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Watercolor Wet on Wet Technique V2 - YouTube

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Watercolor Wet on Wet Technique V2 - YouTube

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Control Watercolour While Adding Fluid Color

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Mr. Haupt demonstrates a watercolor wet-on-wet technique. Mr. Hartung attempts his first ever multitrack guitar recording to serve as the soundtrack using Adobe Audition. Be nice please.

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Padlet of Resources

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4th-12th Grade

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Nine Box Model for Adaptations to assist SpEd, ELL, struggling students

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Nine Box Model for Adaptations to assist SpEd, ELL, struggling students

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CAST: About Universal Design for Learning

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CAST: About Universal Design for Learning

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CAST: About Universal Design for Learning

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Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

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Short films to inspire learning

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Welcome to The Literacy Shed - the home of visual literacy. Here at Literacy Shed we aim to provide teachers with high quality films and animations that can be used in the primary classroom to enhance the teaching of reading and writing. All of the films on the site we think are suitable for primary aged children although some films may not be suitable for younger children. We urge that teachers watch any films before showing them to children.

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A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

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50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students -

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50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students -

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Art Topic Podcasts and many more!

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High school is perhaps one of the biggest turning points of a person's life. Sure, there's still college after that, but not everyone gets the chance to move that stage forward.

So while you're all in the stage where you go wonder what you really want to be like in the years to come, why not try listening to Podcasts to give yourself some insights about life. There are scores of podcasts that you could find all over the internet. Topics range from Academic Related stuff where you could be able to extend your knowledge in any particular class that you like, to inspirational ones which would give you some great things to think about how to live your life and how to enjoy what you have.

So here's a collection of 50 Podcasts that any high school student should listen to, categorized into the four general topics would help you focus on what you might choose to become in the years to come.
Academic Related Podcasts
Not everyone can be a History Buff, a Grammar Nazi, a Science Geek, or a Poetry enthusiast, but a person could try listening to one of these podcasts to have a bit more of new things learned from among every classes like Science, Math, English, History and Literature.

There are things that we can't just learn in a four walled classroom, which is why these podcasts could offer you more practical applications of the theories they discuss to you. Apart from that is you get to know more advance stuff that could help you appreciate learning these classes more.
General and Special Interest Podcasts
Everyone has their own sets of hobbies and interests. Some might be more of into arts (in all sorts of forms) or perhaps photography, or knitting and crocheting. Others might be interested in the latest innovations in technology. Others are superbly curious of how things work so they could make videos of it on YouTube. There are those out there who like stuff about Animals, the Universe, the Mind, Documentaries and Conspiracy Theories and so on and so forth.

So for the sake of having a lot of youngsters out there who are into several things, here's a list of podcasts for those various hobbies and interests.
Entrepreneurship
Isn't there a saying about starting up a business while you are young?

Whether you're into selling things for auction at eBay, or having garage sales on weekends, making homemade cookies and cupcakes for deliveries, it's about time you get to learn more on the techniques on how to make your business flourish into something bigger. Who knows if you could make your business your career if you decide not to go further into college.

Since it's never just about learning the theories about business, but having the ability to be quick and efficient in decision making, why not invest a bit of your time listening to pros on how they handle their business?
Inspirational & Motivational
There are plenty of days we feel down. High School is probably among those days when you feel like everything isn't going how you want them and that you feel like there's no point to all the things happening around you. Now, remember that people around you are having the same struggles too. Some of them have worse things to think and feel about themselves but they still push themselves to go on with their lives. Get to know their heartwarming stories that would tug on your heartstrings. Live by their examples and inspire others like how they inspired you.
Dennis Lee is the lead teacher at - where they provide hundreds of video lessons and tutorials for any kinds of maths, including Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus and more.

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50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students by Dennis Lee, StudyPug.com High school is perhaps one of the biggest turning points of a person's life. Sure, there's still college after that, but not everyone gets the chance to move that stage forward. So while you're all in the stage where you go wonder ...

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10 Podcasting Projects Teachers Should Try in the Classroom

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10 Podcasting Projects Teachers Should Try in the Classroom

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How do you do it? What content?

