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Women’s History Month: Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I want to introduce Buffy simply by daring you to listen to this song without bopping your head along. Seriously – every class I have ever played this song for IMMEDIATELY asks me to play it again as soon as it finishes. The music itself is enough to grab you – but the fact that…
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Quick Black History Month Music Lessons: Ella Fitzgerald
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Black History Month Music Lessons: Ella Fitzgerald Looking for some quick Black History Month music lessons for your classes? Here are some free resources for teaching a music lesson all about Ella Fitzgerald. Introduction to Ella Fitzgerald Teaching Points: Links: Introduction to Scatting Scatting Teaching Points: Scatting Links: Introduction to Scatting and Sampling How Ella…
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Dance lesson plans for elementary students who don’t want to dance
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Dance lesson plans for elementary students that work – even if your kids hate dancing In many elementary classes, dance can unfortunately become one of those “throw away” subjects. Teachers are so bogged down with literacy & numeracy, board initiatives and other things that when it comes to the arts we are unfortunately often left…
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Improv activities for elementary students will solve all your drama problems
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Improv activities will make your drama lessons better There is a very common misconception that teaching elementary drama is all about kids reading from a script. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen pre-made rubrics that focus on things like “memorizing your lines”. Oof. Friends, I don’t know where you are, but here…
Stageworthy by Widy
You can teach the arts like a rockstar… even if you're not a specialist.
