by admin | Jun 29, 2011 | Arts Education, Interdisciplinary Learning, Teaching and Learning
Many of my teachers will tell you that I have driven them nuts (justifiably) asking, “When are we going to do puppets?” For years, I’ve gone on and on with whomever would listen about why I love puppets. From a Surdna Fellow artist-teacher who gave a puppet and...
by admin | Jun 22, 2011 | Arts Education
How can we prevent districts and school systems from reverting to the status quo? How can we encourage schools and school systems to truly innovate and to withstand the pressure of being sucked back to a laissez-faire time? How can we be unionized and have the...
by admin | Jun 15, 2011 | Arts Education, Professional Development
I’m excited to announce that the eighth annual Summer Institute for Arts in Education will be held at Boston Arts Academy from June 29 to July 1, 2011. Summer Institute is a three-day conference for local, national, and international educators, geared for K-12...
by admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Arts Education, Boston Arts Academy, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
“What are you doing in that robe?” Riana, a 10th grader, asks me as I come barreling down the stairs. “I’m going to Abraham’s graduation,” I reply grinning, “And I can’t be late.” It’s mid-day in March, graduation day at Boston Arts Academy. Faculty line the assembly...
by admin | Feb 15, 2011 | Arts Education
Who cares about a blizzard? It certainly didn’t stop Ms. Brown and Ms. Sullivan’s 20 students and their culminating publishing party. They were ready! Imagine students seated around tables pushed together in a large rectangle. Above the white board is a large word...
by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Arts Education, Boston Arts Academy, Teaching and Learning
An important milestone in the life of a Boston Arts Academy dancer unfolded last week as 17 seniors presented their 2011 Senior Dance Concert (SDC). How significantly this embodies RICO, our habits of the graduate. Students work for months on invention and revision....