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Great resource for what 21st Century Skills look like in VAPA

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Use Popular Music to Improve Reading and Inspire Writing | Scholastic.com

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Use Popular Music to Improve Reading and Inspire Writing | Scholastic.com

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"Close Reading of Lyrics" example

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Teacher to Teacher Ideas in the Top Teaching Blog | Scholastic

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Exciting lesson ideas, classroom strategies, teaching tips, book lists, videos, and reproducibles in a daily blog by teachers from the classrooms of extraordinary mentor

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Lassen High School Art Project - YouTube

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Lassen High School Art Project - YouTube

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Combining video, art, writing, cross-age discussions

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The 90 or so Art I students at Lassen High School are engaged in recreating the works of famous artists. Using pastels the students are using the skills they have been developing all year. And some classes are writing creative stories about some of the paintings.They have been reading with 5-6th grade students at local elementary schools encouraging these students.

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Writing An Opinion Piece Around An Art Project

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Writing An Opinion Piece Around An Art Project

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Connecting Sculpture and Writing

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Elementary school lesson that incorporates the arts into opinion piece writing. See how one class uses sculptures as the basis for an opinion piece.

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Alphabeasties Books combine Alphabet Skills with Art

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Alphabeasties Books combine Alphabet Skills with Art

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A Melding of Art and Alphabet

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Alignment Document between Music and CCSS

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Alignment Document between Music and CCSS

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New York State

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A Standards Crosswalk Between Common Core and Music - New York State School Music Association

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This crosswalk documents the alignment between selected learning goals from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA), and Mathematics. As New York State has adopted these standards, it presents us with a new and dynamic opportunity to demonstrate alignment between the learning described in the standards, and the concepts commonly taught in the music classroom.

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Historical Musical Recordings

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The National Jukebox

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.

Acoustical Recording

Pictured here is an acoustic recording session conducted in the era before microphones were utilized for recording. Music and speech were funneled through recording horns, which in turn vibrated an attached diaphragm and stylus, thus etching the sound waves onto a rotating wax disc. More about acoustical recordings

Disclaimer

The National Jukebox is a project of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. The goal of the Jukebox is to present to the widest audience possible early commercial sound recordings, offering a broad range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.

These selections are presented as part of the record of the past. They are historical documents which reflect the language, attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these recordings, which may contain content offensive to users.

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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.

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Incredible Art Department | Art Education

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Incredible Art Department | Art Education

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Resources for articles on art, lessons, resources, etc...

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Virtual or In-Person, IAD is Here

Schools across the world opened to a year that will go down in history. Some states opened schools with few restrictions, while others are open to eLearning or virtual opportunities only. Whatever situation you find yourself in, IAD is here to help.

Most visitors to IAD are here either for the free art lessons or special pages on resources such as the color symbolism page. However, there are thousands of other resources available on this website. You can find testing or rubric resources on the Art Files page. The Art Teacher Toolbox has about anything else you are looking for, especially if you're a new teacher. Finally, the Art Stuff section has resources for artists, museums, galleries, activities and art games.

A Little History...

IAD began as a showcase for elementary art students in Indiana and now includes a diverse range of subjects and topics of interest to art educators, general area teachers, students, parents, artists, and homeschoolers the world over.

On this site you can find free art lessons, news, art resources, art careers, schools, and help for new art teachers. Submission of lessons and other art related topics is encouraged and may be submitted by e-mailing IAD.

IAD envisions a world where everyone has access to the arts both in school and in the community. We believe that the arts are an essential component for a quality education. Research shows that schools that have strong arts programs also have higher achieving students. The arts encourages creativity and creative problem-solving. These skills are also valuable in the work place. The arts teach us much about various cultures around the world.

Problems with Printer Friendly Pages

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Feel Isolated in Your Classroom? Join the Art Education Community!

IAD hosts two list groups with many members who are art teachers, students, artists, and homeschoolers. Each list group is searchable and you can post a question to many art teachers across the world to get your answer. To sign up for the art education listgroups, visit this link.

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The Incredible Art Department has been featured in many national publications and received various awards through the years. Pardon us for bragging. Before you go, sign our guestbook by clicking on the book below!

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Schools across the world opened to a year that will go down in history. Some states opened schools with few restrictions, while others are open to eLearning or virtual opportunities only. Whatever situation you find yourself in, IAD is here to help.

