Guy's Edu Blog

The new administration that is getting ready to settle in DC is a cause to celebrate and a cause to worry. President elect Obama is quoted a...

As the economic situation turns sour across the nation and the world funders and the public at- large seem to shy away from the arts. "...

I'm on my way back from southern California and a visit with our teachers at Lake Elsinore Unified School District. Unlike previous time...

We are now trying the addition of music to our literacy classrooms! It is truly an adventure! We are learning to use the Orff Schulwerk proc...

I am sitting in Washington DC surrounded by leaders of arts education projects nation-wide. Seven years ago we all fitted around one long t...

I spend a good portion of my time with pre-service teachers. For a while I was reluctant to challenge them with arts integration. But now th...

No matter who wins the elections next month we can expect a shift in the way education is talked about and funded. (Education Week is sponso...

Our project is challenged by working in two very different contexts. In California we work mainly with generalists (classroom teachers) whil...

We gathered on a Sunday a few weeks ago with some friends and their friends. There was this teacher-thread throughout the group. One was a...

There is a growing pattern in the professional development of teachers to move away from an emphasis on pedagogical skills to thinking like ...

A few weeks ago I watched a presentation on a video podcast out of TED Talks. In this particular one the speaker stated that the apparent fa...

Just before I go on vacation I had the chance to work with the teachers on the Sheldon Statewide project. The teachers who showed up were fa...

I was invited to participate in the process of developing ideas for the Sheldon statewide art education program. The language arts focus wi...

Monique left last weekend. We've worked very hard and achieved a lot during the past few weeks. I really appreciated her thoughts every ...

Interesting that Guy would say this today-- “exposure to rich experiences in different domains in our home and community is what makes us di...

My Mom is visiting from Israel this week. I our conversations we turned to the importance of home environment to the development of visual a...

I am continuing in an Eisnerian angle. Monique and I have been talking about the idea of using the language of the artistic process in Arts...

Nancy & I were asked to participate in the Arts Integration Forum at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. So… in early May we presen...

Monique and I have been thinking about our theoretical foundations as we explore the benefits of arts integration (we are writing a paper re...

More than any other summer, this summer opens with the promise of great achievement. I (we really) have much data to go through- the goal i...

There is great pressure right now for educational research to focus on evidence based practice. At the same time there is pressure on studen...

I love coming to work with Arts LINC teachers in California. There is a charge in the air- they are here to work- as professionals. I shared...

I sat all Friday morning with Mindy Amy and Kristen with the explicit goal of looking at kindergarten student Art and trying to come up with...

As I sip my tea, black with honey, I am looking for clarity. In her Swanson award acceptance speech Margaret Macintyre-Latta used the fog...

Yesterday I gave every student had a different piece of metamorphosis art created by Maria Merian. I had them observe their own silently fo...

In the quote from the Writing Committee NCTE 2004 they wrote: Writers often talk in order to rehearse the language and content that will go ...

Arts LINC was born out of the work on visual art and writing, a part of Project RAISE (Reading and arts integrated for Student Excellence)...