Bringing teachers out of isolation and into conversation, the BYU ARTS Partnership presents the stories of teachers, artists, administrators, and community members who are working to deepen student learning and improve school culture through artful teaching.
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Dance Tells a Story
Story is a theme in the lesson plans that have been developed about the hoop dance. The hoop dance is a way of storytelling. As students learn about the dance, they will be learn…
Brenda Beyal, program coordinator for the Native American Curriculum Initiative, Stephanie West, an instructional designer working on the NACI asynchronous professional development course, and Heathe…
Culturally-Responsive Classrooms: Helping Students Become Global Citizens
Chris Roberts, Provo City School District Arts Coordinator and Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Integration Coach, became involved…
Partnering with Native Tribes
Over the past three years, Brenda Beyal and her Native American Curriculum Initiative team have worked to create a culture of respect and inclusivity, building relationsh…
Cally Flox, the Director of the BYU ARTS Partnership, seeks to build teacher leaders and administrative capacity in people to serve the needs of public education. She loves working with people, findi…
Music provided by Connor Chee, Navajo Dine composer and performer.
Heather Francis provides three examples of action research related to arts education and arts integration in the classroom.
First, an example of a teacher studying their own practice of self-care. A …
When it comes to action research you have a lot of choices, you can study a behavior, an intervention, an attitude, an instructional tool, your environment or you can study yourself. When you are st…
Heather Francis, co-host, and Heidi Dimmick, a 3rd-grade teacher discuss the value of action research for teachers improving their practice of arts integration in the classroom. This episo…
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This episode is a recap of the bi-monthly workshop, “Resilience for Teachers: Learning to Thrive Not Just Survive” where elementary teachers and arts educators participate in exercises focused on sel…
Resilience for Teachers: Learning to Thrive Not Just Survive
Bi-monthly Workshops with Cally Flox, Thursday evenings at 7 pm MST. Click the link below to register on Eventbrite.