Bullying Prevention

• Lyrics and how to purchase the Bob Dylan song What Good Am I?
• How Parents, teachers and kids can take action to prevent bullying
• Ways to Be An Upstander
• Act Now!
  
• Heroic Imagination Project (teaches people how to overcome the natural human tendency to watch and wait in moments of crisis and to create meaningful and lasting change in their lives)
• The Bullycide Project
• Committee For Children
• Institute for Affective Skill Development

Classroom Management

• Six Surefire Ways to Improve Classroom Discipline

Elementary

• Animated version of The Wide Mouth Frog (Compare key details and beginning-middle-end to workshop version)
• Canal boat ride field trip
• Discover facts about the cuban cockroach, folktale origins, café cubano and words en español used in Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale
• How to make a wide mouth frog puppet with your hands
• Let’s Explore Ohio (An online portal to teaching resources and reference materials that provide a greatly enhanced, multi-dimensional look at the history of Ohio)
• The Earth On Turtle’s Back ( A Native American Folktale about how the earth was created)

Exercise and Learning

• In many classrooms here, teachers are getting their kids up using “brain breaks.” The idea is that splitting up a lesson with exercises will help kids stay more focused and attentive.
• In the six years since that program started, students who signed up for PE directly before English read on average a half year ahead of those who didn’t, and students who took PE before math showed dramatic improvement in their standardized tests.
• Laban Movement Analysis (vocabulary for body movements)

PreK

• Aiken Drum song with audio clip (Let students choose their favorite foods for Aiken Drum’s eyes, hair, ears, nose, etc.)
• Free Friendship Crafts, Activities, Printables, and Friendship Book Suggestions
• Hygiene activities for PreK
• Japanese Sweet Rice Dumplings recipe
• Ladybug lesson plan ideas for pre-schoolers including song, craft, science and math activity
• Listen by Instrument (Pictures and sounds of different instruments)
• Make a firefly night scene with bandaids
• Mitten theme lesson ideas here and here
• Name Recognition in Preschool
• Nutrition education website gives children and families the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices
• PBS Between The Lions (Award-winning PBS television series designed to foster the literacy skills of its viewers, while playfully demonstrating the joys of reading. Each show aims to give kids three to seven years old some of the experiences they need in order to become successful readers.)
• Seneca story of Forgets-to-Twinkle
  

Storytelling

• Annual Akron Storytelling Festival (Each summer the Akron-Summit County Public Library brings in nationally known storytellers to entertain and enlighten with performance and workshops, free and open to the public)
  
• Ohio Order for the Preservation of Storytelling (Supporting the art of storytelling throughout Ohio)
  

Teaching Artist Resources

Arts Education

• Arts Education Partnership
• The Center for Arts Education
• Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Oklahoma A+ Schools
• Harvard Project Zero
• Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education
• National Arts Education Association
• National Dance Education Association
• National Association for Music Education
• National Network for Folk Arts in Education

Curriculum and Education Policy

• Ohio Department of Education
• Common Core Standards
• U.S. Department of Education
• Center on Education Policy

Lesson Plans and Classroom Resources

• Artsedge
• ArtEdNet
• Library of Congress
• Public Broadcasting System
• Annenberg Media
• The Whole Schools Initiative

Teaching Artist

• Ohio Arts Council
• The Association of Teaching Artists
• Teaching Artist Journal

Young Audiences

• Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio
• Young Audiences National
• Young Audiences - Art is Education

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