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This issue introduces methods for analyzing and interpreting art

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Resources to Link Art to Literacy
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"Listening to Art" example

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Literacy in the Art Classroom by Tara Gee on Prezi

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Literacy in the Art Classroom by Tara Gee on Prezi

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Disciplinary Literacy in Art Language Texts

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Digital Presentation: Literacy in the Art classroom Tara Gee Dana Pellegrino Kristin Cosmo How Art and Literacy Work Together Print Texts Disciplinary Literacy in Art Art & Literacy References and Weblinks Literacy is essential for learning in an art classroom. Students must be prepared to write self-reflections, understand vocabulary terms, and participate in classroom critiques.

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10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes

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Using a document in Google Apps or Microsoft Word is perfect for many activities, but sometimes they can be so limiting.

They're restricting. They force you to enter information in a fairly linear fashion, and linear just doesn't cut it sometimes.

Sometimes, you want your work to be all over the place. Think of sticky notes on a wall or spreading work out on a table or the floor to see everything.

When that's what you need, your Google Apps tool of choice might be Google Drawings. Drawings is one of my favorites of all of Google's tools. It's simple to use but powerful and very versatile.

In fact, here's how simple it is. The button panel for creating things (see image above) is made up of lines, shapes, text boxes, images and comments. (The arrow is for selecting items on the page.)
Google Drawings is like a digital poster board. Or sheet of paper. Or a blank slate waiting for your great ideas.
Sadly, many educators don't know about it or know what it does. Maybe part of the reason: when you click "new" in your Google Drive, Drawings is under the "more" tab. (What a shame ... one of my favorite Google tools treated like a second-class citizen.)

As versatile and powerful as it is, there are bound to be lots of uses for it. Here are my top 10, and if you use Google Drawings in your classroom or educational setting, please share how in a comment below!

1. Graphic organizers - Often, students have great ideas in their minds. They just struggle to organize them into the logical sequence they need to present them. Graphic organizers can help them pull those ideas and information into a great project or presentation.

How to do it: Create a graphic organizer (think KWL, fishbone, Venn diagram ... or make up your own!) in Google Drawings. Then share it with students as "Everyone with the link can view" and have students go to File > Make a copy ... to create their own copy of it in their Google Drives. If you're using Google Classroom, when you create an assignment, use the drop-down menu in the bottom right to make a copy for every student in Google Classroom.

Need some help getting started? Check out my post with 15 free Google Drawings graphic organizers and how to make your own. It's one of my most popular posts ever! Use my graphic organizers verbatim or use them as a starting point for your own.

2. Interactive posters - Creating posters is an activity that's a staple in many classrooms. If you don't want to hassle with glue sticks, markers and magazines for cutting images out, Google Drawings can help. Drawings is a great spot for creating interactive posters. Regular posters are static and only contain the information you can fit on them. Interactive posters have clickable links, making the poster just a starting point for more information.

How to do it: Students create a Google Drawing. They add text boxes with information and shapes to help organize (think of the construction paper behind the text). They can add Creative Commons images by going to Insert > Image ... > Search tab to be good digital citizens. (This falls right in line with my post on how to find and use images the right way in class!) They can highlight text and push Ctrl+K or go to Insert > Link ... to make clickable links in their text.

Want some more guidance? Check out my post on interactive Google Drawings posters with an example you can click on and copy into your Drive if you'd like.

3. Photo comic strips - I found this one by chance at a Google conference once and really like it. Comic strips are easy to create in Google Drawings. When you add a shape to a drawing, one category of shapes is called "callouts." Those callouts have speech bubbles and thought bubbles to add to a drawing. Upload a picture - or take a picture by going to Insert > Image ... > Take a snapshot to use the camera in your laptop, tablet or other device. Then use the speech/thought bubbles to show what the characters are saying or doing.

I found this idea from Mike Petty, a Google for Education Certified Trainer in Michigan. His site about photo comic strips shows more examples and ways to use them in the classroom.

4. Interactive white board - When shared with a few students or an entire class, a blank Google Drawing can turn into an interactive white board that everyone can control. SMART Boards and Promethean Boards let the person touching the screen make changes ... but Google Drawings interactive white boards let anyone make changes.

How to do it: Create a drawing. Click the blue "Share" button and click "Get a shareable link". Then choose "Anyone with the link can edit." OR, if you're using Google Classroom, create an announcement and add the drawing to the announcement. Make sure the drop-down menu on the right says that students can edit.

