Guy's Edu Blog

In the last year I have been for the first time in my career fully engaged in Teacher Education. The real struggle, following my previous po...

We have competing values in education. We want our kids to be motivated creative and innovative. At the same time we want them to succeed in...

In my literacy methods class we went through an accelerated Arts LINC cycle today. We started with a Taylor Mali poem- reminding everyone th...

This fall two grants that I have evaluated came to a close. ArtsLINC and Reading First. They could not have been more different from each ot...

Much of what I've been doing lately was griping. Griping about how we're headed down the wrong path, about the politics and about ...

Recently I had a conversation with a technology coordinator from our local school district. We had a great conversation. At the core though ...

It's been awhile since I posted, so I am a little rusty. At AERA I went (among other things) to listen to Michael Cole in a distinguish...

So I thought I would pick some of the sessions related to arts integration that looked interesting to me. Hope to see y'all there. ...

Two states won race to the top moneys. I highly suspect that arts education and integration was not a big part of these two states applicat...

This is a part of study reflection one of my students Marsha Silver who has taught art for over a decade: "When I was in elementary s...

This week Deborah Loewenberg-Ball visited UNL and gave a talk on the place of Schools of Education in Research Universities. You can access...

These are just beginning thoughts and may make sense only to me- oh well, I do welcome comments and questions. We have a group of professo...

This stems from curriculum action on my campus recently. The fact that a student took some arts classes in her past, and then went through ...

In Nebraska snow is still falling and I am wondering about friendships, projects and relationships. In a word back to our networks that beco...

As fresh snow is settling on our frozen Nebraska streets I set to write my first blog of the year.The blog this year is set to take a somewh...

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 ...