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How can I start my school day in a way that will get my students excited about being there? What if I combined Stem Bins and Problem Solving as a Soft Start? - Dianne
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What would change if students defined play in our classroom? - Lindsey

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How would it look differently if I measured student emotions? - Jules
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What would it be like if I could turn my students negative self talk into positive self talk? - Allison

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What would it look like if I made Art more accessible to my students? - Ashley
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What would it look like if we used the arts and creativity to help prepare our students for standardized testing? - Patty
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How would it be different if I implemented a Friday art day for students to add, expand, and unpack their thinking with an accordion book? - Caleb
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What would it be if more schools will consider art as one of the core values of the school? - Hilda

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How would it be different this year if I continued with a virtual curriculum? - Debra T
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How would it be different to fully enjoy my teaching life this year? - Deb N

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What would change if I started (or ended) every art class with a mindful moment? - Kenna
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How would it look differently if something was taken out? - Theresa

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I would really like to incorporate this into starting the day.

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In terms of negative talk, I hear it all the time. I ignore the students who are saying things for attention. However, I have seen this statement work "If your artwork isn't turning out how you want it to, ask for help. Otherwise, keep the negative comments to yourself because they are not helping us." That has always shut down negative talk in my class.

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In terms of negative talk, I hear it all the time. I ignore the students who are saying things for attention. However, I have seen this statement work "If your artwork isn't turning out how you want it to, ask for help. Otherwise, keep the negative comments to yourself because they are not helping us." That has always shut down negative talk in my class.

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Looking over the NGA resources is my intention to begin the year.  Using the accordian books will also give me the place for my students to be creative with their ideas and to give the art activities and thinking routines a home.  Once I become more versed in these lessons, I should be able to create my own lessons.

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Here is a newer project from Project Zero all about the power of play in the classroom!
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/pedagogy-of-play

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I have my students write Friday letters to their parents telling them about their week. Students could expand that into artwork that is meaningful to them - maybe a shortened accordian book.

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I have my students write Friday letters to their parents telling them about their week. Students could expand that into artwork that is meaningful to them - maybe a shortened accordian book.

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You may already have been using this - but we had A LOT of success with Seesaw to document student thinking and share activities with them.

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Book: creating children’s art games for emotional support

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Check out this resource - https://theinspiredclassroom.com/.  There are free resources as well as training SEAL - Social Emotional Artistic Learning.  There is also a Youtube page a FB group.  One of the suggestions from this group is taking one day a week to make art - some unstructured and some with a purpose.  Students could make artist trading cards to share with other classmates.  We made cards about our school's character trait lessons and traded them with others.

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Check out this resource - https://theinspiredclassroom.com/.  There are free resources as well as training SEAL - Social Emotional Artistic Learning.  There is also a Youtube page a FB group.  One of the suggestions from this group is taking one day a week to make art - some unstructured and some with a purpose.  Students could make artist trading cards to share with other classmates.  We made cards about our school's character trait lessons and traded them with others.

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Debra T.

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We have to start our day with morning meeting - greeting, sometimes sharing. I will add the kindness idea that someone shared earlier.

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We have to start our day with morning meeting - greeting, sometimes sharing. I will add the kindness idea that someone shared earlier.

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Who Am I? Explore, Connect, Identify, Belong

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Who Am I? Explore, Connect, Identify, Belong

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Slide show from Canva.com

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Who Am I? - Presentation (16:9) by Juliana Pederson

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idea for art to prepare for testing - accordian book or artwork/sketches as students learn about a concept. Keep them or post them around the room so all students can see and learn.

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idea for art to prepare for testing - accordian book or artwork/sketches as students learn about a concept. Keep them or post them around the room so all students can see and learn.

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By starting your day with a morning meeting, would set a positive expectation for the day and allow you to take a poll of how your students are doing for the morning. Maybe you could stop a negative behavior or reinforce positive emotions, ideas and affections. Also works as building relationships with studets. The threshold technique is awesome with for this! - Caleb

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The episode of Netflix's Abstract: The Art of Design called "Design for Play" with Cas Holman is an inspiring look at play -Lindsey

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LOVE the idea of taking things out! After my first year at a similar Institute all i focused on was slowing down - so simple but so powerful!

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I usually start each class with looking at a work of art for five minutes and we gain a new vocabulary word, place on the map, etc. I can’t wait to try slow looking with this and step in step back and reflect with this as an extension!

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The accordion books are such a great way to capture thinking! They are also wonderful for revisiting our thoughts throughout the year - Asking students to reflect on their own thinking.

