Episode Details

• There is a little audio issue at about 2:15 (and at the end) from my new microphone that I used for this. I couldn’t remove it without removing the whole piece. Please forgive me. ;)

Randy Barron Kennedy Center Teaching Artist. More info here

• Kennedy Center teaching artists integrate arts into the curriculum. Much more focused on students creatively solving problems.
• Arts integration is an approach to teaching where students create an art form to solve a problem.
• Still want to have art taught as an art form,
• Find ways to make kids guilty of learning.
• Find ways to show movement with content areas.
• Science and Poetry are areas that naturally relate to movement. Math is a little more difficult, so it may not connect with skills, but it does still connect with concepts.
• Kids solve problems. Kids make water cycle through dance.
• First drafts are not all that they do, it is just the beginning.
• Integrating close reading of text and other strategies to make sure students understand content, as well as dance.
• Playing with purpose.
• Outside of comfort zone is in their learning zone.
• Students use drawings, demonstrations, writing, and more to show what they are doing. Each child has their own record.
• Randy started dancing at age 19.
• Art integration is incredibly efficient.
• Using verbal, physical, kinesthetic modalities.
• Movement and dance gives them more of a reason to know something, makes it easy for kids to understand and remember.
• Uncover the content versus cover the content.
• Interleaving (or spiraling)
• Tip for getting started: Find a Kennedy Center partnership to get started.
• Principals: Make sure you let your teachers have a little breathing space.
• http://kennedy-center.org
• Contact Randy here
• Web site

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