Of course, having the expectations talk with students beforehand is useful when anyone can make changes to this drawing. My expectations talk usually includes:

Remember that this is better than boring activities using paper.

If we can't handle this, we'll be headed back to the boring activities.

Don't make changes to the drawing until you're asked.

Remember that everything you do is tracked on revision history (File > See revision history), so I'll know who has done what.

Anything you put on the drawing will be treated as if it was said out loud in class and will be handled accordingly.

5. Digital manipulatives - Ever have students put sticky notes out on their desks and move them around? What about cut-out pieces of paper with words or pictures or ideas? If so, Google Drawings lets you create digital manipulatives like those that you can move around.

How to do it: Create a Google Drawing. Then, create the manipulatives you want students to use with text boxes, shapes or images. Make sure your original copy of the manipulatives is "Anyone with the link can view" under the blue "Share" button. Then distribute it to students and let them copy it to their Google Drives by going to File > Make a copy ... . If you use Google Classroom, add it to an assignment (graded) or announcement (ungraded) and choose to make a copy for each student.

Some examples: one of my graphic organizers from above called "hexagonal thinking" and Shake Up Learning's collaborative magnetic poetry.

6. Annotate images - Thousands and thousands of images are available in Google Drawings (as well as other Google Apps). Just click Insert > Image ... and choose "Search". You can always upload your own images. Once they're in a drawing, use text boxes, shapes and arrows to write over the top of those images. Use them to tag important features, add commentary, circle or highlight key concepts and more.

7. Informational graphics - In traditional research reports, students gather information, analyze and organize, and then present their findings in essay style. They could demonstrate all of those findings in another way - with an informational graphic! Infographics are all over social media and are very popular. Learning to create an infographic is a useable skill in the real world.

How to do it: Create a new drawing. Do some internet searches to check out some infographic examples. Plan how to organize the infographic and how to illustrate research findings. Create using lines, shapes, text boxes and images. Add clickable links to text and images.

8. Timelines - Use the same elements from the informational graphics above to create timelines. Add a horizontal line to a drawing. (Pro tip: Hold in shift while drawing the line to make it truly horizontal and straight!) Add information for the different dates on the timeline and illustrate them with images.

9. Add and pass activity - Get the whole class working together in this activity. Each student creates a drawing and starts an activity - an illustration, a comic strip, a story ... something. Let students work on it for a couple minutes. Then have them rotate to a different desk and work on someone else's activity. After a few minutes rotate, then rotate again and rotate again. Eventually, the activities get completed. It's fun to see what the rest of the class did with what you started off with!

10. Tutorial graphics - Teach someone how to do something with a tutorial drawing. This works great with tutorials for doing something online or on your computer/device. Add images to a drawing of what you want the reader to do. These images can be created by taking a screenshot. You could also find images in an image search (Insert > Image > Search) or create images with lines and shapes. Describe what action to take using text. Then share those images on a website, with a link or by adding them to a document.

[reminder]How have you used Google Drawings? Which of these ideas are you likely to use?[/reminder]

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10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes - Ditch That Textbook

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Sometimes, a linear document just won't do. Students need room to move things around and get messy. Here are 10 Google Drawings activities to do that.Using a document in Google Apps or Microsoft Word is perfect for many activities, but sometimes they can be so limiting. They're restricting.

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EducationCloset | Arts Integration and STEAM Lesson Plan Resources

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EducationCloset | Arts Integration and STEAM Lesson Plan Resources

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Arts-centered, standards-based resources for in and out of school

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Arts Learning Leadership Strategies for Success

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Arts Learning Leadership Strategies for Success

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Engaging & Motivating Students through Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Arts Education

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VAPA Lessons Shared by California Teachers - CCSESA Arts Initiative

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VAPA Lessons Shared by California Teachers - CCSESA Arts Initiative

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Welcome to the examples of teacher learning and exploration in Arts Assessment. Here you will find lessons and units that represent work by K-12 specialist and generalist teachers from across California. We encourage you to take a close look at these examples of teacher and student work in the arts. We thank all the teachers who share their work and the work of their students with us.

We invite you to step into the classrooms of these teachers representing diverse settings and student populations. Take a look at student work, video documentation of learning projects, and teacher/student reflections!

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Humboldt Co. Results

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Statewide Results

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California Dept. of Ed.

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What's happening at the state level?

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California Dept. of Ed.