Reimagining the arts as a vehicle for success in learning, career, and life.
Someone in your arts professional learning community (PLC) meeting asks, “how is culturally responsive practice showing up in your classroom?” Teachers all take turns sharing and the answers are warm and genuine: students love coming to class. The energy is amazing. The students can tell the teacher cares. None of that is wrong. But also, … Read more
I remember the moment I realized we had a bigger problem than what I originally thought. I was facilitating a professional development session and asked the room “what does culturally responsive teaching look like in your classroom?” The responses varied, but were ultimately all pretty similar: diverse repertoire, artists of color, student choice. All important, … Read more
When I first wrote Music as a Vehicle, I had big hopes for the resource it would be. Seeing the book come to life in classrooms, with professors adding it to their syllabi, and arts leaders using it as a PD anchor still blows my mind. A year later, this book has traveled across 35 … Read more
10 minute read time. The Teacher Comment That Changed Everything Last fall, before starting a new professional development series with a district team of arts educators, I sent out a simple pre-workshop questionnaire. I expected the usual comments about learning styles, initial questions, and preferences. But one response stopped me in my tracks: “I don’t … Read more