teacher! Student teaching may have been challenging, smooth sailing, or somewhere in the...
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5 Activist Artists You Might Know and 10 You Might Not Know… Yet!

Art and activism have long been intertwined. While the popularity of protest art spiked in the 1960s with growing public...
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7 Things Art Education and Our Students Need From Us This Fall

Let’s take a collective pause. These past few years have been nothing short of exhausting. Days filled with grief, anger,...
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Utilizing Digital Portfolios (Ep. 325)

In today’s episode, Tim welcomes on new guest and future NOW Conference presenter Sejal Vaywala to talk about how she...
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How to Teach Self-Reflection, Critiques, Artist Statements, and Curatorial Rationales Like a Pro

Teaching art in the 21st-century is different from previous centuries. (Yes, some of us have taught in two different centuries!)...
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A Unique Portrait Lesson to Build Empathy and Share Stories

What do Freddie Mercury, Albert Einstein, Mila Kunis, Salvador Dalí, the Dalai Lama, Gloria Estefan, M.I.A., Wassily Kandinsky, and Madeleine...
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6 Skills Art Teachers Gained This Past Year and 14 Ideas to Try

The pandemic has taken educators on a wild ride since the spring of the 2019–2020 school year. Distance learning was...
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What Do New Teachers Need to Know About PD? (Ep. 321)

In the fifth of an ongoing series of podcasts for new teachers, Janet Taylor joins Tim to discuss what new...
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