story telling

story telling
Storytelling = Engaged Students

Our Mission

We sincerely hope that you become as inspired by teaching through the arts as we have. Highlights of our program included doing a solo drama in our class and storytelling. Students really got engaged and their retention of information from these lessons was very high.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

WELCOME

Welcome to our blogspot. The core standards are coming. Be ahead of the curve and start to integrate the arts into your lessons and you will find that you will be meeting the requirements of the new common core standards. http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cc/

Look over our lesson plans we have put together for you. There are lots of easy ideas you can start using today. So, what are you waiting for???
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9 comments:

  1. TrixleyApril 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    I can't wait to see what we do with this.

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  2. TrixleyApril 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM

    Wow! I am stunned and blown away by your collective awesomeness. You guys rock.

    Signed,

    A BIG FAN

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  3. TinaApril 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM

    Our current education programs have moved away from the "arts" and as a result, student learning potential has suffered. These lesson plans on your blog provide great examples of how the "arts" can be integrated into the regular core curriculum to increase student learning by tapping into a variety of learning styles.

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    1. TrixleyApril 22, 2012 at 4:34 PM

      Yes, so true. Thank you. But there is another reality on the horizon. When you look at the new common core standards for California, you will find that there is an attempt to make a shift to an arts integrated approach. I am hopeful for this shift and at the same time concerned as the financial situation is taking such a toll on education as a whole and being able to provide support for this new initiative in the common core standards may be difficult to meet. You remember...back in the day when we were hired to teach whole language without the materials. The one good thing with this is, more money is not necessarily as necessary as what we need the most is a little creativity in our lesson planning so that we can get more out of a lesson.
      Thank you for your response.

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  4. AnonymousApril 28, 2012 at 3:47 PM

    Very nice layout! Love how everything is open and easy to get to! I will be using this blog in the future!

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  5. AnonymousApril 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM

    Looks very thorough and informative. Great!

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  6. LesTrixApril 28, 2012 at 10:21 PM

    Thanks to both of you for your encouraging words. We are excited to continue to develop this site and offer teachers more and more resources for arts-integrated reading comprehension lessons and ideas.

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  7. AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    This is amazing! You have some great links. Thanks for the lesson
    plans.

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  8. LesTrixMay 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM

    Let us know if there is something in particular you would like to see on our blog. We'd love to hear about any links or other resources you've found helpful.

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