#teachingartistresources
“Drawn to Art” is the perfect way to introduce historical and contemporary women artists to young art lovers via short graphic-novel style stories. Featuring artists from the Smithsonian collections, such as Judy Baca, Tiffany Chung, Mickalene Thomas, Ester Hernandez, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (and more), each short graphic novel is drawn by different student-illustrators from the Ringling College of Art and Design.
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This series from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is ideal for middle-school aged readers and art lovers of all ages.
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Carnegie Hall’s “Music Educators Toolbox” is a set of free online resources for music teachers includes lesson plans and activities, summative and formative assessments, video examples, and documented best practices. Designed to be effective and adaptable in a wide variety of music classrooms, the resources were developed through Carnegie Hall’s five-year residency in a New York City elementary/middle school.
The toolbox currently features grade-specific music education resources that address fundamentals of rhythm and meter, form and design, expressive qualities, pitch, and performing. Lessons are organized for classes K-2 and 3-5.
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Find the lessons here: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Music-Educators-Toolbox
Representation matters! The Anti-Racist Art Teachers website has a fantastic archive of Black/African Diaspora contemporary artists that you can explore in your classroom. The website also offers many resources for presenting BIPOC/BBIA artists in engaging, nuanced ways so you can explore their work not only during Black History Month, but all year round.
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"Engaging children with artists who look like them, have similar experiences, and come from similar backgrounds is a great source of inspiration and empowerment."
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Do you need assistance calculating rates of pay for your teaching work? Check out the Teaching Artist Guild's (TAG) Teaching Artist Pay Rate Calculator. While rates and accessibility to non-profits can vary, TAG believes that if we understand what a teaching artist ought to be paid, we can begin, as a field, to work towards a livable wage, stabilizing and strengthening the work teaching artists do in arts education, creative youth development, and arts in community, across the United States.
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Find the calculator here!
Mental Health America has provided an in-depth Back to School Toolkit (available in English and Spanish) with resources for the issues impacting mental health for young people and offering tips on how to deal with these issues and the resulting emotions. The toolkit includes a fact sheet for parents, teachers, children, and teens; worksheets for youth, key messages, statistics, a sample drop-in article, posters, and a list of nationwide state-level resources.
Download the toolkit here: https://mhanational.org/youth-tech
Do you want to learn more about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its application in the arts classroom? UDL is a framework for teaching that reduces barriers to learning and offers students with multiple ways to engage and express their learning so that all students can reach their potential.
TAT Lab partner, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), has collected a page of resources for learning about UDL and how to apply it in visual arts, theatre, dance, music, and other arts classrooms. Included are learning guidelines, how to create an engaging classroom environment, videos and TED Talks, assessment ideas and much more.
From the Educational Theatre Association, this fun lesson for children is a “how to” guide for educators to provide a creative drama experience based on a story, using simple, mimed actions. Kids will experience creating a drama based on a story, using simple mimed actions. Students will then be asked to listen to a story, identify beginning, middle and end and to act out some of the action of the story in sequence.
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This lesson is best suited for students in Grades K-3, but can be adapted for other elementary grades. It is linked to Arts Learning Standards, and includes a rubric to help assess student learning.
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Find the lesson here: https://learn.schooltheatre.org/story-drama-and-dramatic-play
Check out the EdTA Learning Center’s full series of “Click to Teach” lessons for grades elementary through high school here: https://learn.schooltheatre.org/click-to-teach-lesson-plans
Ingenuity and @blackteachingartistlab have teamed up in a groundbreaking partnership to bring a first-of-its-kind Afrocentric Social Emotional Learning Through the Arts guidebook, a free virtual guide on Ingenuity's interactive and media-rich virtual learning platform, I-V-L.
The Afrocentric Social Emotional Learning Through the Arts framework aims to break new ground by leveraging arts education as a way to support Pan-Africanism, through the individual storytelling of Black teaching artists and the most relevant research-based pedagogical approaches.
This theoretical framework will provide Pan-African educators (and all educators) with the knowledge and tools needed to explore their own cultural identities through art, in order to reach, connect with, and equip Black learners to become confident stakeholders in their own lives, communities, and the world at large.
