Teacher as Curator
Teacher as Curator provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change in the classroom.
Readers will be inspired by teachers and practitioners who have donned the role of curator to achieve significant results. Kindergarten–college educators will find research-based protocols and practices that they can translate into any educational setting. In digestible chapters, this resource provides a theoretical base for building artistic literacy into the curriculum and for developing multimodal opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of content.
Leveraging Change: Increasing Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas
In 2015, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) received funding in the first round of collective impact grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to launch the pilot initiative, Leveraging Change: Improving Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas.
The authors conducted research which included a literature review and interviews with arts education leaders in rural areas.
Berkshire County Blueprint for Arts Integration and Education
This document serves as a vision for what every young person in Berkshire County should have access to in arts learning given our region’s rich cultural assets.
This is a guide for Berkshire County public school administrators who are committed to incorporating vigorous approaches to arts learning throughout their schools; a map for regional thinking to build capacity for fostering connections to arts learning, community engagement and career readiness skills; and an agenda for arts organizations to serve as rich cultural assets advancing arts education in the region.
BRAINworks: Increasing Creative Capacity Through Arts Integration in Berkshire County
This document provides the full picture of our unique model for delivering professional development in arts integration in Berkshire County.
We offer a detailed outline of our process, goals, outcomes, and participants across three years of delivering sustained and intensive professional development.
The Strategies to Integrate the Arts Book Series
Bring the arts back in the classroom!
This curriculum series offers built-in teacher support with concrete strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in their classrooms.
The series shows teachers how to build students' creativity and critical thinking skills by using the arts in science, math, language arts, and social studies topics.
Across the Curriculum
Language Arts
Science
Mathematics
Social Studies
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Bogard and Donovan (January 10, 2024). History: Pairing Primary Sources and the Arts. Middleweb.
https://www.middleweb.com/50084/history-pairing-primary-sources-and-the-arts/
Bogard and Donovan (July 10, 2023). Integrating Arts in ELA: Creating 2-Voice Poems. Middleweb.
https://www.middleweb.com/49226/integrating-arts-in-ela-creating-2-voice-poems
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Bogard, J. &; Donovan, L (2022). Integrating the Arts in Language Arts. 2nd Edition. Dacey. L &; Donovan, L. (Eds.)Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.
Bogard, J. &; Creegan-Quinquis, M. (2022). Integrating the Arts in Social Studies. 2nd Edition. Dacey. L &; Donovan, L. (Eds.) Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s8FGrtjIGVhFxPgIScMNP9tHw_TXbDb3/view
Donovan, L. and Pascale, L. (December 2024). Music. Arts Integration Mini-Workbook Series. Celeste Miller (Ed). Enhance Arts Project.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s8FGrtjIGVhFxPgIScMNP9tHw_TXbDb3/view
Donovan, L. &; Appleget, L. (May 2023). Rigor in the Creative Process. Research Report.
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Dacey, L. &; Donovan, L. (2022). Integrating the arts in Mathematics. 2nd Edition. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.
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Donovan, L. (February 2 nd, 2018) Think like a region. TED Talk. TEDX North Adams.
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Donovan, L. (2010). Cultivating the Field. Teaching Artist Journal. 8(4)
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Donovan, L. (2005). Rehearsing life: Exploring alternatives and possibilities through theater, In Powell &; Marcow-Speiser (Eds.) Little Signs of Hope: Art and Social Change. New York: Peter Lang.
Donovan, L. (2004). Making the aesthetic experience accessible in the classroom: Unlocking language for understanding, In McKenna &; Diaz (Eds.) Teaching for aesthetic experience: The art of learning. New York: Peter Lang.
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Glass, D. and Donovan, L. (2017). Chapter 3: Using Curriculum Design Frameworks for Arts Integration. In Mckenna, M. and Diaz, G. (Eds.) Preparing Educators for Arts Integration: Placing Creativity at the Center of Learning. Teachers College Press.