A primer on arts integration : strategies, lessons, and collective wisdom of teacher leaders / Christian Z. Goering, Hung K. Pham, Kathryn Hackett-Hill, Seth French.

"This edited collection provides middle and high school classroom teachers of English language arts, social studies, and other disciplines the inspiration and insight necessary to utilize an arts integration approach in their teaching. Whether you want your students to create documentaries, maps, mixed media, songs, quilts, dances, masks, or a remix of multiple art forms, the point of school can and should be more about how students create their own meaning in powerful ways and harness their creativity for social good. Arts integration is one approach demonstrated to be invaluable in these terms, moving teachers and students into a what can we create today? mindset sure to inject energy into classrooms, learning, and lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: "Nobody told me there would be dancing!": the why and how behind arts integration in secondary settings / Christian Z. Goering and Hung K. Pham -- Because that is our only choice: art as anti-racist teaching / Kathryn Hackett-Hill -- Legendary mockumentaries: using drama to create short films / Joshua P. Davis -- Connecting to early 20th century immigration to the United States: greenscreening in the ESL American history classroom / Kelly J. Buckley -- Art as a path to empathy: creating compassionate learners / Griggs and Hooks -- "I contain multitudes": embracing complexity with monologues in the ELA classroom / Kathryn Hackett-Hill -- A patchwork of selves: exploring identity through quilt-making / Hung K. Pham -- Mixed media projects in a world history classroom / Randall -- "Each color represents an emotion": navigating literature through remixing maps / Lorimer -- Faces of faith: building understanding, empathy, and respect / Grisso -- Documentary filmmaking: an arts integrated approach to research / Michelle Cearley Martin -- A new song every year: writing songs with high school students / Christian Z. Goering, Amy Matthews, and Nathan Strayhorn -- "Never shall i forget": mixed media responses to Elie Wiesel's night / Jennifer Henderson Harp -- Literacy, connection, and leadership: experiential theater in the ELA classroom / Martha Sandven -- From Van Gogh to Rothko: the art of reading, discussing, and analyzing a visual text / Vest -- Breaking down the fourth wall: teaching through the lens of experiential theater / Hanna Faught -- Lost without it: an exploration of setting and theme through maps / Collier -- Unmasking identities through mask molding: arts integration within an ELA classroom / Brooke K. Felt -- Dancing the Ozark Mountains: an arts-integrated approach to science teaching and learning / Windel -- A deeper look at arts integration in the context of educational research and theory -- Seth French.

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