Top stories published by Progressive Arts Alliance in January of 2015

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Jan 4, 2015

Camouflage and Green Screens

In the study of animal adaptations, camouflage provides a natural fit for an arts-integration residency…

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Jan 12, 2015

Warp and Weft

“Reading Wetu” is a project created with the first grade class of Ms. Erin Shakour at Orchard STEM School located on Cleveland’s westside during the fall 2014 semester. The reading Wetu occupies an 8' x 8' x 8' area in the corner of her classroom, and houses her small library of children’s books. The…

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Jan 4, 2015

A Mound of Clouds

During my first residency with Progressive Arts Alliance during the fall 2014 semester, I had the pleasure to work alongside Miss Ainsley (“Paisley” according to some of the more affectionate 7th graders) Buckner and the Mound STEM School 7th graders to develop, make, and install LED lit “clouds”.

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Jan 7, 2015

Inspired by Eric Carle

Sometimes a collaborative project just clicks. On my first meeting with Ms. White, a first grade teacher at the Hannah Gibbons STEM School, I discovered we both love to teach using Eric Carle’s beautiful picture books. Her class had been reading “The Mixed Up Chameleon,” a charming story…

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Jan 15, 2015

Collaborating for Deeper Understanding in the Classroom Lab

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Jan 10, 2015

Revising a Favorite Lesson

One student artist built a heart in the bottom of her pot using the coil method, then enhanced it with a contrasting glaze.

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to repeat my 3rd grade residency in clay from last spring (which you can…

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Jan 2, 2015

Designing Gardens

During the fall semester, with the 1st grade class at the Michael R. White School, we took advantage of our proximity to the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to explore how landscape designers shape our experience of the natural world in conjunction with students’ learning about the basic needs of…

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Jan 5, 2015

A Residency of Firsts

This residency had so many firsts for me as an artist-educator. It was my first time teaching a mixed grade level residency, combining Kindergarten and 2nd grade classrooms. It was my first time co-teaching with another artist-educator. And perhaps most significantly, it was my first time…

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Jan 3, 2015

The Magic Voice

Performance Day in 2nd grade at Mound STEM School came and went the first week of December. Students spent three weeks drawing…

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Jan 6, 2015

Passport to Knowledge

The 4th grade students at Michael R. White STEM School in Cleveland, Ohio completed their land form low-relief sculpture games before the 2014 winter break. The last blog post about this program explains how the students drew topographic maps, cut them apart and used the pieces as stencils…

February 2015

These were the top 10 stories published by Progressive Arts Alliance in January of 2015. You can also dive into daily archives for January of 2015 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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Since its founding in 2002, Progressive Arts Alliance (PAA) has been innovating how students are taught 21st century skills through contemporary arts and media.

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