Chapter 5: The Eye of the Dragon

What is the relationship between points of entry into a study and engagement?

Complementary Resources for Chapter 5

WATCH

• This is what community building through art looks like
• This is What Student Creativity Looks Like
• This is Why Arts Education Matters
• Does Music Education Matter?
• Kenneth: Differentiating Instruction
• Carla: Rising to the Challenge
• Hip-Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
• High School for the Recording Arts Student Profiles
• Integrate the Arts, Deepen the Learning (Edutopia)
• Music and Dance Drive Academic Achievement (Edutopia)
• Using "Positive Teacher Language" to Reinforce Learning as Students Work with Paint (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Jeanne's MHS Ancient China Curriculum Slide Show (Mission Hill School)
• A Year at Mission Hill: "Line One, Page One" (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Revising and Questioning: Students Talk about Teaching and Learning (What Kids Can Do)
• Nurturing Learning: Students Talk about Teaching and Learning (What Kids Can Do)
• I Can't Believe I Did That: Students Talk about Teaching and Learning (What Kids Can Do)
• Common Ground High School: A Decidedly Uncommon School (What Kids Can Do)

READ

• Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead (Sam Chaltain)
• Student-Created Murals Inspiring Political Harmony in Puerto Rico (IDEA Blog)
• Why Arts Education Matters to Children (Americans for the Arts)
• Bigger Than 'Hot Cheetos and Takis'- Why Arts Education Matters (Ebony)
• Murals and Math: One School’s Solution to Graffiti (GOOD)
• Lynda Resnick: Why Art Education Matters (Huffington Post)
• The Importance of Music Education in Schools (CNN)
• Democratic Education in Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School (Matthew Knoester)
• Innovative High School Curriculum (Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center)
• The Social and Emotional Benefits of Being Weirdly Creative (Edutopia)
• All Students are Artists (Mission Hill)
• The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School (Mission Hill)
• How Empathy and the Arts are Changing Worlds in Chicago Schools (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• What Do Insects Do All Day? (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Lively Learning: Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• A Year at Mission Hill: Communities of Diversity and Unity (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• A Year at Mission Hill: Reclaiming Out Imagination (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Writing With Purpose (What Kids Can Do)
• Fies in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us about Motivation and Mastery (What Kids Can Do)

LISTEN

• Liz Lerman: Discovering the Intersection of Art & Real Life
• A “Mad Hot” Approach to Arts Education

DO

• Learn how to conduct a Socratic Seminar
• Join the Cause “Keep the Arts in Public Schools”
• Incorporate Arts into Your Child’s Life in These 10 Ways
• Write a Letter to Decision-Makers About Supporting Arts Education
• Download some of the free activities and lesson plans (Institute for Humane Education)
• Lesson Plans and Resources for Arts Integration (Edutopia)
• Assistive Technology Makes a Difference for Lukas Bratcher (Edutopia)
• Arts Education: A Right and Necessity (Edutopia)
• Ask and You Shall Receive: 5 Creative Questions to Help You Understand Your Child
• Use Guided Discovery to Stimulate Creative Thinking and Generate Excitement About Learning (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)