Arts Integration Helps Increase Learning Across all Disciplines I am taking a series of steps to introduce districts to the implementation of our arts integration model for school reform developed by our lab. This 7-year, two-trial, randomized, 35,000 student, treatment … Continued
Arts Integration Helps Increase Learning Across all Abilities I am taking a series of steps to introduce districts to the implementation of our arts integration model for school reform developed by our lab. This 7-year, two-trial, randomized, 35,000 student, treatment … Continued
Today we turn the spotlight on the school reform idea of community schools. Although it might be assumed that schools were always community products, this particular reform emphasis is linked to the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Community Schools provide … Continued
Education and the Arts I want to tell you a story about my life in education and the arts. I really can’t put a button on this, so don’t expect an easy ending, a clean through-line, or simple outcomes. I … Continued
The Arts Help Students Learn I have been doing a lot of thinking about the outcomes of our research that shows a strong connection between arts integration and positive educational outcomes. The use of the arts, in this research case … Continued
Arts Integration Elementary school teachers have used the arts in a variety of ways over the years—as a fun break from content, as an engagement technique, as an arts skill lesson and/or as a teaching strategy with the goal of … Continued
Empowering Teachers for Every Child So one of the findings in my work is the centrality of professional development to teacher learning. But not any kind of professional development and certainly not the kind employed by most school districts, … Continued
Empathy Educating for empathy may be up for a change. But isn’t empathy part of emotions? Aren’t emotions in bred to begin with? Or are emotions now part of a concept that the brain builds in relation to outside events? … Continued
This is a special day. I always remember my family members who most recently served in World War 2, Korea, and the Gulf Wars. As readers of this blog may remember, we celebrate this day by cutting lilacs from around … Continued
A Perceptual Problem As The Center for American Progress (CAP) points out, the most recent election has highlighted a perceptual problem in America that only the republicans have so far identified and benefitted from: the diversity of America threatens a shrinking … Continued