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I was thinking of using Brain dances after lunch to get them ready for the afternoon.

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I was thinking of using Brain dances after lunch to get them ready for the afternoon.

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KENNA! I had the same idea yesterday! I even titled it a Mindful Minute! Transitions in and out of the Art Studio for my students are always such a struggle, especially in the beginning of the year! So i want to do a Mindful Minute  at the beginning and end of Art. I downloaded an app called Kids Breath and it has a purple star with a face on the icon and it's loaded with short breathing exercises and mindful activities to get kids calm before their teacher arrives. -Ashley

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KENNA! I had the same idea yesterday! I even titled it a Mindful Minute! Transitions in and out of the Art Studio for my students are always such a struggle, especially in the beginning of the year! So i want to do a Mindful Minute  at the beginning and end of Art. I downloaded an app called Kids Breath and it has a purple star with a face on the icon and it's loaded with short breathing exercises and mindful activities to get kids calm before their teacher arrives. -Ashley

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Physical activity has been linked to firing up the brain in some very astounding ways. There is a school district in Ohio that did this at the start of each day, they observed tremendous gains in learning with their students by starting their day off with movement!

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It reminds me of “Conscious Discipline”

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One suggestion - make an accordion book and do it when they reflect as well! This is a great way to dispositionally model slowing down, reflection and valuing the arts.

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I like the idea of adding a poll to my morning meeting! My students love polls!

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I like the idea of adding a poll to my morning meeting! My students love polls!

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State Standards- Create, Connect, Respond, Present

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State Standards- Create, Connect, Respond, Present

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I'm thinking of the ways that accordion journals can be used for creating while my students tackle the different standards (connect, respond and present) throughout the year.

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Art class can get kind of wild, especially at clean up time.  I started using a breathing ball at the end of class to help them transition  to the next activity. You can buy them at Walmart for under $20.  Here is video link. for how it works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnNATiWYyx0

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Art class can get kind of wild, especially at clean up time.  I started using a breathing ball at the end of class to help them transition  to the next activity. You can buy them at Walmart for under $20.  Here is video link. for how it works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnNATiWYyx0

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Debra T.

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Love the idea of one day a week for art. I try to do that when I integrate the Kennedy Center ideas but it often gets pushed aside for other things.

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Love the idea of one day a week for art. I try to do that when I integrate the Kennedy Center ideas but it often gets pushed aside for other things.

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I wonder what the role of meditation or yoga could be in helping students identify and regulate emotions too.

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I teach multiple classes of k-6, so sometimes it gets old to read/lecture same thing six times a week, so I use flip grid and record myself on video! Super easy!

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You could also try sound through art- https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html

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When I taught PE, I did a unit completely dedicated to yoga for about six weeks or so. At the end of each session, I would walk my students through guided imagery, allowing them a small change to take a nap at school. All students by the end, were beyond refreshed and excited for the next class and opportunity to do this again. I've utilized similar methods in my gen. ed. classroom with tremendous success.

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Wrhat could I use to teach more complex emotions.

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Have you tried any of the mindful videos from gonoodle?

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Have you heard of Go Noodle?https://www.gonoodle.com/ There are activities for brain breaks, getting energized for the day and indoor recess, related to the curriculum.

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Have you heard of Go Noodle?https://www.gonoodle.com/ There are activities for brain breaks, getting energized for the day and indoor recess, related to the curriculum.

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Debra T.

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I love this book. It’s like a daily calendar to explore works of art. 

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I love this book. It’s like a daily calendar to explore works of art. 

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I think students taking time to document their emotions, so they can see patterns or ways they could have handled them differently.

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I think students taking time to document their emotions, so they can see patterns or ways they could have handled them differently.

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They are free, accessible and really amazing! This could be a nice way to change up the virtual classroom every once and a while: https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/school-tours.html

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I found this book at a half price book store. Can’t wait to incorporate what I’ve learned this week to extend on the content in this book and explore more NGA collection.

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I love gonoodle! I will search for these kinds of videos speficially. THANK YOU!

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I love gonoodle! I will search for these kinds of videos speficially. THANK YOU!

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The Art of Education website has a lot of professional development presentations, some of which focus on SEL.

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http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

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https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/of-the-nation-for-the-people.html

And NGA Virtual 3D tours:
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2021/lynda-benglis.html

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https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2021/lynda-benglis.html

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Breathe kids app (Recommended from Ashley)

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https://vtshome.org/research/

and course

https://www.coursera.org/learn/artinquiry

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https://www.gopaintlove.org/
Good website for resources.