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Find the guidebook here: https://ingenuity.learnworlds.com/course/afro-centric-sel-arts
Follow @blackteachingartistlab for more news, events and opportunities to engage.
Check out these creative arts-integrated lesson plans created by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) with Kitsap County elementary school educators and professional teaching artists.
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Topics include: Coast Salish Seascapes | Flag Books and List Poetry | Lotería Cards | Painted Lady Butterflies| Paper Houses | Passports and Travel | Poetry Spheres | Watercolor Salt Effects
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Designed for ease of use, these grab-and-go lesson plans meet curriculum standards and foreground equity, with an emphasis on one or more of the following areas: Spanish dual-language, special education, social emotional learning (SEL), and/or arts integrated curriculum development. Each PDF contains instructions, video links, and learning objectives.
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The GIVE (Growing Inclusivity for Vibrant Engagement) website is a free guide that supports Teaching Artists in the creation of liberated learning environments and vibrant arts experiences within inclusion settings.
GIVE includes a visual vocabulary, activity bank, and inclusive language guide among other resources and activities designed to support Teaching Artist educators in their career journey.
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The Junior Curator Academy (JCA) is an entertaining video series featuring art objects and installations at the Museum of Glass. Each program includes key terms, additional activities and related art projects (aligned to Arts Learning Standards). These can be used virtually or in-class and can be integrated with other content areas including social studies, English Language Arts, and theatre.
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Check out the stART Exploring STEAM activities produced by TAT Lab faculty Carina A. Del Rosario! Explore these ready-to-use video lessons that help students learn science, technology, engineering, and math concepts and skills through the arts.
Each lesson is designed for specific grade levels (K-2nd and 3rd-5th), comes with an activity guide and are available in English, Spanish, and Russian. stArt Exploring is supported by Sound Transit’s STart Program. Various lessons also feature TAT Lab faculty Lauren Appel and alumni Adam Collet and Laura Brown!
Learn more at www.cadelrosario.com/startexploring
The Anti-Racist Art Teachers website has a fantastic archive of Latinx/Hispanic/Chicanx artists to provide inspiration for your Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month lesson planning. "Engaging children with artists who look like them, have similar experiences, and come from similar backgrounds is a great source of inspiration and empowerment."
Dive into this resource to discover new BIPOC artists to add to your curriculum!
https://sites.google.com/view/antiracistartteachers/artists/latinx-artists?authuser=0
Check out The Beauty of Us, a poster series designed by celebrated Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander women artists in WA state! The Beauty of Us is a visual campaign to fight the tide of anti-Asian violence and xenophobia. https://www.wingluke.org/anti-asian-american-hate-crimes?fbclid=IwAR2fKlsxSvV19u6JULLQk8WZfJk8Qm5XtUa26cUT3wEvd-oW01plChFpRfA
Check out the new Black Arts Legacies, a project launched by Crosscut highlighting the long-standing, vital and ongoing role of Black artists and Black arts organizations in the cultural landscape of the Seattle region.
Find the Black Arts Legacies project here: https://blackartslegacies.crosscut.com/
Did you know that Arts Ed Washington has a complete series of Arts Learning in the Classroom integrated visual arts lessons? Perfect for K-5 teachers searching for lessons to integrate the visual arts into their classroom with ease. Every lesson is aligned with Common Core Standards for Washington State and Washington State Arts Standards.
Find the series here: https://artsed-washington.github.io/alic/
Download a FREE copy of Stay Inside the Lines Seattle, coloring pages designed by a wide array of regional artists, street artists, designers and muralists. Including work by local luminaries including Preston Singletary, Angelina Villalobos/179, Jesse Brown, They Drift, Henry and many more! Designed for creative middle and high school students, but appropriate for all ages. https://stayinsidethelines.co/
The National Women’s History Museum, in collaboration with pianist Donna Weng Friedman, has created Heritage and Harmony: Her Art, Her Voice, a video series designed and dedicated to inspire and empower school-aged girls.
Watch the Heritage and Harmony series here: https://www.womenshistory.org/heritage-and-harmony