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Fan Letter to Tanner Christensen
In the book, Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon, Austin Kleon recommends writing public fan letters. I like this idea So I’m writing one (or many). I…
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Trip to the Movies
Yesterday, my wife and I took or kids and two of their friends to see the movie, The Greatest Showman. I always say that the arts foster joy and…
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Creativity is a Skill
Many of us, including myself, grew up believing that creativity was a talent. Some people are creative. Others are not. It turns out that this belief is…
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The Work Students Should Be Doing
This is a project that one of our students completed at home. Earlier in the year, she took advantage of a four day weekend and made this vending machine out…
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No Instruction Manual
Have you ever gotten ready to build a Lego set and not been able to find the instruction manual? Were you terrified? Or was it freeing? I've always…
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Standards We Should Be Focusing On
I recently had to look up a specific language arts standard for a specific grade level. While I was navigating the website, I had to search my way through…
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A Week of Yes
I’ve written before about the Yes, If mentality: Starting today, what if you said YES for the entire week? If a student wants to try something new… Say…
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End of Year Checklist
It's about that time of year in many schools where we provide each teacher with an end of year checklist. Each teacher will check off items to show that…
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More of These Things
How do we get more of these things into our classrooms? I was recently rereading Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work about creativity. In the book, he argues that…
