Guy's Edu Blog

So, I am here in Albuquerque  (spelled right this time I hope). This morning I went into a session about studying visual representation of c...

The conference starts next week in Albuquerque NM. Two presentations target the intersection of literacy and the Arts both with book illus...

Our California second grade team has hit a snag recently. The project they were doing was taking too long- disrupting the normal pace and pl...

I spent the last few weeks trying to make sure we have three different workshops this summer at UNL. All three address integration in diffe...

As a classroom teacher, I am always balancing time -- what needs to be done, when it needs to be done and how long it all takes. Frequently...

I have a graduate student who has arrived from China this Fall. I decided to bring her to our Fall professional development meeting as an ob...

I teach an undergraduate literacy methods block for Elementary teachers and in it my students are asked to reflect weekly on hat weeks readi...

We had a grant meeting in DC last week for currently funded AEMDD and AEPD grants (alphabet soup and a mouthful). It was great being back in...

Today I taught a well thought-out and planned art lesson. I had even created the project myself in advance for a sample. I had worked with ...

A colleague in a recent meeting passionately described the importance she places on teacher candidates focusing on something they find inter...

Art integration happens on many levels. From the federal grants and policies all the way into the water color brush in the student's han...

As August unfolds we face a new academic year. With it a realization that we have to continue to explore ways to bring the arts into classro...

I’m back at home, reflecting on the month of July and thinking about when and how to share the things I’ve learned. I’ve already made a pre...

I am surrounded here by a depth and breadth of knowledge and experience. Yet we are all learning and noticing things that we may have “walk...

Wow…this week has zipped by! This institute has been a wonderful example of scholarly rigor. The presenters/scholars share with us what the...

A Salem State creative writing professor came to our class one day this week and presented a wonderful lesson on poetry! We were active par...

Reading for class and for my unit. Landscapes will be a topic that our week will begin with. Took in the local landscape yesterday: the nor...

I will never teach “President’s Day” the same way! Even at second grade the students know about Lincoln, a log cabin and the penny; Washin...

I am surrounded by history! Yesterday we toured a federal period house as well as the Salem Custom House. Nathaniel Hawthorne worked there....

I am participating in a Picturing America National Endowment of the Humanities Teacher Institute this month at Salem State College in Salem,...

We have a class of practicing and future teachers who are all learning about arts integration into the elementary classroom right now. The f...

We had our end of the year meetings in both sites over the last 10 days, Nebraska and California. As Monique, Nancy and I discussed the ener...

Before I start I'd like to send a hello to Regina Murphy of Ireland, and invite her to contribute to the blog (let me know and I'll ...

We often disregard the skills. We want kids to think (adults too for that matter). As we try to measure things like creativity, we try to av...

I just finished the AERA presentation on literacy and arts. Despite the fact that we had a round table presentation on a friday afternoon- 7...

In my last post I was just before my visit to Skinner Academy Arts magnet. So what did I learn? I learned that things are much better than I...

Monday I am spending a whole day at Skinner Magnet Center . This is very exciting as I often do school and classroom visits but they are so ...

It is still cold but I am assured that spring is almost here... The question that is always on our mind is how do we help teachers change th...

We have reached a great point in our project. As in all professional development we spend quite a while building understanding , confidence ...

We all are afraid to get our hands dirty, metaphorically speaking.in the army every friday was dedicated to cleaning our equipment, as a loa...

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...